Malice’s resurrection mechanic. grey world of spirits.

the game of Malice (2004, ps2) is a game of collecting the keys and gears. you do this to kill god. once you kill god, you end the game. along the way you deliver girl power type dialogue in the face of a world of mild innuendo/objectification and edgy type jokes about worms on welfare […]

criticism is cruelty

refusal to engage with the fact that part of what makes critique enjoyable is the cruelty and power embedded in it i think convinces some people that what they do is an unalloyed social behaviour. that they in fact do not get off on the experience of judgement. i believe that criticism is good, entertaining, […]

boneache county and the things we do there

boneache county your contour is on my brain. i know you like i know xirei, like i knew the feeling of being watched by your guards, like i know how to pull off the quickest run of reality drive 707deviljoin.

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

i want more coins

i want more coins to buy more selves. lego coins are worth ten, 100, 1,000, and 10,000. silver, gold, blue, purple. they are scattered around the world. often in neat lines. often inside objects that when broken open burst out in a local shower, that then disappear quickly, blinking to show you their transience. it […]

Games i liked 2022

in no particular order, games i liked of 2022

Sitting in the Gardens of Vextro

poetry written while playing Gardens of Vextro, a chain of 8 games from vextro

Garage: Gender as a Bad Dream

The man gets into Garage and dreams of machines. There is a deep long valley and he links his piping to it. In the new world where robots are ancient milk monsters, the man manifests as trapped inside

What is Battlefield 2042?

Video games are places where we restage wars, either real or imagined. Battlefield 2042 is about an imaginary war in 21 years, one that hasn’t happened yet.

I’ve Gone to the Lighthouse

A chain of games where loss and the lighthouse connect.