Amy Ziegfeld

Attorney, feminist, writer, incompetent artist, lover of games. Reviewer at @comicosity
@amyz.bsky.social

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

Oh, one other thing! I'll mention this in the column, but: Since Legion of Super-Heroes can be confusing, obtuse, intimidating, as a service I am opening up my DMs to the general public. If you've any questions or comments (about LoSH), feel free to DM me!

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

Why does this ghost in Wizardry look like Guy Gardner? @AudreyHacker #NintendoSwitch

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

@PartyWurmple Lol, I went to college at Berkeley and took classes in Alfred Kroeber Hall.
Looks like they renamed it a couple years ago... https://t.co/7N4S2zlq2K

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

@kobunheat Also: Fester's Quest. Came out in 1989, two years before the Addams Family movie, and thus with no present pop culture hook for why kids would care about the Addams Family. I remember getting this game and my dad had to explain who Uncle Fester was.

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

@agraybee I'm glad the writers got a good deal out of the strike, because hopefully better pay for streaming work will cause them to stop gaslighting us about how much better we all had it in the days of physical media and cable monopolies (when they incidentally were paid better).

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

I have ascended!
@Amyz.bsky.social !

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

@agraybee @PartyWurmple Did you catch this gem?
Cares so much about the people of Flint having clean drinking water that he can't care about anything else.
Doesn't care enough to look up whether they currently have clean drinking water.

[Cartoons Hate Her! @CartoonsHateHer]

I’m sorry this person thinks 10% of tantrums in public are because the kid is being abducted? Lmao

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

@CartoonsHateHer It wasn't so much the fussing as that the baby was cranky and nothing I did was really mollifying her, which I kept thinking would read to a certain kind of person as "She just abducted that baby and doesn't know how to soothe her!"

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

@CartoonsHateHer "Did you know that fully twenty percent of Americans are active pedophiles, and another ten percent are part of networks supporting them?" My daughter starting fussing and I was terrified I was about to be Citizen's Arrested.

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

In Final Fantasy VI, magic has been absent from the world since the War of the Magi a thousand years ago. Also, every item shop sells Ether, a potion that restores MP. Handy, because Terra, one of like three people in the world who can use magic, is in your party #NintendoSwitch

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

@graemem Some of these options are WAY more expansive than others! If I vote Adventure, am I voting for Silver Age Legion or Golden Age Sandman?

[Graeme @graemem]

For DC Universe Infinite members: vote to get Millennium on the service, dammit. And maybe they'll spell it right, too.

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

This has to be the record for shortest time lapsed between the release of a game and its (notional) sequel, right?

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

I wish more game historians took an interest I'm bad old PC games, because I would absolutely read an oral history of how Privateer 2 ended up Like That.
Also, I guess, how did MOO3 wind up so bad.

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

Can someone explain what the deal is with Star Citizen?
Note: I know who Chris Roberts is, and I know it was something he crowd funded.

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

Such a weird coincidence that everyone ever cast in a Star Trek show was "always such a huge fan" and "couldn't believe what an honor it was to be cast in such a meaningful franchise!"

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

This has always been my understanding of part of the compensation for being a regular on a Star Trek show; so long as you don't publicly despise the show and its fans, you've got Guaranteed Basic Income for life on the con circuit.

[Drew Savicki @DrewSav]

If you were an actor who starred in a niche property decades ago, the convention circuit seems extremely profitable.

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

@golikehellmachi Since I'd only ever heard the term from a cranky professor 20 years ago, I wanted to make sure I hadn't misremembered or misrepresented. Wikipedia seems to think I'm right!

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

@golikehellmachi (Happens with politicians, too; anytime someone decides to go to The People with "They're violating the longstanding unwritten rules of the Senate!!", they're losing.)

[Amy Ziegfeld @AmyZiegfeld]

@golikehellmachi There's an idea in French of becoming "professionally deformed," where gaining expertise makes you lose perspective on the importance of your profession's concerns. "The People will turn on the president if he doesn't do more press conferences!" is hardcore media brain