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Author: Emma Kostopolus

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DOOM Eternal's Marauder stands staring down steely-eyed at the viewer, horns curved up towards the stormy sky.

The Thinking Man’s Doom: Why The Marauder Rules, Actually

By Emma Kostopolus • July 2nd, 2025

Dark Ages is a sadly watered-down version of the thing I loved most about the controversial Marauder: how much it made me think about how to play.

Here Be Monsters
Art from Cult of the Lamb shows a cloaked lamb levitating above a pentacle as several other woodland creatures gaze at the scene reverantly.

Feeding the Cartoon Gators: Cult of the Lamb and Moral Disengagement

By Emma Kostopolus • May 30th, 2025

Everybody has some angry, sad, anxious and ultimately violent shit they want to work out.

Here Be Monsters
SHODAN from System Shock gazes ominously at the viewer, electric green and purple beams of light shooting outward from her face.

The Banality of AI Hell, or: We Were Worried About the Wrong Thing

By Emma Kostopolus • May 6th, 2025

I know you’re watching me type this, Copilot.

Funeral Rites
An illustration of a blond woman unlocking her front door. Via a cross section of the house, we can see horrors have been wrought across her downstairs living room by a tentacled creature making its way upstairs.

No Magic, No Gods: Infinite Worlds & Infinite Horrors

By Emma Kostopolus • April 29th, 2025

“Create stories. Create art. Create music. Anything and everything you create yourself has value and the more of it exists, the better off we all are.”

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Letting the Days Go By: The Historical Horrors of Pentiment

By Emma Kostopolus • April 9th, 2025

The history we record and maintain is a “fable agreed upon” written by the people in positions of power.

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A screenshot from Crow Country shows a woman standing in the center of a very dark and funky bathroom, the line of urinals along one wall looking scarier than any ghost.

In Defense of Tank Controls

By Emma Kostopolus • March 5th, 2025

We don’t need to throw the super cool atmospheric and mechanically interesting baby out with the bathwater of outdated hardware limitations.

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The Fable of Myhouse.wad, or: Why We Should All Be Scared of ChatGPT

By Emma Kostopolus • February 5th, 2025

Every time someone uses text or art generated by an LLM, they have allowed the AI to make decisions about the final composition.

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