Language Flows. — English changes, morphs, transmogrifies, whatever your word of the moment is. It may flow slow as frozen molasses, but it flows. There’s a rhythm to the way media and communication changes our words, from quick flashes of slang to introductions of new technology. It’s a natural evolution. Plays and manuscripts…

This ain’t the lighthearted superhero fun of Thanos snapping away half the population — I had the opportunity to see an early screening of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Spoiler free: you might want to leave any impressionable little ones home. If your kids would be bothered by The Walking Dead, they’re not ready for this movie. I won’t mention any specific…

My journey was… fast — I decided to become a novelist. I wanted to go the traditional route, understanding I would probably end up with a small, indie press. As a debut author, I was fine with that. I saw all the warnings, with everyone saying it would take forever and you couldn’t do it…

Get read, not immediately rejected — Struggling new authors know the drill well. Send a submission, get a rejection. Repeat fifty times. They comfort themselves with stories of how many times Dune was rejected or JK Rowling turned away. Then they submit. And get rejected. Here are some survival guide tips to get through that slush…

From Games to Life. It’s not real… — We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like? - Jean Cocteau “Luck” and “randomness” are words that permeate our lives from work to play. …

Canutillo, Texas, struggles with what is acceptable — As soon as what was soon defined as ‘pornographic imagery’ was found in a graphic novel (a comic book format) titled Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, targeting LGBTQ teens, parents demanded the book be removed from shelves. It was. Unsatisfied, in mid-November, 2021, a group wants a complete review of…

Why does that game you want cost more? — The Shipping Crisis. The Global Shipping Crisis. You hear it nearly every day now. Your favorite product has gone up in price and when you ask why, the answer you get is “The Shipping Crisis”. And an immediate question comes to mind. Why not just… wait a few days longer…

There’s often a dread surrounding blind booster collectable games. For the uninitiated, that’s games like Pokemon or Magic: The Gathering, where you’re not a hundred percent sure what you’re getting in the pack. It is easy to understand why the fear and hatred. They can get expensive. …

An examination of how production changed design — It is abundantly clear how videogames have changed over the decades due to technological advances. From ASCII to four color graphics, the path eventually lead to VR and graphics cards calculating far more polygons than were ever even conceived of in the days of text adventures. Today, you can buy…