Category Archives: games

Morning Awful: Limbaugh Newsletter Lift

Share the post “Morning Awful: Limbaugh Newsletter Lift”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe picture on the left is a “Nightmare Beast” from the 2002 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. The one on the right is from the latest edition of Rush Limbaugh’s … Continue reading

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Why Mass Effect is a Parable About Climate Change

Share the post “Why Mass Effect is a Parable About Climate Change”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis post is going to have spoilers, including for the ending to Mass Effect 3. Mass Effect is my current science fictional obsession. I buttoned down and got an … Continue reading

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Mass Effect 3 Porn

Share the post “Mass Effect 3 Porn”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI have never played the game (I’m not big on first-person shooters) and have no idea what this man is talking about, but the visuals make me want him to shut up and let … Continue reading

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Spent

Share the post “Spent”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Finally, an online game that represents the reality of working America after three decades of deliberate, sustained wage suppression! Spent is like Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed as a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure: The project of a North Carolina ministry … Continue reading

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Video Games are Tools of Satan

Share the post “Video Games are Tools of Satan”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThese people are exactly like Taliban fundies banning music and television. They would protest the comparison, but they would protest it too much. Anything that expands a child’s imagination beyond the limits … Continue reading

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Korgoth of Barbaria

Share the post “Korgoth of Barbaria”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis is apparently the pilot of a cartoon that never went into episodic production. It’s also ridiculously full of fantasy fanboy humor and silly, over-the-top Metalocalypse-style violence.

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Mario Dumps Pauline

Share the post “Mario Dumps Pauline”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailConfession time: as a kid, I hated Donkey Kong.

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Sim Filibuster

I question the notion that video games can’t say anything profound about the world. Continue reading

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Contra vs. Tetris

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