Hey folks -- Tumblr is basically a disaster hellsite and most of my posts there are self-indulgent Sad Posts™ anyway. But there's a couple things I wrote these that I want to save, so they're getting reposted here. This was originally posted on Tumblr on August 25, 2016 -- almost four years ago. It is… Continue reading Tumblr Salvage: “On Tingle”
Category: Rants
Payment Past Due
Y'ever have one of those moments where it's late at night, and you're prepping for sleep by skimming articles and such you may have missed during the day? You read something and have a bad initial reaction, i.e. "Oh what the fuck?!" and maybe you make some upset tweets or FB/Tumblr posts about it but think… Continue reading Payment Past Due
Boys We Like
Recently, Polygon asked: "who is Final Fantasy 15's hottest boy?" Normally, this is the sort of content I am here for. As you may remember, some excellent friends and I did a panel on male sexualization in games and some of the problems surrounding it at Indiecade East. So an article about which dudes in an upcoming… Continue reading Boys We Like
Acceptance Speech
This is gonna be a short post, but it was a discussion I had with some friends last night and I feel like the points I was making to them were broadly applicable enough that I wanted to get them down in a slightly more coherent way than a couple tweets. There's a push lately,… Continue reading Acceptance Speech
Trapped
I feel kinda trapped when it comes to Overwatch’s Roadhog. As I have said about six million times, I find his design really upsetting in the sense that it’s lazy and reflects all the bad tropes of fat character design. But this week I found an entirely new way to be upset about Roadhog, since I was… Continue reading Trapped
Say Anything
Remember a while back, a long while back, I wrote about a League of Legends champ named Taric and how I felt Riot should just make him gay already? A long time has passed since then (three years+, in fact). As I've written elsewhere, my feelings on Riot, on the situation itself, and on what I said back in… Continue reading Say Anything
Please Leave
Hey, remember Mortal Kombat X? The series reboot by NetherRealm? Came out early last year. I remember it, because in April I wrote the game's subtle deployment of the first canon gay character in the MK series, Kung Jin, for Paste Magazine's games section. In said article I was pleased with the way they handled the character's… Continue reading Please Leave
Whole Hog
This is a short post. But I am cranky. Like many people in the gaming culture/press/business/what-have-you, I have spent many a moment over the past couple days looking at my Battle.net client longingly, hoping I too will suddenly receive a beta invite for Blizzard’s upcoming TF2-alike, Overwatch. To kill some time, I decided to look… Continue reading Whole Hog
Dismissed
Hi, Twitter. So I made this tweet earlier tonight, around dinner time-ish: https://twitter.com/laevantine/status/618580256325283840 I've got thoughts about both of these topics, obviously, but I've been skirting writing about them for various reasons. Some of them more professional, some silly (FF14 has eaten up a lot of my life lately), and some personal (I am scared… Continue reading Dismissed
Not Safe For Work (Or Anywhere Else)
So, let's talk about Cobra Club, the dick pic simulator by Robert Yang, for a little bit. Because the content of the game is NSFW -- and because I'm going to spoil some of the game's stuff -- you can find the rest of this post under the fold. I'm always in a weird place… Continue reading Not Safe For Work (Or Anywhere Else)