Author Archives: kunzelman

merritt kopas on games and education

Posted on 11/21/2012 by kunzelman

What I like about dys4ia over a film or textual narrative in this case is that it drives home the systematic nature of gender regulation. Too often, students come away from (often tragic) films or written accounts about gender and … Continue reading →

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On Final Fantasy VIII

Posted on 11/20/2012 by kunzelman

1. Lets get the boring stuff out of the way. Final Fantasy VIII is often derided as being the worst Final Fantasy game of the PSX era. As this very whatever article on Edge puts it: “The standard line on the trio of PlayStation … Continue reading →

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On Shank and The Butcher

Posted on 11/16/2012 by kunzelman

Shank is a simple revenge story. The player controls a guy named Shank who, well, shanks and shoots and chops lots and lots of enemies. It is mass carnage as only video games can do–there is basically no consequence for player … Continue reading →

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On The World

Posted on 11/15/2012 by kunzelman

So some of you might know that I’ve been working on the question of nonhuman ethics. More precisely, I’ve been trying to understand our ethical obligation toward purely digital entities–computer games, for example, or evolved virtual creatures. Since my proclivities … Continue reading →

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Return to Skyrim: Whiterun and a Dragon’s Death

Posted on 11/14/2012 by kunzelman
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Designing Horror: Hugo’s House of Horrors

Posted on 11/13/2012 by kunzelman

This post is part of the Designing Horror series. Game: Hugo’s House of Horrors (a complete playthrough at youtube) I picked this game because Darius suggested it to me over Twitter. I remember the game faintly–it was on one of those shareware … Continue reading →

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Flusser on life

Posted on 11/12/2012 by kunzelman

Life on earth is a specialized formulation or organization of this peculiar solution. Essentially, life can be regarded as drops of specialized seawater that eventually dissipate into unspecialized seawater. If we can imagine another planet covered in oceans of even … Continue reading →

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James Kochalka’s “In Defense of Meat”

Posted on 11/09/2012 by kunzelman

I wrote a little bit about how unhappy I was with James Kochalka’s “In Defense of Meat” a few days ago (in the context of a much larger, glowing review of Digestate.) James commented that he thought that I was misrepresenting his … Continue reading →

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Return To Skyrim: Communing With A Chicken in Riverwood

Posted on 11/07/2012 by kunzelman
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On Black Hole

Posted on 11/06/2012 by kunzelman

WARNING: This post probably isn’t work safe or mind safe. There is some body horror and some straight-up violence.  What is Black Hole about? I’ll just let Burns explain. Right. Black Hole is about a disease that affects teenagers, and about the lives of … Continue reading →

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