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From Stephen Elliott
“If this was a blog post I wouldn’t have read it; if this was a video I wouldn’t have watched the whole thing, but because this was a game I played it until the end.”
That’s one commenter’s response to dys4ia, an autobiographical Flash game about transitioning to a new gender by Anna Anthropy.
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On June 27, 2011 the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a California law that would have banned the sale or rental of violent video games to minors
...moreAt Guernica, Randa Jarrar writes about this one time when she tried to visit her sister in Palestine and she was deported by Israel.
...moreI was so afraid of facing the guards at the airport that I had a difficult time imagining the rest of my trip.
“‘You want to write a novel? Who’s going to read it? A bunch of people in grad school? Fuck that,’ Mr. Patrick said. ‘Everybody plays video games.’”
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Near the end of my first date with Mary, the woman who would become my wife and mother to my son, I asked her if she would mind going out with someone who had a thing for video games.