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Author: Dr. Emily Price

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A screenshot from In Stars and Time shows two characters sharing a bench and looking off towards an ephemeral castle in the night sky.

What Time Loops Mean to Me

By Dr. Emily Price • February 29th, 2024

Time loop games give us the opportunity to grow alongside the main character.

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A screenshot from Coffee Talk showing a pixelated cup of coffee with the words, "Black Lemon. A perfect – if unlikely – combination of sour and bitter."

Romanticize Your Life!

By Dr. Emily Price • January 31st, 2024

If these things are the glue that makes real “mundane” life less boring, they are hollow pleasures.

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Object Lessons #3: Megadungeon

By Dr. Emily Price • December 27th, 2023

What is a dungeon? This is the kind of question you think about when you draw your fiftieth square grid room that contains yet another statue and another random battle.

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Jenny from Thebes Review

By Dr. Emily Price • December 5th, 2023

Jenny from Thebes is trying harder than maybe any previous album to create a specific place, but it still feels unmoored, somewhere between Greece and Austin.

Funeral Rites

ARC Turns Disaster Into a Fighting Chance

By Dr. Emily Price • November 28th, 2023

While ARC is a TTRPG about the end of the world, it uses humor and warmth as often as horror to imagine what responding to the apocalypse actually looks like.

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Taking the Cullens to Uniqlo

By Dr. Emily Price • October 26th, 2023

You can wear Uniqlo anywhere. Its styling is bizarre and frequently, ugly. I don’t know of a better way to summarize Twilight’s fashion.

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Object Lessons #2: Smartphone

By Dr. Emily Price • September 26th, 2023

How do you represent a technology that’s had an earthquake’s impact, that almost everyone owns and that has made our private lives public?

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