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Originally this post was going to be about Saltsea Chronicles, Die Gute Fabrik’s beautiful 2023 game about conversation and community after the end of the world, but instead everyone decided to be real fucking stupid about another video game: HORSES,…
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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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