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A screenshot from the Simpsons featuring a plain cake with random letters sprawled all over which was made specifically for Homer to ruin so he wouldn't ruin Maggie's cake

The Graffiti Wall

By Edward Smith • August 2nd, 2023

It’s not sufficient to create the distraction – the distraction has to provide the illusion of not being distracted, and, in fact, of having your individualism or your thirst for change and influence slaked.

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Screenshot from The Last of Us Part 2 featuring Lev, with a clean-shaven head and leather hoodie, facing Abby with a backpack loaded with a shotgun

This is What I Would Send in if I Applied for the Narrative Designer Job at Frictional

By Edward Smith • February 16th, 2023

Our character has to care about the kid and we have to care that our character cares about the kid.

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A screenshot from Red Dead Redemption 2, where Arthur in his trademark black hat is firing a rifle in the distance while a lone lamp hangs overhead

Two Deaths

By Edward Smith • January 9th, 2023

What I see I guess in all this are microcosmic pictures, metaphors, illustrations of how goddamn unknowable everything seems nowadays.

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Screenshot from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2019, during the torture interrogation scene, where the military made is in the face of the player camera looking stern and cruel

Subjective Analysis of Modern Warfare 2019’s Objectivity in One Scene

By Edward Smith • November 14th, 2022

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare can be sold to people who want something potentially “hard-hitting”, but also sold to people desiring the opposite. 

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A screen shot from the first Grand Theft Auto, with the main character making a phone call and the train tracks wait behind. I'm going to be honest it was hard finding a shot or video of anyone going on to the tracks, given how deadly they are, but this seemed pretty close

Gouranga

By Edward Smith • October 11th, 2022

I hate this idea that games have gotten so big they basically replace your life – and tell you you’re not getting the most out of them and doing everything unless you let them replace your life.

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Painting of a Benedictine Monk staring down in pensive consideration of mankind's place on this earth and IDK probably god's role in it or something

So Why Even Do It At All?

By Edward Smith • September 22nd, 2022

I think it’s important for me to make clear that this is not all about just negativity.

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A scene from the game Stray where the player cat sits patiently on a stool while three robots endeavor to serve them

Misanthropia

By Edward Smith • August 24th, 2022

We may possibly all stop playing videogames, for escaping from life would perhaps feel less necessary, and so games would have less a purpose to serve as pain relief.

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A scientific drawing of John Calhoun's Rat Utopia, with diagrams of rats running around various paths and columns, living what was hoped to be their best lives

My Own Personal 25th Universe

By Edward Smith • August 12th, 2022

The emotional, psychological circuit catalyzed by videogames, and its inevitable dead end

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