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David Kocik
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🏳️‍🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
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📣✨Call for Papers!📣✨

CGSA 2026 will take place at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 11-14th, 2026.

This year’s chosen theme is “On Repeat”.

Submissions are due January 7th, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST

Full CfP here: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...
Conference // Conférence
Version française ci-dessous The 2026 CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference will be a hybrid event co-hosted by the Technoculture, Art and Games Lab (TAG) at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec&nbs…
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The way she should have had three wins in a row 😭
And Junglep*ssy is the queen 🥰
Oh I'll be first to sign up for that class
And every Wicked Part 2 one is bad 😴😴
Any thoughts on seeing it on an IMAX 2D screen? Its either that or a normal screen for me. Also I just learned it's based loosely on Vineland which is an amazing novel!
Me playing Silent Hill (1999):
Yo this fog is THICK
Silksong critiques the very things that mega conglomerate media needs to survive: devotion to and suffering under capitalism as supposed spiritual salvation.
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ALT: a cartoon character wearing a hat and holding a cane
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I also think it's pretty tasteless to equate the memeified "suffering" and devotion of fans of Hollow Knight to the very real critiques of religious capitalism and death in the name of a global world order that has betrayed everyone but the elites of society.
The Polygon review is the most thoughtful one I've encountered so far. Patience, discipline, and calm in the face of suffering is required both by the game and the gameworld, where religious devotion is at once the only means of living and what suppresses life in every sense of the word.
These boss fights develop meaning through their very frustrations and lack of narrative! It doesn't matter why this big bug is attacking you because the political machine requires you to fight each other for the scraps of civilization that are left in Pharloom.
I've been routinely disappointed by popular press games criticism in general since AV Club got bought out. But the misunderstanding of the themes, plot, and gameplay of Silksong in the NYT review are astounding. Meaninglessness due to crushing political and religious power is essential to the series
I had to muster up the courge to get up today
I don't mind bosses at all because there's almost always a nearby bench and you can get your beads back almost instantly. Now when I lose like 500 of em cuz I'm struggling with platforming.... Haha but it still feels overall fair and balanced to me
Loved watching Masterpiece Mystery with her
November in theaters, December in Netflix!
Definitely team up! Begrudgingly so naturally
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CFP: Black Cultural Futurism