• Posts Tagged ‘English’

    Pong and Moses: What Authors and Video Games Have in Common

    by  • September 11, 2008. 10:18 pm • General, Nikky • 2 Comments

    A few days ago Katy and I were talk­ing, and I started gush­ing about how amaz­ing Star­craft is… like usual. Know­ing she’s an Eng­lish major, I put it in lit­er­ary terms in how old the game is: “Star­craft is like Dick­ens era.” This got me think­ing about the pos­si­ble expan­sion of this idea. Is it pos­si­ble to jux­ta­pose gaming […]

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    Nerdiness unleashed

    by  • September 4, 2008. 2:57 pm • General • 1 Comment

    So as many peo­ple may know, I’m an Eng­lish major and I get a sick twisted plea­sure out of words. Because of this, I sub­scribe to the Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day (some­thing I was intro­duced to waaaaaaaay back in mid­dle school). Oth­ers may have noticed that my name is not spelled in the tra­di­tional “-ie” way many of […]

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