Michael Hancock

PhD. Teaching English at UWaterloo. Research areas include games, gamebooks, comics; send me recommendations for all 3! he/him/his

[Michael Hancock @PersonofCon]

@anteyekon4myst We do that too! My goto this year is Janet Iwasa's "Molecular Animation" talks, as most of my students are biochemistry majors.

[Michael Hancock @PersonofCon]

Weird request: each term, I use Mad Men's "Carousel" to talk to my students about presentation design. But it's getting a bit old. Are there any more recent examples of fictional presentations?

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@Jason370449980 Well, I think neither of us is going to convince the other, and you don't want to address the way gay men were treated in the past. I've got a better sense of your POV, and I appreciate that. I see it as a social issue over an ontological one; I hope someday, you do too.

[Michael Hancock @PersonofCon]

@Seano299 @Jason370449980 @Honeybadger_SC @undiluted_ins @wokehammerLs Homosexuality was considered a mental illness up till 1987 (in the US). People received hormone therapy, electroshock therapy, and lobotomies as treatment.

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@SweetPeebs @SamLakeRMD @TimePirateNinja @yourpalclay @remedygames @alanwake "Let's see... 'the trick-o'-treater clutched at the manuscript page, so intent on reading the words that they never even noticed that the figure behind them was brandishing'--dammit, Alan!"

[Michael Hancock @PersonofCon]

@JoshuaParkhurst @amadcartoonist Nightcrawler would also be one of the better picks for just having a good time in the process.

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@SerinaMaiko Also why more... rounded... men tend to do a lot of accidental mooning. Changes to the waist hip ratio make belts more complicated

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@EmmaTolkin In the sort of type you're talking about, inkle's Heaven's Vault and Sorcery! series are both, I think, underappreciated gems.

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Or alternatively, only of these guys can fly. So Johnny lifts Pyro up, and he doesn't get to come down till he surrenders.

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Even if Pyro's fire control is better than Johnny's--a really, really big if!--that doesn't change the fact that HT is also immune to fire. How this fight goes is that he walks up to Pyro, manually tugs off the hose that connects Pyro's fire tank, and punches him out.

[Eamo Does Art (COMMS OPEN) @EamoArt]

"Pyro CONTROLS fire"

Human Torch doesn't????

[Michael Hancock @PersonofCon]

This goes for podcasts too! Most podcasts give the game's title at the start of the discussion, but it can be up to 20 mins, if ever, before its mentioned again.

[Aglæcwif @arhourigan]

PLEASE PUT THE NAME OF THE GAME YOU'RE PLAYING IN YOUR STREAMS/VIDEOS. A dev on Reddit had their game get a burst of virality on TikTok and YouTube and reached ~6 million views total, and broke down how this translated into people actually playing their game, and it's devastating

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There's a recent Halloween Marvel special where the Vision plays the role of Scarlet Witch's doofy ex, and honestly, that's probably his best case end game at the moment.

[Michael Hancock @PersonofCon]

@FPSthetics @DominicTarason I didn't know about this extension, but it's been very helpful. Thank you!

[Michael Hancock @PersonofCon]

@stevemwilcox Or as one of my favourite bits of Disco Elysium puts it:

[Michael Hancock @PersonofCon]

@peppard_anna I liked Donatello because in one of the cartoon episodes, he builds an interdimensional portal out of garbage parts he found in the sewers based on the education he got from a rat man, and even as 10 y old, I was like "I feel like this should get more credit."

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@bthomasa Hmm. Yeah, interesting point.

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On this Thanksgiving, I give thanks for the most perfect use of a song in a superhero setting.

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@Empireenjoyer11 Honestly, kind of terrifyingly? Private individuals with that much control over the course of war and communication is another reason why I'm not really in the guy's corner.

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@DominicTarason I liked this a lot! It does a lot to engender the feel of the PC's mindset through the play loop.
The true ending was a bit overly gated for my tastes, but the core was really sweet and fun.