Culture
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Winter Holiday in Japan: Game, Toy, Anime Edition
I was in Japan for two weeks and I just returned last night. I didn’t do much gaming there because I placed more importance on other activities. I did take a lot of pictures and bought a bunch of stuff, though. This is one of many used goods shops (recycle…
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Parkour and Gender
I’m still playing Mirror’s Edge. Free time has not been so readily available. Another reason for my slow progress is that I’m masochistically attempting to complete the game without firing a weapon. I also really suck at platformers, and a first-person platformer is even more difficult for me. Mirror’s Edge…
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WOW Has Entered My Workplace
I am a known gamer in my division at my company. It’s one of the few “personal” things that I will talk about*. Whenever a games-related news item penetrates the mainstream media, people come up to me and talk about it**. When there was an article about taxing virtual income,…
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I Was 1337 Before I Even Knew It
This article is actually quite a balanced one on LARPing (though there are a few inaccuracies). Some quotes and my comments follow. LARPing, however, has always been the upper echelons of dorkdom, an activity considering by some as too geeky for even the geekiest of geeks. As I related previously,…