I have this thing about games that I suspect is tied into my sensitivity to noise. I need games to have good voice acting if I'm to enjoy them. Thankfully, games have moved away from being cartoons to being real acting and I'm super grateful for that. Because I'm not a native English speaker, I... Continue Reading →
One of Those Moments – Introducing the Monitor
I know I haven't talked much about Anthem on discordia. There are however parts of the game that I really like, and one of them is the reveal of the Monitor. He's the villain in the narrative arc about the Dominion. I've borrowed the clip from a YouTuber named Chuz and it should start at... Continue Reading →
Problematic Enemies – The Broodmother
[...] The symbol of the monster, the abject, exists to embody and assuage our fears of the natural and unruly body. In order to maintain the current social order, which privileges the intellectual and social over the emotional and biological, fat bodies must become monstrous. They are failures. They are the abnormal that delineates the... Continue Reading →
The Consequences of Design
Much of life is about overcoming barriers. Every organism, from lowly one-celled animals to human beings, exists by interacting with its environment. This interaction includes moving from one place to another, creating a space for the self, lifting a load, or learning how to use a tool. Our ability to interact with the environment is,... Continue Reading →
One of Those Moments – the Thresher Maw vs the Reaper
The most cinematic moment in all of Mass Effect 3 is the boss fight aftermath on Tuchanka. Kalros attacks a Reaper. Kalros is - according to the Krogan - the mother of all thresher maws. She's big. It's one of the most hopeful and majestic moments in the beginning of the game, because despite everything... Continue Reading →
The trouble with fembots
I’ve got some news for you Fembots have feelings too - Robyn, Fembot To tell the absolute truth, they probably don’t have feelings, though. At least not emotions of the messier kind, the kind that real women have to live with. A fairly recent conversation brought up the idea of fembots and the very real... Continue Reading →