therealalanlopez
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therealalanlopez
Video Games' Blackness Problem

Video games have a blackness problem. This has been a known thing for a while, and we do talk about it from time to

Try Master's in Psychology.

How about this little thought exercise.

I love it when people reference "the world" so as to avoid saying "the people who keep laying off folks right and left, despite assurances to the contrary with usually little to no notice and often no extension of benefits." Again, while it's possible that people could live their entire lives and determine how many

You read that whole story and got "yeah, her fault" out of that?

IS THE LAST STORY THE NEW SCRIPT FROM DARREN ARONOFSKY?!?

I'm roughly half way into the paper and I really enjoy it so far. Thanks for posting this.

I didn't know anyone would be so interested in a 14 page academic paper...!

I would send that to kotaku when complete, I would be interested in reading that.

Any chance you could link the paper? (A fellow grad student that is interested in the field)

This is a little silly, but I *just* did a grad paper on Valve's flat hierarchy. They truly dont see this as out of the ordinary - literally there are no official positions at Valve, which means Gabe is just as much a help technician as he is a designer, coder, or anything else. You'd be amazed the crazy stories at

As a lover of both Melee and Smash 4 especially, it can be a bit toxic standing in the middle. Nobody loves a turncoat, and this is exponentially true of a turncoat who won't even pick a side.

I definitely appreciate your perspective as an insider. It's always helpful to understand both sides.

I remember being a pro Smasher at the time Brawl was announced. I even remember a lot of us talking about how these might be our last handful of months before we all move on, and to cherish them. The Dojo website where Nintendo would reveal a new thing every weekday was blisteringly hype. The day that Olimar was

Good for Nintendo and Apex to respond. The flippant manner in which some of the higher members of the smash community carry themselves is so often unchecked, I just resigned myself to a life of grating harassment from C-list celebrities, just by virtue of having to operate under their umbrella in tournaments and