Category Archives: videogames

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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Roger Ebert Just Doesn’t Get It

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Video Games Can Never Be Art (rogertebert.suntimes.com) The first comment Ebert got in response to this article pretty much says just that, and in a lot of ways that may be all that really needs to be said about it. However, I’ve had such a strong reaction to this piece over the past few days that I can’t let it go at just that. As an artist, and as someone who used to play video games a lot (not so much these days because of…

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Losing Interest

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When I said that I wanted the Red Wings to exit the playoffs early, I should have known that the universe would take that as a sign to get the Wings all the way to game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, and then to have them lose in a real heartbreaker. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, the universe threw a whole bunch of bad stuff at me right before then, so the Wings’ loss really didn’t affect me that…

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