







Gamers, we hear you. You're sick of politics in games. You're the sick of the wokeness, you're sick of Sweet Baby Inc and Kotaku -- to be honest, women and minorities in general! Well, we've got you covered. In this deep dive into the annals of video game history, we're gonna find a game just for you. This is The Search For The Apolitical Video Game. SUPPORT PALETTE SWAP: https://www.patreon.com/PaletteSwapMag 0:00 - 3:56 Intro 3:56 - 12:01 Post-Modernism 12:01 - 25:20 Obvious Omissions 25:20 - 26:20 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. WATCH. 26:20 - 37:08 No Man's Land 37:08 - 53:28 The Sticklers 53:28 - 54:50 Post-Video
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How ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG
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Introducing The Pentaract: A Comprehensive Set of Video Game Lexicons for ATProto
Some of you already know that I’ve been working on-and-off on a lexicon for video games. I figured it would be a good idea to put the lexicon up for further discussion, and to make sure I’m headed down the right path with things. But why? Last year, the video games industry experienced a significant upheaval when radical groups leveraged moral panic to pressure payment processors, which in turn pressured games platforms to remove NSFW applications. This resulted in a lot of underrepresented dev...

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Rogue
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Gaming by @sweetbee.vip
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Video Games Are Better Than Real Life
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The Player and the Played
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The people who watch video games, but never play them
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Video Game Monetization | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
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