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Aug 8, 2022

Fast Traveling Back Home

A look through what makes a virtual space feel like home. — Looking back at most games I’ve played, mainly consisting of RPGs, Pokémon titles, and in the most stripped down sense, any game with a hub area, I always find myself teleporting or fast traveling back to those first areas of exploration, tutorials, and lore. The first town, village, or even…

Video Games

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Fast Traveling Back Home
Fast Traveling Back Home
Video Games

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Feb 17, 2022

Feminine Horror: Body Autonomy and Ownership

Examining the fight to exist as a woman in the GCC, through Haunting Ground and Silent Hill 3. — Haunting Ground is a 2005 survival horror game produced by Capcom that is also dubbed ‘Dementio’ in other versions. Fiona Belli is the 18 year old protagonist of the game. She survives a car crash where she loses both her parents, and find herself stripped in a small cage. She…

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Feminine Horror: Body Autonomy and Ownership
Feminine Horror: Body Autonomy and Ownership

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Oct 8, 2021

Video Game Censorship in Oman

How an anonymous man deals with regulating video game access within an entire country. — During the early 2000’s in the GCC, the evolution from bootleg Atari and Sakhr consoles to the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 era meant access to several kinds of rendered and realized video games. …

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Video Game Censorship in Oman
Video Game Censorship in Oman

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Jan 6, 2021

My Favorite Games of 2020

I tried to play a lot of games in 2020, these are the titles I think fondly of that have helped me through the year. Astro’s Playroom Astro’s Playroom was my first PlayStation 5 game. It was the first game I platinumed on the PS5. This title was so much…

Video Games

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My Favorite Games of 2020
My Favorite Games of 2020
Video Games

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Jul 17, 2020

The Last of Us Part II’s Constant Liminality

I played through the entirety of The Last of Us Part II in around 35 hours. 35 hours of grief, suffering, glorified torture, idleness, and dormancy. — The Last of us Part II strives for a personal, grueling play-through of grief and revenge, but falls short because of the gameplay-justifying walking controls. …

The Last Of Us Part 2

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The Last of Us Part II’s Constant Liminality
The Last of Us Part II’s Constant Liminality
The Last Of Us Part 2

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Dec 4, 2018

RDR2, weight games, and feelings

tw: vague mentions of eating disorders, weight fetishism and body policing. — Amidst the Rockstar Studios work crunch ethic worries highlighting the importance of unionizing game developers and studios, and The New York Time’s apparent interest in claiming the outdated ‘did u kno video games are art’ opinion article that made any game that wasn’t a triple A one redundant. All the…

Videogames

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RDR2, weight games, and feelings
RDR2, weight games, and feelings
Videogames

7 min read


Oct 4, 2018

How FFXV Crafted The Perfect Friend Group

Why I still play Final Fantasy 15 despite being really bad at it. — After playing Final Fantasy 15 two year after its initial release, and still going back to it every now and then to scrounge up any hunts I’ve missed or side missions I’ve felt brave enough to try despite my low level, one thing remains constant to how I feel about…

Videogames

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How FFXV Crafted The Perfect Friend Group
How FFXV Crafted The Perfect Friend Group
Videogames

6 min read


Aug 8, 2018

Club Sunshine

Yakuza 0’s substories hold more emotional resonance than any triple A game I’ve played recently. — spoiler warning; it be like that sometimes. no major main story spoilers, just the cabaret club substory. I picked up Yakuza 0 after it’s price dropped to $20 on the PSN store. I didn’t know anything about the series, and really only got it after seeing fanart of the game’s…

Gaming

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Club Sunshine
Club Sunshine
Gaming

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Jun 29, 2018

Captain Spirit & Child Abuse in the Gulf

Trigger warning; mentions of child abuse. Also includes minor spoilers of The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. — The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit opens up with a track named “Death With Dignity” by Sufjan Stevens. You’re Chris, a ten year old boy with a creative imagination scope. As you design your superhero costume and set your personality by playing with toys, you then don your cape and…

Child Abuse

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Captain Spirit & Child Abuse in the Gulf
Captain Spirit & Child Abuse in the Gulf
Child Abuse

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May 16, 2018

The issue with Arabic Localization

How are Arabic Localizations of video games being taken by players in the Gulf? — In 2009, Activision released Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, a first person shooter on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game included a map that depicted Pakistan, yet featured Arabic text, even though the Official languages spoken in Pakistan are Urdu and English. In comparison, Sony Computer Entertainment…

Gaming

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The issue with Arabic Localization
The issue with Arabic Localization
Gaming

4 min read

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