Games

  • I Suck at Blogging

    No matter how many times I tell myself to update my website, as soon as things get busy, it’s the first thing to go. Never fails. Maybe that’s because I already have too much other writing work to take care of? I don’t know. Frankly, I don’t need to question it so much as I…

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  • Writing About Games

    So I’ve been a bit busy lately, as you may have gathered. In the last few months I’ve had a lot of personal stuff going on, including the passing of a close family member, but it hasn’t all been sad. I’ve also been writing for PopOptiq.com, a pretty rad site with some great writers that…

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  • The Enduring Loss

    Austin Walker of Giant Bomb recently asked what parts of gaming or gaming criticism or culture his readership might be afraid of losing or seeing forgotten by the collective consciousness. I had to think about that for a minute. While there’s a lot that I love about the games that have come to us since…

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  • Different does not mean “dumbed down”. This review for Fallout 4 on the PC is not written from the perspectives of either fanboyism or rage. I’ve been playing Fallout games since the very first, and consider myself both a fan and a critic. None of the games are perfect, but all of them have great…

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  • Black and White

    For the curious, my long absence has come largely from the fact that I did indeed finish my classes, after which I relocated back home to California. I managed to keep myself going through that grueling hardware class, and ended my final semester of the two years I spent at TCC with a 4.0, which…

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  • Ah, “darkness”. Few words conjure up so much immediate meaning and are still so subject to arguments about semantic terminology. What is dark to one, after all, may not be to another. What some find distastefully morbid, others mine for inspiration. Yet to some degree we all know what’s implied when the term is used,…

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