i didn't realize this was a sad occasion
This is Steven’s Substack. I believe this will mainly be used as another way of posting my various writings in addition to the Google Docs and Tumblr posts I currently use.
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Resident Evil finds comedy in overly dedicated gig economy worker
Spoilers for Resident Evil (2026) One of the remarkable sources of humor in Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil are his mostly moronic characters and their gleeful abuse by the film. Austin Abrams as our lead Bryan and two others stuck out to me most as caricatures of recognizable people from
The Writing is the Reward
Numbers going up in videogames is boring. It is pervasive and a hamster wheel. Receiving text in games is what makes them worth playing due to their potential to move me and speak to me in ways numbers could never. Numbers go up as a genre is everywhere. We are
Reading Games Writing: This Sacred Body / This Bloody Mind by Artemis Octavio
While reading Artemis’ writing on Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, I was struck by how their major problem with Disco Elysium is the reason I love it so. It provoked and pushed me to further interrogate why I feel that way. I have not played Zero Parades (yet) and so
Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies as Literature
This piece was originally published in 2023 on my Tumblr and as a Google Doc. I have republished here to create a more centralized collection of my writing as well as due to the enthusiasm over the upcoming Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. Within Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies