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Key art from South of the Circle shows a bundle-up couple walking through knee-deep snow towards a downed prop plane.

Rhythm of Stillness

By Phoenix Simms • February 6th, 2025

There’s a poetic quality to having deliberate pauses within a game world.

Here Be Monsters

The Fable of Myhouse.wad, or: Why We Should All Be Scared of ChatGPT

By Emma Kostopolus • February 5th, 2025

Every time someone uses text or art generated by an LLM, they have allowed the AI to make decisions about the final composition.

Mind Palaces

A still from Sleuth (1972) featuring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine dressed to the nines on the grounds of a grand English estate.

Here’s Why I Should Be Allowed to Make Another Sleuth Movie

By Maddi Chilton • February 4th, 2025

I have spent the entire year bringing up these movies through any conceivable justification, and now it’s your turn to suffer.

Past Presence

Key art from Dragon Age: The Veilguard shows the player character standing in front of a composite image of their companions, a huge dragon spreading its wings behind them all.

Mid

By Dr. Emily Price • January 31st, 2025

We hurl “mid” at all kinds of popular culture and, if we’re mean, into the comments of streamers or on people’s outfit reels. What do we mean when we say it?

Run It Back

A black-and-white photo of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba wearing a suit in what appears to be a government building, arms raised as if in surrender.

2024

By Oluwatayo Adewole • January 30th, 2025

The question of art’s utility becomes especially mired in complexity when we think about how much of Black/Queer art is eulogy.

Funeral Rites

To: Exalted Funeral; RE: A Stiff Letter Regarding Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme

By Orrin Grey • January 29th, 2025

It has come to our attention that certain parties have made unfounded and frankly absurd claims that, during our testing of Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme, members of our organization were observed to chuckle, titter, guffaw or even laugh aloud.

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