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Culture ‘Sex with Hitler’ is a video game that, unfortunately, does exactly what it promises
Kink comes in all shapes and forms. But I still doubt that what you were hoping to do with your time was play a game featuring a very buff and oddly shiny Hitler as your sexual avatar. And yet. Unfortunately, “Sex with Hitler” dropped in late January on the gaming platform Steam, and is doing…
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Culture Wordle’s massively popular (Jewish) predecessors
Writer’s note: After an outpouring of love for the word game Jotto, this article has been updated. If you are one of the countless smartphone users currently beguiled by a five by six grid of letters, you may be interested to know about Wordle’s Jewish precursors. Before Twitter was lit up by rows of gray,…
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Culture A new video game has you ‘Heal Hitler’ — should we be outraged?
In a handsomely-furnished psychologist’s office, below a picture window offering a view of a city skyline, a reclined figure, staring down a stately portrait of Freud, speaks about his doting mother and his abusive father. The patient, a man in his mid-30s, is a veteran and amateur artist with a criminal record; he is prone…
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Culture What if we could resolve generational trauma through…a Holocaust video game?
When I first heard about a new documentary, “Tacheles,” which follows a group of Germans designing a video game about the Holocaust, in which “Jews can defend themselves and Nazis can act humanely,” I thought it sounded like a recipe for disaster. At best, it seemed like a poorly thought-through attempt at catharsis; at worst,…
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Fast Forward Maccabi Games’ New Esports Tournament Lets Jewish Teens Compete In Super Smash Bros, FIFA
The JCC Maccabi Games have added video game tournaments to the Olympic-style competition. Three-thousand Jewish teenagers are due to compete in various athletic events at the upcoming Maccabi Games, in Atlanta from July 28 to August 2, and Detroit from August 4 to 9. This year, esports are joining the lineup of events. Esports are…
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Fast Forward Yes, Orthodox Jews In This ‘Spider-Man’ Video Game Really Do Disappear On Shabbat
Playstation 4’s “Spider-Man” video game is known for its meticulous, open-world recreation of New York City — right down to the pedestrians. And as a painstaking facsimile, the game’s locales come complete with Orthodox Jews wearing kippot and wide-brimmed hats. But if you find yourself playing the game on Shabbat, you may notice that these…
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Culture Gamers Rejoice: Bernie Sanders Now Has A Twitch Account
As any 2020 presidential contender might tell you, the youth vote is important. Which explains why Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, hot off announcing a plan to cancel $1.6 trillion of student debt, is planning a series of videos to be streamed on Twitch, a tremendously popular live-streaming platform that caters to gamers and is known…
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