Love these, one of the best-written sites on the web.
In bizarro world.
Too bad he doesn't know the slightest thing about games, that probably would have helped.
What's not so great about the Digital Antiquarian is how he's letting his political agenda infuse his writing. Early on it was a factual history with a neutral narrator, but since he's developed a following he's had the courage to put more of himself into the blog, with the result that anyone who is female, has mental problems, or is somehow 'different' gets an uncritical pass and he seems to be trying to spot examples of discrimination or misogyny where they don't exist. Infocom's Plundered Hearts and his issues with the female protagonist of the Starglider novella spring immediately to mind. With that in mind, his later articles should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Yeah, I discovered both Digital Antiquarian and CRPG Addict through this forum, and while the subject matter is interesting, the way in which they keep forcing their politics into their articles is extremely off-putting. If there is even a slightest occasion for the writer to display his "leftist virtues" in his article, he'll do so with glee...What's not so great about the Digital Antiquarian is how he's letting his political agenda infuse his writing. Early on it was a factual history with a neutral narrator, but since he's developed a following he's had the courage to put more of himself into the blog, with the result that anyone who is female, has mental problems, or is somehow 'different' gets an uncritical pass and he seems to be trying to spot examples of discrimination or misogyny where they don't exist. Infocom's Plundered Hearts and his issues with the female protagonist of the Starglider novella spring immediately to mind. With that in mind, his later articles should be taken with a pinch of salt.
I can't read the Digital Antiquarian. Even though the subject matter is interesting, she just rubs me the wrong way.
Yeah, I discovered both Digital Antiquarian and CRPG Addict through this forum, and while the subject matter is interesting, the way in which they keep forcing their politics into their articles is extremely off-putting. If there is even a slightest occasion for the writer to display his "leftist virtues" in his article, he'll do so with glee...