Joanna Nelius - Writing

Tech + Hardware + Gadgets

Apple's Fantastic M1 Processor Is Held Back by Software Compatibility (Gizmodo)

AMD Finally Does Ray Tracing (Gizmodo)

Nvidia's RTX 3060 Ti Is The Mid-Range GPU Champion (Gizmodo)

This $150 Pet Feeder Saved My Sanity When I Got a Second Cat (Gizmodo)

AMD Is Sticking With Its AM4 Socket and That's Great News If You Want to Build a PC (Gizmodo)

GeForce Now beats Stadia in our input latency testing (PC Gamer)

What's the difference between flash and SSD storage? (PC Gamer)

What is a RAM Disk and should I use one for gaming? (PC Gamer)

Culture + Policy

It's Time to Redefine Broadband Speeds (Gizmodo)

Satellite Internet Will Not Solve the Digital Divide (Gizmodo)

Frontier's Bankruptcy Shows Why ISPs Shouldn't Be in Charge of the Internet (Gizmodo)

The Tech My Dad Banned From Our House (Gizmodo)

What it's like to go to college on an esports scholarship (PC Gamer)

Investigative

The Nvidia RTX 3080 eBay Debacle Exposed a Scalper Bot Civil War (Gizmodo)

The Pandemic Exposed a Massive Digital Divide in Our Schools They Can't Fix on Their Own (Gizmodo)

What Does Epic Games Hope to Gain From Its Lawsuit Against Apple and Google? (Gizmodo)

Spectrum Workers Inevitably Got Covid-19 After Being Barred From Working at Home (Gizmodo)

At-Risk Kids Need Laptops to Learn, but Nonprofits Are Overloaded (Gizmodo)

Games

Thanks to Horror Video Games, Horror Movies Aren't Scary to Me Anymore (io9)

This Minecraft Library Provides a Platform for Censored Journalists (Gizmodo)

Apple's Understanding of Games Is So Narrow It's Screwing Itself (Gizmodo)

Why I loved playing Duke Nukem 3D with my dad (PC Gamer)

Managing patrons and puke in classic management game SimCoaster (PC Gamer)

Out-drinking Satan is the easy part in Afterparty (PC Gamer)

The Diablo 4 cinematic trailer's lore and biblical references explained (PC Gamer)

Laundry was the best and worst thing to happen to The Sims (PC Gamer)

This game destroys real books to help players cope with grief (PC Gamer)

Games That Changed Our Lives: ‘The Matrix Online’ (Goomba Stomp)

Funny

Is That Gadget Haunted, or Just Broken? (Gizmodo)

It Pains Me to Report This Hot Dog Toaster Is a Piece of Shit (Gizmodo)

This Ugly Cyberpunk Clubbing Suit, as Analyzed by a Former Cybergoth (Gizmodo)

Poetry

Safety Labels on Hospice Beds, HWA Poetry Showcase Vol. 5, September 2018

The Young Sailor, HelloHorror, October 2015 (as S. J. Paige)

Academic Citations

“A Game So Psychologically Disturbing It Comes With A Warning” from UGDB.com (now defunct) was cited in “Representation of the Serial Killer in United States Popular Culture: Evolution of the Hunter-Hero Narrative,” by Liane de Jong

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