Category: RCM

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This started off as a reply to teh_leet_haxor's article from earlier this week. It is an unwritten rule with the RCM Creative team that if one's reply post starts acquiring its own footnotes, it's usually best to spin off onto it's own seperate (but connected) article piece. Due to a combination of sleep… Continue reading Implementing Experiments

Many of you who know anything about me personally are aware of the fact that "Murphy's Law" applies to my projects on a fairly constant basis. Many of you also know that in my alternate life as a university administrator, I have served on the campus graduation committee for the past nine seasons. As with… Continue reading The Back-up Speech (or, my message to the Class of 2015)

Gratulerer med dagen! Today marks the celebration of Norway's Constitution Day. Usually referred to as syttende mai (17 May) or Nasjonaldagen (The National Day) in Norwegian, the holiday commemorates the date when the nation's constitution was signed at Eidsvoll in 1814. What piqued my interest was the way the holiday was described to me: "Imagine… Continue reading Happy Constitution Day Norway!

During my early days as an undergrad, while in a conversation about some of the summer projects I was working to set up, one of my professors made the comment that she hoped when her daughters got to my age that they turned out just like me. She meant it as a compliment, which is… Continue reading Welcome to the Deep End

So I turn thirty-one this week. This statement is a little more impactful if you take into consideration that 1. I am a female1 and 2. I'm not making that number up; unlike most American females, ever since I hit thirty2 I really have no problem with admitting my age. You see, there are two ways of… Continue reading Levelling Up

There's been a lot of negativity centered around gaming and "gamer culture" of late, some of it justified but most of it not. Rather than continue fruitless arguments about why objectivity is important and that gamers consist of more than just socially-repressed tech nerds and violent frat boys, I thought it might be a nice… Continue reading The Good in Gaming

A couple of weeks ago, while working on writing projects and half-watching the football playoffs with Baron, I looked up from my laptop just in time to see Freddy Kruger stab through a box of Chicken McNuggets before offering the tasty morsels to a machete-wielding Jason Voorhees. The act of kindness is repaid with Jason… Continue reading Where Do We Go From Here?

Why GamerGate and others like it need to be a continuing conversation I want to start off by sharing a story I think helps exemplify exactly how I feel about GamerGate and similar controversies, and why they're so important. Bear with me for a minute. In the spring of 2002, during my senior year of… Continue reading Play Nice in the Sandbox

I have never considered myself a "gamer." Despite my generation being the first one that really grew up with gaming consoles being mainstream, and the fact that between my parents' houses we had several different systems over the years, it was never something I really got into. While my brother and sister fought over who… Continue reading What Makes a Gamer?