[Vwoolf] Rather unexpected Woolf sighting in video game

[Adela M Hurtado]

Hi there,

Thank you for sharing this! I’ll keep a look out for the suicide note quote once I get my hands on the new Xbox. An interesting tidbit is that the studio behind the Halo franchise is run by a woman, Bonnie Ross, who helped found it nearly 15 years ago. She has led initiatives for women, girls, and minorities in STEM and gaming careers and for diversity in video game storytelling, which she has purposefully done in the Halo series that she loves. Maybe she’s also a Woolf fan! 

Just looked her up now and she’s one of only two women inducted into the industry’s Hall of Fame!

I have fun memories playing the Halo series with friends in high school, and so thank you for sharing this Woolf news.

Adela Hurtado

> On Dec 6, 2021, at 11:11 AM, Graham Borland via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Woolfians,
> 
> In an unusual enough Woolf sighting, I stumbled across a review of a new video game in the Halo franchise which mentions that a character in it quotes Woolf in a cutscene.
> 
> If the reviewer is to believed, however, the game seems to somewhat insensitively cite a perhaps all-too-predicable text of Woolf’s in an attempt to lend seriousness to the plot.
> 
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgg7k/halo-infinite-is-a-fun-sandbox-stuck-inside-a-very-old-video-game?utm_source=waypoint_twitter&utm_medium=social__;!!KGKeukY!jXrcOoFLCsPo5eNePZuJFbWdA-MtYduZdYp_zLBoZTcc4W9CSAKPlBlocFCr6WBUeHo$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgg7k/halo-infinite-is-a-fun-sandbox-stuck-inside-a-very-old-video-game?utm_source=waypoint_twitter&utm_medium=social__;!!KGKeukY!hvSHtoUWNxfKTudli7c-_gzMXOuoifbexIY0YsKipQbd_Tf-9o2ozj6vXfYIq6QO6Kw$>
> 
> Not the first Woolf-ism in a video game, however, as Jean Mills noted in her essay in the Cambridge Companion to To the Lighthouse.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Graham
> -- 
>  Graham Borland
> 
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