Recent content by Sccye

Although a lot of people are alluding to the sex-as-biology / gender-as-social-construct divide that gets reproduced in most social science classes, there's still a lot more complexity in there even than that. This is an excellent article by a trans man that gives a sketch of some of the...

Gender Binary: In gender theory, there's a differentiation between biological sex and socially assigned gender identity. Although in strict biological germs, there's a relatively large intersex community that throws the whole biological sex binary into some complication. That's not usually...

Straight male. Mmmm, tasty heterosexual cisgendered male privileges... Glad you put questioning in there as well. A well-fashioned poll indeed there, sir.

Hmm. I was concerned that she was a bit too long if anything. Still, could do with more commentary on the content I guess. EDIT: Ah, wait. I see what you're saying. It needs more hard analysis of the game content to go with a lot of the fluff. You're right about the introductory section -...

Once upon a time, cinematics were the delicious, velvety icing on the game-cake. They were those sweet moments of jaw-dropping reward for accomplishing something. They captured the feelings of epicness in perfect narrative peaks, setting the context for the next arc of story. For example, in...

Bloody good on you, sir. I'm a meat-eating type myself, but my wife is vegan, so I end up eating and cooking quite a lot of vegan food. Just so long as you eat a good mix of things, you'll come out fine. I think the important thing is that you're actively paying attention to what you eat -...

Right then, folks. I'm a teacher. Specifically, a teacher of Religious Education, Philosophy and Ethics for 11-18 year olds in the UK. I'm also something of a gamer. A long-term project of mine is to do research into the use of gaming in education and in the meantime develop a few resources that...

Despite my initial cynicism, that was actually pretty damn cool. Nice one, OP. The only thing I'm a little confused about is the Mew / Acarus thing; presumably you're getting at the fact that it demonstrates a bias towards evolutionary theory rather than the God thing? Or... something.

People hate things that are popular because hating things that are popular is popular.

GET IN THE VAN! or possibly Hey, does this smell like chloroform to you? :)

To be frank, it depends on what the game designers are trying to do with it. Homosexuality isn't something I have a problem with on any level. What I might have a problem with is a game's idea of what a 'gay person' is like. If there was a conscious decision to say 'okay, we're making this...

Started off grinning like a maniac and emptying hundreds of delicious bullets into the fleeing man-cattle. Then, when you see the sheer number of dead bodies, hear their screams and so on... it sorta hit me funny. Construably, these might nearly just have been *people*. Mindless slaughter and...

Deathclaws. There's always the 'oh shit' moment when you see one when you're a low level and exploring and they just run at you very, very fast. Then you die. Horribly. I remember just being there with a combat shotgun running backwards and emptying round after round at the bastard. I think...

Yeah, it sounds totalcool. I'll rock right on over in the awesomemobile and have a look.

Astute. You're not high on nostalgia, but there are some points I'd add. In general, I do agree with you. The glory days of yore (about 1998-2004, in my mind) for RPGs are long gone. BG, IWD, PST, NWN. Ugly, clunky, obtuse - but also beautiful and brilliant. But whereas you point to creative...