Theodora Ward

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  1. Hades 2 But there’s something conservative about the gestalt of this game, something willfully unadventurous
  2. School of Rock (2003) It is worth stating near the outset that rock music is, as a rule, stupid.
  3. Replacing my smart phone post none of these things ameliorated the central fact that I experienced it as essentially an eldritch portal to Hell that made everything I like and am interested in dissolve into a kind of mental grey goo sloppily colonizing my pathetically unshielded mind
  4. Thoughts on Computer It’s “convenient.” But catheterizing myself for a long drive would be “convenient,” too.
  5. Outtakes from the WoW letter A year or so later, I entered middle school. In baseball terms, I’d call this a forced error.
  6. About this site
  7. The Tower of Druaga this change turns the game from being a hopelessly cryptic cypher to an energetic little puzzle game, a sequence of connected riddles
  8. Sixteen notes on “Blue Prince” Fascism is built on the nightmarish assumption of immortality—we can bring the past back, exactly as you remember it, better than ever, forever—but it can’t erase the unavoidable reality that there are surprises yet to come, and that no force on Earth, no matter how materially or ideologically powerful, can really, truly, perfectly predict the future
  9. Some games of 2024 because a real steak looks more realistic than an animated steak
  10. We interrupt this program
  11. On taste
  12. On rhythm
  13. On "Void Stranger"
  14. On “Quality of Life”
  15. On "Tropes"
  16. Another announcement
  17. An announcement
  18. A brief review of every mainline Final Fantasy game, including those I have not played
  19. On Game Mechanics, Pt. 1
  20. /blog/2023-06-28-here-is-a-brief-question-i-have-about/
  21. Are games art? Scattered thoughts on a pretty dead question
  22. My Village is Number One
  23. A bunch of Nintendo 3DS games, reviewed
  24. Announcing a new series
  25. What I'm playing/reading/etc.
  26. On Character, Pt. 2
  27. What I'm reading/playing/etc.
  28. On Character, Pt. 1
  29. What I'm reading/playing/etc.
  30. New Feature: Paid Subscriptions
  31. On the Idea of AI
  32. Searching for Friends
  33. Corridors of Time