Category Archives: videogames

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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Merchandising Fail

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Tis the season and all of that, and no blog of mine on the subject is complete without a gratuitous link to my Amazon.com wishlist and a semi-serious plead for you to buy me stuff. Now that that’s out of the way, I’ve always had an uneasy relationship with this time of year, coming from a family without any Christians that still went through the gift-giving ritual most commonly associated with Christmas in this culture. The whole gifting thing, along with the hilarious “War on Christmas”…

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On “Perverts” and the Brony/Pegasister Community

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Michael J. Nelson: “BronyCon 2012 drew a crowd of 4000 chubby little pervs.” (twitter.com) When I first started writing here about getting into Dance Dance Revolution in late 2003, I got a lot of negative e-mails. Most of them were along the lines of, “You can’t go play video games where kids are present because you’re one of them queers and everyone will be right to assume that you’re just going there to try to ‘pick up’ or kidnap kids for whatever perverted things people like…

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The Pizza Party’s Over

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(For those of you who asked about helping me with hiring a consultant for my screenplay without sending someone like Matt Drudge and his legions after me: On every page of the .org, at the top of the left-hand column, is a “Donate” button you can use to send me cash via PayPal or a credit card.  I’ll need about $500 in total, but every single dollar counts.) Major Magic’s closes its doors (toledoonthenove.com) Popular kids pizza party place out of business (13abc.com) Although my video…

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