Lessons in the differences between blogs and radio
I’ve been back at this blogging thing for a few months now and I’m enjoying it a lot more than I did the first time around. The issue…
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I need to complain about video games that feel like work
Let’s talk about video games that feel like work. There is much discussion about gamification – a strategy of making work easier by making it feel like a…
I made a story mode for my favourite card games
I had a lot of time on my hands over the holidays. That’s the only way to explain how we ended up here. During those many free hours,…
Remember the good old days when 2016 sucked?
Remember in 2016, somewhere around the summer or maybe even the spring, when everyone realized “damn, this year sucks”? Saying that 2016 sucked became a bit of a…
Media Are Plural vows to spell doom for doomscrolling
Let’s be honest: It usually sucks to use social media. There are (far too many) advertisements that know too much, famous people posting bad takes, endless flows of…
Christmas music for people who also despise Bublé
Christmas isn’t the same when you’re older. When I wrote the 2016 version of this post, I chalked that up to the retail-based musical bombardment we must endure…
Video games are too long and I don’t know how to feel
Like all the best Media are Plural posts, this one is inspired by a meme. It argues that contemporary video games are too long, the workplaces in which…
Waluigi needs a video game. Why not a dating simulator
When Nintendo finally lets Waluigi be the hero of his own game, it ought to be a dating simulator. I’m serious and I have good reasons for this…
The 90s, an age of weird drinks and 16-bit video games
This article about the 90s first appeared on the old mediaareplural.ca in August, 2016. Crystal Pepsi was actually available in stores. Regrettably, Pepsi discontinued the beverage a second…
Rip offs ranked: A look at social media Stories clones
Twitter’s new Fleets feature has a lot of people on my feed complaining, and very few people uh … fleeting? Posting Instagram Stories except on Twitter? Hardly anyone…