Tag: speldebatt

The Creeping Cancer

A set of games in the background, a controller up front. The symbol of feminism, a closed fist in the sign of woman, on top.

This is the first time that GamerGate has managed to make me seriously upset. As in really dejected and sad. I wrote a rant on twitter about it, and I think I'll expand on it here on discordia. "Today is a bad day. GamerGate is still in full swing and the more I read about... Continue Reading →

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Never ending

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In materials science, fatigue is the weakening of a material caused by repeatedly applied loads. It is the progressive and localized structural damage that occurs when a material is subjected to cyclic loading. - Wikipedia In short, if you bend a piece of wire enough times it will break. I'm sure you've done it at... Continue Reading →

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På Edolus finns det Thresher Maws

Just nu är det crunch på jobbet. Varandes Avalanche är det dock en crunch det går att leva med, åtminstone för vissa av oss. Work - life balance funkar bra där, kanske på grund av alla småbarnsföräldrar. Trots det har min brist på ork och tid fått mig att dra mig för att skriva om... Continue Reading →

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Det svenska spelundret

Jag läste rapporten från Dataspelsbranschen i dagarna och kom fram till att det låter lite annorlunda i skällan nu, än det gjorde för bara ett par år sedan. Det tycker jag är positivt. Så här står det till exempel i rapporten: Nyanställda kvinnor ökar med 38 procent, att jämföra med 27 procent för männen. Det... Continue Reading →

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The Hate Machine

A set of games in the background, a controller up front. The symbol of feminism, a closed fist in the sign of woman, on top.

I ran in to a reddit post via Ian Miles Cheong, aka @stillgray, aka one of the many Social Justice Warriors an epitaph given by the same people who disguise the #GamerGate hashtag to be about journalistic integrity. The Hate Machine that popped into being still grinds on incensed by posts like this, entrenching people... Continue Reading →

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A War to Fight

A set of games in the background, a controller up front. The symbol of feminism, a closed fist in the sign of woman, on top.

When I wrote this post, I listened to Portishead's Roads. "We've got a war to fight". And it is a skirmish of ridiculous proportions, considering that we're really fighting about something that isn't finite. We're fighting about something that humanity (and more than humanity, animals do it too) have been doing for as long as... Continue Reading →

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