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 Silence
Lately I've been working from home, just like a tom of other people across the world (and thank you EA, BioWare and the IT-department for making it so painless). What has struck me with this arrangement is not necessarily the loneliness of it, but the silence. When I don't have other people around, I don't... Continue Reading →
One of those Moments – Architecture
In Assassin's Creed: Origins one of the draws for me was to be able to play in Ancient Egypt. In some ways it's not the pyramids, although the pyramids are impressive. It's about Hermopolis and Hatshepsut's temple in the Valley of the Kings. Hermopolis was one of the most beautiful locations along the Nile, and... Continue Reading →
As the apocalypse happens outside…
... I have more time to write and to fix discordia up. One of the things I'm planning on is making sure that the site works equally well in Swedish as in English, so expect some translation work soonish and hopefully an English/ Swedish switch somewhere. With over 900 posts on the blog, it might... Continue Reading →
One of those Moments – Headshotting with Shepard
Surprising absolutely no one, one of my favourite pieces of gameplay in Mass Effect 3 are the spectacular ways that I can remove the heads of the Reaper and Cerberus forces thrown my way. Head explosions. It's ghoulish I know, but it's also super satisfactory. I think one of the reasons I like these very... Continue Reading →