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Author Archives: kunzelman
Zoya Street on Virtual Pets
In contrast, a virtual pet such as a tamagotchi requires emotional labour of a sort. The skill required has nothing to do with your physical ability to manipulate the keys of the device, but rather is concerned with your ability … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged ethics, jenn frank, video games, virtual pets, zoya street
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Lack of Access to Water Decimated the Mayans
The major city of Chichen Itza, along the coast of the peninsula, thrived for about a century after 1000AD, almost certainly taking in Mayans who arrived from the arid south to build a revised iteration of Mayan culture in the … Continue reading
The Lord of the Rings: Stephen King Writes Like Tolkien
I’m reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time since I was a child and I’m writing blog posts about the book when I feel like it. I’m most of the way through LotR now and what keeps blowing my mind … Continue reading
The Wonderful Farting Mudokon
I have a lot of love in my heart for the Oddworld universe, and a lot of love in particular with Abe. After all, he was the chosen one who freed the scrabs and the paramites and, finally, the mudokons while running … Continue reading
Visual Ontography
The practice of ontography–and it is a practice, not merely a theory–describes the many processes of accounting for the various units that strew themselves throughout the universe. To create an ontograph involves cataloging things, but also drawing attention to the couplings of … Continue reading
On Super Time Force Ultra
Or, Super Time Bumbling Megido I have completed Super Time Force Ultra and I still don’t understand how the game works. From a design perspective, this is a strange combination of positives and negatives. In the “yay” column, despite my confusion about … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged capy, super time force ultra, time, time travel, video games
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Released: “unlike molecules” EP
Over the past couple of months I have been fiddling with a MIDI keyboard and long, sustained, Richard Skelton-esque noises. I’ve finally gotten to the point where I’ve made five listenable tracks if you’re into ambient music that hints at something stranger than … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Music I Made
Tagged gene wolfe, music, richard skelton, this nocturnal topography, unlike molecules
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Best of This Cage Is Worms 2014
Hello! Thank you so much for reading This Cage Is Worms today and any other day that you so choose. This post is a compilation of (what I think is) the best writing that I’ve done here on this website in 2014. … Continue reading
Posted in General Features
Tagged 2014, best of, film, video games
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I’m LPing Grand Theft Auto III
If you’re a frequent reader of this blog or my Twitter, you know that I’m constantly flirting with making video content. I have the capture card, I have the microphone, and so now I’m committing myself to making a Let’s … Continue reading
Posted in Let's Play, Video Games
Tagged grand theft auto III, let's play, video games
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On Carson Wells
A few days ago I watched No Country For Old Men, the Coen brothers’ film based on the excellent Cormac McCarthy novel. I spent the runtime fixated, like always, on the strange game played between Llewelyn Moss and Anton Chigurh: Moss … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged carson wells, cormac mccarthy, no country for old men, woody harrelson
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