I’ve been playing Coin Hunt World for a few years now, back when rewards in the game were Bitcoin or Ethereum. Now they’re transitioning to a gift-card reward scheme with sponsors, so turmoil is bound to ensue. Hunter’s Lodge 10 Recap
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Things Are Good: Game Workers Uniting for Better Workplaces
In creative industries labour exploitation can happen because employers can get away with leaning into the passion creative workers bring to their field. The video game industry may be a young industry, but the tricks of getting free labour from workers are old ones. As a result, movements like Game
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The Psychology and Therapeutic Benefits of D&D
Or, Why D&D Kicks Butt There is a mounting body of evidence and experience that shows that D&D, the original role playing strategy game (like chess, but with improv theatre, and no great powers of concentration required), has very positive psychological and therapeutic effects on children, youth and adults. The
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Stonks Game Stops At This Stop
Hedge funds that bet against Game Stop are crying foul as they lose a fortune, because the crowd noticed their weakness and exploited it. Sounds very Wall Street. Is it against the rules? How could it be in a market that has too few rules. The difference now is that
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Toxic Deadly Gaming Culture
One of the strangest things about modern tech is that you can easily hear what a dead murderer thought of himself and others. There are hours of video of this Rudy guy boasting about his video game prowess while calling women “pap smear”. Cops were warned about his violent harrassment
Continue readingThings Are Good: Play the Trolley Problem in Dr. Trolley’s Problem
Long time readers of Things Are Good will know that I like philosophy and moral actions. In fact I like that stuff so much I made a game about it called Dr. Trolley’s Problem which is all about the trolley problem which we’ve previously looked at. The game tests your
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Notes from the Video Game Community…
When you get what you ask for and realize it wasn’t what you were asking for. In this case dudes wanting cultural legitimacy for their hobby, but of course, unwilling to but up with critical scrutiny of what their hobby actually entails. I like the replication of toxic patriarchal
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The LoLgasm that is #Gamergate – Misogyny in the Gaming Community
Impotent dude rage… Fun fact: Morgan Ramsay, founder of the Entertainment Media Counsel, did an objective study of how much of gaming journalism talks about sexism or social justice. To do this, he downloaded 130,524 articles from 37 RSS feeds of 23 outlets, including The Escapist, Rock Paper Shotgun, CVG,
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Will Ferrell does a mock music video of gangster rap – and it’s a scathingly hilarious critique of the genre
A musical commentary, followed by social and political analysis, followed by hilarious spoof rap videos, and more This is scathingly funny. Will Ferrell does a mock music video of macho gangster rap. Man, how I despise that music. As Rage Against the Machine said, “So-called rap’s a fraud.” Worse, most
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Our Families, Technology and Having the ‘Right’ Experience
We can lump this video in with the others that attempt to shed light on issues in society that matter while discreetly hawking their wares in the background. The best form of advertising? I’m not sure, but the commercial makes space for some thinking about how generational experiences are becoming
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Feminist Frequency – Sword and Sorcery
A review of the game Sword and Sorcery, a game that challenges some of the gaming conventions of our time with the bonus of feminist analysis. 🙂 Filed under: Gaming Tagged: Feminist Frequency, Sword and Sorcery, Video Games
Continue readingThings Are Good: Violent Video Games can be Good
Violent video games get attacked a lot. Media and news companies are quick to blame the influence video games have on youth to be the reason that youth commit acts of violence. This is not the case though. Every year there is more evidence that it’s not true that violent
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sexy Man Armour in Video Games – And Dude Reactions.
So, shall we take a peek at the new character and his outfit from Final Fantasy Mevius? Now wait for it… Huh, so getting the ‘female fantasy treatment’ isn’t all smiles and chuckles? Oh, the obliviousness of gamers is so darn precious. Many thanks to the radicalfeministuprsing tumblr.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Enter the Jimquisition – The Worst Games of 2014
The mighty Jimquisition, with the help of a three foot long purple dildo lays the smack down on the worst games of 2014. And of course, thank god for Jim Sterling. Filed under: Gaming Tagged: Jim Sterling, Jimquisition, Video Games, Worst of 2014 in Gaming
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: 25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming White Male
Oh, let the floodgates go – the bitter tears of white dudes will flow to the sweet background cacophony of #Notallmen… Filed under: Education Tagged: Feminism, Gamer Gate, Sexism, Social Justice Warriors Unite!, Video Games, White Dudes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anita Sarkeesian Now In Rolling Stone! – Keep up the Good Work Internet Misogynists!
Ah, all the poor male gamers having their pet misogyny project blow up in their faces. Yep, you dudes are for sure are ruining Anita Sarkessian’s career. Keep the hate-train going maybe you can get her into the NYT again, or Le Monde or Time or… really the sky
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canadian-American feminist cancels talk after “Montreal Massacre style” threat
Anita Sarkeesian, a prominent Canadian-American feminist cultural critic, was forced to cancel an appearance at Utah State University after receiving threats of a Montreal Massacre-style attack. The post Canadian-American feminist cancels talk after “Montreal Massacre style” threat appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Explaining video games
This helps me to understand why my character in Skyrim keeps picking up crap to sell, even though he has more money than he’ll ever be able to spend. Also, snowberries. Alltop tastes delicious with existential berries.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: An accurate representation
This photo is missing the beer slider and the porn/video game toggle for men, but otherwise seems accurate. Alltop has an entire board filled with humor sliders.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Assassin’s Creed Four – A Female Protagonist
“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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