The penultimate week

My apologies for the absence this last weekend, oh loyal viewers — wherever the five of you may be. I took a little time for myself following the Honors Conference (both my panel and a few friend's panels I attended on Saturday) to focus on the last few assignments I have to complete before the …

The Rochlins watch GTFO

My Gaming in American Culture class has taken me all over the proverbial map when it comes to consuming all different kinds of media. From tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons or Barbie to re-reading books like Ender's Game or Ready Player One with new lenses. From watching terrible video game-based movies like Tom Hanks' Mazes …

Gamers just want to have fun

With this showing up in the mail earlier today, I suppose it's as good a time to talk about it as any. I've spared no shortage of copy writing about my Gaming in American Culture class. From not knowing what to write for my semester-long project to what I wrote about for my semester-long project, …

Unraveling more YouTube recommendations

You can spin this blog post today one of two ways. Perhaps this is a public service for all of those affected by the over 10-hour Facebook outages that affected the social media platform and its company's holdings (including Instagram and WhatsApp) for some reason other than a denial-of-service attack — an issue which they, in …

Ten-dollars worth of nihilism

As I battle the unholy combination of impulsively long writing and too much content in the form of video game mechanics and aesthetics for my first Gaming in American Culture paper, it's about time for a break. Because my 4-6 page restriction has long since been surpassed by a 10-page first draft, and I'm electing …

Media re-consumption

Everyone always talks about the book being better than the movie. But where do most people stand on the audio book compared to the book? That's pretty much what I'm going to be sussing out for myself in the next couple days as I listen to the Orson Scott Card classic Ender's Game on Audible. …

An impossible choice

I want to put more effort into the post with my thoughts on classes this semester, so I'll be saving that for tomorrow. However, today I'm going to sort of ruin that by spoiling my thoughts on the class I'm looking forward to most. All in service of discussing an existential crisis it has delivered …