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Month: June 2014

Street Fighter Diaries #2: Victories

June 15, 2014 by Alexander Young

The variety of ways in which victories can be enjoyed is an interest phenomenon. Victory, for the most part, is generally seen as something with intrinsic positive worth; a good that is good irrespective of the methods used to obtain it, and something that is always, always better than a loss. While I’m making the … [Read more…]

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DOTA Diaries #4: Comfort

June 8, 2014 by Alexander Young

People tend to be driven strongly by habit, with this habits often being informed by positive feelings around the outcomes that results from the initial behaviour: I am no exception to this rule, and the way in which I play DOTA is not exempt from this. The most recent habit, having moved on from the … [Read more…]

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Street Fighter Diaries #1: Achievership

June 4, 2014 by Alexander Young

I’m in love with the idea of being good at fighting games: the one-versus-one nature of the combat and the inherent technicality of the games appeals to something primal in me, no doubt linked to something as pathetic and petty as wishing to one-up someoneĀ  else – the desire to display a show of skill … [Read more…]

Posted in: Street Fighter Diaries Tagged: fighting, street fighter diaries, street fighter iv

DOTA Diaries #3: Rudeness

June 3, 2014 by Alexander Young

Male-dominated spaces – or at least spaces that appear to be male dominated – rarely appeal to me. Gratuitous displays of dick-waving and quickness to anger aren’t particularly displays that I am keen on seeing on a day-to-day basis: I am far more content to get by through being civil to others and best and … [Read more…]

Posted in: DOTA Diaries Tagged: community, dota diaries, problematic

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