Jack Kinsey

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My tumblr.

Game reviews and analysis, the details of whatever project I'm currently working on, and random updates whenever I do something cool enough that I think it merits description.

Liberal elitism, and other civic issues.

A few short essays discussing the idea of 'liberal elitism,' a subject of much debate in connection with the election of Donald Trump as President.

The unifying impact of the AIDS epidemic.

An overview and discussion of the broad changes in the LGBTQ community resulting from the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 80s and 90s.

The confusing and bombastic nudity of Kill la Kill.

A brief analysis of the anime Kill la Kill using feminist tools, notably the concepts of objectification and the sexualization of violence.

Chronic homelessness: interviewing the future's home.

An introduction to the problem of homelessness in the United States, focusing specifically on chronic homelessness, and a brief discussion of potential unusual solutions to housing shortages. Typeset in LaTeX.

Homelessness in the United States.

A website designed to deliver key facts about homelessness in the United States to casual viewers, using select government publications as reputable sources of high-quality information.

Project "Asterisk" beta

A small 3D game prototype developed in JavaScript for the browser with Three.js.I blogged about its development over the course of several weeks, but many details remain unrevealed.

Godfather

The final project for my CMPSC 122 (intro to algorithms and data structures) course at Penn State. Written in C++, we had to convert faux airport data into statistics on planes landed, departed, crashed, and so on. Hosted on GitHub.

Other 122 work

Smaller C++ programs also written for CMPSC 122. We had to write an email address validator, a dynamic array implemented with a physical array, and a dynamic array implemented with a linked list. Not the most exciting of projects, but I'm proud of the code quality.

Child Scare Kills

A 2D WarioWare-style browser game written in JavaScript using Three.js. Developed with Liam McFalls for a child care class in high school, so it's a bit goofy.

A short history.

Born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I attended Conestoga Valley High School as part of the Class of 2016. I now attend Penn State University at University Park, with the intent to graduate in 2019. My passions have always included media of all kinds and computers; I’ve been programming in some form since 2012, and I’ve been thinking and writing about stories nearly my entire life.