May 1st
…being rationalized. It’s the same selective blindness obscuring the fact that simulations are just made up by people picking numbers and writing rules. Ideology becomes invisible from the technical gaze.”
Real-Time
Cultural representations both real and fantastical, and the pursuit of authenticiy therein, is the theme of this next pairing.
- The Joys of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic’s Gibberish Alien Language | TheGamer Khee Hoon Chan highlights the charm and the jank behind the developer shortcuts taken with KOTOR‘s non-Basic languages.
- Lesbian loneliness is portrayed perfectly in Life is Strange | Gayming…