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How Modern Video Game Coverage Has Reduced Critics to Human Punching Bags | VICE | United States

I’ve started to feel really bad for video game critics and writers. It really doesn’t make sense all the hate they get. I have no real understanding of where this anger comes from. Is it related to a changing gaming landscape, and the change makes most gamers afraid? Is it purely related to internet anonymity? […]

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The legal battle for gaming’s past | Polygon

Archivist have dealt with these types of legal issues for year, but focusing on preserving games, specifically through circumventing any kind of access controls or DRM, refrains the conversations nicely. Games can seem like “magic”, and this “magic” obscures all the software and hardware that’s used to run. What happens when that “magic” is no […]

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Archiving Engagment

Here’s a post from Georgia College’s ENGAGE program about the presentation I recent did with Katie Simon and Tess Lyle about the Citizen Solider Project @ Georgia College  blog. https://engageatgc.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/archiving-engagement/ This project involved working with freshmen student, artist Jack Leamy, Katie, Tess (a TA), community groups, and most of the library’s departments.

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Sad Puppies’ Hijacking of the Hugo Awards Won’t Stifle Diversity in Science Fiction — The Atlantic

This is the second time today that I’ve seen #gamergate brought up. I really don’t understand the desire disengage from people who have different perspectives and opinions than you. I really tried to understand this mentality and the companion ways of thinking that encourages raging when ideas conflict with your own and retreating to a […]

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Wicked Weed Medora

Wicked Weed Medora. I really wish Wicked Weed was distributed further south. This sounds like a great American Sour beer that’s getting spread a bit wider.

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Dark Souls II Review – GameSpot Or Teaching Should be more Like Dark Souls

I think we should take a page out the From Software playbook when it comes to approaches to teaching. Offer no comfort. Present new “dangerous” ideas to students, and teach them to face what’s coming because it won’t always be nice and pretty. After three games of hitting a wall at the 30-hour mark, Dark […]

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Save the Bros?

Are bros and endangered species? Can we get federal dollars to save them?

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Marquette Warrior Free Speech Debate: Blog Post Was Ethics Breach | The New Republic

Marquette Warrior Free Speech Debate: Blog Post Was Ethics Breach | The New Republic. I came to the exactly same conclusion as the author of this New Republic. This was way less about possible political correctness and more about the actions of the faculty member. It’s hard not to talk about your students, but it’s doubly important […]

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A New Faculty Challenge: Fending Off Abuse on Yik Yak – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Policy wise there’s not much, I believe we can do about this, unless there are threats of violence. The issue is really complex. Students have a right to speak their minds, but shouldn’t a faculty member have the right to feel safe in their classroom. The more I think about it I find myself thinking […]

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Why Small Businesses Are Starting to Win Again – The New Yorker

Great article discussing how small businesses, particularly ones that focus on provide “intangibles”, like flavor, customer service, and curation can compete with businesses that have scale and mass produce things. Now if states would realized that small business are a good thing. Why Small Businesses Are Starting to Win Again – The New Yorker.