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Posts tagged ‘penny arcade’

2011.02.04   Linkspam outside alone after dark (5th February, 2010)   (11)

Donna Benjamin is trying to raise money to get The National Library of Australia to digitise The Dawn, Louisa Lawson’s Australian journal for women from the nineteenth century. Joseph Reagle has posted the introduction to ...

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2011.01.30   Quick Hit: Dickwolves shirt removed from store   (7)

In our linkspam, you may have seen the post “Why I’m Not Speaking at PAX East 2011.” If you haven’t, here’s an excerpt: A couple of months ago, I got asked to be on a ...

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2010.10.15   Linkspamming in a bubble (16th October, 2010)   (5)

Chemistry and danger and pretty colours! All the ingredients of the perfect geek hobby. Have you seen Lauredhel’s series on soapmaking? The Setup, The Making, The Day After, Finis. She also runs a community for ...

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2010.08.17   Heroism vs multiplayer game mechanics and Rape as a fantasy trope   (47)

[Trigger warning: as you probably realized from the title, this post discusses the (overuse) of rape in fantasy settings] I’m going to start with saying that I thought the Penny Arcade comic was actually pretty ...

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2010.08.14   Dear Penny Arcade: WTF?   (37)

[Trigger warning for discussion of sexual assault in games and comedy and sexual slavery] Wednesday’s Penny Arcade told this joke where a hero insisted on leaving a rape victim in his own personal hell. Why? ...

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2010.04.07   Quick hit: PAX’s Girls and Games fail   (8)

Our dedicated linkspam spies have dug up a lot of critical takes on the “Girls and Games” panel at PAX East 2010, which sounds like it was a how-not-to for discussions of women in geek ...

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2009.08.12   Link roundup   (0)

Links? We got ‘em. If you see something out there that we should link to in the next go-round, drop us a comment. Video interview with BlogHer’s techies — GF blogger Liz Henry and others ...

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