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Lists Issue Introduction

By Stu Horvath • June 3rd, 2024

A celebration of the importance of lists.
A celebration of the ubiquity of lists.
A celebration of the absurdity of lists.

Title art for Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy with the player character in a cauldron on the left by a tree and the mountain looming to the right

Learning to Love the Mountain While Getting Over It

By J.M. Henson • May 9th, 2024

To begin the task of climbing was to promise myself that I could reach the summit. 

Area of Effect
Two characters from Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley gaze up a lovely blue lighthouse.

A Wilderness of Thoughts Grown in Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley

By Jay Castello • May 7th, 2024

The garden is not the park, although the tension of its civilizing influence is never resolved.

A historical photo in black and white of a music teacher instructing piano to a group of African-American students, all looking closely over their mock keyboards while an older one plays

A Tale of Game Restrictions

By Zonghang Zhou • April 30th, 2024

“I know what you want better than you do, and I am doing this for your own good.” Such blatant patronizing attitudes reveal the inherent disparity of identity between adults and minors.

Musings

The Everlasting Allure of the Shitty City

By Blake Hester • April 25th, 2024

I feel like I’ve never truly cared about where I live, and as such, places have never felt truly comfortable. But I do care about Astoria, about New York.

Noise Complaint
An extremely glitched closeup of the knot of a man's polka-dotted tie, an image with the air corrupted spy cam footage.

My Google Home is Cursed: A Cosmic Horror Story

By Ben Sailer • April 24th, 2024

When Ben’s smart speaker refuses to play music from specific artists, he begins to believe it’s cursed. Could his delusions of demonic possession be true?

A screenshot of Emily is Away

Turn of the Zillennial

By Perry Gottschalk • April 12th, 2024

This is the real lesson of Emily is Away and the series as a whole. It isn’t a statement that over time, friendships fade. It’s that the experiences you have with them are vastly more personal than who you were at the time.

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.

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.

Max Hass holds BJ's head against his own as an intimate greeting while BJ reciprocates the feeling

Why Max Hass Matters

By J.M. Henson • April 1st, 2024

The act of resisting the Nazi occupation with violence is not enough. The Resistance must also revolt via empathy towards those that fascism casts aside.

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