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Real-Life Stimpack: PEDs in Pro Gaming
This news on professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players taking Adderall for performance enhancement came as no real surprise. There has always been the talk regarding steroids and other...
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Artistry and Delusion in Game Development
The practice of an art form is indeed self-expression. There is much thought and dreaming that goes into it, but you can make mistakes if you stop and think for too long. A common case would be...
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A Superman Game That May Actually Work
Here's something just for the fun of it. I was throwing around writing ideas against the wall one day when I thought of something my friend said about a Daredevil game and how it's actually almost...
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How Games and Other Media Age
Being a fan of media is not a bad thing as it brings variety to the usual drab monotony of daily life. Some may even think of such distractions as needless and counterproductive. But where would the...
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Internet Cafe Simulator — Game Ideas
Maybe this'll be a permanent series on this website, where I just throw up different ideas for games. I did it a while ago with ideas for a Superman game that may actually work. For this first post in...
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Chernobyl in Games and the Internet
Fallout 4 is coming out later this year, so fans are most likely replaying older Fallout games right now. In the meantime, let's look at one of the most radioactive places in the world for some...
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Time is Fool’s Gold: On Clickers and Grinders
Recently, for reasons only known to my subconscious mind, I opened solitaire on my computer after several years of not even a passing thought on the game. It then made me think of games that were...
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Video Games as Art… Again
By now, this controversial post on Polygon has made its rounds and got nerd panties up in bunches. I thought of writing something about it not because I have anything to prove, but merely to express a...
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Review-pocalypse: On Writing Criticism
There's an art to writing reviews on bad stuff—an obnoxious one at that. It's also quite fun—at least at first—to tear a bad game or movie apart by using metaphors and hyperbole to describe their...
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Pre-release Build Ideas for Fallout 4
As of this writing, it's less than a week until Fallout 4 comes out. Being too excited for it, I'd been looking for new info and stumbled upon a page detailing the new perk system, complete with...
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Konami: In the Name of Petty Revenge
So a travesty occurred in this year's Video Game Awards (I think the event is a sham, but it does its good anyway), wherein Geoff Keighley mentioned that Hideo Kojima was banned from attending to...
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Relive StarCraft and Brood War for Free with Mass Recall
While I'm writing a script for what will hopefully be a full StarCraft II review video (I really have to start making more videos), I look back at the story of the first StarCraft and its expansion...
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The Pantomime Theater of Reaction Videos
After that whole issue with FineBros, reaction videos are once again under a spotlight. After looking at comments detailing just how stupid they're supposed to be, I decided to dig deeper into them....
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I’m So Done: Changing Stances Over Platform Exclusivity
Back when Rise of the Tomb Raider was announced as a timed exclusive for the Xbox One, I wrote two posts about platform exclusivity (1 and 2) with perhaps only a rough idea of what it's intended to do...
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Games as Meditation and Productivity Aids
There has been a bit of a slump lately on this blog, but it may have turned out for the better as I had come across a realization. This little turnaround could be what's needed to inspire more content...
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VR Porn and Our Filthy Cyberpunk Future [NSFW]
Got the idea to write about this from articles on Fusion and Mashable regarding VR porn, although it took me a while due to trepidation of posting something this NSFW here. With both Oculus Rift and...
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StarCraft HD and the Pitfalls of Updating a Classic
Since Blizzard doesn't seem to be refuting the rumors as of this writing, perhaps StarCraft HD is indeed about to become a reality. As good as StarCraft II may be, it's still overshadowed by the...
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Overwatch — Sombra’s Way
In a concerted effort to create more content in the style of video essays that I love watching so much, here is one I made for Overwatch, specifically the new character Sombra. I have to admit that...
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My Thoughts on Game Reviews
After taking ye olde sweet time to get another video uploaded after the This is the Police review while still having a mental block, I used said mental block as inspiration for a non-review video....
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Denuvo and the Apparent Hubris of Anti-Piracy
With the seemingly lightning-fast recent cracking of Resident Evil 7, taking only 5 days since release, I thought a bit about Denuvo and the whole thing about DRM protection. Cracking groups have...
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