Category Archives: General Features

the vampire squid of the Collaborative Commons

Posted on 01/30/2015 by kunzelman

And yet, on reflection, Rifkin’s examples turn out to be anything but collaborative at their heart. Companies such as Uber and Airbnb are fiercely profit-driven, taking large cuts from all the exchanges they facilitate. They are middlemen themselves, albeit somewhat … Continue reading →

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Best of This Cage Is Worms 2014

Posted on 12/22/2014 by kunzelman

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 →

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Released: Marginalia

Posted on 10/31/2014 by kunzelman

For some reason I forgot to post this over here, but Connor Sherlock and I recently released a Dear Esther-like horror game about temporality, longing, and loss called Marginalia. Also, some real creepy feelings (but no jump scares!) There are two … Continue reading →

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The Matrix and the Nihilistic Impulse

Posted on 09/16/2014 by kunzelman

1. I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops … Continue reading →

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On 100 Bullets

Posted on 09/09/2014 by kunzelman

1. The characters in 100 Bullets are all noir stereotypes turned up to eleven in the most outrageous ways. Every woman is both unbelievably beautiful and unthinkably manipulative, weaving sexual traps for men to fall into. The men are two-fisted brutes or … Continue reading →

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Kilmercast Episode 3 and a New Website!

Posted on 02/27/2014 by kunzelman

First thing is that Kilmercast has a new home on its own website! Second this is that we have a new episode on the Val Kilmer cornerstone film Top Gun. This is our best episode yet, and I think we’ve really … Continue reading →

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A Week in the Life of a Guard on a Rooftop in Assassin’s Creed

Posted on 01/28/2014 by kunzelman

Day One What a great job! I moved here from my home village three days ago, and all it took was bumping into one of the hundreds of guards roaming around the city in order to realize that there’s a … Continue reading →

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Books I Read in 2013

Posted on 01/10/2014 by kunzelman

For previous years, look here: 2012, 2011. This is a list of all the books that I read in 2013. The number is a little bit off — as you can see, I read a whole lot of BPRD in preparation … Continue reading →

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Best of This Cage is Worms 2013

Posted on 01/07/2014 by kunzelman

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 →

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I Have Launched a Patreon!

Posted on 01/06/2014 by kunzelman

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 →

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