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Tag Archives: LFG
No More Excuses: “It’s The Middle Ages, Yo!”
Recently Static Nonsense related their adventure with webcomic author Ryan Sohmer and an ableist comic he wrote for his well read LFG Comic. Static Nonsense submitted a polite letter to Mr. Sohmer and received the following reply from him: Hey … Continue reading
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Tagged ableism, Dragon Age, Excuses, feminism, LFG, racism, WoW
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Of Video Games and Reclamation: The Butt of the Joke, Take #2,357
Static Nonsense is the alias of a group of nonwhite, disabled queer trans folk who spend much of their spare time gaming and lounging on the tubes of the internets in a bathrobe. Formerly console gaming, they have since moved … Continue reading