Alyssa Mercante's saved articles

I’ve worked with so many amazing women, it’s mind-boggling that they’re rarely highlighted apart from maybe at some diversity award.

This site regularly criticizes C-suite executives of gaming companies, and this article is explicitly about female journalists and developers. That’s the text of this article. Representation in this context refers to the gaming news desks that cover games and the development teams whose labor produces the games we all… Read more

I’m a white man who has benefited greatly from my privilege over the years (even if I haven’t always been aware of it) so I know my voice probably shouldn’t be the loudest on this issue, but my god even I’m sick of how many talentless white men have infested this industry I love. Read more

To all of the Jezebel staffers, I’m so sorry. Your value has never been properly recognized by the bean counters who misunderstand media so completely. I have enjoyed reading your thoughts and getting to know all of you through your unique voices, even when we may have disagreed or approached an issue from a different… Read more

I agree, once you strip back how wild it is to see Hayden in the animated Clone Wars armour and short hair charging into battle, the actual teaching/message of the hallucination doesn’t really line up. And it’s getting a bit noticeable when the dialogue has no flow. Characters speak at each other and there’s a… Read more

The title and image reveal exactly nothing about the episode that wasn’t obviously foreshadowed at the end of last weeks episode.
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I think the tank and shorts photos are hero shots, not what she actually wore for the course. In the second photo from the top, she’s wearing the long-sleeve shirt, long pants, and sturdy shoes that are required by the MSF.

The amount of bad faith in comparing a dedicated cosplay vertical to one of the only instances of female representation in a 2 hour showcase where a bunch of men talk about the work theyve done on video games being a literal lineup of women in costumes is... I mean come the fuck on.

Exile?!?!?!? *immediately runs home to play*

The WWC has brought this issue to the front burner again but people have been talking about it forever. I coached a girls soccer team starting in the mid-1990s and this topic was around back then. We did a simple drill where players would jump off a six-inch platform and land on one foot. The intent was to build… Read more

...and the dirt bike (self-explanatory) Read more

This sparks joy.

For me personally, it was Clara. I liked Billie, who was in Capaldi’s final season.  But Clara killed any enjoyment I was having, and is reason why I’ve been having a hard time getting myself to do a full rewatch of the entire series. Read more

Out of curiosity, what made you fall off from Capaldi? Was it his Doctor or the stories told around him? I felt like Capaldi was a return to the older, avuncular, Doctor that had been part of the original series, after Tennant’s young whizbang and Smith’s oddball. I liked his Doctor but had never enjoyed Clara (The… Read more

You can absolutely tell the customization screen is a real feat of both design and engineering. That responsiveness while being so tactile and quasi-diegetic really can’t be overstated. That’s really, really tough to get right, to do all of these smooth animations, and even have parts transforming and somehow… Read more

As a GM Healer main (500+ hours on heals, like... 40 hours on everything else lol) I feel more irrelvant than ever before. I feel like I have no real impact on the game— regardless of the numbers I put up (most heals and most damage of all four healers, or a putrid 4k heals in 12 minutes) it won’t matter. This has… Read more

I.Am.Dying. I read someone’s op-ed about Sandy & TME in Philly a few nights ago. Her “editorial” if you want to call it that, was just ok. Not much color or song depth. Definitely missing deets. Lady, you painted me a spectacular picture with humor!!! I am so here for this. I replied to the grandma who stopped… Read more

I would like to point out that Anakin was never granted the rank of Master. 

I absolutely love that Hayden is so beloved and well received at the conventions. You can tell it’s moving for him too. The prequels are always going to be a mixed bag (and the Kenobi series is too if we’re being honest), but the fact that we still get to enjoy the characters and actors in new series’ is just really… Read more

As a former Neversoft 3D modeler, I am blown away by this. We worked incredibly hard to make all the props, environments and characters. I was largely responsible for guitar and other instrument models on GH3 and then when we added the ability to change textures we increased the instrument team to three people.… Read more