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Author Archives: kunzelman
On rrrrrrrroll
I have had rrrrrrrroll open in a tab on my desktop for a month or more, always trying to figure out what I should write about it. Clearly I am never going to get there. Maybe that’s the point. rrrrrrrroll is about a single … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged a thousand plateaus, deleuze and guattari, gif, rrrrrrrroll, theory
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The Necessity of Michael Bay
Recently I had a Facebook friend post this link and write “Is it just me or is whole Polar Vortex thing starting to feel like a Michael Bay movie?” In case you don’t want to check out the link, it … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged film, global warming, hope, michael bay
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Best of This Cage is Worms 2013
This is coming a little late, but I like to do this for my own records. This is a comprehensive list of the posts I think were the cream of the crop in 2013. You can see 2012’s list here. … Continue reading
I Have Launched a Patreon!
So I finally decided that in a world of Patreon there was no reason not to at least attempt to recoup some of the costs of this blog and my video game creation through direct subsidization by the audience. Here … Continue reading
Riff Raff on the History of Videogames
Riff Raff was on the “Replay” show for Gameinformer recently, and after he utterly slammed the hell out of Toejam and Earl II, he designed a game. At the top, he gave a little bit of a history lesson paired with some … Continue reading
Zoya Street and Aevee Bee on Discursive Violence
Zoya Street has a piece up at Medium with the subtitle “addressing peer hostility,” and it is about the ways that rage and violence, pushed through social media, marked and defined the past year. He does a great job of collating a … Continue reading
The World of Bioshock 2
I recently played through Minerva’s Den, the DLC for Bioshock 2, and while I was on twitter complaining about feeling literally betrayed by everyone who has ever talked that game up to me, Jack de Quidt said this about the differences between the … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged bioshock 2, jack de quidt, minerva's den, video games
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Games of the Year 2013 – Part 2
The first half of this list is here. I liked a lot of games that came out in 2013. Once again, these are in no particular order! Depression Quest I still stand by what I wrote about Depression Quest when it came … Continue reading
Games of the Year 2013 – Part 1
These are my games of 2013. They are in no particular order. There will be something like 20 of them, and so this first post has ten and the next post will have another ten. That’s all you need to … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged 2013, angvik, castles in the sky, gone home, goty, kentucky route zero, monster loves you!, remember me, rogue legacy, state of decay, the yahwg, tomb raider, video games
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The Double Meaning of Genetic Codes
Since the genetic code was deciphered in the 1960s, scientists have assumed that it was used exclusively to write information about proteins. UW scientists were stunned to discover that genomes use the genetic code to write two separate languages. One … Continue reading
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