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Category Archives: General Features
Animals, Drones, and the Police
We love when animals destroy drones. The compilation videos and their buzzf’diggification on Facebook has drawn together a very clear contemporary fascination with watching animals of all kinds destroy the most annoying objects of modern life. Animals fighting with flying … Continue reading
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Tagged animal studies, drones, liberalism, nonhumans, theory
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Player/Knowledge – Myst, Characters, and Environment
Everyone has been stumbling over themselves to compare The Witness to Myst and so I made a video in order to get to the root of how I think Myst functions.
Posted in General Features
Tagged myst, player/knowledge, rand miller, robyn miller, the witness
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TCiW Gift Guide 2015 – Books
It’s the time of year when you’re panicking because you haven’t gotten a gift for that special someone in your life, and I’m here to tell you about five different books that you can buy for someone to make them … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Buyer's Guide 2013
Tagged 2015, gift guide, heroines, ian bogost, kate zambreno, stephen king
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Crocotile 3D: A Tilemap Editor In 3D
Just wanted to make a quick post about Crocotile 3D, a program I noticed on Twitter the other day. It seems like a really interesting system for creating 3D spaces out of 2D tilesets. Alex Hanson-White is the developer and … Continue reading
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Tagged alex hanson-white, crocotile 3d, video games
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Five Out of Ten on Patreon
A quick promotional moment: Five Out of Ten has recently made a shift to Patreon and if you like games criticism you should pass the publication a few bucks a month. I’ve had the opportunity to write some really exciting stuff over … Continue reading
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Tagged five out of ten, video games
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“Be More Human”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDb-7DY3CjU I saw one of these ads recently. They’re the be-all-end-all of the neoliberal bootstrap logic. You are not a person; you’re a human, and you would be functionally identical to all other humans if you worked out more. If … Continue reading
Violet Forest’s “VHS Girls”
I don’t have any context for this piece, but it’s haunting nonetheless; a purposeful fragmentation in a medium that always felt fragmented when you used it. The linearity and the usage of the video camera meant that a full tape … Continue reading
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Tagged VHS girls, video, violent forest
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Bundled, Buried and Behind Closed Doors
I really enjoy this video both for what it is and as a teaching tool. There’s a weird oscillation in new media studies where some people are stuck in the 1990s and treat the internet as some kind of immaterial, … Continue reading
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Tagged internet, materiality
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Stone Cold Steve Austin is an Allegory for the Internet
You can watch that video to see Stone Cold Steve Austin yelling “what?!” in the face of basically everyone he ever came into contact with in a professional wrestling setting. That was his trademark, at least as much as I … Continue reading
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Tagged argument, rhetoric, stone cold steve austin
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this cage is worms 