Section 1: Woman?
I want to be as fair and just in my analysis as possible of course, because although it would be only too easy for me to make a long video complaining how this game, which is full to bursting with sexy anime ninja-maids is sexist… and misogynistic… and problematic…
What was I saying?
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir *now breaaathe* was born in 1908. She was a french philosopher...
2019-05-23 19:38:28 +0000 UTC View PostI heard about this game, Nier: Automata, and I knew I’d need to check it out, because everything I was hearing about it made it sound more and more intriguing. Everyone seems to think that this game is true art. People who don’t think video games are art think this game is art. People who love video games keep saying this is the most complex and rich piece they’ve ever seen. So what is it?
If I google “Nier” this is what I get so… One thing I can say for sure is the...
2019-05-22 11:51:17 +0000 UTC View PostIt's not a patron only discord server, but I'd like to be careful about who gets in, so I'm gonna try to keep it quite closed. I haven't set rules yet but I will kick people off for being a dick, as determined by me. The rest, we will figure out as we go!
2019-05-20 18:54:04 +0000 UTC View PostHi Everyone. We’re doing Coen Brothers again today, as we will be, by my calculations, until the end of time. Today we’re looking at a funny little project called The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. If this were a straightforward narrative I’d feel pretty comfortable just talking about this without feeling the need to synopsize, because synopsising is boring as hell. However, as this is an anthology piece, I feel like it’s pretty necessary to talk through the points that I think are relevan...
2019-05-15 15:15:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve noted before how memes, tropes and patterns can strongly signify, or be used to spot, an in-group, and to some degree how these patterns work to actually reinforce that in-group. These can be patterns of things people do, or say, or consume, but they can also be things that people commonly aspire towards.
In the 50s post-war period, as today, it’s safe to say that the status quo was partly held up...
2019-05-11 18:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey pals!
The patreon rewards that I was shamefully behind on are all packaged up and going into the post ASAP! Sorry again for falling so behind!
I have an announcement about updates that mostly won't affect you guys (current patrons) but I figured I would let you know ASAP anyway.
I'm going to be reconfiguring the tiers a bit. The 1, 2, and 50 dollar tiers will remain the same, but as I am nearly out of fidgeters stock, now is a good time to re-evaluate who gets which rewa...
2019-05-11 15:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
Thank you all SO MUCH for supporting the channel. Your support really means the world to me, and knowing that you guys are out there trying to make things easier for me makes things easier for me on its own, even besides your financial support. Thank you so, so much.
I'm really sorry, but with things that have been going on in my personal life recently I've fallen really far behind on sending out Patreon rewards. I'm working hard to try to rectify this and get your ...
Hello ladies and gentlemen welcome. Today I’m going to be mixing it up and reviewing something I don’t usually look at. Manga. The upside of looking at a medium I don’t usually explore is that as I don’t even like manga you can be sure I’ll be completely and totally objective.
My first note before we look at specific examples is that manga books, compared to western comics are much smaller, and you have to read them from right to left instead of left to right, whi...
2019-05-02 15:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
So I'm pretty pissed bc I've been working on this little video for a while about a show I really like. I'm working on ways to get it past the algorithm (praise the algorithm) but in the mean time, here's a link if you want to just download the vid so you can see it!
https://we.tl/t-jx1kRaNjoE
be good to one another, friends! <3
2019-04-12 20:39:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Sekiro, Shadows Die Twice, is the latest game from From Software. It was released in March 2019 to mostly a positive reception and has been the centre of a comical discourse around difficulty and accessibility in video games. It also...
2019-04-12 17:45:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone. Today I’m writing this: a video. This video is a video, not any of my usual three things. Usually I make essays, mini-essays, and shitposts. This isn’t a shitpost, but it also isn’t any kind of essay. This video is a video.
So what is this video about? Well, it’s about three conversations that I keep having that really piss me off. These three things aren’t really linked together by any theme, except that they are all conversations that I keep having...
2019-04-07 16:45:44 +0000 UTC View PostThere are small things that I found strange coming into Horizon Zero Dawn that kept putting me off liking it: the facial animations are strange and uncanny; the child you play as for the first ten minutes is crazy ugly; the dialogue can be an acquired taste - several (hundred) times in the first act it is repeated that Aloy and Rost are not just “outcasts”, but, “outcast, to be shunned”.
HZD did one thing wrong though, above all else, that I just can't forgive i...
2019-03-20 02:29:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This video was the first one edited entirely by Natalie!
2019-03-11 23:50:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Section 1: Introduction
Spyro the Dragon is a late 90s and early 00s platforming collectathon, considered by many to be a childhood classic. Many of you watching will have this charming little purple man run around on your home TV screens in your youth, and some of you will even have welcomed him back last year when he was revived in the Spyro: Reignited trilogy.
We’ve come so far together with Spyro: we’ve seen things together, we’ve collected ...
2019-03-11 22:26:22 +0000 UTC View Post
So there’s this comic I really like, and I read it a long time ago but I know I really liked the way it reconfigured the superhero genre to show people’s powers not as advantages but as big problems in their lives, and created these really interesting familial relationships that just feel incredibly real, and had something going on under the surface that I couldn’t quite explain at the time. It’s been a slightly surreal experience watching the Netflix adaptation, knowing ...
2019-02-28 21:17:29 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t usually do game reviews, so I don’t really know how to do them, but I really want to review this game because it’s great and they were nice enough to invite me to beta test it. I think I need some sort of yardstick to measure against. Let’s compare it against the greatest game ever made: Shadow the Hedgehog 2005.
Complex moral decision making: check
Edgy, unlikeable protagonist: check
Battling against the American government: check
Nebulus enemy named afte...
2019-02-08 00:45:43 +0000 UTC View PostAlt-Right Date Night, a Curio Essay
Hey kids, today is a very special day so today I’m not just your regular Curio. Today I’m Love Curio, and I’m here to talk about love.
Let’s talk about love. Let’s talk about how non-binary people love one another, how women love women, how men love men, and even, if you can imagine it, I’ve heard that sometimes men and women -- no I knew it was silly as soon as I started writing it. Le...
