Interview with Adam Savage
Mythbusters‘ Adam Savage talks about science, women in science, GamerGate and sexism on the Inquiring Minds podcast.
Fatality: Femmes Fatale, Disappointment, Expectations and Fatale
Expectations can be a killer, at least for me. I really expected to love Fatale (Image, 2012-4). I had every reason to. Writer Ed Brubaker, artist Sean Phillips and colorist Dave Stewart have made some of my favorite comics together: Sleeper; Criminal; Incognito; and Velvet. Brubaker’s Catwoman brought […]
Play Games at the Internet Archive
Check out the Internet Archive’s Console Living Room Project, which includes their Internet Arcade of over 900 games including Street Fighter II, Pac-Man, Centipede and Donkey Kong. Curator Jason Scott writes about creating the project at his personal blog. (Via Ars Technica)
“Bayonetta Doesn’t Care”
At Paste Magazine, Maddy Myers has some interesting thoughts on the “male gaze,” the “sub gaze,” Dommes, gender, sexual desire and video game character Bayonetta. “‘[M]ale gaze’ seems like an unkind oversimplification as to who might be doing the ‘gazing’—let alone the identifying—and perhaps evidence that gaming desperately […]
Film Critic Hulk and Arthur Chu Face the Void
Film Critic Hulk has a lovely piece about “Despair, GamerGate and Quitting The Hulk” at Badass Digest. And Arthur Chu remembers his own dark days and meeting Felicia Day in a lovely piece at Salon.
Shirley Jackson Reads from “The Daemon Lover”
An excerpt of Shirley Jackson’s reading from “The Daemon Lover” on Folkways Recordings.
