Recent content by Rachel Edidin

Yes. This. Thank you. It would be lovely to live in a society where race didn't matter, but we don't, and we won't for as long as discussions of race--and calling out racism, deliberate or otherwise--are stigmatized. To everyone who doesn't get why they should bother when they don't have...

"And I knew that there would be a huge audience of people that I would be trying to appease and that kinda turned me on too." This is both hilarious and awesome, and I think it just won me over to actually seeing the movie.

That is incredibly badass. It also brings up that it would be really cool and pretty worthwhile to design games that were primarily auditory or tactile rather than visual; I'd love to see--hear--what would come out of that.

What if you get incredibly good at a FPS because of your OCD? As it's used both socially and in the article, the title "gamer" is as much about privileging one genre of game as it is about the motivation, skill, or commitment of the people who play them.

Wondering to how, if at all, participation in gaming culture and/or self-identification relate to the gamer label. I know plenty of people who play video games but deliberately avoid the label because they don't consider gaming a significant part of their identities.