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The Finest Show on the Air is the World Cup

By David Shimomura • July 12th, 2018

I love sports. I own jerseys, go to games, and desperately seek attention from the other writers at Unwinnable despite their annoyed yawns and fart noises.

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The Mass Effect Issue: At All Costs

By David Shimomura • June 6th, 2018

Humanity never needed Cerberus.

The Meaninglessness of Maturity in God of War

By David Shimomura • May 2nd, 2018

While the game tries to tell us of heroes come and gone who made war by making peace, we can never do this. It’s good to kill a demon, an escapee from the underworld, a monster. They have no agency and thus we can never reason with them. We can only bring reason to them at the edge of axe.

An Ode to Porkins (and Star Wars Merchandise)

By David Shimomura • April 23rd, 2018

Not only does Porkins merch exist, but there’s a lot of it. What’s that say about Star Wars?

A woman in a large white dirty tshirt and cargo pants, wields a bat at a dog running away gleefully with an assault rifle in its mouth. Behind her in the dust is a bleeding man.

Far Cry 5: Taking off the Engagement Blinders

By David Shimomura • April 2nd, 2018

That’s the trap of engagement and enthrallment. At 100mph the flaws dissolve in the motion blur.

two figures, their eyes whited out and the bottom of their faces obscured by solid opaque black face paint.

Mute: Sci-Fi is a Genre, Not a Setting

By David Shimomura • March 26th, 2018

The story of a man searching for his lost love in a city hostile to him is novel. But its not necessary to tell this story in the future and Jones does nothing to connect the futurey, robotic set dressings with the actual story.

Jared Leto, with his android face and a back full of Japanese style tattoos, peers off in the middle distance slightly over one shoulder.

The Astonishing Banality of Cinematography in The Outsider

By David Shimomura • March 12th, 2018

Even as Leto becomes immersed in this world, falls in love, and treats himself to bath time with his bros, the camerawork and direction reinforces how inappropriate the whole venture is.

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