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]
SONS OF GUNS
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…
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…
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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…
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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…
QUARANTINE VOL 2. THE MESSENGER
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…