kotaku longreads
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The Gamer Who Uses Streaming To Fight Anxiety And Depression
11Before we even start talking, General Mittenz asks me if we can stand for the duration of the interview. “For me, right now, I’m having a massive anxiety attack,” he explains while fidgeting nervously. Standing and moving around helps. A little.
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How Three Kids With No Experience Beat Square And Translated Final Fantasy 5 Into English
One day in the late 1990s, Myria walked into the Irvine High School computer room and spotted a boy playing Final Fantasy 5. There were two unusual things about this. The first was that Final Fantasy 5 had not actually come out in the United States. To play the 1992 Japanese game in English, you’d…
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Growing Up Sixty-Four
Image: Sam Woolley I dare say the Nintendo 64 is The Most Interesting Game System Nintendo Ever Made. It’s interesting for a laundry list of historical reasons.
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The Game That Made Me Realise I’ve Let Down My Family
I didn’t go home for Thanksgiving this year. In truth, I rarely go home for Thanksgiving. I’ve been living away from home for basically my whole adult life — first just an hour away during university, now much further away in San Francisco — and I visit sporadically. Once or twice a year. Usually for…