The Non-Commital Gamer

Sean Sliman Turning the Page (Roaming, Zooming, Streaming) All my life I have been an avid reader. When I was very young it was not uncommon for my parents to take away my books as a means of punishment when I misbehaved. However, as an adult I find that I am less and less able to truly sit down and read a book in its’ physical form. I am now often drawn to shorter articles and to audio-books…

Essay #2 Sean Sliman Learning and Growing my Online Presence For the past few months I have been deeply focused on my online presence. More so then many other people in my class as I have had the “pleasure” of taking both the 101 and 201 offerings of this course simultaneously. I’ll not lie it has been a struggle I have fallen behind and I am working hard to catch up but I don’t really regret the…

Video Games Are Art

It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, no plans, just sitting at home relaxing on the couch playing some X-Box. One does not generally associate this act with experiencing a work of art. Generally when one thinks of art, they think of art in a very traditional sense. However, these two experiences might not be as contrasting as one might assume. The act of establishing video games as a legitimate art…

The game the Darkest Dungeon was the first game I ever tried to make a YouTube video about. I don’t know why I thought this would be a good idea because, well frankly I swear allot when I play this game. Therefore, it really just ends up being a few hours of me cursing at my PC and looking sad. However, I will link it for those curious.…

Wishing There Was More In Street Fighter V

So last night after watching literally hours of Snake_eyez_ playing Street Fighter V I caved and bought a copy for myself. I picked it up on my PS4 for 69.99CAD and so far I could not be happier with it. Unfortunately for me though, I suck. Like not just I’m only OK kind of suck, like OMFG dude you blow at this game suck. I knew this going in but I wanted it so badly. I just wanted to HADOUKEN my…

When Anonymity is Challenged Throw a Fit

Sean Sliman When Anonymity is Challenged Throw a Fit In 2010 Blizzard Entertainment performed what is widely considered to be one of the biggest video game social media fails of all time. Like many social media fails this screw up was done with the best intentions. The people at Blizzard just wanted to create a more hospitable place for people to interact with each other and with the games…