“Hey, I speak *CHINESE* and *FARSI*, man, I don’t know no Celtic mythology.” —Me, 1999

Oops! Sorry, Mom! I think I just sort of talked about politics.

My longtime friend Bennett Foddy makes frustrating video games. You might have played QWOP, or GIRP. Somehow, making purposely frustrating video games about humans with malfunctioning legs landed him a job teaching game design at NYU. In other words, the universe conspired to inspire him to keep doing it. So we absolutely deserve his latest game, which is about climbing a massive mountain using only a sledgehammer while your entire lower body is confined in an iron cauldron full of water. Consider this game mandatory homework for the entire human race. I made a video about this game. Look, it's a good video. I hope you watch it. I genuinely hope my mom watches it. I say a lot of weird stuff. The game is bonkers to look at. It's got chill music. I tried to write a script I could imagine Werner Herzog reading. Don't worry: I didn't read it in a Werner Herzog impression. That would have been terrible. That would have been harder (for me, and for you) than playing a Bennett Foddy game.

SAITAMA, JAPAN. 2002. テクノファンタジー 千のナイフ 坂本龍一 Drummer 「坂本龍一なんて知らねえよ」 "I don't even &^%$in" know who Ryuichi Sakamoto is." Sakamoto Ryuuichi* nante shiranee yo (*I’m sorry, Mister Sakamoto. You are the Most Beautiful Man In The World, OK)

I have a hundred dollars!

the connection: kowloon's gate, while not cyberpunk" per se, involves a lot of neon chinese lettering ana takes place in nong kong. one of cyberpunk fiction's tavorite cities. at the time i first read about kowloon's gate in video game magazines fwacky import games" sections, i did not own a modern PC these same magazines that said kowloon's gate looked "awesome because it had full motion video in it and probably would never be translated into eng ish made fun of "i have no mouth and i must scream" because of its "ridiculous title, though i read deeper and thought, "hey, this sounds neat i'd play this." well, that's probably why i plaved it this vear. thanks again, nightdive studios!

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I just know how to read fluent Japanese. I’m sorry. You can learn it, too.

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