Best of Unwinnable – Archive

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Industrial Waste is Good for You

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Don’t worry about all that trash our society produces – we’re going to need it to survive the post-apocalypse.

Another Look
A purple clad figure with a dice for a head and a pencil thin moustache over top of a gambling board. This is a still from the game Cuphead.

Cuphead and the Racist Spectre of Fleischer Animation

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Winner of the 2018 New York Videogame Critics Circle's Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism.

I see a game that’s haunted by ghosts; the specter of black culture, appropriated first by the minstrel set then by the Fleischers, Disney and others.

Ode to Soylent

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Queers in Love Reminds Us to Live and Love

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In ten seconds, Queers In Love At The End Of The World captures the transcendent power of love.

In ten seconds, Queers In Love At The End of the World captures the transcendent power of love with greater success than most big budget titles.

Batman Returns is Tim Burton’s Greatest Christmas Movie

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It's about a bunch of outsiders trying to get through all the bullshit of the holiday season.

Batman Returns is a movie about the melancholy of the holidays.

A Very Viking Christmas Interview

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What are rune poems anyway?

Sing a Rune Carol this Christmas

What is Bob Ross Doing on Twitch?

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Good game, well played, Bob.

I looked away for 30 seconds and missed an entire foreground.

Paint-Eater: Urban Art in Digital Worlds

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Gaming’s failure to understand street art.

“We’ll be waving our controllers around, miming activity that we clearly don’t understand.” Heather Alexandra on gaming’s failure to understand street art.

Removed: A Photographer Captures the Isolation Effect of Sex Toys

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What if phones but dildos?

Some photographer took a bunch of photos and digitally erased the cellphones, so we digitally added a bunch of dildos.

Unpickleable: Shrub Lessons

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Shrubs are a perfect way to make use of all those berries you bought last weekend at the farmer’s market and then forgot to turn into jam.

“A pro-tip for anyone looking to survive the future apocalypse: learn how to pickle.” Interested in storing your fruits or making delicious drinks? Melinda Bardon has you covered.