Category Archives: videogames

I’ll Always Be a Toys “R” Us Kid

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As Toys ‘R’ Us Closes Up Shop, Small Business Are Left to Fend for Themselves (inc.com) How vulture capitalists ate Toys ‘R’ Us (theweek.com) I was part of the generation that was the prime target of one of the first regulation repeals of the Reagan Administration. For a long time, the FCC had a policy stating that cartoons couldn’t serve to just advertise toys, and although many skirmishes had been fought between the FCC and corporate America over this policy — most notably with ABC’s Hot…

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The Normalization of Rape Threats and Death Threats

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The only guide to Gamergate you will ever need to read (Washington Post) Why #Gamergate won’t die (CNN.com) There’s nothing like stating opinions online to show you the problems of socializing on the Internet. A little over two decades ago, shortly after I first got regular Internet access when I went to college for the first time, I got involved in professional wrestling discussions online because I’d never had a real-life group of friends to talk about wrestling with. One thing led to another, and I ended…

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Kefka’s Million Deaths is a Statistic

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Dancing Mad: How a Video Game Character Came to be the Standard by Which I Measure All Villains (The Mary Sue) SPOILER WARNING: This blog gives away major plot elements of the video games Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy VII. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that the gaming world will be forever divided into two camps: Those who believe Final Fantasy VII is the greatest video game of all time, and those who are wrong. Okay, that’s more than a…

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Taking Matters Into Our Own Hooves

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Fighting is Magic Receives Cease & Desist from Hasbro (Equestria Daily) This coming December will mark the ten-year anniversary of me playing my first “dancing” video game, DDRMAX2 for the Playstation 2. Despite this time kind of being the peak of the whole “a video game that actually helps you lose weight?” craze, it was kind of a low point for the Dance Dance Revolution series. Konami appeared to have decided to stop production of future arcade releases, and the home versions that were coming…

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The Only Way to Win is Not to Play

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Between still processing what happened in Connecticut last month, and dealing with a lot of personal questions stemming from my first forays into performance art (a story for another time and another venue), please accept my apologies for having to break the discussion of “important stuff” and do a blog on the problems with the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic game that came out this past autumn. I promise that I’ll get back to politics later (especially if conservatives decide to put us through…

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