If you didn’t hear it by now, the WHO recently classified ‘Gaming Addiction’ as a mental health disorder in the early days of this year or the late days of 2017. From there, texts started rolling in forwarding articles, and I brushed them off as absolute nonsense. If you don’t know by now, I have…
A History of (Digital) Violence
Gamer. Even the label makes a self-diagnosed addict like me roll my eyes. I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s and even though I wasn’t a fan of grunge, I identified with the ‘don’t label me’ sentiments. Gaming is one of my favorite things to do, and I started as a wee-ish lad back…
The Mario Kart Effect
We’ve all been there: hurt, frustrated, straight-up pissed off or completely enraged. Someone did something to you and you want karma to do its thing so badly, because extracting even an iota of vengeful satisfaction against the person / thing that wronged you is likely to land you with a prison term that’ll last far…
This Earth: A Fantasy World 