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I think the thing that was most outrageous to me during GamerGate - in some ways regardless of what people actually thought about the GamerGate "movement" was the unwillingness or inability to even try to find out the facts. The same videos were regurgitated on the GamerGate side, none of them with a shred of... Continue Reading →
Perhaps you've noticed that I've been more quiet than usual over the last couple of years here at discordia. I'm trying to change that. In part by writing my blog posts in bulk (surprisingly this works better than I thought) but also by trying to get rid of the fear that I've been dragging along... Continue Reading →
In Gamasutra there's an excellent article by the Pixelles describing the seven primary reasons why women leave the games industry. In it, the Pixelles make the case for what we can do to retain women in the industry, and I agree with all of it. I do believe - and I'm sure the Pixelles are... Continue Reading →
Another one of those opinion pieces I'm apparently writing nowadays. I kinda like it. In triple-A games, conflict is used more often than not as a conflict resolution tool. It's a glaring disconnect from reality where violence is often a last resort or the tool of criminals. In this blog post I'll discuss why we... Continue Reading →
A while back an interview with one of the developers for Escape from Tarkov made excuses as to why there were no women in the game. It was attributed to the ever present "realism" and women not being able to handle the stress of battle. The developer later backtracked and said it was all because... Continue Reading →
This isn't actually something I've done, but ever since I read up on gender studies in literature and came across the idea of queer readings or the queering of a text, it's something I'd like to do someday. I think there's a cornucopia of homoerotic games out there, just waiting to be discovered by someone... Continue Reading →
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