Link Roundup: June 2025
This month, I wrote an article about the problems with the Asexuality Identification Scale. Also, a funny thing happened. These link roundups often include some links to games criticism articles,...
View ArticleNo Kings San Francisco
I just came back from the San Francisco No Kings protest. I went with my husband, who is very much more of a protestor than I am. He’s been attending protests on a regular basis for months. He has a...
View ArticleHow I Made an EP
I have finally released a new EP titled Unrelenting Introspection. You can listen for free on Bandcamp. It’s only 14 minutes long. It’s xenharmonic dark ambient drone, just some non-commercial...
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Coming out as political action
Coming out isn’t what it used to be. Literally, “coming out” has a rich history of different meanings. Originally it referred to young women coming of age into high society. It had a derivative meaning...
View ArticleSocial justice and empiricism
I’ve toyed with the idea that one of the major values of social justice is basically empiricism. Social justice contains certain theories, but you can’t just rely on theories. Theories live or die by...
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Origami: Eye of the Wave
Eye of the Wave, designed by me This is a pleat-based model that I made in 2020. You can see some other examples of pleat-based models here and here. This is made with 64×64 divisions. Where the...
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I released my game
I released my game, Moon Garden Optimizer. It’s a puzzle strategy game about growing a tiny garden on the moon while optimizing water usage. It’s inspired by deckbuilders like Dominion, but it...
View ArticleLink Roundup: July 2025
This month, the Ace Journal Club discussed birth order effects–often cited as evidence of the biological origins of sexual orientation. I came away thinking the evidence is shakier than I realized....
View ArticleCritical thinking as community value
Last month, I explored the idea that empiricism and critical thinking are (or should be) core values in social justice. On the other hand… how good of an idea is that really? While we may agree that...
View ArticleThe NSFW game purge
Recently, Steam purged a bunch of NSFW games from its storefront. This occurred as the result of efforts from Australia-based anti-porn group Collective Shout who applied pressure through payment...
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