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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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Tag Archives: narrative
Potential spoilers: Dragon Age, The Witcher. Despite donning a different role in the various games I play, I find that when faced with the option of subjugating someone, or siding with those who hold systemic power, I always pause. Recently … Continue reading
Maslow, Peter Maslow
The Sims franchise is known to have had a simple start: imagining a simulation game where one progressed through Maslow’s Hierarchy: The needs a particular Sim has are based on this model of what we, as human beings, need in … Continue reading
Tagged narrative, Sims 3
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Simulated History
Through the gender studies portion of my degree I took among my more interesting classes at Wabash College. Three (of the five) that stand out in my mind are an historiography class using sex and fascist Germany as its focal … Continue reading
Tagged narrative, sexuality, Sims 2
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Despite all my rage…
Despite some people not liking the term ludonarrative dissonance, as a concept it exists in Gears of War: the game portrays you as a gruff, take-charge ex-prisoner who has to save humankind; problem is that you’re doing all this while … Continue reading
Seven for a secret never to be told.
In the past month I have invested over eighty hours in two games: Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead (the ratio is currently 3:1). While both certainly have their qualities that draw me in and make me enjoy playing the … Continue reading
Hush, little baby
It may be hard to believe, but I’m an opinionated person. Something with which I’ve always had difficulty is not saying certain things that come to my head–a trait I learned fairly early on when I first lived in the … Continue reading
Between You and I
What is the purpose of dialogue? Generally, we use it to convey information on some level, to exchange ideas and advance one topic or a range of topics. Of course, this does not happen all the time; any time two … Continue reading
Once upon a time, in a city that was labeled with the number 2
Imagination, story, writing, narrating: these are all words that describe my earliest loves. My aspirations as a child were three-fold. I wanted to be a father, contortionist, and writer. I’ve abandoned any progress on the first two, but the last … Continue reading
O frabjous day!
I have many memories of videogames, overwhelmingly positive. While I realize the dangers of nostalgia, what I’d like to do every so oft is recall something from my gaming past and see why it held such wonder for me. Also, … Continue reading
Suspension of Disbelief?
Being my mother’s only son in the U.S., I receive lots of weird things in the mail. This picture, whose allusions to a rather famous chapel ceiling will be more apparent as you read the rest of this post, for … Continue reading
Vorpal Bunny Ranch 