Monterey Bay Aquarium
PR's Tumblrdome
almost home
JVL
JBB: An Artblog!
Cosimo Galluzzi
Kiana Khansmith
Not today Justin
Kaledo Art
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
KIROKAZE
Xuebing Du
RMH
d e v o n
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Mike Driver
h
wallacepolsom
tumblr dot com
ellievsbear
seen from India
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from T1
seen from Bangladesh
seen from India
seen from United States
seen from Pakistan
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Lithuania
seen from Chile
seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
@levelingdowndh-blog
̶͉͚͖̿ͤ̿̌́̚ T̹̝̟͑̄̃̿̍͠ḣ͉̭̙̖̯͑͗̂ͫ̀ḯ̧̺̪̩̱̮̫̫̲ș̵͊̅͂̃̾̂ ̤̖͚ͭ̊͗ͦͫ̚͞ͅi̞̬̬̖̊ș̴͎ͧ̾ ̵̺̳̗̙͙̱͖̹̮̉̒̎̓̀͞ả̸̟̫̝̈́ͦ̆ͦ̐͟͞ ̫̩͚̮͔̲̅ͭͧ̽̓́͟s̝̯̲͈̩̗̙ͣ̿̑ͭ̔͐͡ơ̶̙͎͍̽̓ͭ̆c̵̣͕̰̦̦̘ͦ͊̑̾ͮ̀i̴̥̫̮͎̯̳̔ͫ̏̃̄ͯ́ͩ̈́͜͡â̋̃ͪ͏̮́ͅl̼̯͎̳͖͇̾́̓̉̍͜ ͯ̃͗̃҉̢̟̠̞̙͇͉ê̢̨̗̦̺͚̻̽ͅx͚͔͈̮̗̻̰̟ͯͪͤͩ̈́ͯ͜p̲͓͌ͬ̀͡ȅ͈͍̗̓ͧ̐ͧȑ͇͈̠͕̗̀i̖͎̒̃͜m̨͖̋̈̇̂ẻ̻͉͙̰̺͓̫̺̦͗́̎͜n̶͍ͯͫ͝t̸̲̯̪̘̹͍̋͐̃ͬ
yes
YouTube link!
We launched our channel today!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkG3y7JUvtJFlrlYgheNDPQ
What does success look like in a capitalist system? At what price do we succeed?
What do our virtual achievements mean? What is the value of grinding? What does it look like to fail, to not achieve, to *un*achieve?
I have chosen to lose, and I love it.
“No Fun: The Queer Potential of Video Games that Annoy, Anger, Disappoint, Sadden, and Hurt” by Bonnie Ruberg
[W]hy do I keep playing such a difficult game when I know I will never win? Because I don't want to win. I want to fail. I want to feel frustration, annoyance, disappointment, domination, and pain. I want a play experience that is, queerly enough, no fun.
“No Fun: The Queer Potential of Video Games that Annoy, Anger, Disappoint, Sadden, and Hurt” by Bonnie Ruberg
Who’s ready for a throwback
When your username is lit but no one cares 😭
Researching be like...
First, the heteronormativity of video game culture makes the very existence of queer artists and scholars in the field (particularly femmes and women) an example of queerness and games in practice.
“In Practice: Queerness and Games,” Diana Pozo, Bonnie Ruberg, and Chris Goetz
http://ourglasslake.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Ruberg-Camera-Obscura-In-Practice-introduction.pdf
[O]nce we argue for the right to participate in cultural products in terms of productivity we rob ourselves of the simple human joy of finding pleasures in a variety of activities.
http://www.nymgamer.com/?p=17528
Failure, of course, goes hand in hand with capitalism. A market economy must have winners and losers, gamblers and risk-takers, con-men and dupes; capitalism, requires that everyone live within a system that equates success with profit and failure with the inability to accumulate wealth.
http://www.jackhalberstam.com/11/
They're the young adults in China who have spent so much play money, or "QQ coins," on magical swords and other powerful game objects that the People's Bank of China intervened to prevent the devaluation of the yuan, China's real-world currency.
Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal