Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: August 3, 2011
Trigger warning: unpleasant sexual experiences
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: July 16, 2011
One of the common tropes about relationships that I’ve come across is that you’re supposed to do them in a certain way. Or that certain traits clearly are necessary to show you love someone, or a bit more often, that they’re indicative of romantic love, or just, coded as indicative of wanting a romantic relationship. [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 19, 2011
I recently was reading someone talking about how silent protagonists in video are awesome because they let the player assume the role of the character, and the character is basically an insertion of the player into the game or some such. Which seems reasonable on the surface, except in practice it doesn’t work that way. [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 8, 2011
Short version: The game is pretty good, beyond one plot point that I really hated and wasn’t very well done at all. Also it stars a woman without much sexism, so that always helps. (Yes my review mostly focuses on the sexism there is, what, did you think I’d ignore every little fault?) Beyond lie [...]
