[Today marks 10 years since the release of Hyper Light Drifter. Special thanks to Artemis Octavio for their edits/suggestions on this piece.] I did not play it while I was sick. I did not play it preceding or during or after a death. Playing it did not teach me
less posting and more conversation This article is part of my series on responding to games writing and is a good faith attempt at starting a dialogue, not a personal attack or to feed the chuds on the usual channels of toxicity and trolling. Thank you for your time. This
developed (primarily) by Julián Cordero and Sebastián Valbuena (and many others) spoilers for Despelote Everyone is taller than you. Inanimate objects obtain movement when you touch them. Posters wink at you or sparkle or embiggen the number one, projecting the dream of Ecuador’s football team winning the 2002 World
“Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole."
A text worthy of exploration
or a theory on how to break through circuitous discourse
Mining Disneyland for horror images
discordance in play and kitsch in narrative
god's in his heaven
Directed by Michael Powell, Original Story and Screenplay by Emeric Pressburger
A dice comedy game
then and now and then and now and then and now
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on love letters
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They are good mazes
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Examining failures old and new
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on Killzone 2
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A survey of the values, parlance, and trends of current reviewers
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Man I Just Wanna Go Home is arresting immediately upon viewing due to lexa’s striking art style. Described as, “an ‘MSPaint-noir’ visual novel with 13 endings.” Each screen is full of angles and the shapes they form being ‘wrong’, just slightly out of line with our reality. Singular color
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adding my voice to the growing chorus
Criticism
making a conscious and continual decision to abstain to break the cycle of violence
Homefront
even a rotting corpse can provide food for fertile soil
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If you will allow me this indulgence, I want to talk about Star Trek
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Cardboard cutouts would not do much better
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Thoughtless looting