“Assassin’s Creed 4 marks the first step into next gen for the franchise. Learn how AC4 utilizes next gen technology to create realistic oceans, dynamic weather systems, ambient lighting, and seamless ship boarding.” – Ubisoft Team Thanks Ubisoft for making a nice looking ocean and flora that bends with the
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Dead Wild Roses: Damsels in Distress: Part 3 – Tropes vs Women
Back with more insightful analysis is Anita Sarkeesian. The idea of but what about the male in distress plot point is dicusses as well as framing the issues within the bounds of our society. I’m still waiting for Drakken to be redone and released, not only does it start
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Marvel Heroes Review – Meh?
Guess which heroes you start out with – and guess which ones cost 20 Dollars to play. Having some more free time on my hands, I decided to try out the new free to play Action-RPG Marvel Heroes. My impression is that the game suffers from exactly what happened to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Damsel in Distress Part 2 – Anita Sarkeesian
Ms.Sarkeesian continues her video series about the misogyny prevalent in video games. Filed under: Feminism, Gaming Tagged: Anita Sarkeesian, Tropes vs Women, Video Games
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Call me Ducky
The Nipper has the Best Ideas Ever Invented. He said, last night on the way to rehearsal, “you know what would be cool, would be if they made a Call of Duty ™ game that’s age-appropriate for kids and they called it Call of Ducky. And you’d play this duck
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Unbelievable
Something ridiculous happened today. Before I get to that, though, I’m’a set some ground rules, because this is the kind of discussion that gets out of hand really, really fast. 1) I’m not interested in any anti-religion comments. What follows did not happen because people believe in God. This isn’t
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We are post-feminsim, post-patriarchy and post-racism…honest.
Trigger warning for Language, Homophobia and Racism and violence in general. This is by no means a scientific finding. This isn’t even a good sample, but lets background that for bit and look at what is going on in the video. How many times do you hear the word “Bitch” or “Fag” or even more […]
Dead Wild Roses: Gamer objections to Feminism – Pwned.
Okay, first of all, go to Jezebel and read the whole damn article. It is good and does not just apply to the gaming sub-culture, it works everywhere for the most part and is useful to have in the back of your mind as you see stuff go down around
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Diablo 3 Review – Pretty Fun, but Pretty Modular
Diablo 3 is an action RPG, in other words, it is one happy dungeon romp after another, always in search of the biggest and brightest loot to make the character of your choice that much more powerful. D3 does a wonderful job at using a variable reinforcement schedule when
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oh the Woe that is Diablo 3 – *waves bu-bye* to free time.
After running like the good hamster I was on the Diablo 2 treadmill I said to myself, “I’m done with action RPG’s, they are nothing more than beautifully constructed Variable Reinforcement Schedules that soak up my free time. I quit. I really did. I was Diablo free for about 10
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Fionnlach
Madeline stops dead in her tracks when she opens the door. The man in the doorway is tall, strong-built, with wire-rim glasses and a shaved head. He carries a case of beer under one arm. Madeline’s mouth is still hanging … Continue reading →
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: War in the North – Happily Beating Down Orcs – For the Love of Co-op Gaming (Part 1)
I have a great many weaknesses, but one of the more prominent lies in the area of cooperative gaming. Oh, how I miss the blocky good times. I remember, back in the day, that occasionally Blades of Steel (hockey) on the 8-bit NES, a glitch would occur and somehow you
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Open, accountable government, BC Liberal style
B.C. Lottery Corp. seeks reversal of document order, CBC News, March 15, 2011 “The Financial Transactions Reports Analysis Centre (Fintrac), the federal money laundering watchdog, hit BCLC in 2010 with a $700,000 fine for failing to adequately report suspected money laundering. The lottery corporation is appealing the fine. The penalty
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: I hate Elevators…Francis from L4Dead2
My friends and I have been hitting the Left 4 Dead pretty hard as of late. Lo and behold, youtube can further feed the fires. This clip won’t make much sense to those who have not played L4Dead, but suffice to say, Francis is one of my favourite characters
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