Friday, December 22, 2017

Doki Doki Literature Club Shows Not Everything Should Be Meta

Beware spoilers for Doki Doki Literature Club, and UnderTale A bunch of friends recently sat me down to play Doki Doki Literature Club. If you have no idea what a Doki Doki Literature club is, it's an easy way to spend four hours reinforcing to yourself how Visual Novels aren't really for you. In...

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Let's have a chat about game diffiulty

I’ve been ruminating on game difficulty some. Whilst I don’t want to go into the Cuphead debacle, I’ll concede that some valid questions were asked and we owe it to ourselves as consumers and to the game industry to try and come to a consensus, or at least to figure out what the mainstream and niche...

Sunday, November 26, 2017

I Really Liked Dark Souls 2

(I love this animation with all my heart.) Dark Souls 2 is the ignored middle child of the franchise. A lot of fans hate it, a lot of fans like it but wouldn't call it their favourite, and then there's me. I really liked Dark Souls 2. Maybe even a little more than Dark Souls 1. To clarify, I played...

Thursday, November 9, 2017

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Monday, July 24, 2017

Gender. Let's Educate Ourselves.

"Gender is like the twin towers. There used to be two of them, but now it's a really sensitive topic." ~Meme that showed up on my Facebook feed I admit I laughed when I first read that little nugget of wisdom. Gender seems to be one of the most contentious issues of the last few years or so and we...

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Faith.

I am not a man of faith. The world is built upon arbitrary truths. They are provable, they are tangible, they are usually resolute. For every action, there is a reaction. And while I may not know the first link, I can trace the chain back far enough to come to a satisfactory answer. As I grew into...

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Two years later; Does my Disdain For Organised Religion Still Hold?

If you've ever been disillusioned from a belief system you were indoctrinated into as a child, it's understandable that you'd bear some animosity towards it. And when I drew the straw that broke the camel's back I had to watch a part of me crumble into dust without as much as a warning. I was mad....