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Forms in Light
A photograph of the Louvre Pyramid at night, the glass lit from below so the pyramid shines against the dark blue sky.

Disdain and Devotion

By Justin Reeve • April 11th, 2024

Similar to how some videogame levels have been criticized but later hailed as masterpieces, many buildings have transcended their initial criticism to become beloved landmarks.

Noah's Beat Box

Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Vinyl 4LP Boxset

By Noah Springer • April 10th, 2024

Of all the albums from the ’90s alternative rock scene, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is one of the most deserving for a deluxe treatment like this.

Casting Deep Meteo
A negative-space cutout of Mega Man superimposed over a red-filtered photograph of a drummer playing a hi-hat, their sticks a blur of motion.

Mega Man X Doesn’t Begin Until Dr. Light Sings “My Blue Suit”

By Levi Rubeck • April 9th, 2024

Gamers have some idea of flow state but we do not debase ourselves with general gamerisms here.

A grainy photograph of Kurt Cobain playing his guitar and singing into a mic while wearing a slip dress and rhinestone tiara.

Don’t Hurt Girls When You Dance (Or Any Other Time)

By Juno Stump • April 5th, 2024

We may never know for sure, but I think there’s a reason that so many trans women have been able to identify with Kurt Cobain’s joy, pain and suffering, so strongly.

Area of Effect
Heavy blue curtains, drawn across a stage.

Some Questions I Personally Find Interesting About Paint

By Jay Castello • April 5th, 2024

Cloud Strife might be a cleric. Yes, sorry, I’m talking about the yellow paint.

Rookie of the Year
A sixer of Imperial Classic beer, the box sporting a splashy yellow and red color scheme with a black eagle as the logo.

Beers of the Osa Peninsula

By Matt Marrone • April 4th, 2024

Consumed at any temperature lower than brain-freeze cold, they are uninspiring at best. When found frigid on a deliriously humid day in the rain forest, however, they are a revelation.

Interlinked
The overworld map for World 1 of Super Mario World, featuring many paths for Mario to travel.

A 16-Bit Memorial Garden

By Phoenix Simms • April 3rd, 2024

If All the World and Love were Young is not only a stunning elegy for Stephen Sexton’s mother, but an ekphrastic piece about the nature of play and memory.

Mind Palaces
The cracked spine of The Modern Library paperback edition of Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Lost in Translation

By Maddi Chilton • April 2nd, 2024

I’m reading War and Peace for the first time, and probably the only time, and I’d like to do it right.

Past Presence
A screenshot from Octopia shows the main character standing on a bridge overlooking a beautiful mountain valley.

Octopia is a Sweet Farming Sim That Rewrites Eastward’s History

By Dr. Emily Price • March 29th, 2024

Simple stories don’t have to overcomplicate themselves to be good.

Funeral Rites

Between the Skies and Beyond the Horizon

By Justin Reeve • March 28th, 2024

Designer Huffa Frobes-Cross refers to Between the Skies as “rules minimalist, fiction maximalist.”

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