Gaming is an exceedingly important part of my life and my history. One of the only ways I can chronologically relate to my memories is by bringing up what particular game I was playing then and on what system, that’s how integral gaming is to my sense of self. So naturally when it fell to me to mold and shape another tiny (and extremely…
This weekend is Aro-mas, that magical day wherin we celebrate the amazingness that is the day of my birth. Every year, I participate in my own personal tradition: enjoying my favorite things. I read the two books that have been my favorite since I was a tiny weester (Diane Duane’s So You Want to Be a Wizard and Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising),…
So about a year ago, before my kid’s first birthday, I wrote a post about raiding with a baby. Raiding with a toddler proved to be slightly different (and, ultimately, so hard as to be basically impossible), but even without the classification of “hardcore” or even, really, “raider,” I still strongly identify as “gamer” — but also, now, as “mom.”
Here is a thing that I think the gaming community and also The Internets In General have difficulty understanding: “criticism” and “censorship” are not the same fucking thing. Actually, hold on; before we go any farther I think I maybe need to say that again. “Criticism” and “censorship” are not the same thing. And, just as importantly: “disagreement” and “censorship” are not the same…
For the vast majority of my life I was the only ladytype in a social group full of men because my hobbies were those considered by the western world to be traditionally masculine: I loved working on cars, playing football, the nutritional science of beer, live blues and metal, and, most especially for our purposes, any and all gaming. Like, I had a vast…
So there’s a thing that’s been going around lately, and I have been SO GOOD and sitting on my hands and letting other folks Fight The Good Fight and say the things that need to be said because, as with I am sure many of you, there is a part of me that feels maintaining community harmony is more important than dealing with the…
Finally relinquishing my MMO raid time means I have time to spend on all of the single-player games I’ve been piling up in my library for years upon years upon years. I’m a classical adventure enthusiast, so it needs to be said that GoG is a present just for me. I’ve been cycling through some Sierra classics, like Quest for Glory (whyyyy is V…
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