Not really here anymore! (Shitty landlord.) Join us in the land of the free: https://t.co/1MqE8oZISM. Still game designer, research applier, impatient optimist.
Jan 19, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Internet toxicity usually misses me, but I was waiting for someone to be shitty about the #stadia tattoo in Wired. I haven't told the full story, so here, dear void, it is.
Before Stadia was Stadia, a few of us made a pact that if the name and logo was great we'd get tattoos. 1/
Tattoos can come from all sorts of places, but I think all of them are powerfully emotional in nature. This was an intuitive reaction to something we were feeling. It wasn't a prediction -- it was a feeling of closeness, of mission, of risk. It was dangerous. 2/
Jan 6, 2020 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
A recent viral piece on Kotaku, “The Cost of Being A Woman Who Covers Video Games”, states that prior to 2010 the lack of female representation in games wasn’t treated like a problem - this is grossly untrue.
It’ll take a few tweets but I feel like I have to get this out.
I can see how this might be the author’s perspective, but it painfully erases the advocacy I and others were doing at the time to address the problem.
I wrote a piece “Holding Out for a Heroine” for the Escapist in 2007, and it was one of multiple articles I’d done.
