Every now and again I check the "DA:I unlocks in X days" notice in my game library just to make sure time is still passing.

It has its flaws without question but I still enjoyed a lot of it –– especially its play with the passage of time and with first person narration. Also, the voice acting is strong across the board, which I'm always grateful for.

I typically see the issue like this: the author doesn't have authority (i.e., they can't mandate what a work means to someone else with a set of different lived experiences, etc) but they are authorities in the sense that they're very well informed in how the book, movie, poem, whatever came into existence, and as…

Most of my waking thoughts are occupied with visions of Dragon Age: Inquisition but since that's still about two weeks out I'm trying to burn through my backlog of quirky games picked up on the cheap: Fez, Bit Trip Runner, Rogue Legacy, Transistor, and Bastion…

Well, something something Canadian developer something something poutine.

I was strolling down the street and a squad car stopped right in front of me. I was awfully confused until the police officer inside stuck his head out to compliment my N7 t-shirt.

(Fem Shep and Lady Hawke, that is).

Not entirely a coincidence that those are two of my favorite characters in games.

Oh, I think you're absolutely right and your point is well-said; I'm just curious about what it would mean to explore that middle ground between a "full agentic space" on the one hand and something completely external and deterministic on the other.

Ah ha! Thanks for sharing your take on it.

I used to live in Japan (a small town called Kagamigahara, in Gifu Prefecture) and it was scary similar to Inaba.

I feel very conflicted about how Kanji is handled. On the one hand, he's totally charming and a very fun character to spend time with. On the other hand, it kind of bums me out that the game seems to be suggesting that his implied gayness is just a confused phase to be gotten over (and played for laughs) rather than…

I have to agree with you about Naoto. Turns out I have a type.

I'm participating in the Bayonetta 2 meta-game: discussing it online without having actually played it first.

Oh, it's a spectrum for sure. I suppose tone plays into it as well.

For whatever it's worth, I've alway thought of Doctor Who as "science fantasy" rather than "science fiction," placing it squarely in the camp of Fringe and Star Wars.

"But shes only comfortable with her sexuality because that is exactly what the patriarchy wants her to be. And the only reason sexuality is valued is because men qualify it as such, controlling the structures of media, business, industry, and society in general."

In my head canon the Hero of Kirkwall is FemShep, who fell through an inter-dimensional wormhole moments after telling off the Star Child at the end of ME3.

I've been mentally running char-gen in my head for like a week now.

Counterpoint (not that one is needed): I've long lurked (but rarely posted) at Gameological in its various incarnations and I've always thought you were the bee's knees, @PaganPoet:disqus.