Well, Clive Thompson's coverage of my article in MSN's SLATE yielded over 2,300 referalls to Armchair Arcade. Thompson refers to my Foucault-encrusted theoretical approach to gay characters in videogames as merely a "review of The Temple of Elemental Evil, a description which originally puzzled me.

At first I thought Clive downgraded my article to the status of "game review" in a power move designed to slight my work and make his own look more profound. However, I eventually concluded that Clive may have done me a favor--perhaps he felt that fewer people would click the link if they suspected they would encounter a "think piece" rather than a stunned review.

Some of us were worried that Slate may be trying to usurp the news-worthiness of the article in an effort to appear to the public as the first publication to take notice of the gay marriage in ToEE.

What do you all think?