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Nonhuman Meditations
A still from the short film "Layla" shows the titular robot riding a skateboard in a skate park.

Layla was a Skater Bot

By Alyssa Wejebe • December 18th, 2025

Robotic characters in fiction have long provided another metaphorical arena for human stories to play out.

Here's the Thing
Two firefighters try to extinguish a fire in a controlled parking lot environment.

“But She’s Got a New Hat!”

By Rob Rich • December 17th, 2025

It’s not a new pattern of behavior or anything, but Rob is… just… so sick and tired of seeing “company bad” one week and then “new thing from company!” the next.

Forms in Light
A beautiful, sunlit meadow in the woods.

Whispers of the Grove

By Justin Reeve • December 17th, 2025

The forest in Japanese culture is more than just a landscape, having long been seen as a threshold between the realms of the human and the divine.

Noah's Beat Box
A moody blank-and-white photo of the three members of the influential 1980s American punk band the Minutemen.

A Lynchpin

By Noah Springer • December 16th, 2025

“How,” you may ask yourself, “did Noah, music critic of a sort, make it to almost 40 years and never run across this incredibly influential band?”

Casting Deep Meteo
A duckbilled adventure swoops down from above, cape billowing behind like a medieval Darkwing Duck.

Now or Never or Over the Next Few Days at Least

By Levi Rubeck • December 16th, 2025

The powers of various chat apps and virtual tabletops offered an opportunity to play-by-post with ducks and wolfkin and the rest.

Roads

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • December 15th, 2025

Santa did what?!

I Played It, Like, Twice...
Press art for Warhammer Quest Blackstone where a Knight in armor with a fancy sci fi monocle is flanked by floating skulls with lights and peering in the dark towards his enemies

Too Big to Succeed: Warhammer Quest and the Imposing Scope of Blackstone Fortress

By Orrin Grey • December 12th, 2025

Blackstone Fortress is an elaborate, ambitious, impressive game, but it was also the first of the Warhammer Quest installments to become too intimidating for me.

Totally Generic
A still from Weapons shows main character Justine walking nervously through a school parking lot.

Watching Weapons

By Natasha Ochshorn • December 12th, 2025

Everyone is watching each other but very few are keeping an eye out.

Area of Effect
A screenshot from Pokémon Legends: Z-A shows the skyline of the city of Lumiose.

Habitat Fragmentation

By Jay Castello • December 11th, 2025

Pokémon and people do not live in harmony in Lumiose.

Rookie of the Year
A promo image of an arm holding a 1L beer stein for the 2025 Sam Adams Stein Holding Contest.

Stein Hoister of the Year

By Matt Marrone • December 10th, 2025

Just like that, a legend was born.

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