Category: News Tidbit
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A Minecraft Movie: One Year Later
A Minecraft Movie sports surprisingly polished talent for an otherwise mediocre story. It’s been a year later, so let’s explore the good and bad behind the blockbuster videogame adaptation.
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Welcome to the Year of the Maze Rat
My Writing Goals for 2026 This is for me, more than anything. I do want some sort of “Declaration of Intent” for the year. I think it’s something like this: “Be happy, not productive.” That may sound like a cop out, but it’s designed to reorient how I think about my writing projects, because I…
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How I Made My Hero Section Video
This post is primarily to give more information about the video clips I’m using, especially to credit the original videographers. I think it’s important for everyone to give credit where it’s due, especially for artists who are kind enough to donate their craft for our personal use. Also, from a more personal perspective, I don’t…
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Breitbart Leaks & the Terrorism of GamerGate
Joseph Bernstein’s article at Buzzfeed News — “Here’s How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream” — includes larger implications for the video game community. Bernstein creates a narrative from a series of leaked emails from Breitbart which show Steve Bannon giving directions to Milo Yiannopoulis regarding their white nationalist agenda. They also “out”…
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Hate Speech in Video Game Culture
Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg recently said the “n-word” on a stream of the popular online shooter Playunknown’s Battlegrounds.1 For those who follow Kjellberg’s “antics”, this is no surprise; earlier this year, he paid two men in India to record themselves holding up a sign that said “DEATH TO ALL JEWS”. In a half-hearted apology, he placed a lot…