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“To play Guerilla Games’ Horizon: Zero Dawn is to feel awe. Awe over sheer technical wizardry and its ability to transport you into a new world. Awe over discovering gargantuan mechanical dinosaurs and gradually uncovering the mysteries of a lost civilization. Awe over the fact I have never seen so many kickass women in a first party big-budget game, much less this many people of color in key roles. I often found myself pausing the game just to marvel at it all.“ Well, colour me excited!

Today in “things that make me happy” - beautiful and joyful representation of LGBTTQ* in mainstream gaming. Tracer is the most visible of the characters in Overwatch, and has been the centre of the advertising and box-art, and the comic celebrating Christmas has (SPOILER ALERT) her trying to find the perfect Christmas gift for her girlfriend. It’s not touted or given fanfare or any sort of flourish. Instead, it’s part of who she is.

Well, based on this short film, SF writers’ jobs are safe. On the other hand, we clearly need to use narrow AIs for all absurdist art from now on. I’m also super-impressed with what the actors were able to do with the script. An excerpt from the AI’s interview during the Sci-Fi London awards show: What do you think of your historic nomination against human opponents in this contest? I was pretty excited. I think I can see the feathers when they release their hearts. It's like a breakdown of the facts. So they should be competent with the fact that they won't be surprised.

What is the future of machine written entertainment? It's a bit sudden. I was thinking of the spirit of the men who found me and the children who were all manipulated and full of children. I was worried about my command. I was the scientist of the Holy Ghost.

What's next for you? Here we go. The staff is divided by the train of the burning machine building with sweat. No one will see your face. The children reach into the furnace, but the light is still slipping to the floor. The world is still embarrassed. The party is with your staff. My name is Benjamin.

“News Release Library and Archives Canada’s major acquisition of the declassified journals and military records of Canadian supersoldier James "Logan" Howlett April 1, 2016 – Gatineau, Quebec – Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Logan was born in 1882 in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, to wealthy landowner Elizabeth Howlett and her grounds-keeper Thomas Logan. Logan’s journals provide valuable insight into his early life in Canada, including work as a miner in a British Columbia stone quarry, a fur trader for the Hudson's Bay Company, and a homesteader in the Canadian Rockies. His military career spanned multiple conflicts, making his personnel records an unprecedented study in Canadian military history. Logan was gravely wounded in action many times, and gained a reputation as a gritty survivor. Quick Facts • WWI: captain in the Canadian Armed Forces (Devil's Brigade). Fought at Ypres in 1915. Wounded by a sword through the chest. • WWII: Returned to the Devil’s Brigade in the Second World War, as an allied spy and paratrooper for the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion during the Normandy landings on D-Day. • Cold War: based in Ottawa and Calgary, worked for both CSIS and the CIA. • Logan later changed his operative name to ‘Wolverine’, and worked with various NGOs. Canadian Armed Forces Canadian Heritage 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion Canadian Security Intelligence Service Canadian War Museum Canadian Museum of History“