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Author: Blake Hester

a skateboarder floats effortlessly in the air above a ramp in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2

The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater Remake Feels Good Enough

By Blake Hester • August 21st, 2020

So it’s a push and pull so far with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2. When the game feels right, it feels right. And for the most part, that’s enough.

Musings

The Last of Us Part II: Over and Over Again

By Blake Hester • August 11th, 2020

Though it likely wasn’t their intent, Naughty Dog’s sequel hits the nail on the head when it comes to an unflinching portrayal of the cycle of addiction.

Musings

The 120-Hour Goodbye

By Blake Hester • July 7th, 2020

Persona 5 Royal provided Blake an escape from quarantine. But even in imaginary worlds, all good things come to an end.

Musings

Legacy of Brutality

By Blake Hester • June 12th, 2020

You know what they say: Friends that kill together, stay together.

Musings

Persona 5 and the Eternal Classroom

By Blake Hester • May 6th, 2020

Persona 5 is a glorious reminder that even if high school sucked, being a kid kinda ruled.

Musings

Code Orange and the New Reality

By Blake Hester • April 10th, 2020

Code Orange’s newest album feels like the group’s most cohesive product to date.

Musings

Rock is Dead. Long Live the Dirty Nil.

By Blake Hester • March 12th, 2020

The Dirty Nil, in just one 39 minute album, is more intelligent, interesting and fun than most classic rock out there.

Musings

When in Hell, We Do Shots At the Bar

By Blake Hester • January 14th, 2020

For something that marketed itself as a funny, drunken romp through hell, Afterparty sure feels a lot like an AA meeting.

Musings

From Kamurocho, With Love

By Blake Hester • December 13th, 2019

Halfway around the world, in a city he’s never been to before, Blake finds a place he knows as well as his home.

Musings

Concerts Suck, But Landon Tewers Doesn’t

By Blake Hester • November 11th, 2019

Blake sees his first concert in four years and it’s…weird.

Feature Excerpt

Taking Control of my Sobriety

By Blake Hester • September 24th, 2019

When you take addiction out of your life, you’re left with more hours in the day than you know what to do with. Luckily, there are games like Control.

A young band plays, in stark black and white. They look sweaty and tense. The band is Jawbreaker.

Breakups, Dear You, and Jawbreaker

By Blake Hester • May 17th, 2019

The history and legacy of Jawbreaker almost seem at odds with each other.

Spiderman sitting looking out over a story.

Cancer, OCD, Spider-Man & Me

By Blake Hester • December 12th, 2018

Sometimes you just need a fucking break. Sometimes you don’t need to be challenged, sometimes you just need to drown out all the noise.

Anthony Bourdain, silhouetted by a rising sun

Losing a Friend You Never Met

By Blake Hester • June 8th, 2018

I kept getting excited reading it, thinking maybe soon he’d put out another book. It felt like getting excited for your friends’ bands – you know, the actual good ones – to put out new albums

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