Unwinnable

Close-up of the cover for Scooby-Doo The Board Game with the whole gang sitting in the front of the Mystery Machine van. From left to right we have beatnik poet, anxious dog, rational map-reader, equally smart friend, and ascot driver

Wacky Hijinks: Similarities and Differences in Scooby-Doo: The Board Game

By Orrin Grey • July 6th, 2023

It is also ironic that, in many ways, Scooby-Doo: The Board Game feels less like Scooby-Doo and more like a board game than Betrayal at Mystery Mansion, which was already repurposing the mechanics of another game and yet managed, in so doing, to create an almost perfect evocation of a Scooby-Doo episode.

Noise Complaint

The band Lucero in all their middle-aged glory, looking cool in a classic black-and-white band photo.

Learning the Hard Way With Lucero

By Ben Sailer • July 6th, 2023

Lucero’s music has always had two speeds: “I’m going to party hard” and “I shouldn’t have partied that hard.”

Mind Palaces

Stacks of books on their sides, just begging to be read.

Marathon May

By Maddi Chilton • July 5th, 2023

This is not the best way to interact with art, but it’s also hard to see what the alternative is.

Exploits Feature

Deadliest Catch

By David Shimomura • July 3rd, 2023

The crabs must flow.

Erol Otus Interview (Remastered)

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • July 3rd, 2023

Erol Otus? Erol Otus!

Past Presence

The Wake of the Wake

By Dr. Emily Price • June 30th, 2023

Folk-punk, increasingly experimental band AJJ is best listened to when you randomly remember them, like a book of poems you skim through annually and then put back on the shelf.

Run It Back

A close-up of Winston Duke in Nine Days, wearing silver-rimmed spectacles and a look of concern on his face.

You’ve Gotta Stop Living Like You’re Already Dead

By Oluwatayo Adewole • June 29th, 2023

What use is it to name the knife that slides between your ribs if you can’t let yourself be helped?

The Beat Box

Noteworthy Hip Hop – June 2023

By Noah Springer • June 28th, 2023

It’s half-way through 2023 somehow, so it’s time to round up some notable releases from the first half of the year.

Funeral Rites

Depths of the Abyss

By Noah Springer • June 27th, 2023

To play, at least for Max Moon in the world of The Abyss of Hallucinations and MÖRK BORG, is to participate in a ritual that can potentially break the reality laid out by the capitalist trap.

Screenshot and title for STAR WARS Jedi Survivor, with a stunning sunset backdropped behind leather daddy Cal Kestis with perfect early aughts stubble and a lightsaber in his hand

Demanding More from our Sad Dads

By Elijah Beahm • June 26th, 2023

There’s a time and place for gaming’s sad dads as protagonists, but over the last decade or so, they’ve become worryingly common.

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