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I mostly play on the Switch (handheld gaming is really huge to me) and Windows PC. Sometimes I’ll download games for my phone, but I like playing on my Switch more.

First video game was probably Super Mario 64.

First console owned was the Gameboy Pocket.

Favorite genre can range from shooters to RTS. I don’t really play games on mobile devices, but I like to download point-and-click games for my phone when they are free for a short period of time.

  • “The mainstream FPS only knows one kind of Latina”

    “The mainstream FPS only knows one kind of Latina”

    […]

    Latinas, and darker-skinned women in general, are rarely allowed to be more. The darker our skin, the less we adhere to whiteness, and the more deviant we are assumed to be. We’re allowed to be sexual, fiery, devious, seductive, and physically mature. We can almost never be vulnerable, cute, insecure, delicate, soft, or simply human – especially in the ways white women like Overwatch’s Mercy or Apex Legends’ Wattson get to be. We are constantly forced into an intensely stereotypical and narrow view of us that only gets further perpetuated every day through the media and is extended into the policies and cultures that shape our lives.

    […]

    Natalie Flores

    See this trope: Spicy Latina

  • “Twitch blasts streamers with vague, unhelpful DMCA takedown emails”

    “Twitch blasts streamers with vague, unhelpful DMCA takedown emails”

    Riiiiight, Twitch.

    In the meantime, however, Twitch’s advice to streamers is unhelpful, to say the least. Not only do users have no way to know which of their clips were flagged, but Twitch’s best advice seems to be “delete everything.”

    “To avoid receiving a DMCA takedown notification for the recorded content that remains on your channel, we recommend you take the following actions,” Twitch wrote in the emails. “Review your Clips, VODs, and any other content in your Creator Dashboard and delete anything that includes unlicensed copyrighted material. If you are unsure about the contents of your archive, you can delete all of it.”

    Ars Technica
  • Warframe: The War Within Reaction

    Warframe: The War Within Reaction

    [No major spoilers for Warframe, Dreamfall or Dreamfall Chapters]

    Just finished The War Within in Warframe. The entire game is mostly sci-fi with fantasyish elements, but TWW went into full-on Dreamfall mode. The mountain pass segment in particular–not just the snowy segments1, but there was also the “battle in the center of your mind” bit, with the Golden Maw, that was a lot like the scenes in DFC that took place in Storytime and other planes of existence. It made me nostalgic for The Longest Journey series. 🥺

    1: referring to one of Dreamfall’s ending scenes with the Black House

    Btw, if you’re interested in playing Dreamfall or DFC, definitely start with The Longest Journey. Reviewers say you don’t need to play it in order to under either of the Dreamfall games. But because TLJ is the first game in the series, both Dreamfall and DFC make a lot of references to TLJ and basically picks up where it left off. Also the very last scene of DFC will have more meaning.

    I saw a Youtube video with said-last scene. The ones who didn’t play TLJ were mostly annoyed and didn’t understand it all. While the ones that did play were all feelsy, because it officially answered a long standing question everyone had when they played TLJ.

  • Gentlemen

    Gentlemen

    Dinner is served

    No, towers, I expect you to dine.