Editorial – Scopique's

Social Diaspora – Hive

Scopique November 22, 2022

As Twitter continues to burn, those who held on to hope that a navel-gazing billionaire with far-right leanings would come to his senses seemed to finally admit that now was the time to catch the last lifeboat off of that sinking ship.…

Social Diaspora

Scopique November 4, 2022

As a GenX’er, I’m young enough to be internet savvy, and also old enough to remember when it was difficult to find people who shared similar interests. We were limited to people we met at school, at work, or in the neighborhood,…

Forests for Trees – The A2 Drama

Scopique September 2, 2022

There’s a bit of a dust-up in the Star Citizen community right now surrounding a ship and a fairly well-known streamer who took the ship to task. I admit that I was not on the ground (literally or figuratively) when this whole…

Realms of Possibility

Scopique August 25, 2022

One thing I do miss about going into the office each day is that I tend to spend my limited commute talking to myself about things. It used to be mainly about gaming, which lead to my “In the Car” vlog series…

Missed Connections: Fun Versus Desire

Scopique August 19, 2022

I like to think of myself as a fairly well-balanced person when it comes to my entertainment. I don’t generally become obsessed with any kind of media; I like some content more than others, yes of course, but I’m not usually one…

Discord Abuse

Scopique July 22, 2022

Two nights prior I had an inkling for a post that I wanted to write, but it was late, and I wasn’t in the mood to peel off one of my trademark “fire and forget” posts for publishing the next morning. Cut…

Muscle Memory of Our Online Lives

Scopique May 4, 2022

In the wake of the news that the sale of Twitter was “more or less a done deal” (not my words, but seemingly everyone’s sentiment) I saw many folks in my timeline openly opine about where they’d be moving their primary online…

Platform Dependence

Scopique April 14, 2022

It’s hard for me to write about this without slipping into speechify mode; this is Attempt #3, so I’m going to try and keep it light and casual, while also hitting the high points I want to hit. This is, of course,…

Snake Oil: Web3

Scopique April 8, 2022

I have just finished watching a video presentation at the JS Game Dev Summit, and it has left me 1/3 angry, 1/3 sad, and 1/3 plain old disappointed in the future of gaming. As you might assume from the title of this…

Good, Bad, or Indifferent: Streaming, Audience, and Halo

Scopique January 31, 2022

Sometimes I have a bunch of thoughts milling around the waiting room of my head, like an association word-cloud: totally unformed, semi-related, and of varying strengths. This is one of those times, having just watched the latest trailer for the Paramount+ Halo…