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I'm giving today's post to share with you a cause near and dear to my heart, # INeedDiverseGames . I Need Diverse Games is a 501c3 non-profit organization advocating for diverse voices in gaming. The organization sponsors attendance at conventions with diverse panel tracks, promotes diverse creators and teaches about diversity and inclusion in gaming spaces. There's plenty of ways to support this effort, starting with either  Patreon or   Twitch.tv . You can also continue to support and share the work of creators with underrepresented or marginalized voices from the tumblr and twitter accounts for INDG which boost games and creators regularly. We get that everyone struggles with funds, but every little bit helps. There's just a few people involved with Tanya at the helm, and there's still plenty of work to be done. Right now, INDG needs help with both funding and content and you can read more about both  here on this post . If you're new to Patreon, you...

Today I had a whole day off work without any scheduled plans. Save one, finally , spend some time with a distant friend who is on a completely opposite schedule from me. Used to be she and I could make time for a chat on Discord pretty regularly, but that hasn't happened in a long time. And since she works third shift even in the time we have off, finding more than an hour to actually chat is difficult. Both of us having the day free -- and a workday for most everyone else -- meant we could get together. Today, we picked up a game to play that we'd both been putting off so we could play it together. I bought Life is Strange: Before the Storm, the prequel game to 2015's Life is Strange by Square Enix and Dontnod Entertainment, during the Winter Steam Sale with a day just like today in mind. All three episodes of the game had been released, meaning if I wanted to spend a day on it, I could pick it up and finish it that same day. So I did, with a friend on the other end of...