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08/16/09

Stockholm: An Exploration of True Love - A Sociopath's Dream

Stockholm is an interactive DVD in which you play a sadistic and creepy (even though it's first person) kidnapper. The point, as the name may suggest, is to get your captor to fall in love with you. This goal is to be accomplished through fear using torture, rape, forced nudity, suffocation, gassing, etc. Charming. more »

03:39:19 am, by heather riot Email

07/21/09

'Watch Out Behind You Hunter!" gets pulled

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Remember that charming game where you have to shoot down gay men because they're supposedly going to rape you in the woods? I do! And I'm sure many others have the misfortune to remember that lovely game as well. more »

02:11:15 pm, by ari Email

05/02/09

Video Games, Queer Nerds, and Activism: Queertopia

Here is the paper I presented at Queertopia! 2.0 today. This conference has been one of the reasons I have not been able to write as many articles lately. The other reasons all relating to finishing up my last semester of coursework on my MA program in W… more »

08:29:45 pm, by heather riot Email

04/12/09

The Timothy Plan: The Christian Right's Answer to Game Studies

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The Timothy Plan is a "Christian financial planning" firm which "avoids investing in companies that are involved in practices contrary to Judeo-Christian principles. Our goal is to recapture traditional American values. We are America's first pro-life, p… more »

06:08:41 am, by heather riot Email

04/01/09

Watch Out Behind You, Hunter! Homophobia is alive and well.

It often feels to me that while the racism of today, that modern racism where people only use derogatory epithets in private, in whispered jokes, or start a statement with "I'm not racist, but....," is engulfed in attempts to hide it, the heterosexism an… more »

12:31:14 pm, by heather riot Email

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    Stockholm is an interactive DVD in which you play a sadistic and creepy (even though it's first person) kidnapper. The point, as the name may suggest, is to get your captor to fall in love with you. This goal is to be accomplished through fear using torture, rape, forced nudity, suffocation, gassing, etc. Charming.

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