rabbids. mario is with them. so what?

20 years have gone by since i got disappointed that a rayman game was actually a minigame collection about french minions. at the time the minions didn’t exist, so imagine the concept but french bunnies. now today i play a mario game where ubisoft’s rabbits are in there as well. it’s about killing them but […]

portal runner: beauty in abject reflection.

there is something very special and precious to me about certain objects. PlayStation 2 platformers of an excessive jank and sparseness. usually European. in my collection i’ve now completed three over a series of about 7 years. they are Evil Twin: Cyprien’s Chronicles, Gift, and now Portal Runner. Portal Runner is a game about Toys, […]

what did you think of the one about the thing.

did you like the meal? yes, no, that’s important stuff. my mind was the whole time thinking about how there’s a hair in my food

OMG is that a Dead Body?

i get home from the funeral and try to play the last chapter of Dead Space Remake (2023). i fall asleep and wake up the console having timed itself out

eat the body of the person next to you

kid covers their eye with a hand, closes it shut, pretends that in their hand is the eye. puts the eye in their mouth. swallows it.

The Immortal Interface

a restoration project, a mediation zone, a big trick, Immortality is all of these things, but is it more?

The Millionth Warning – Everything Everything and Personal Apocalypse Music

It took a while for me to stop thinking of Everything Everything as the band who signal the apocalypse, and back to being just one that signals my own state of mind during what feels like an ending…

Brute Forcing the Medical, Doc: Cybersleuth Puzzle Design

Where’s Karin? Where is she? She’s supposed to be here, to give me a check-up and fill these tranq darts.

That thing to make the pain go away Didn’t work

Maybe I’ve just been in the wrong mood lately, but the games which have this sweet meanness supposedly at their core just haven’t soothed any of the existential dread that they normally do.

First Land: It’s all About the Worm Really

Worms.