Hello! Today is a repost of the tl-dr inaugural post last year on 12-7. That’s right! One year strong! (I also updated the $$ count in the middle of the post) Thanks to everyone for reading! Welcome to the inaugural post for tl;dr, a blog dedicated to bringing together games, gamers, librarians, information scientists, and information about games. In [...]
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What is it with gamers and drawing penises?
I’m serious. Gamers LOVE to draw penises. There are many opportunities to do so, what with the amount of creative games around. Let’s take exhibit A from Penny Arcade. Quoth the Tycho: You almost certainly know about Draw Something already – like Words With Friends or Hanging With Friends or Inadvertent Castration With Friends, it is an [...]
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Violence vs. Conflict in Video Games
I don’t really enjoy violent video games. Or games that are gorey. I don’t want games that just shoot and kill people. That being said, I love me some L4D. It’s gorey and violent. A hack and slash FPS with plenty of guns and killing. Did I just contradict myself? I don’t think so. I like L4D [...]
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Q&A with James Portnow from Extra Credits, CEO of Rainmaker Games, Part Two
Last week we had James Portnow from the Extra Credits team (also CEO of Rainmaker Games) answer some questions for us, but, because he actually answered them thoughtfully and constructively (who knew right?!), we split the Q&A into two parts, and today we present the second half! Here’s a link to the first half if you missed it, with topics such as gamified [...]
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Video Games are Racist
I know the first thought most people will have reading this: “What does a middle class white male with a Master’s Degree know about racism and diversity?” And you would partially be right; I do not have a lot of experience with racism first hand. I have not had to deal with racism as an [...]
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