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Hi, my name is Denis. I originally started this blog over at Blogger in July 2008. I tend to write a lot about videogames, and have made various rounds of the web. Was formerly a staff writer for both GayGamer and The Border House. This blog serves to explicate my thoughts on any number of issues, not solely focused on videogames anymore (though they still make up the majority).Search:
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Quick: Do you have egg on your face?
Due to gracious linking by many sources (among them Maggie Greene and N’Gai Croal), a useful conversation has occurred concerning my post on Gendered Violence. These conversations and blurbs (Nariko and Kate Archer had been brought up by Groping the … Continue reading
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Sugar and spice
Brinstar’s post on Star Wars: The Force Unleashed gave me more to chew on than just the level of violence and gore to which we (don’t) subject women in games; I began considering a comment she made about the protagonist … Continue reading
Gendered Violence
I largely feel that when adding a female protagonist into a mostly linearly plotted game (read: no emergent gameplay; nor creation of your own character or characters that aren’t fully developed, instead being ciphers to ludic pleasure), the whole tone … Continue reading
Birth of a role
This will likely be my last Fallout 3 post for a while. I want to share a series of impressions, then enjoy and chew on the game, to return when a more fruitful discussion can develop. Spoilers are not really … Continue reading
Emotionally Invested
This past weekend I went to a party celebrating my good friend Sir Iris’s (everyone loves a palindrome) twenty-fifth birthday. The central theme around the party was Sock Wrestling. Iris rents out a room in her house to various foreigners … Continue reading
Marines, the new Cowboy
For some reason, I enjoy giving the reasons behind my thought process. This weekend, Maggie Smith posted a news item on Kotaku concerning two female gaming blogs’ coverage and explication of the game Cunt. I played the game shortly and … Continue reading
Disparities in image
Human Rights Campaign news via GamePolitics.com: Game publisher Electronic Arts, Xbox maker Microsoft and leading retailer GameStop are among 259 corporations that have been awarded perfect scores for their treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors. … Continue reading
Why Y: The Last Man?
I rather enjoyed Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s Y: The Last Man comic series. Currently I’m reading (and finishing) bell hooks’s Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. This idea came from watching the following video (I swear, my life … Continue reading
Ambisexual Androgynes
This post is inspired by an hour long conversation with Cap’n Perkins (this was among one of many topics broached, one of which will hopefully see a dual-front post from the both of us within the next month), recently having … Continue reading
WTB: Straight Sexuality
The problem with the above video (beyond the response to the name) is the name itself. The player advertised himself as gay. In almost any online space, this can be a headache. One does not have to display their sexuality … Continue reading
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