This is part three as to why the fuck I keep playing Dark Souls. You can read part two here. Let’s continue with my frustrations as I battled Priscilla, an optional boss, time and time and time again. I went against my rule of not reading the wikis at this point. Priscilla had broken me,… Continue Reading
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Dark Souls, Part Two: I Can’t Quit This Game
I wrote about my experiences with the game, Dark Souls, up to the point where I played through it a second time up to the point when I ragequit the first. You can catch up on my adventures so far here. Because the post was getting long, I decided to end it and start a… Continue Reading
Dark Souls: Why I Keep Playing This Game, Part Two
In my last post, I wrote about my feelings the first time I tried to play Dark Souls. I encourage you to read it before reading this post, which will be about my experience the second time around. I’m currently nearly halfway done with the game, so I expect I will write more posts on… Continue Reading
Dark Souls, Part One: It Has a Hold on Me
Editor’s Note: I have been obsessed with Dark Souls for the past month or so and am trying to figure out why. To that end, I’ve started two series on it–one that is about my experiences playing the game and one that is about how I feel about the game in general. There’s overlap, of course,… Continue Reading
Dark Souls: Why I Keep Playing This Game, Part One
Editor’s Note: I have been obsessed with Dark Souls for the past month or so and am trying to figure out why. To that end, I’ve started two series on it–one that is about my experiences playing the game and one that is about how I feel about the game in general. There’s overlap, of course,… Continue Reading
Channeling My Inner Cyndi Lauper and Putting the Religious Right on Notice
The subject of birth control should be far from controversial. To many women, the only thing controversial about it is that we’re still fighting this battle. I’ve loved Cyndi Lauper since I first watched her video, Girls Just Want To Have Fun. This was back in the eighties, and she was the most outrageous person… Continue Reading
Religious Freedom For Thee, But Not For Me
Ed. Note: My thoughts are still jumbled on this. It’s really hard to get past incoherent rage. So, I apologize that this is going to be disjointed. It’s the best I could do. My reaction in reading the Hobby Lobby decision on Monday: FUCK YOU, SCOTUS, AND THE HOBBY LOBBY HORSE YOU RODE IN ON.*… Continue Reading
Intersectionality is Sometimes Bullshit
“My feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit.” This is not a new phrase, but it’s being said with renewed vigor on social media these days. Briefly, intersectionality means that systems of oppression intersect and cannot be considered independently of each other. I agree with this. In fact, in college, I got mad… Continue Reading
I’m Just a Girl…Gamer
I didn’t grow up playing video games. At least that’s what I said when I first talked about them with my close friend, Ian. However, the more we talked, the more I realized I had played video games early in life. Pitfall!, Pong, Space Invaders, to name a few. Later, as a teen, whenever I was… Continue Reading
Shame, Shame, Shame
No one likes to be shamed. No. One. I was fed a steady diet of shame and blame as I grew up, so I’ve become really sensitive to it. I was taught that I was responsible for other people’s emotional well-being, and I tried my best to make my mother happy – to no avail.… Continue Reading