Category: Commentary
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This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
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We can simply say “no.”
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Sugiyama’s death gives me pause, not because I will mourn his passing, but because the news has circulated in the western games press with a now-familiar hesitancy–one I have often…
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There are all sorts of video game discourses you shouldn’t get into which I am simply too stupid to ignore, and of those, probably the weirdest is the crush of…
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Twenty years ago, a group of terrorists bankrolled by a former CIA asset inflicted a massive collective trauma on the United States and provoked it into a war that lasted…
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A response to Tyler Cowen’s article: “How Gaming Will Change Humanity As We Know It.”
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I’ve been sucked into the critically acclaimed MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV, whose upcoming expansion, Endwalker, is available for pre-order until November 23, and has a free trial up to level…
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Despite not technically existing, a few in-game locations have become places I recognize, in the same way you might recognize your own city or town.
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When a company gets sued by a state government because they foster a fundamentally dangerous workplace to anyone who isn’t straight, cisgender, white, or male, it’s not a business writer’s…