There’s never been a better time to be a gay geek!

“Sometimes I forget that straight people watch TV, too.”

Valerie and Meg look back at Critical Role’s gayest moments in 2020 because queer D&D is their favored terrain.

Critical Role helped me realized that D&D is about storytelling, and that there’s plenty of room for queer people in stories.

So much good STEM news this week! Come and get your links.

This isn’t just gonna be another post about, like, Apple Watches. I know y’all already know about those.

“Calculate how many ‘free’ airline snacks you would need to eat to break even on the cost of your plane ticket.”

You never have to watch a cis white dude play video games again.

“Some people don’t like how many queer characters or NPCs are in our campaign, or when either of the women on the show talk too much. Anyone feminine in our society is still expected to be quiet, subservient, and apologetic. Of course I’m not going to make myself or my character more palatable for anyone else’ sake.”

It’s also just so great to see a major games developer consistently shrug off the idea that a protagonist has to be a white man somewhere between CW Love Interest and CW Hot Dad in age whose character development can be deduced by counting the number of grey hairs in his angst-stubble.

Gonna find out who’s naughty and nice.

If Sue Perkins can’t sell you on VR, well then I can’t help you.

Furbies are awful, Furby Connects are worse. Here are five tech toys that aren’t Furbies.

“I decided to only visit tables with at least one woman behind them. It’s such a low bar; it cut out a lot of tables.”

No longer solely gladiatorial in nature, we’re seeing a boom in what kinds of stories games can tell. And with that expansion, I’m personally seeing a lot of games tackle issues of ethics, games that directly interrogate the player’s sense of right and wrong.

“Over here, in our tiny corner of the internet, I want us to stand in solidarity with the witch who wouldn’t burn, the one who triumphed in her way over G-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Long Live Zoë Quinn; best of luck as she levels up.”

Working for four and a half years in the quality department at a kitchen gadget company has left me with some strong opinions about proper cooking prep.

Want to be filled with awe and rage? I have just the video game for you.

Can one lesbian journalist and one straight, white cis man form the right kind of odd couple to keynote the queer women in technology conference’s second annual installment?

Why you should learn to code, how you can learn to code, and free resources where you can learn to code!