http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus Radical Gamers Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:28:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I moved from being politically progressive to a radical leftist, I began to question how I could fight "classism" by going beyond advocating being nice to poor people but actually challenging what causes poverty in the first place. My friend JOMO recently wrote a post called Queer Liberation ... http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus/?p=310 This blog is getting a bit decrepit. I started writing on a feminist gamer group blog called Border House. I'll probably post most of my videogame related writing there in the near future because I'm into doing a group project. As always, my general science fiction related ... http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus/?p=308 Every year or so Nintendo releases a hot Wii game that gets me so excited I'll go spend $50 of my measly grad student salary. I would be lining up to get New Super Mario Bros. Wii based on the return of Yoshi-riding alone, but not if all the ... http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus/?p=301 I beat Mass Effect. What a great game! Check out Alex Raymond's posts on Mass Effect on her blog While !Finished for more discussion on sexism and feminism in the game. I think she's pretty right on! I'm still figuring out Xbox live. To my disappointment, the ... http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus/?p=299 Now that I have an Xbox 360, I've been thinking about playing Final Fantasy XI again. I gave the game up about 5 years ago because I traded my PC in for a Mac and I also had no offline social life. Perhaps when I'm starting a PhD ... http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus/?p=298 I've been playing Mass Effect on my new (second-hand) Xbox 360. Wow! Videogames have sure come along a lot in the last two years or so since I followed what was hot and joined in on all the blog gossp. Just when I was feeling jaded ... http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus/?p=294 My blog was broken for a while, but I finally figured out how to fix it. Besides an occasional post I'll write for Feminist SF -- The Blog!, I haven't had much of an internet social life these last few years. Grad school and not having the internet ... http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus/?p=288 Donnie Darko is my favorite American movie, so I was excited for Richard Kelly's next movie, Southland Tales, for years before its production. Then I forgot all about it and realized the movie was release two years ago and recently came out on DVD. I picked up a ... http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus/?p=287 I finally fixed my blog! I somehow broke it in August and then left on a road trip to go to the DNC and RNC protests. Woohoo! But now I'm back and ready to blog again. I may even try to figure out how to do ... http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus/?p=286 My gaming and academic work have lined up rather nicely. I started this blog in a women's studies class when I was a junior. At the time, I was in an interdisciplinary program studying science fiction and gender, and that eventually opened up to include race and cyborg ... http://www.lake-desire.com/newgameplus/?p=285