I guess I should write about my day, huh.
(Even though it's over, and a new one has already begun. Stupid off-kilter unemployed sleep cycle.)
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Brooklyn Book Festival was pretty neat! I guess I was expecting something like a trade show or a convention, what with Brooklyn having a huge and storied literary scene, but it turns out it was both
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Dude: It's sad how video games focus so much on power fantasies, yeah? You're always playing the big, macho warrior dude, or the studly groupie-bait bishie.
Lady: Yeah? Pandering to the male gaze and stuff?
Dude: Absolutely. And when you're playing the spindly little guy he's always the David to someone else's Goliath...like Gordon Freeman, or some humble proletariat working class plumber like Mario. The princess is in another castle. The male is always there to rescue, dominate, and give meaning to the female. Susan Sontag would be appalled. It's not fair.
Lady: That's so fascinating! It's very...Susan Sontag. I should look into that for my next paper.
Me: Isn't it? It's even been the subject of critique within the medium itself.
Dude: Really.
Lady: Seriously?
Me: Yeah! In Metal Gear Solid 3, where you play this Jack Bauer, Tom Clancy style badass who can move like a whisper and kill a bajillion guys with an AK-47 without batting an eye, there is a scene where you're captured by the bad ( ... )
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Man. Books! Awesome.
So uh I'm moving to NYC this weekend and will be basically unemployed at first (I KNOW I KNOW WHAT AM I THINKING), so if you ever want to meet up with somebody and hang out someplace with wi-fi to write or whatever, let me know.
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