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Posts tagged ‘Gaming’

2011.12.14   Wednesday Geek Women: Moran Paldi, game designer; Leena van Deventer, gaming writing; Catriona Wimberley, medical physics student   (1)

This week’s Wednesday Geek Women are Moran Paldi, game designer; Leena van Deventer, gaming writing; and Catriona Wimberley, medical physics student.

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2011.12.10   A long time ago in a linkspam far, far away… (10th December, 2011)   (2)

Linkspammed today: is geek feminism feminist enough, pronoun swap the Internet, and racism in Silicon Valley.

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2011.12.09   All My Nerd Ladies, Put Your Hands Up   (9)

I recently found a means of quiet rebellion, not a revolution, mind you, but a personal epiphany: Ladies Dungeons & Dragons night.

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2011.11.03   Quick Hit: Sexism In Games Bingo   (33)

Tired of hearing the same arguments regarding sexism in games? Here’s a sexism in games bingo card by @fireholly99. Trigger Warning: Includes mention of violence against women. Additional Warning: This card has been copied verbatim ...

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2011.09.08   Rising above our sordid linkspamming nature (9th September, 2011)   (13)

A skeptic finds menstrual synchrony evidence unconvincing, Elizabeth Bear doesn’t think the technological singularity is all that, men get more from professional networking, and more.

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2011.09.04   Geeks as bullied and bullies   (27)

A woman refuses to date a Magic: The Gathering geek, hilarity, by which we mean hideous misogyny, ensues.

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2011.08.31   A merry linkspamming band (1st September, 2011)   (1)

More Wikipedia gender stats, encouragement to attend tech events, femme fatale gaming violence as porn, and more.

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2011.08.30   The performer formerly known as Linkspam (31st August, 2011)   (2)

Women’s security scholarships, clothing dilemmas portrayed, sexism in geek culture broadly, and more.

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2011.08.28   Booth Grandmas at PAX Prime 2011   (6)

Apparently game company Good Old Games' booth at PAX prime this year featured booth grandmas passing out cookies. I was worried the PAX coverage would just make me sad that I couldn’t make it this ...

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2011.08.02   Linkspamming saves lives (3rd August, 2011)   (7)

What do a PSA about backups, pseudonymity advocacy, Wikipedia and Hermione Granger have in common? They’re all linkspammed today.

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2011.07.28   Flying by the seat of my linkspam (29th July, 2011)   (4)

Women in genre fiction, a non-physicist at CERN, open journal access as a feminist issue, and more!

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2011.07.17   More horrible than your worst linkspam (18th July, 2011)   (17)

Black and WTF: photographs of suffragettes. In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera to covertly photograph suffragettes. A bit of an oldie, but relevant to our recent Google+ discussions: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ...

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2011.06.21   Quick hit: Shepard ain’t white: Playing with race and gender in Mass Effect   (7)

I’m going to admit, I haven’t played Mass Effect 2, but I’ve definitely been hearing good things about playing the main character as a woman. There’s lots of good reasons your leading lady may be ...

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2011.06.03   Open thread: Super mario bros accapella by Jimmy Wong   (4)

There are a lot of covers are the mario bros theme, but Jimmy Wong’s version is especially cute and singable because it goes beyond the source to make something really fun: And as if the ...

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2011.06.03   Playing the linkspam card (4th June, 2011)   (2)

Why White Men Should Refuse to Be on Panels of All White Men: If white, male elites started saying, I will not participate in your panel, event, or article if it is all about white ...

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2011.05.23   He can only be defeated via his weakness for linkspam (23rd May, 2011)   (7)

Win a Scholarship to National Computer Camp: GamingAngels.com and National Computer Camp (NCC) are offering a scholarship for NCC’s June/July 2011 enrollment valued at $985 to a female student (ages 8-18) for one week.
 ‘National’ ...

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