Category: News Tidbit
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Why Villains Are Not Secretly Heroes in Disguise
originally posted to Tumblr (with some regrettable AI slop) Note: Spoilers for Fight Club. If you like anti-heroes, or even villains, to the point that you argue online or at parties that they’re “Correct, actually, and you should rewatch the film or reread the book with that in mind,” there’s something you need to hear…
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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…