- Bored by E3 •
11 Jun 2019
Is it just me, or were the E3 press conferences this year particularly boring? Like not bad, per se, just… uninspired. Part of it might be due to the upcoming console refreshes… perhaps the flashy stuff is waiting in the wings for reveal next year. But there were still a lot of games shown by all the different publishers, and I just found myself underwhelmed. Opinion warning! I’m rambling about... Read more ... - Ruby 2.0: Redesigning a fursona •
18 May 2019
Warning: Post contains some pictures that might be considered NSFW (Barbie-doll nudity). Fursonas are a fascinating subject to me, mostly as an intersection of identity expression and roleplaying. For some, a fursona is simply a character, a doll to dress up and use to play out scenes in their imagination. For others, it becomes an idealized self, the ultimate expression of “me but with fur and also how I want... Read more ... - No, games-as-a-service is not fraud •
04 May 2019
… but you might be upset about them, and you don’t want to buy them. That’s okay. A video on this subject from YouTube channel Accursed Farms (creator Ross Scott) has been passed around my social circles the past few days. I’ll admit, it’s over an hour long so I didn’t watch it the whole way through, but I did skim through the highlights and participate in the discussion. The... Read more ... - City of Heroes and the private server kerfuffle, or why intellectual property is stupid and broken •
21 Apr 2019
I’m a patron and reader of Massively Overpowered (a news site about MMORPGs), so when news broke about a private City of Heroes server that had been running in secret for years, I just had to get my popcorn and dive into this. It intersects neatly into a couple of things I’m personally interested in: the history of video games (and its industry) and drama, both of which were unfolding... Read more ... - My thoughts on Epic store exclusivity •
03 Apr 2019
I debated whether or not I even wanted to weigh in on this topic, as it’s charged with a lot of emotions amongst the gaming community right now, and I’m not really looking forward to attracting controversy. That said, I do have some varying thoughts on the subject and wanted to offer my personal take on the issue. A good portion of the responses I’m seeing to this subject are... Read more ...