This month I am posting essays in promotion of Hopepunk City, my new game that was released publicly at the beginning of October. My first was about romancing Ariane, and romancing Rachel, as those are good incentives to get the game if you want to pursue those relationships. This essay focuses on the setting. Part of the reason for these
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As vaccinated places of the world are seeing large declines in Covid-19 cases and deaths, there is this feeling of relief that is coming, changing people’s attitudes. Concerts, sporting events, conventions, schools and parties are all doable again. But some of the sacrifices we made over the last 15 months or so have changed our attitudes on many things to
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The new Artist Mantra of 2020: “I don’t care if it is popular or not, I’m just doing it for me.”
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The story we told ourselves was that the “American Dream™” was alive and well, even though it definitely wasn’t. The richest families of America rigged the game so that they would always win and the bottom 90% would always be broke.
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A year ago, I came out as Aromantic, and this year for pride month, I decided to write for romantic people (what we call “alloromantic”) since they represent 99% of the population. Not having an ability to fall in love can be a weakness in some ways (don’t ask us for relationship advice, we don’t know anything), and a superpower
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I apologize in advance if some of these links are behind a paywall. I have a subscription to the Washington Post, so that is where the majority of this info comes from. – Trump had 70 days of warning that this disaster was coming and did nothing until he absolutely had to. Story – Because of his delayed reaction, the
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I’m old enough to remember when sexual minorities in media were never talked about. Anybody wise to sexuality in the 60’s knew that Uncle Arthur on Bewitched was gay but it never got mentioned in the show itself. It wasn’t until a show called Soap came on in the early 80’s that broke the sexuality taboo and featured an openly
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June is “pride month” in the US, and it is usually filled with corporations trying to show how forward thinking they are in appealing to the LGBT community. For a while now, I have been thinking that I am part of that community myself. The thing is I am not L, G, B. or T. The current extended acronym is
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The tech battle no one is discussing, because in the end, neither will win. In 2015, Oculus Rift was supposed to be the beginning of the VR revolution, it wasn’t. In 2016, Samsung Gear VR was supposed to be the beginning of the VR revolution, it wasn’t. In 2017, Playstation VR was supposed to be the beginning of the VR
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I try to write something once a month and haven’t gotten around to it this month, so here are some random thoughts. I have been really tempted to write about the steep decline happening in politics, not just in America, but everywhere these days, but there is way too much material to go through, and most of it is from
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