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Chad joined the DualShockers staff in mid 2009 and since then has put much of his time into covering RPGs, with a focus on the Japanese side of the genre, from the obscure to the mainstream. He's a ...

We need to think outside the box. You’ve definitely heard these clichés. You might even resort to them yourself when you’re speaking to your coworkers, your boss, your friends, or even audiences for ...

I ’ve always been fond of the ordinary, homespun cliché. But I chafe at its more rarefied cousins, the catchphrases of critical theory as they mellow into middle age: “the male gaze,” “Orientalism,” ...

Living through economic downturns, being a target of violence or theft, witnessing political upheaval — they're all part of being human. When thrust into turbulent environments, we tend to find ...

A cliché can destroy a piece of writing. Case in point: If I were to follow that first sentence with a sentence claiming that “Writers should avoid clichés like the plague,” you would, rightfully, ...

I got the first crop of student writing assignments back the other day, and I tweeted out, as I do, some general observations. One was that 100 percent of youth now use cliché for the adjective form ...

If some words are shovel-ready for a conversation, but using them could lead to accusations that you’re not giving 110%, then should you stick a pin in them? Or perhaps you could read the room better ...