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Speak Out With Your Geek Out – On Being a Grown-Up Geek
This week, bloggers all over the internet were encouraged to write blog posts about their geeky hobbies and interests, in a movement called “Speak Out With Your Geek Out.” I wanted to participate, but of course I write about something geeky every time I write. I could have, in theory, written a new entry every…
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I’m a Contributor at Tap-Repeatedly
So after my guest editorial at Tap-Repeatedly, I was invited to come back and do more frequent contributions on the site. This is fun for me, because Tap has a great community of people who are super cool! http://www.tap-repeatedly.com That is not to say I won’t post stuff here too, but any longer editorials or…
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Assorted Thoughts While Playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
I would’ve bought this sooner if Nintendo had dropped it to twenty bucks sooner. I don’t have “Wiimote Plus,” though, so I may have to spring for the Gold Edition of Skyward if I get it. Anyway, Twilight Princess. …It’s kind of Furry, isn’t it? With the “Blue-eyed Beast” pet name, and howling instead of…
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I Shouldn’t Be Writing
I shouldn’t be writing because I’m doing and following the ComicCon Challenge on GameArtisans. You should check it out. I also am not playing Deus Ex, because my husband is playing it right now and I don’t wanna step on his toes, and any time I do anything else I think “I should be working…
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Educational Games: Don’t Make Me Log In
Channel 4 UK does awesome things and one of the things that they occasionally do is fund an educational game. They’re usually browser-based games or quick downloadable games like the sex-ed game Privates. They have a recent game, The End, which is a game about life and philosophy and big questions. The concept is interesting,…
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“This Does It For Me” – The Female Shepard Controversy
This post is about the female Shepard Mass Effect votes, with maybe a little of my comments about video game womens’ depiction in general. I almost left a comment on the Rock, Paper, Shotgun thread, then I realized it was getting long, so I’m posting it here. The story so far: Bioware has decided to give…
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My Advice to Students
Today is Monday, and I’m done for a while with teaching classes. This gives me the opportunity to say something I might have been shy about saying when I was still in the middle of teaching. I feel however like it’s important to say, and I think there are a lot of teachers out there…
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New Post – Generation Gap
I wrote something, but it’s not posted here. It’s an article about some of my observations about how gaming has changed between Gen X and Gen Y. It’s posted at Tap-repeatedly.com! Which is an excellent gaming blog full of smart people that you should check out.
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What Killed Mega Man?
Mega Man Legends 3, a DS sequel to a long-dormant sub-franchise of one of Capcom’s biggest franchises, was cancelled last week to much fanfare across the internet. While several of Mega Man’s friends like Tron Bonne and Zero are in the latest Marvel Versus Capcom incarnation, the Blue Bomber himself is nowhere to be found,…
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Very Fast, Made of Meat
I started writing this post a few months ago when the Super Meat Boy Post-mortem showed up on Gamasutra, but I never got around to completing my thoughts. Fortunately, the timing of a video post-mortem on GDC Vault gives me another relevant link to share in regard to the game. I actually bought Super Meat Boy…