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Fan Culture · Fatphobia in the Media · Real Life

Sturm und Drang

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 ToddLeave a comment

Okay. I have a story to tell. My therapist had to move our appointment this week to today, so I had more time than usual afterwards. His office is right next to a movie theatre, so I saw Avengers Endgame, like I mentioned before. Now, I am not an MCU fan, overall. I haven't seen… Continue reading Sturm und Drang

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Body Types in Games · Real Life

Dys-embodied

May 6, 2015May 6, 2015 ToddLeave a comment

I originally wasn't going to write this post. This morning I read a great piece in Offworld by Aevee Bee on video game bodies and physical conflict as metaphor for interpersonal conflict. I really liked the kinaesthetic metaphors and language Aevee used in the piece. They were this great bridge between the conceptual material and… Continue reading Dys-embodied

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Rants · Real Life · Television

I’ll Be Watching

January 11, 2015January 11, 2015 ToddLeave a comment

So, this is an open missive to the creators of HBO's Looking, about their upcoming second season of the show. Now, I know that on the eve of the premiere tonight is too late to reach them before these episodes were filmed. Consider this gesture symbolic, perhaps. Certainly, I feel like it's a necessary step for my… Continue reading I’ll Be Watching

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Real Life

The Lady Boss Project

January 1, 2015January 1, 2015 Todd1 Comment

Sorry again for a not-about-gaming post. As before, if you're here mostly for games crit, you're free to go. So if you follow me on Twitter, you know a few things about me. One of them is that I live on Twitter, basically, and the other is that I decided for the month of December,… Continue reading The Lady Boss Project

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Rants · Real Life · Sexuality

Taxonomy

December 8, 2014December 8, 2014 Todd1 Comment

Hey there. So normally I use this blog for like... 80% games criticism, 15% general media criticism, and maybe 5% personal stuff I just need to talk about. This post falls in that last 5%, so if you usually come here for games stuff you're free to go. Also I wanna warn you that it's… Continue reading Taxonomy

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Rants · Real Life

Eat This

December 5, 2014 ToddLeave a comment

Okay. It's 2:30am, and this has been stewing all night, and on the heels of my GaymerX talk hitting YouTube and my expanded version of it getting into GDC, this feels like the right thing to do. So I'm gonna make a quick blog post to talk about a thing that bothers me, and perhaps pre-emptively… Continue reading Eat This

Three Short, Fat Films
Games Criticism · Rants · Real Life · Television

Three Short, Fat Films

January 27, 2014 ToddLeave a comment

I've realized I probably do too much Mega Buster charging when it comes to blog posts: I wait until I've got so fucking much to say that it pours out in a sometimes untempered flood of nonsense that people excusably stop reading 10% of the way through. So today I'm trying an experiment in just getting a… Continue reading Three Short, Fat Films

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Gaming Reflections · Narrative in Games · Real Life

Day in the Sun

October 18, 2013October 18, 2013 ToddLeave a comment

So, this semester I'm teaching a course on "Game Design for Expression." It's really more of a class on how students -- especially students with no technology or game background -- can make small, personal games. I've been fortunate to have a lot of guest speakers willing to talk about their work, including Mattie Brice,… Continue reading Day in the Sun

Real Life

Sin and Punishment

January 23, 2013 ToddLeave a comment

Okay, I try to keep this blog mostly about games and criticism and scholarship and sometimes games criticism scholarship but I don't really have a personal blog anymore with the demise of Livejournal to our capitalist Russian overlords (now there's a sentence you never expected to hear) and I find Tumblr to be... uh, the word… Continue reading Sin and Punishment

Gaming Reflections · Gaymism.com · Real Life

Rampant self-promotion

August 21, 2012 ToddLeave a comment

So, a friend asked for me to consolidate, somewhere, links to the various podcasts I have been a guest of this past year. For some reason I cannot fathom the folks at Gaymism -- the Wonder Twins-style merger of Gayme Bar and Silly Frags -- have taken a shine to me and so I have been… Continue reading Rampant self-promotion

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