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Tag Archives: ethics
Zoya Street on Virtual Pets
In contrast, a virtual pet such as a tamagotchi requires emotional labour of a sort. The skill required has nothing to do with your physical ability to manipulate the keys of the device, but rather is concerned with your ability … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged ethics, jenn frank, video games, virtual pets, zoya street
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The Wonderful Farting Mudokon
I have a lot of love in my heart for the Oddworld universe, and a lot of love in particular with Abe. After all, he was the chosen one who freed the scrabs and the paramites and, finally, the mudokons while running … Continue reading
Rosi Braidotti on the future
TVWhat makes the project of the nomadic programmatic, or utopian? Rosi Braidotti: Let’s call it programmatic; maybe that’s a better term than utopian here. I call to actively embrace this ethic of affirmation. We need to borrow the energy from … Continue reading
Released: Laika
For some reason I believed that I had made a post about this already, but apparently I haven’t. A few weeks ago, deep in the development of Way Too Scary Game, I took an afternoon to make a Laika. It comes … Continue reading
Posted in A Game I Made, Video Games
Tagged design, ethics, laika, video games
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On Why I Will Never Play The Castle Doctrine
RPS: You should never hold a press event at your house. I don’t think many people would want to come. Jason Rohrer: [Laughing] You guys are in England, you don’t understand what it’s like here in America. [from this interview] … Continue reading
Harvest Moon: Extreme Ethical Farmer Edition Pt. 3
Do I have a chicken yet? Only watching the video will reveal the truth. The Flower Festival happens in this video and the priest refuses to dance with me. I also talk about Marx’s analysis of the working day.
Posted in Extreme Ethical Farming, Video Games
Tagged animals, ethics, gaming, harvest moon, video games
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Harvest Moon: Extreme Ethical Farmer Edition – Part 1
So I recorded my first Let’s Play today. A little while ago I asked if Harvest Moon was vegan on twitter in a sort of half-serious way. Line Hollis said that it might be, so I thought that the only thing I … Continue reading
Posted in Extreme Ethical Farming
Tagged animals, ethics, extreme ethical farmer edition, harvest moon, video games
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Sunaura Taylor on Disability and Animals
Is there another way? What would a reframing of dependency look like to animals oppressed by humans? Viewing the dependence of farm animals through a disability studies framework gives new answers to the questions surrounding animal exploitation and may also open up a third … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time
Tagged animals, disability, ethics, life
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Preliminary Thoughts on The Knife of Dunwall
I’ve played through roughly half of the first “stage” or “chapter” or “section” or whatever the hell it is called in the new DLC for Dishonored called “The Knife of Dunwall“. My main interest in this DLC stems from the fact that it … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged animals, design, dishonored, ethics, video games, violence
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Nonhuman Life: Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude
This post is part of a series of posts that I am writing in conjunction with an independent study I am taking that is based around the concept of nonhuman life. You can read more about it here. Up front: After … Continue reading
Posted in Nonhuman Life
Tagged ethics, nonhuman life, nonhumans, philosophy, quentin miellassoux
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