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PhD student of Communication at Concordia University // Interested in digital games; agency, subjectivity, and politics // La Dispute enjoyer // he/him, they/them also works.
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After some MIT students publish an opinion piece in the campus paper criticizing a professor's work with the Israeli military, the paper stops publishing op-eds entirely. A perfect example of how campus speech works in 2024. mondoweiss.net/2024/12/desp...

This is as par for the course as it is devastating. The state has no scruples about taking journalists' life, let alone their freedom. Hoping these military actions of Turkey don't escalate into an invasion of AANES..

You know the inflation is bad when the yellow union starts demanding a %74 wage increase.

BREAKING: South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol added to Victims of Communism memorial

Why do so many bands avoid Montreal like the plague when they go on tour? No, I can't go to Burlington!

I've been playing Veilguard, and it keeps getting better as you play. It's got really fun companion interactions once you get over the hurdle of exposition in the early parts.

This is a pretty neat chapter.. The conception of "Japanese" and "White American" identities being constructed as interchangable is really interesting.

a cloak believed to belong to the shooter transformed into a dozen beautiful white doves and flew away, Authorities said,

Disco Elysium really reinterpreted this trope in a grounded way with the slow decay of reality being a fact of life that nobody questions.

I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong