Cecilia D'Anastasio's saved articles

Women in tech was once in a way the default, given women were almost exclusively at the helm of operator panels and assembly lines, and Atari’s 1970s production line seems like a holdover of that era, albeit a hyper-sexualized “evolution”. Read more

Solid article. Enjoyed the various perspectives and views provided. History 101, don’t judge the past by today’s standards. Everyone seems to have forgotten this basic principle to studying events of the past. Read more

One of the best articles I’ve ever read on here. Read more

Ohio Opiod Crisis. Read more

Sooooooo gross. Years ago, when I was single I went on Amazon and bought one of those “how to talk to women” books. Got about half way through the intro before I threw it out. As lonely as I was, I hated the idea of pretending I was something I’m not just to get laid. Now I’m married with two kids, so I was clearly… Read more

Out off all of them I think Neil Strauss is the only one to have gotten married and started a family. Then wrote a book about how all the shit in The Game is not helpful to a healthy relationship.
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I feel gross just reading about this... I hope that mods will be available that will allow me to just repeatedly kick these guys in the groin? Read more

Mercy was the most meta-restricting hero in the game, so it’s definitely good that this is happening. I do wonder if this means the meta will change such that we don’t see every high level match contain a Genji, Winston, and Tracer on each side too. (Be nice to see mah bae Sombra out there a little more often.) Read more

I imagine Lucio will get back up there pretty quick. And that makes me happy.
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I get that balance changes can have a big impact, but I feel like I’m one of those average players who doesn’t care and barely notices after a couple sessions. I play everyday and usually am playing support.

Like this whole week I’ve been seeing Mercy booboo-tears all over the boards and stuff, and yet, in games with… Read more

Bring on Moira. Read more

I mean...I’ll take it since I have premium...doesn’t really sound like a bot replacement if other people in your discord have to also have premium to listen what you’re listening to which is kinda disappointing, yet understandable Read more

All I want from this is the ability to set up a music bot for my raiders that doesn’t require a 30 minute YouTube tutorial and two separate programs to download. Read more

...Damn. The system really is useless if the gamepad breaks, huh? That gives me a big dose of anxiety. It’s like the possible points of failure are doubled. brb, gonna go dust my Wii U and start taking better care of it. Read more

Late in the Wii U’s life, and continuing through the Switch launch (which I got) and through a few months ago, I would keep thinking about buying one. I really, really wanted to get Mario Maker (the 3DS version is too cut down), as well as the Mario platformer and a few other titles. Read more

I saw him speak at the Smithsonian’s history of video games exhibit when it opened. One of his anecdotes was about an old arcade machine he designed, how the covering was terrible because it was completely solid and had no ventilation. He also said that the girl in the ad was a stripper. Read more

Doesn’t mean he gets an award Read more

It can be a tricky thing to retroactively judge people based on contemporary social attitudes. In this case I think it’s right that the award is being withheld. It may have been the 70s and 80s, but Bushnell’s behaviour would still have been considered sexist. People were just more likely to shrug sexist behaviour off… Read more

I agree that this isn’t the year, but we can’t whitewash him out of the history of video games. I know it’s hard to have nuanced discussions about these things, but we can’t really have a society where everyone is judged by the worst thing they have ever done. People are good and bad, people learn, people make… Read more

My sty-town friend brought me there once. We are not friends anymore. Read more