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Category Archives: Current Times
Current Times 8/18 – 8/24
I am abandoning the current system of Current Times numbering to go with a week system. That doesn’t mean that the things I am linking to were written in this week, but rather that I accrued the links during this … Continue reading
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Tagged art, comics, superheroes, video games, visual storytelling
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Current Times 29
This is a Current Times post where I post a bunch of links (mostly from tabs I have open in my browser.) If you want to read past Current Times, click here. 1. Sparky Clarkson has a piece up on … Continue reading
Posted in Current Times
Tagged capitalism, dylan trigg, eugene thacker, levi bryant, matt applegate, poltiics, steven shaviro, video games
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Current Times 28
This is the kind of post where I post links to things that I have been reading or been reading about over the past couple weeks (or this morning, depending.) If you want to see past Current Times, click here. … Continue reading
Current Times 27
This is a post of links to interesting things surrounding games and comics across the internet–think of it as a poor individual’s Critical Distance or ”The Sunday Papers” over at RPS. Click here to see past “Current Times.” 1. Marcus Iwinski of CD … Continue reading
Current Times 26
This is one more entry in the Current Times series, which basically means a link dump. Sometimes it happens because I have several things I want to talk about, but I don’t have too much to say about them. Sometimes … Continue reading
Posted in Current Times
Tagged affect, dominic pettman, tom gauld, video games, villain
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Current Times 25
In case you don’t know, Current Times is my running thing where I post links to cool things. It crops up when I am feeling sick, or more often, lazy. In this case it is the former, so here are … Continue reading
Posted in Current Times, General Features
Tagged critique, fallout 3, silent hill, steven shaviro, video games
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Current Times 24
1. The Atlantic points out that the HTML code for a pretty racist ad about jobs contains the class tag “yellow girl.” It is, presumably, referring to the Asian woman in the video. This is racist for a load of … Continue reading
Posted in Comics, Current Times, Video Games
Tagged comics, links, the punisher, video games, what if?
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Current Times 23
1. This is a collection of the Wizard ”how to draw female comic characters” by Livejournal user Ratcreature, and it is brilliant. There is something wildly strange about it, and it illustrates (hah) really well how ideology concerning gender is communicated … Continue reading
Posted in Comics, Current Times, Video Games
Tagged aesthetics, animals, comics, games, video games
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Current Times 22
1. This is a great story about an owl who helped raise a number of other animals in an animal sanctuary. I think it says something about the ability for animals to care for one another, and more importantly, it … Continue reading
Posted in Comics, Current Times
Tagged animals, comics, david lynch, gender, science fiction
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Current Times 21
1. Uno Moralez does great art. Look at it. Some of it is amazing creepy. 2. You can download all of Mousrat’s/Scarecrow Boat’s music at this link. Now you can jam out to a Lil Sebastian memorial tune. 3. Feminist … Continue reading
Posted in Comics, Current Times
Tagged comics, feminism, neal stephenson, rap, science fiction
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