Mind Palaces Consider the Orzo By Maddi Chilton • October 3rd, 2024 I am the least hungry when I’m stressed, or sad, or sick, when something has gone wrong elsewhere in my life and my stomach suffers for it.
Funeral Rites Getting Lost in the Melodious World of the Ballads of Oræd By Orrin Grey • September 27th, 2024 On the table next to the candle is a book that you don’t remember seeing before. The book itself feels at once familiar and strange, as though you have read it before, perhaps in a dream. The title is Ballads of Oræd.
Feature Excerpt Was Colonial Marines Really Nuked From The Start? By Elijah Beahm • September 26th, 2024 “We loved our isolation. Thrived in it. It allowed us to get lost in our work with zero dependencies.”
Feature Excerpt Baroque Pathology: Monkeys Shampooing While I Slowly Die and Play Final Fantasy VIII By Luis Aguasvivas • September 25th, 2024 In a desperate attempt to conjure halcyon days I played Final Fantasy VIII. I played the game during a horrible time in my life.
Letter from the Editor Unwinnable Monthly – September 2024 By David Shimomura • September 19th, 2024 RIP Game Informer, I loved you.
Forms in Light Structures of Power By Justin Reeve • September 12th, 2024 Architecture in the Taisho and Showa periods of Japan was a powerful tool for expressing national identity, asserting political power and disseminating propaganda.
Casting Deep Meteo In the Mood for Action By Levi Rubeck • September 11th, 2024 Kar-wai’s film doesn’t flirt with disaster the way Chan’s do, but the body feels the threat, the promise, the thrill all the same.
Area of Effect Signalled Space By Jay Castello • September 10th, 2024 The feeling of together-aloneness is the same in both Elden Ring’s digital world and the damp field of the Rollright Stones in real life.
Rookie of the Year (Couch) Potato Farming By Matt Marrone • September 6th, 2024 I have no designs on being an actual farmer, but I like how productive I am as a fake one.
Interlinked Advancing Together By Phoenix Simms • September 5th, 2024 Nikhil Murthy’s Syphilisation emerged as a way to address some enduring colonial-imperialist assumptions in the 4X classic series Civilization.
