Episode 125: Speaking Light Into the Darkness: A Conversation with Nico D. (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). In this episode we talk with Nico D. (aka@appleciderwitch) formerly of the Justice Points podcast. We had a fascinating conversation about internet shaming, Rust, and feminist game studies and […]
Samantha Blackmon
498 posts
Recently I had to explain slut shaming to my 7 year old daughter. Not in those terms, but for the usual reasons. While traumatized by the whole event (me, not her) I did take some pride in the fact that it was not her doing the shaming, but other little […]
Spring (May) 2016: Gaming Marathon On Saturday, May 7, 2016 we are hosting our third Gaming for Good event. This time we have chosen the Flint Child Health and Development Fund (FCHDF) as our charity. The FCHDF was created to support the delivery of critical public health, medical, and community-based services […]
Episode 124: Alison Rapp, Nintendo, and the Future of the Games Industry (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). In this episode we talk amongst ourselves about Nintendo’s termination of Alison Rapp, online harassment, and the future of feminism in and around the games industry. Grab a drink […]
As a mother, a gamer, and a change agent I am starting to find myself more and more in the position of having to explain why we don’t do certain things that other people do. When my daughter was an infant I made the decision that Disney princesses would not […]
Episode 122: Where the River Takes Us: A Conversation with Gwen Frey of The Molasses Flood (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). In this episode we talk with Gwen Frey from The Molasses Flood the developers of the new indie survival roguelike (yeah, that’s all kinds […]
As a child sick days, for me, meant laying feverishly on the couch at my grandmother’s house watching cartoons on what now seems to be a ridiculously small black and white TV. There was orange juice, chicken soup (or Vernor’s ginger ale if I had a tummy bug), and a […]
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about female characters and when I choose to play them and when I don’t and for some reason bell hooks’ book, Outlaw Culture, has really been haunting me. The whole book is pretty amazing and was written during the […]
I actually like to stream when I play games. I do it so that I can play games with friends and strangers even when I am playing a single player game or sitting at home in my game room all by myself. So doing streaming marathons to raise money for […]
Episode 121: Everything Is Awful: But For Now We Fight (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). The episode in which we talk about our lives and how we see them matching up with the questionable methods of disagreement on the internet. It reminds us all […]
This weekend we ran our 24 hour streaming Mammothon to raise money for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. On Saturday many of our staff members and our families played a lot of games and talked about them and to our audiences for what we consider a great cause. This streaming […]
For months I have been waiting for the release of the little game with the cute little yarn character appropriately named Yarny. I watched video and interviews for cons, read blog posts, and I have even gone as far as making my own little Yarny figure from wire and yarn. While […]
Episode 120: Who’s Your Daddy?: Society’s Take on Faulty Fathers and Monstrous Mothers (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). The episode in which we talk about Joe Williams’ early access Steam game, Who’s Your Daddy, and how it reflects on the way maintain society […]
Alisha’s post this week on the disappearance of demos and the effect that it has had on the games industry gave me a chance to think about why i haven’t really missed the availability of the demo in most cases. I’ve said many times how I tend to go media […]
On Saturday, February 13, 2016 we are hosting our second Gaming for Good event. The Gaming Mammothon seeks to raise money for the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF), which provides education and detection services for women across the country. Founded in 1991, the NBCF provides free and low-cost mammograms to […]
So, an odd thing has happened since the end of last year when I lost my urge to shoot things (in the game), I have once again found my love of puzzle based games. It started with me playing more games on my phone and on my 3DS because they […]