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Rookie of the Year

In a still from the television show Madam Secretary, the title character sits at a desk in a Washington D.C. office, wearing a slightly exasperated smile.

Living the American Stream

By Matt Marrone • October 6th, 2022

America is beautiful – at least at night, without checking social media, as it streams on Netflix.

Made of Lines and Vines

Screenshot from the game Outriders, featuring a bright partially overcast sky behind adobe towers, weathered and with exposed knobs of wood

Beneath a Village’s Surface

By Saniya Ahmed • October 5th, 2022

A distinct style of a building in Outriders led to curiosity, then unexpectedly unraveled a worrisome story that was brewing all along.

Interlinked

Acquiring Phantomilian

By Phoenix Simms • October 5th, 2022

Games have their own form of communication and language and, in some instances, they include constructed languages, or conlangs, that are foreign to their players too.

Transpersonal

Still from the title sequence for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, with an assortment of symbols and shapes in the background and a man in a flashy suit and cadet hat, hands in pockets on the left, a very similar looking man with a big lip of hair on his brow in the middle, and a youger person in a school or military uniform on the right

How to Take a Stand // Transpersonal Defiance in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable

By Aster Shen • October 4th, 2022

Koichi goes to his death without despair, because he believes that justice will be done. He connects to the idea that what he represents cannot meaningfully be ‘erased’ at all: the heart of justice that defies the existence of Yoshikage Kira.

Mind Palaces

A still of Tom Hanks smirking sleazily as Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis.

Evil as Can Be

By Maddi Chilton • October 4th, 2022

The idea that Elvis would have been happy and healthy and long-lived if only were it not for his life-long manager Colonel Tom Parker is ahistorical.

Here Be Monsters

A stone frieze depicting a winged figure holding unbalanced scales.

An Introduction and Manifesto

By Emma Kostopolus • October 3rd, 2022

The horror of videogames, and a lot of horror more generally, rests on the fear of time.

Exploits Feature

Dies Irae

By David Shimomura • October 3rd, 2022

Four dreadful notes.

WHPA-13: Weird Heroes of Public Access

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • October 3rd, 2022

Click that switch over to the UHF dial!

I Played It, Like, Twice...

Crop of the cover of Monster Mayhem, a painting featuring your classic mosters like Sexy Ghost, Necktie Werewolf, Dog Collar Dracula, Too Many Teeth Mummy, and Jock Zombie

Offensive Stereotypes: Monster Mayhem Rises from the Crypt… But Maybe Shouldn’t

By Orrin Grey • September 30th, 2022

Despite its cartoony demeanor, Monster Mayhem is no different from White Wolf’s RPGs, and its approach is… not exactly sensitive, even for 2007.

This Mortal Coyle

The protagonist Bailey Ward from the videogame Switchcraft. She is a young woman with long auburn hair shaved on one side and an olive skin tone. She is casually dressed and smiling in what looks like the interior of a cafe.

Ruby Blue from Switchcraft

By Deirdre Coyle • September 30th, 2022

Ms. Blue’s aesthetics speak volumes: she wears librarian clichés – cardigans and tortoiseshell glasses – with bodycon animal prints, statement jewelry and long, blue nails.

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