Cecilia D'Anastasio's saved articles

Only took 4 minutes for That Guy to post. Gotta be some kind of record.
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This is pretty much the same as LoL vs DoTA2 from a few years ago, LoL was the kiddie version because of the art style and missing some mechanics from DoTA like denying. Read more

I look down on both games. I’m already onto the next big thing. A battle royale game where your only weapon is the merciless surgical precision of interpretive dance.
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Like Geguri, I main tank in Overwatch. Nearly two years and hundreds of hours after getting the game, I’ve stopped responding to teammates who confide, “Huh, I’ve never seen a woman in Overwatch not play healer,” a common stereotype for women who play the game.
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What a loss. The Tale of Princess Kaguya is proof that old age did nothing to dull Takahata’s creative vitality or his sensitive eye for human behavior. And I especially admire the way that the film offers fresh surprises to long-time viewers of Japanese animation without walling itself off in a fandom. Read more

A match goes well when I win and nobody points out my gender. A match goes poorly when we lose and, if someone doesn’t straight-up say so, I wonder whether my teammates are blaming me. My fear of performing poorly and reducing myself to a datapoint in someone’s argument that women are bad at Overwatch fuels my… Read more

Wow. That is basically the story of how I came to play Overwatch, too. The ‘wait, where the hell are the women?’ moment you describe with ‘CrackerJess’ is almost a verbatim copy of my incredulous conversation with my husband on the exact same topic. Read more

The Tale of Princess Kayuga, the latter of which was nominated for an Academy Award. Read more

Thank you for giving me so much beauty and such good cries, Mr. Takahata.

I’ve followed Geguri since her UW Artisan days, when she was first accused of aim botting. I was initally upset because we’re both girls around the same age, but then I saw her Zarya play and instantly knew that she was skilled and that I wanted to be like her. I copied her play style with Zarya, and started taking… Read more

we can only hope Read more

I got this for a good two weeks straight. I’d get into a game and either: Read more

It’s ok, the solution is just keep buying the game every year. Read more

Just finished watching this one. It was a wonderful, short series.
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at first i thought this was just a fan servicey girly thingy, but your article makes it sound like a lot more. a step in the right direction maybe? but this seems way too saccharine still. nothings wrong with that. just feeling bitter that there hasn’t been much anime for ME in the last 3-4ish years. Read more

This was hands down my top show of the season. Even better, I wasn’t even expecting it - I had Yorimoi marked down as a maybe, because all it had going for itself was “cute girls doing cute things, only in Antarctica”. So I gave the first episode a try, and was blown away - characters were remarkably fleshed out,… Read more

This is one of the most well crafted anime I’ve seen in years. I hesitate somewhat to say that because it feels like such a grand statement, but it’s how I genuinely feel. I feel like it was consistently strong, and felt very satisfied by the time it ended.

All of the girls have such well fleshed out personalities, I… Read more

In an era of anime that struggles to portray women in a manner that even remotely resembles reality, this sounds like an incredible breath of fresh air. Read more

The MMO genre is basically dead. Its a graveyard of greedy publishers who all thought they could copy/paste WoW’s profits. Its sad, because WoW disrupted the genre so successfully that it redefined the genre, and in doing so, ultimately monopolized and killed all of its competition. Read more

Ahhhh, waiting 6 hours for the friggin’ cyclops to spawn in Karana only to have some dingus kill him before me. Got me them pre-nerf Jboots after a few weeks of sittin’ and spinnin’. MISS U EQ Read more