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The Good Colonizer: What Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Asks of White Players

I'm a white therapist-in-training who writes about video games. I mention this upfront because the piece you're about to read requires it. This isn't a confession or a disclaimer. It's context. What Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora offers white players is

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Clearing the Fog: Why Revealing the Map Feels So Calming

There's a unique satisfaction that comes from watching fog lift off a game map. Not the dramatic fog of a horror game, thick with threat, but the gray of unexplored territory in an open-world game. The kind that says: you haven't been here yet. In