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Pursuing My True Self
“Call me Mattie.” It was the first time I had ever said that. I remember being at an old hookah bar when I did, Java D’lights. I was waiting on a glass of wine and my good friend hovered near my shoulder, watching. She knew, and waited. I decided to change my name- well, a ...
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In defence of Vanille’s accent
Here’s the audio version I have narrated. Yes, this different, but equally messy accent do exist in real life/ (Spoiler warning: Final Fantasy XIII and Black Swan) As someone well primed to North American accents through entertainment, and Australian accent through real life, I can admit that when I first heard Vanille speak, I was ...
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Metal Gear Solid’s postmodern legacy: part 1
“What was that noise?” I love the Metal Gear Solid series. Despite it’s overindulgence of cutscenes and increasingly nonsensical plots, I love the series to death. I tell you this so that you know my next statement is going to be horrendously biased. As a videogame series, Metal Gear Solid is one of the most ...
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Multiplicity and Identity Mitigation in Video Games
Where before we traditionally thought of identity as a monolithic construct, modernity demands recognition of multiplicity and fragmented identities. Okay, that’s a mouthful, what the heck am I saying? Well, think about how people with multiple identities are more likely to be considered to be ill. That line of thinking–the one that determined, somewhere down ...
