The lights are on
At 11 A.M. on May 23rd, my life changed.
What I've learned so far, how amazing it is, how lucky I am.
What a dweeb who researches gamer culture is doing at Game Informer.
I used to have a personal blog series called Things I Like, and it was a series of posts with pictures and links to purchasable things I liked on the internet. It was mostly geeky stuff and fashion stuff, but I thought, I still like sifting through the vast interwebs (especi
If you read my previous blog post on the subject, or follow me on Twitter, you probably already know that I'm going to be participating in the Minnesota AIDS Walk this Sunday, May 20th. A few weeks ago, I came up with the harebrained idea to live-stream an attempt to beat Ocarina of Time, one of my favorite games (I have a Deku Scrub tattoo, if that tells you anything), in a day in order to raise money for the Walk.
C418's remix
It's Mother's Day, and Kyle Hilliard's reader discussion on moms who game got me thinking about my own mother, with whom I'm spending the weekend, and who has been a gamer almost as long as I have.
Earlier today, I--along with Game Informer video producer/one of my soon-to-be coworkers Ben Hanson (as well as our lovely significant others)--visited Light Grey Art Lab's most recent (and most talked about) exhibit, Battle Royale, which features 151 illustrations of the original 151 Pokemon as interpreted by 151 different artists from around the country.
I'm currently re-watching How to Train Your Dragon with some of my favorite peeps and don't care to write a super-duper long post about how awesome my day was, soooo...here are some pics from our time at Rusty Quarters, which is a new(ish) arcade that opened up in Uptown (Minneapolis, where I live).
*I take my Legend of Zelda very seriously. My mom and I began playing it back in 1998 (Ocarina of Time in da houuuuse), though I'm pretty sure A Link to the Past took my Zelda virginity. I now have a Deku Scrub tattoo and wear Zelda underpants on days when I feel like I need superpowers.
As you may already know, Jake Johnson and I are participating in the MN AIDS Walk this May 20th (for more info on how/why I decided to participate, read this post). Our team name is "The Indigo-Go's," which I think is awesome.
Y'ALL. I'm gonna tell you what it's like to be an academic and a gamer and an academic studying games all at the same time/why being a crazy-pants grad student influences the way I play games.