Kirk Hamilton wrote once that living as an American was to live, constantly, in the fugue of gun induced trauma. He also wrote that playing Videogames meant dealing with this trauma daily. We’ll shoot each other for fun, for sport. Sometimes we’ll drive with the top down through the streets of an imaginary city just…
PATH OF THE JEDI
OR “SOUND IN JEDI KNIGHT: DARK FORCES II” By Porter Simmons I saw Star Wars for the first time when I was three. My parents, who were going out for the night for this or that, dropped me off at my grandparents’ house so my uncle could watch me while they were away. Shortly after…
I SIT STILL WITH LIGHTNING FOR A HEAD
People are rioting in Minneapolis – people are meeting for peaceful vigils in Arizona. People protest and meet and demonstrate everywhere right now. Some of them are protesting shootings in their own city – the kind of things I hope a paper can never call a “police involved shooting” again. Maybe the people who write…
QUARANTINE GAMES: UMURANGI GENERATION
Almost every year I find myself once again in a specific kind of haze. It’s candy colored and green haired, often fueled by alcohol and drugs. A two or a three hour drive to a place I see people I sometimes don’t see the rest of the year. Out comes the camera and an…
SUPPORT UPDATE
Hello! There will probably be no new article this week as the staff of this humble website, THAT INCLUDES ME, return to day jobs. Since we are returning to a full schedule, we’d like to update with some of the ways you can support DEEP-HELL . COM. If you are financially inclined, you can check…
PODCAST EPISODE 2
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TOWARDS THE STARS
The promises of space have long been a goal point for videogames. We’ve been opining for a fully seamless universe to explore for decades now. From our earliest attempts, to latest monolith scams of empty promise and actor likenesses. The goal is always the same: We will give you capital S Space. One of the…
PODCAST EPISODE 1
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ETHER
I am tall and lanky. At almost 6’3″, I am either too fat to fit into the clothes I want or too skinny to look good in the clothes I have. I wear my hair as long as possible as the only saving grace on a body that I often have no control over. Capitalism…