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Author: Emily Price

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A top-down map from the videogame Dwarf Fortress showing the labyrinthine halls of a massive underground cavern.

Recursion

By Emily Price • January 26th, 2023

Over the break, I started playing Dwarf Fortress, a game about avoiding the recurring, inevitable spiral of collapse for as long as you can.

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The title screen for the movie Gremlins. The word "Gremlins" is superimposed in red over the the snowy idyll of Kingston Falls, Pennsylvania.

Enter the Gremlins

By Emily Price • December 23rd, 2022

Emily’s (live) reactions to the movie, time stamped if you want to watch along.

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A screenshot from the videogame Roadwarden shows a crossroads in a pixelated, sepia-toned wood.

Roadwarden

By Emily Price • October 27th, 2022

There is a gate made out of living thorns, a tree that drinks your blood, and a river with birds that call to you in human screams.

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A striking black and white image of spreading plant roots.

Rehearsal

By Emily Price • September 2nd, 2022

The Rehearsal has been called manipulative, sociopathic and dangerous by people on the internet. All of these are obviously exaggerations and misnomers.

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In key art from the videogame Portal 2, protagonist Chell faces off against GlaDOS, the robot antagonist.

Anything

By Emily Price • June 28th, 2022

A large part of being a good critic is being able to be sincere. And part of that sincerity is admitting that sometimes, you just like what you like.

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A moody shot of a thatch-roofed tiki bar called The Rum Colony from the videogame Kentucky Route Zero.

Cheap Machines

By Emily Price • May 31st, 2022

Using speculative genres, games propose a horror that lies within debt and the meaningless work meant to assuage it: that rather than being a neat system with a clear path to success, it is instead an unresolvable problem.

A sepia photograph of seven men in coats and hats standing on a temporary ramp ascending to the top of the still under-construction Brooklyn Bridge.

As the Sea-Gull Flies

By Emily Price • May 4th, 2022

The success of the Met in the last few months has inspired a new museum that has opened in our very own South Brooklyn: The Sea-Gull Gallery, a two-story establishment not five blocks from our offices.

Past Presence
In a screenshot from the game Dark Souls 2, a knight in full armor carrying a sword and shield advances against three foes who seem to have emerged from beneath the roots of a giant tree.

Die, Retrieve, Repeat, Succeed

By Emily Price • March 29th, 2022

The Souls series – and in particular, Dark Souls 2 – rewards death in the same breath that it punishes you for it.

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A sidewalk view of a New York City street from underneath construction scaffolding. The plywood walls covering the facade of the building are graffiti'd. It is a dreary day.

Telling It Slant

By Emily Price • February 25th, 2022

A rumination on the second season of How To with John Wilson and how sometimes the best way to talk about one thing is to focus on another.

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Tiny multicolored squares are arranged in larger blocks on a black background. Their orientation suggests a top-down view of a warehouse setup.

Unholy Aisles

By Emily Price • January 27th, 2022

In a new column, Emily Price sets out to examine media objects’ relationships to time and loss.

Feature Excerpt

Your Dearest Kin Below the Skin

By Emily Price • June 10th, 2021

Liquidity in Hades.

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