January 21: Machinery Constantly Churning
It's like looking at a broken tree limb, seeing the gnarled path it took after part of it snapped off in a windstorm.
January 14: Hammock in a Deprivation Tank
I don't want to say that because the games are good, things will be all right. But what I will say is that because the games are good, I am all right. Or at least, I can be for a while.
January 7: A Question of Attention
I like my singer-songwriter music to put a lump in my throat I can't get rid of until I've sung the song all the way through.
OlliOlli World is a gnarly tombstone worth returning to
My earliest video games obsessions split the difference between two genres: platformers and action sports games. Sonic the Hedgehog on
25 Good Things - An Introduction
23 weeks left of the first quarter-century in this new millennium.
Mixed feelings, as per usual with me.
For one,
July 20: It’s not a machine, after all
Maybe you missed those weekly recs, maybe you never gave it a second thought. Maybe you’ve been lost in the Feed for so long that you’ve gotten used to the idea of people fading in and out of your scroll that absences mean almost nothing to you anymore.
April 1: If nothing can be known, then stupidity is holy
It’s not cowardice to take a moment and find the soul at the bottom of your coffee cup.
March 18: Whiskey and Twizzlers and Youth’s Discontent
The fire dies down and you feel you’ve gotten what you needed from it and so you venture back out under the winter sky, maybe remembering that its cold blue is as beautiful as the orange glow of the hearth.
April 2: How do I not cast a shadow?
Don’t worry. I have nothing to say about last week’s Oscar night and the slap
that has already
March 26: The sacrifice is a metaphor
Video games are often vehicles for power fantasies. The fantasy of environmental
supremacy - being able to navigate any space.
