Linda fucking rocks. Really refreshing to see a collector who wants to play and enjoy the material instead of let it sit in a box. Hope to amass something like this for myself someday.
Ash Parrish
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Kotaku Staff Writer and Hornt Correspondent - Fanfiction Novelist - Unapologetically Black - Diversity Gelatinous Cube
>> Gaming became a family pastime. The Guillorys surrounded the NES, passing the controller back and forth, encouraging one another, and shouting commands and tips to get past difficult sections. Read more
One question if you happen to see this: will you be able to continue writing about your FFXIV journey somewhere or will I just have to keep an eye on Twitter? I’ve thoroughly enjoyed seeing your reactions to everything. Read more
Sláinte!
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The callback headline on this article to the one before is genius. Take care.
Reading about your journey through ff14 was fun as it mirrored many of my own experiences when I started in August. I will miss those reads. A farewell lali-ho, if that’s even how that works
Well, fuck. Read more
Your piece on Linda Guillory was just excellent writing. The composition and pacing were really well done. As someone that writes for a living (partially), it was just an impressive piece.
I’ve really enjoyed your writing here, bringing attention to people, games, and ways to think about them that are outside of my own… Read more
Thanks for your great work Ash! I’ve enjoyed your tremendous writing and can’t wait to see what you do next!
Bloody sorry to see you leave but all the best; you absolutely have made an impact!
I love you so much, Ash.
What’s incredibly wholesome about this - Ok, not the only thing, but ONE of the things- is that her brain has associated gaming with the joy of family togetherness. She’s like the Dani Rojas of gaming. Gaming is love! Gaming is life!
To her, their worth is in the joy they bring, not how much money she can get. Read more
The INSTANT I see someone’s named Iris in a Phoenix Wright game, I get suspicious. I hope this 10-year-old isn’t some hugely evil character, hahahaha. Read more
Given how much sanitised depictions of 19th-century Britain have been, and still are, romanticised and fetishised, I’m inclined to welcome a less-flattering depiction of what was at the time a colonial superpower (and still has serious problems with xenophobia).
I just finished the Trial of the Lovers (which was Rough because everyone HATES YOU), and my final achievement is the Trial of the Fool, which I swear to the Maker was specifically designed to make my completionist heart break. Read more
I am currently one achievement shy of completing Dragon Age: Inquisition and all DLC and it IRKS ME TO THE BEDROCK OF MY VERY SOUL. So yes, I get the frustration people might feel with something like this. Flipside, the very meta commentary nature of this tickles me pink. *shrug*
“FFVII who were, to a man, completely unrelatable” Read more
At that time my sister watched every story based game I played (she mostly only played fighting games and the occasional platformer), I have great memories of beating MGS in a single weekend and her crying about Sniper Wolf. So yeah, I’m playing FFX, she’s super invested, and this scene hits. Got about 5 seconds of… Read more