Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Boring Plot-Holes Imagine going on to the movies. You pick a movie made by a director with a good track record in science fiction movies. After sitting through the previews, it is finally time to start the movie. Now imagine the disappointment you feel after the ten minutes of hopeful build up is immediately extinguished. That is what happened with VALERIAN AND … Read More
The Rocky Start And Epic Conclusion Of FINAL FANTASY XIV: STORMBLOOD A review of FINAL FANTASY XIV's latest expansion, STORMBLOOD from the less than stellar Early Access to how the game made up for its difficulties. Read More
No, You Do Not Need Straight Pride A simple questionnaire with straight (pun intended) to the point answers on the necessity, or lack thereof, for Straight Pride. Read More
Why DEAR WHITE PEOPLE Perfectly Captures What It Means To Be Black In America A review of Netflix's DEAR WHITE PEOPLE and how it expanded its story from the movie as well as point out what future seasons can improve upon. Read More
Did Square-Enix Play it Safe for the Finale of FINAL FANTASY XIV: HEAVENSWARD? A comparison of the finale of Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward to A Realm Reborn and whether player feedback caused Square to play it safe for Heavensward. Read More
HORIZON: ZERO DAWN is the Feminist Game We Need, but Not the One We Deserve Gamergate is at it again in 2017, the victim this time being HORIZON: ZERO DAWN, a game featuring a strong woman as the protagonist and a diverse cast. Read More
Dear White People: Boycotts and Ignorance Don’t Mix A satirical deconstruction of the hypocrisy and inherent racism found in the latest boycotts over the upcoming Netflix series, DEAR WHITE PEOPLE Read More
How Playing an MMO Can Improve You as a Person The Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, MMO for short, conjures up images of basement dwellers that spend days on end in front of a computer. SOUTH PARK’s iconic Make Love, Not Warcraft episode certainly reinforced this imagery. While it’s true that worldwide, the total time spent on WORLD OF WARCRAFT equated to 50 billion hours, what if I told you … Read More
Gaymergate: The Best LGBTQ+ Characters in Gaming LGBT representation in video games has been an uphill battle since the inception of the industry itself. LGBTQ+ youth have had to grow up without any meaningful characters that they could identify with. Any breadcrumbs of diversity we got were mere stereotypes that didn’t accurately reflect the community. Not even role-playing games, offered us the chance to match our identities … Read More
How Final Fantasy XV is Challenging Gender Roles in Media FINAL FANTASY XV was one of the most controversial undertakings of Square-Enix. Most of the controversy was centered around the obscene length of development time, (ten years) and the announcement of an all-male cast. One of the questions on people’s minds was how could a series with a history of equal representation think it was a good idea to have an … Read More
The Grave Implications of The Recent Pokemon Games Pokemon has come a long way from its early concept inspired by bug collecting. While its turn-based gameplay and monster catching have remained the same, the stories have evolved in scope and scale. They have inspired many fan theories over the years, some of which can be found on creepypasta if you are looking for a scare. One of these … Read More
Nostalgia Shattered: When a Book Series You Loved is Incredibly Sexist Remember when Facebook added a new feature that took you down memory lane by showing you old pictures and status updates from your past? Remember all the times you cringed at the things you thought were cool at the time? Take those mixed feelings about your former self and apply it to a book you used to love. That is … Read More
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