I was never broadly a fan of most of the big gaming websites on the internet. It seems quaint to look back now at all of the websites lost – only found on Archive . Org or the ways their old homepages have been enshrined. The internet, is, after all, at the mercy of its…
CoD of Duty
When the Director of a billion dollar franchise, chiefly about shooting people either At Home or in Other Countries, we all know the game being played. American Politics only exist outside the realm of entertainment, as entertainment. Our escapism, our fantasy, all uniquely individualistic. It’s got to reflect the realities of our individualist society –…
MARCH TO THE FINISH LINE
When I used to hop around on a dozen different websites, I always loved “about me” paged. Someone’s corner of the internet had a place just for them to tell you directly about them. It never imparted the way we now try to know people through social media. Someone wanted you to really be able…
HARDLINE
The article header here is from EA’s Battlefield Hardline. You’d be mistaken for thinking this was a military shooter by the presence of tanks and APC’s blurred out in the background. Our hero is interchangeable with any number of military shooter protagonists. His chiseled jaw and sunglasses gives him away: This Man Is The Police….
THE BUTCHER
It feels like I’ve seen Grim Dawn on steam for full well a decade now. It turns out, as the way time flows, it’s only been five years. There it sat, waiting for me to buy it lonely in my wishlist. The time finally came that I made some sort of decision, and with the…
PATREON
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LIVING IN THE LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE
If I went out into an empty field in the middle of the desert. If I looked up at the sky and screamed as loud as it felt like I fucking could – more people would hear my pained scream than would read what I have to say about Mass Effect. This is doubly so…
GROTESQUE WEALTH
OR: IMMORTALITY IN SEKIRO: SHADOWS DIE TWICE by Bryn Gelbart I think about death too much. I recently found myself hung up on the genealogy of the Earnshaws and Lintons in Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Of the characters in the novel, the villain Heathcliff lives the longest, dying at the ripe old age of 38. At…
UNCHARTED 2
The implication of every Indiana Jones, every Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is that these gentleman thieves eventually plan on leaving their discoveries somewhere the rest of the world can benefit. I hate to dropquote in the beginning of an article, but “the rest of the world” often means “parts of the world primarily inhabited by white…
PODCAST EPISODE 4: MASCULINITY
Here we are again, where all fine podcasts can be found. Before all of this stuff happened, we sat down with a good friend of ours to record a podcast. Joined by Bill from Put It On My Bill (dot org) – a pop culture and videogame finery website local to [REDACTED]