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  • Doom: When Getting It Wrong Goes very Right

    If we are all very lucky, our own most ridiculous mistakes will lead to surprisingly amazing outcomes. What else would we do to fill in the empty hours while we exist in a self-manufactured hell of our own creation? Now that void week is well and truly behind us, we collectively move forward with only… Read more

  • How Hell Frames The Devil’s Advocacy Of Gambling On The Parry

    The presence of good does not magically negate the simultaneity of bad by proxy. You’ll have trouble decking the halls once you catch these hands There remains a wealth of content ahead of me in Expedition 33 (E33), of this, I have no doubts. What, with the game mirroring most of the magical machinations a… Read more

  • A Chainsaw By Any Other Name

    Always important to keep in mind we do the best with what we have… …even if the battle is ultimately futile I was about to remark “now with Silent Hill in my rear view mirror”, in an effort of a more poetic, flourishing segwaying moment of punctuation and finality after my completion of the Silent… Read more

  • Silksong: Nothing Gold Can Stay

    The Charles Bukowski quote: “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” seems truer and truer every single day that passes. The saddest of ironies I’ve made the habit of trying to get multiple articles out of any one game I’m… Read more

  • Death Of The Dev: Leave My Single Player Alone

    I’m realizing as I type this that my sense of decorum tends to waver whenever I’m in a less than mood, but I suppose that is likely not uncommon in any vocational standard, job or otherwise. I’m guessing money and or accountability is usually what keeps people on the straight and narrow, though I’d argue… Read more

  • “Making Games Is Hard”, Doom Devs Jest As They Watch A Speedrunner Rip And Tear Through The Dark Ages

    Sometimes, it’s about the little things in life that truly matter.. Like deposing the equivalent of gods with led based weaponry, for example As much as I regularly seem to gravitate towards giving my all to entertain and inform, I too must rest my weary head and take it easy from time to time. I’ve… Read more

  • Quick Posit: Wondering If A Downsizing Of The Video Game Industry Is Inevitable At This Point

    Another great looking game I look forward to downloading and not finding the time to play Like most of my quick posits, this one acts as more of a conversation starter than a fully fledged article, as sometimes my schedule doesn’t allow for time to cook up a more elaborate write up, but I simultaneously… Read more

  • System Shock: The Radical Past Creating Presence For The Standard Future

    In attempting to navigate the world mindlessly, one can certainly make an ass out of themselves without even realizing it. What I imagine drivers who don’t use their turn signals look like In a slightly related notion of incidentally mindless traversal, I inadvertently screwed myself this very day, as instead of getting to writing about… Read more

  • System Shock: The Metaphysical Interpolation of “Fingerfeeling” Game Design

    Did you get through the title without going crossed eyed or nodding off briefly? Points for trying if you’re still reading this if either or neither case may be, the fact you remain invested in the notion of breaking down what “fingerfeeling” means is what counts. It’s not what you may initially think, I swear… Read more

  • To Do List: Video Game Binge Activate

    Time keeps on slipping… …into itself? That’s why today’s post is more of a bite sized tidbit, as it were, best laid plans and all that sometimes leaves one up the creek and without a paddle in the temporal department. I thoroughly suggest to anyone reading this that if you wish to get a new… Read more

  • Hell Needs Mood Lighting, Too

    With enough practice, one can even master the domain of hell. I’m not sure if this same logic is why Doom games have a “take it easy on me” break in period in earlier levels, but the warm up rounds of mindfully restrained sense of posturing make the burning sensation of hellfire a lot more… Read more

  • To Do List: Conquer Hell, Check

    They say that eyes are the windows to the soul, and that looking into them, you get a true sense for what kind of majestic sense of beauty they maintain their household with. Other times however, you don’t even have to ring the doorbell to conclusively know that no one is home This is relevant… Read more

  • Doom: Going To Hell For Mental Health Reasons

    Try as I might, I am not always able to clear my head to get a full fledged article out in the time I have allotted to me in a given night, a reality I’ve had to deal with recently. Between a full time job, taking care of my cat, chores around the apartment, exhausted… Read more

  • Doom: The Dark Ages-Metaphysics of Hell

    The Doom series has gone to great lengths to establish itself as a staple; not just for the shooter genre, but for video games as a whole. With frenetic, over the top action that has few competitors within the same realm of intensity, Doom as en entity never seems to slow its roll, as each… Read more

  • Algorithms: Perpetuating Cycles of Violence

    (Spoilers for The Last of Us ahead) In many of my recent posts about Doom, I have included several different quotes involving Hell. Today I include one from Churchill: “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” The man obviously had Doom speedrunning in mind Speaking of which, I was delighted when I finished Doom: The… Read more

  • Wisdom’s Genesis: The End of the Beginning

    Sic Parvis Magna…greatness from small beginnings. A phrase I became familiar with through my love of the Uncharted series, and one I regularly think about in my own absurdist quest of self-discovery, and one that’s taken me from my own humble origins that started all the way back in September 2012 on the original version… Read more

  • Doom: The Dark Ages: One Hell of A Compromise

    All hell has broken loose…again. I’m of course referring to the recent launch of DOOM: The Dark Ages, which has felt like a longtime coming, with Eternal having launched back in March 202 we0, back during the start of the pandemic. It was a shitty time, to say the least Dark times indeed, though we… Read more