The Problem with Inclusive Game Design
In the past decade, video games have undergone a dramatic and sinister shift—not in gameplay mechanics or technological innovation, but in the values and ideology subverting their creation. Terms like …
Category: Politics
America’s Double Standard: SCOTUS Preaches What It Won’t Practice
The Supreme Court loves to exalt “due process” as a sacred principle, handing down lofty rulings from their marble fortress. But when it comes to their own responsibilities? They vanish …
The Queering of Hobbies: How Activists Hijack and Hollow Out Communities
You’ve seen it happen. A hobby or fandom you once loved—built on merit, creativity, risk, and tradition—starts changing. Suddenly the focus isn’t on the game, the art, or the community. …
How Wikipedia and Molly White Rewrote the History of Gamergate
As time distances us from the events of 2014, the memory of Gamergate has begun to fade. For those who lived through it, Gamergate was a chaotic, messy, and multifaceted …
Trust and Safety: A New Age of Censorship
I didn’t set out to be a critic of content moderation. I’m a creative professional—an artist, a video game designer, a storyteller. For most of my life, I believed that …
Cultural Dispossession: The Marginalization of White Men in Literature and Beyond
Author John A. Douglas visited a Target store a few days ago and took a photo of the fantasy bookshelf. What he found was enlightening: row upon row of Romantasy …
Ubisoft Wokeness: Did Canadian Govt Grants Help Ruin Assassin’s Creed Shadows?
The France-based Ubisoft, once a titan of the gaming world, now teeters on the brink of ruin, its reputation battered by self-inflicted wounds and a desperate grasp for relevance. The …
Michael Shellenberger: Europeans Do Not Respect Americans
During World War 2, Americans helped to liberate the nations that Germany had subjugated. Much of Europe was destroyed and a reduced to pile of smoking rubble. The Allied nations …
Shocking Observations about India’s Low Trust Society
American society has become increasingly suspicious of Indian culture in recent years due to scandals involving Indian companies abusing the H-1B visa system. I came across a post today that …
The Fall of RPGs: How Feminism Undermined a Male-Dominated Genre
Role-playing games (RPGs) have long been a bastion of fantasy escapism, providing players with immersive worlds built on medieval European traditions. These games offered heroic adventures, grand quests, and clearly …
The War on Role-Playing: How Representation Ideology Undermines Immersive Gaming
For the past 30 years, the notion of representation has been incrementally injected into the cultural bloodstream. Even though nobody ever voted for representation ideology, it has crept into all …
“Racism” or Survival: Andrew Torba’s Take on In-Group Preference
In the digital age, where the battleground of ideas often takes the form of tweets and viral posts, Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, has once again thrown down the …