Hades 2But there’s something conservative about the gestalt of this game, something willfully unadventurous
School of Rock (2003)It is worth stating near the outset that rock music is, as a rule, stupid.
Replacing my smart phone postnone 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
Thoughts on ComputerIt’s “convenient.” But catheterizing myself for a long drive would be “convenient,” too.
Outtakes from the WoW letterA year or so later, I entered middle school. In baseball terms, I’d call this a forced error.
The Tower of Druagathis change turns the game from being a hopelessly cryptic cypher to an energetic little puzzle game, a sequence of connected riddles
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
Some games of 2024because a real steak looks more realistic than an animated steak