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Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand, Nine Hundred and Forty-Nine
I think it isn’t surprising to me that I considered Monument Valley to be the best game of this year. It was well-crafted from a mechanics standpoint, with lush and well-chosen aesthetics. If there’s...
View Articletake my hand
This review/post contains mild story spoilers, so please play the game first. This post also deals with personal, violent subject matter, so if that is triggering, feel free to skip sections 2-6. 1 I...
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It’s Monday Again: Tuesday Edition
It might not be Monday now, but that’s not a problem. The beginning of the year, also known as last week, was fairly auspicious in that I wrote not one but two pieces on the blog. I hope to maintain...
View ArticleA Brutal Landscape: Sexual Assault in Gaming Narratives
Content warning: discussion of rape in video games. It’s like a wave is rolling in, borne of several currents: a Nightline special, an errant tweet, a sequel to a hot gaming franchise. People wondering...
View ArticleHere Lies Kyle, Son of Durotan
0. “Did you see that thing on Wow Insider?” I look at something else. “No.” A large sigh of frustration came out of my boyfriend, eternally chagrined that his girlfriend didn’t read the blog he worked...
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Monday Rundown: Saved!
Hillary Faye (Mandi Moore) pelts Mary (Jenna Malone) with the Bible, in one of the movie’s most hilarious moments. Instead of typically explaining what I would like to achieve on my blog (and therefore...
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Monday Round-Up, Part 1: Lucy
I’m going to lay it out here: Lucy is a terrible fucking movie. It barely has merit as a film at all. It’s much like Scarlett Johansson‘s eponymous character in the movie: cool to look at but very...
View ArticleJem and the Holograms Trailer: Magic and Glitter, Exit Stage Right
Call me surprised when I opened up Twitter last night after watching a documentary to find most of my timeline to be extremely upset about the Jem and the Holograms global trailer that just dropped. I...
View ArticleSupergirl is Not a Saturday Night Live Sketch
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it might fetch you a latte – CBS dropped a first look of their new series Supergirl yesterday, amid a weirdly mixed audience. I watched the six-minute trailer/edited plot...
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Mad Max, Fury Road: Bear Witness, For Glory, For Feminism
I was really surprised that I liked this film so much. As The Spectacle I have not seen a Mad Max film in a very long time. The hype for this movie snuck up very quickly and so did the previews; one...
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