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Accepting no constraints from without, we countenanced none within ourselves, either, and found that the world opened before us like the petals of a rose. —an anarchist I have begun replaying Final Fantasy XIII. The brief hiatus I thought I’d…
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Look man, fuck these birds.
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Okay look, I think people basically know my deal at this point, I really like punk rock and hardcore, and I’m always looking for new noise to kill my eardrums. But I’ve been neglectful this year, as shit has been…
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Hey y’all, this is kinda-sorta like a crosspost with No Escape‘s Patreon Subscribers (which you might consider joining if you like the rest of this article, js). Last week I shared an update with them about the direction I wanted…
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It’s been about three rough weeks since the assassination of right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk. In that time we’ve seen the president declare “antifa” to be a domestic terrorist organization, the so-called “secretary of war” excoriate generals for being fat at…
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A response to Grace Benfell’s Endless Mode piece, “Silksong Hastens the Death of the Critic” Last week the long-awaited sequel to Team Cherry’s hit search-action game Hollow Knight, Silksong, released to much popular acclaim—and no full day-of reviews by mainstream video…
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Hey y’all, I am deep in the weeds putting together No Escape‘s first major retrospective right now, a book I’m calling Escape Velocity, so I haven’t really been playing many video games or writing about much here except for some…
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Throughout the decades hardcore punk has been defined mostly by its simplicity, even compared to punk rock proper. Four chords and a shout became three chords and even, in some instances, two or less. Subgenres like grindcore, fastcore and powerviolence…
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Valve’s decision to ban NSFW content at the behest of credit card companies is the wrong move
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