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Let’s talk about Rosa Var Attre, the impossible romance of The Witcher 3
The Witcher 3’s greatness has more to do with Leo Tolstoy than you’d expect.
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The demonic properties of an ampersand
The classic roguelike NetHack has a surprisingly complicated portrayal of evil.
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The Qun Demands It: The Evolution of the Barbarous Other
The secret racism behind high fantasy’s brutish races.
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A hot date with a pug reminded me why I hate dating
I went on a hot date with a pug. He stared into my soul, and found it lacking.
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A video game convention for the LGBT community widens its scope
GX3 proclaims that “everyone games.”
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Dragon Age: Inquisition is all business
Saving the world involves a surprising amount of paperwork.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition’s sex scenes to be less like awkward robots doing it, or so we hear
Here’s some good news. Dragon Age’s much-decried sex scenes will no longer be bizarre simulacra where you gift someone to get them to screw you. According to this interview with the game’s producer Cameron Lee, Dragon Age: Inquisition, coming this October, will add a lot more nuance in the way characters get together. “It’s not like Origins where you keep giving gifts to get their approval rating up and then you can snog ‘em,” Lee tells RPS. Rather it’s more about person-to-NPC interaction, and, uh, achieving goals, which halfway sounds good, although sex in real life isn’t something you normally…