>Fight >Run >Liberate: How JRPGs Made Me an Anarchist "To attack and dethrone God is an inherently political act..."

ISSUE 9 SNEAK PREVIEW:

>Fight >Run >Liberate: How JRPGs Made Me an Anarchist by @seannb.bsky.social

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Yooooooo

I was going to find, screenshot, and highlight a certain line from this, then post it with the caption "this might be my favorite sentence I've ever written," but I see that @wolfbridge.bsky.social went ahead and made that specific line the pull-quote lmao

>Fight >Run >Liberate: How JRPGs Made Me an Anarchist "To attack and dethrone God is an inherently political act..."

ISSUE 9 SNEAK PREVIEW:

>Fight >Run >Liberate: How JRPGs Made Me an Anarchist by @seannb.bsky.social

www.typebarmagazine.com/fight-run-li...

Reaction to this story has been very positive. I was floored when I first read it (and the title was perfect).

@rsbenedict.bsky.social really stuns here with some rather incisive and heartbreaking body horror

Thank you! The sequel is coming out this year and we're hoping to get Ron in for another interview!

I only just read this novel and it is FANTASTIC; and this is a fun conversation too

really terrific piece here 👀

Game Pass in 1994: The Too-Soon Brilliance of the Sega Channel A brief history of digital games distribution, and why Sega's revolutionary attempt caused no revolution

The Sega Channel was decades ahead of its time...

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Blanquitos Fiction by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez.

FICTION: Blanquitos

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A promo graphic for Typebar Magazine Issue 9 listing the following essays... Sky Odyssey and What Makes a Video Game (Not) a Cult Classic by Adam Ansley Fight >Run >Liberate: How JRPGs Made Me an Anarchist by Seann Barbour It Sucks To Use A Typewriter In 2026, But It's Also Kind of Worth It by David Buck The Tweet as a Literary Form by Danny Cohen The Existential Horror (and Wonder) of No Man's Sky by Dorian Dawes The Unchanging Nature of True Crime: From 1700s Moralism to Contemporary Podcasts by Carrie Edmund-Laben The Fandom Strain: On Magic: The Gathering’s Endless, Destructive IP Crossovers by Erik Hane East of Wall: What Real Found Family Looks Like by Gwen Katz FreeWrite vs. AlphaSmart: What is Being Free from Distraction Worth? by C.A. McLaren The Animal's Voice: Literature, Animal Rights, and the Age of the Anthropocene by Vinky Mittal Experiences in Nigerian Literature: Embracing the Inherent Messiness of Queer Identities by Obinna Tony-Francis Ochem FICTION: Neighbors Helping Neighbors by Conor Wroe Southard

TYPEBAR MAGAZINE ISSUE 9 LAUNCHES 4/30.

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I Have the Key to All of This By Tiernan Blanchard

FICTION: I Have the Key to All of This

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Who Wants to Be a Superhero? The Last Gaze Into a Pre-MCU World How a forgotten reality show demonstrates what superheroes meant before Marvel movies changed pop culture forever.

On the eve of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a mostly-forgotten reality TV show on the Sci-Fi channel gave us a final glimpse into how society used to view superheroes

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Gregory Maguire's Wicked: A Novel That Gets the Last Cackling Laugh Not every prequel is doomed from the outset...

Is Wicked (the book) Actually Good™?

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God Had a Bad Day at the Office By Matt Wolfbridge

PROSE POEM: God Had a Bad Day at the Office

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A History of Turning Away What does it mean, truly, to turn away from something?

Turning away versus bearing witness is a false dichotomy

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The Weakness of the Flesh and the Horror of Losing It In cyberpunk, what does it mean to have a body?

On cyberpunk and cognitive science

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Architect Mario: Video Game Cities and Lost American Urbanism Video games are the only place most Americans encounter good urban design.

The best urban design Americans have ever seen is in places like the Mario franchise

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Secretary and the Erotic Nature of the Typewriter "Two lonely people  have come together through a love and desire that’s unique thanks, in part, to the typewriter."

How can a typewriter possibly be erotic?

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Searching for the Feminine Grotesque The feminine grotesque gives a rare voice to women expressing ideas that go against social norms.

Where has the feminine grotesque gone?

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Dungeons, Dragons, and Game Design: Why 4E Rules the D&D Roost I doubt Dungeons and Dragons will ever be so honest again.

"A brilliant game unappreciated in its time."

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Tiddies A short story by RS Benedict

FICTION: Tiddies by @rsbenedict.bsky.social

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Doug Walker Was Right: How To Boldly Flee Predicted the Modern Internet Everyone is the worst person in the room and rewarded for it constantly. Sound familiar?

And this one focusing solely on To Boldly Flee as a grim portend by @deathchrist2000.bsky.social

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No Country for Cringe Men: Remembering the Channel Awesome Anniversary Trilogy Remembering the web's worst movies so you don't have to.

This one about the entire channel awesome movie trilogy by @muleskinnerpress.net

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Anyway we had two really great essays on the phenomenon of Doug Walker at Typebar. Some of my favorites we've done and they're both from our very first issue!

This was a really fascinating interview that elucidated the multilayered meaning of one of humanity’s oldest gestures!

This is a David Buck appreciation account

I am very very VERY excited for all these essays. Only about two weeks away now.

This essay received quite a dedicated readership, which tends to happen whenever we publish anything about cyberpunk!

I think what drew people to this was exploring the interplay between the scientific, the material, and the philosophical.