A game critic type once Posted on Twitter they’d take how a videogame made someone feel over mechanical jargon every single time. Of course they’re A fool. An absolute rube: the only way to appreciate videogames is mechanically. In 2020, that’s what we’re sticking to. Emotions? Feeling? Garbage, worthless. Of course I’m sort of half…
羅生門
Released in 1950, Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon left a defining impact on genre storytelling. Today, it’s April 15th in 2020. Almost seventy years hence, the appeal of the movie seems to only become more profound as time passes. Or, to put it another way – people keep putting Rashomon in works they make. References to it…
BECAUSE THE NIGHT
DISCLAIMER: this article was originally posted at http://rebind.io – please support them if you can. Most of us wont ever know the best nights of our life when they’re happening. That’s what makes getting older hard for so many people out there. History is a short change, it’s easy to feel like no more good…
IT’S VALUE THEORY OF LABOR!
I associate any kind of manual labor with basically two periods in my life: Living at home as a teenager is number one. The second is much later in life on my own – actually doing so to actively keep a roof over my head. What ties both of these points in time together is…
QUARANTINE VOL 1. MINECRAFT
DISCLAIMER: Quarantine is a volume of written word that will be running until people have stopped dying. Creation is a primary act of play. I’m going to lead with that sentence and pretend I know what it means – we’re both going to go on a journey to discover it. Creation is a primary…
WOLVES HAUNT MY BEDROOM
Everywhere we walk through is haunted or will never be haunted, those are the distinctions. The old brick buildings can be spaces for something new. Straight lines and assembled windows, they might stay empty. Something in my head knows it’s just about time for another Resident Evil. Surrounded by wingnut republicans and apocalypse fetishists who…
ANIMAL CROSSING: BAD GATEWAY
Don’t ever forget, at any age, that is important to do absolutely stupid things. Date a baker, break into a government office. Do a ton of drugs and wake up behind someone’s couch. Sell all of your belongings so you can buy a new video game console. Try not to be at least overwhelmingly cruel…
DISCORD
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THAT’S PROGRESS!
Gamergate hit a few years ago. There’s that big moment where everyone came out to harass a single person. They dressed it up in as many buzzwords and ideas as they possibly could. the rivers of information were internally poisoned by “ethics in games journalism.” Meanwhile, people on YouTube exchanged handshakes for money and free…
LIFE AND CONCRETE
I’m thinking, staring at my computer at 3am, that I hope this is some kind of renaissance. AS I have been doing for the last few days – the only video game I have had time for is called Session. Released only relatively recent, it’s one of many recent skateboarding related affairs. I want to…