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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]
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…
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…