Posts in this category cover general gaming experiences and thoughts about specific moments in games apart from their community or cultural implications. May include my commentary on update notes.
I wonder when the exhaustion started to settle into my molecules, but there’s something uniquely exhausting when dealing with the same cycle of questions people tend to ask people of color, usually several times per day. The last time I was out and about on the twitters I read something ableist, something sexist, and something… Read more Time and Time again… and again
This guy is the avatar I used for Black Beestinger whom I played in the Frontier Space campaign with Ninbinz of Project PBR. Black was a changeling Way of the Shadow Monk who also worked for a group called the Greywire. His mom was an assassin, his dad was a cleric, and he was going… Read more Reflections: Black Beestinger
To be very clear: this is a rant. Let’s start with the context. You are a fan of a series and are rightfully excited about its next episode of silver screen iteration. Fantastic. I’m happy with you. In your enthusiasm to speak on your experience, you have taken to the online world of social media to… Read more Spoiler Alert
It was the afternoon of Thursday, Feb 14th, and a coworker friend and I were finally able to set aside from to go and have lunch together. During our walk to the restaurant, we started talking about Dungeons and Dragons. He asked about the games I was involved in and I regaled him with the… Read more Talking & Tabletops
In every character I create, I build a challenge to increase my awareness and perspective. One of those challenges I’ve taken is one of being a deaf boy by the name of Reiner. What I’ve noticed is that, moreso than the players (that’s another story), this presents a challenge for my DMs in the kind… Read more Dungeons, Dragons, and Disabilities
It’s been a few months since I’ve started writing here and with all of that, I have these reflections to share. WHAT WE DID Yes. We. There were multiple milestones we blew by without me even being able to celebrate them all thanks to all of you. 100 follows 250 follows 300 follows Joining my… Read more 2019, Act I
I figured it was time to write this article when a casual comment on religious people rendered me unable to speak for two hours. While I recovered, I took the time to think about a few things that have caused me major friction in the communities I navigate as a black, religious man. BLACK I… Read more BMNR
In my younger years, a majority of my time was spent running around outside so that my parents and grandparents could have a moment of peace from me climbing all over the place until I discovered cartoons. 5:30AM on a Saturday would find me glued to the screen and un-moving for almost a decade. I… Read more Cartoons and I
When I was a kid, I played a fair bit of video games and if you were into that at my age, you had to know the codes for things. Especially cheat codes that let you do things you shouldn’t. I remember my first; I accidentally found a cheat code for the original Zelda game.… Read more Using Cheat Codes
It was around two years and a facebook comment ago when my friend suggested that he would be down to watch me stream if I ever did it. “Right. Like streaming me playing a game? Well, if I ever do, I’ll let you know.” An anime-style two-year timeskip later, through the wonder of the internet… Read more On Things Intended: Streaming
