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Industrial Waste is Good for You

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

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

Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent . . .

Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent . . .

Queers in Love Reminds Us to Live and Love

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

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

What are rune poems anyway?

Sing a Rune Carol this Christmas

What is Bob Ross Doing on Twitch?

Good game, well played, Bob.

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