In my first of three writings on Cairn I explore how you puppeteer Aava's limbs and keep her nourished, but she always remains a character with her own agency separate from the player's, even when you may try to choose for her.
breakingarrows.ghost.io/player-as-pu...
I've been scratching away at this for a few days. Maybe it's better if I just get it off my chest. If anything, I used to be a lot more vocal than I am now, so a reminder is likely due
I wrote about the Microsoft boycott as I've been seeing it around me. That's it 🫡💜
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Reading and just wanted to let you know, the first paragraph has "Autumn Right" instead of "Autumn Wright"
Shout out to @pamd.bsky.social for her video on Cairn I link to in the piece for the insight into how the pitons used damages the rock it is inserted and withdrawn from, a great insight I didn't see anywhere else.
youtu.be/AHRFH-nIxrY?...
In my first of three writings on Cairn I explore how you puppeteer Aava's limbs and keep her nourished, but she always remains a character with her own agency separate from the player's, even when you may try to choose for her.
breakingarrows.ghost.io/player-as-pu...
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I gave Mouse: PI for Hire a whirl, and while it's very fun and stylish, I think it's ultimately a pastiche report.wand.com/reviews/mous...
I've broken through the block and if all goes well I should have three separate pieces on Cairn soon.
1.) Player as Puppeteer and Caretaker in Cairn
2.) The Parable of Aava the Mountaineer
3.) Why "Troglodytes" in Cairn?
Love this handwriting
People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience? www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
One of our main points when discussing Faces of Death (2026) is how its usage of the original film makes its artifice more obvious, I know the (boring) slasher kills I'm witnessing are fake because it keeps referencing the original's fake staged deaths.
miseenscreen.libsyn.com/episode-40-f...
my latest for @deletedsavesmag.bsky.social is out now!!
this is one of my favourite essays i've ever written.
piecing together these complex feelings on kiryu, kasuga, the like a dragon series and toxic nostalgia was a challenge, but i think it's come together wonderfully
please give it a read 💜
Today, on Palestinian Prisoners' Day the BDS movement calls for intensifying BDS pressure against companies involved in genocidal Israel’s prison complex and its crimes against Palestinian prisoners, particularly Microsoft, HP, and Cisco.
#FreeThemAll
bdsmovement.net/news/Palesti...
And then we have @benverschoor.bsky.social reenacting an Aaron Paul tweet in regards to the director behind 1978's shockumentary Faces of Death.
youtube.com/shorts/sMbPR...
Some teasers for this episode include me recommending some YouTube video essayists could stand to learn from F for Fake: youtube.com/shorts/HtaTv...
On this week's episode @benverschoor.bsky.social and I discuss not only the newest Faces of Death but the 1978 original as well. We open with a Cronenberg snuff film chase and a Orson Welles videoessay.
miseenscreen.libsyn.com/episode-40-f...
Was thinking about this part of Dishonored more:
Dunwall is Coldridge Prison
Walls too high to ascend out of
Foundation too thick to sunder
A monument of what you cannot forget
So you empty it out and fill it anew with your choice of heir
Was thinking about this part of Dishonored more:
Dunwall is Coldridge Prison
Walls too high to ascend out of
Foundation too thick to sunder
A monument of what you cannot forget
So you empty it out and fill it anew with your choice of heir
And then we have @benverschoor.bsky.social reenacting an Aaron Paul tweet in regards to the director behind 1978's shockumentary Faces of Death.
youtube.com/shorts/sMbPR...
Some teasers for this episode include me recommending some YouTube video essayists could stand to learn from F for Fake: youtube.com/shorts/HtaTv...
On this week's episode @benverschoor.bsky.social and I discuss not only the newest Faces of Death but the 1978 original as well. We open with a Cronenberg snuff film chase and a Orson Welles videoessay.
miseenscreen.libsyn.com/episode-40-f...
youtu.be/Yjpsc3FfcTw?...
Made this on a whim, do you think you know your gamer youtubers?
"What is the point of independent publications if they employ the same white men to sell cool cover art and write the same industry boosterism? If the outlets with the most subscribers advocate for slop or the sites with the most progressive headlines excuse themselves from culpability?"
