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Playing the Victim: How Horror Works in Video Games
A work of horror is very tricky to get right, regardless of the medium, but when it is done right can completely shift the paradigms of pop culture -
Warhammer 40k: or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the WAAAGH!
Warhammer 40k is very dumb. Warhammer is so outrageously, insanely, apocalyptically, earth-shatteringly, face-meltingly dumb and I love it so much that I must write my own dumb little essay about it. -
Skyrim, Player Agency, and Existential Dread
Like many college students in the wake of COVID I recently found myself rightfully removed from my New York college campus and sent back home with the parting gift (or curse) of an abundance of time and very few ways to spend it. Freshly devoid of face-to-face interactions with friends and swindled of the festivities that would come with the final days of my senior year, I turned to my tried-and-tested aegis from my steadily growing feelings of nihilism at the increasingly bleak state of society and the world at large: video games.