The one video on YouTube that never fails to bring me joy is Neil Cicierega’s “The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny”. The 3-minute-long music video is little more than a barrage of pop culture references and crude drawings thrown together with the endless excitement of a five-year-old swimming in an ocean of action figures forContinue reading “Technology Will Save Us All: Optimized Optimism in the Searching Films”
Author Archives: Davey Peppers
Every 2022 Game I Played, Ranked
While a bit of a reductive way to look at the numerous positives and negatives from any given work of art, I’ve always been fond of the list format. I find it very soothing to ponder and categorize my experiences with various pieces and present them. It’s fun! I played a lot of video gamesContinue reading “Every 2022 Game I Played, Ranked”
A Plague Tale: Requiem and the Power of Golfing
Spoilers for A Plague Tale: Requiem and The Last of Us Part II follow. I guess I’m here to talk about Ellie and Joel again. California developer Naughty Dog’s 2013 opus The Last of Us inspired the gaming industry in a way developers dream of. To quote the smartest man in games criticism, Tim Rogers,Continue reading “A Plague Tale: Requiem and the Power of Golfing”
Don’t Worry Darling and the Black Hole of Political Stepping Stones
Olivia Wilde’s 2022 thriller Don’t Worry Darling, much like her first film Booksmart, is a movie that demands to be taken seriously. One of Wilde’s best qualities as a director, the full-throated shout of importance is refreshing in a sea of attempts at four-quadrant adult entertainment that is horrified of being read too far into.Continue reading “Don’t Worry Darling and the Black Hole of Political Stepping Stones”
Pretending to Care: Saints Row (2022)
Video games have never actually, as a medium, reacted to GamerGate. The 2010s hate movement’s ripples seem to color everything about the medium for me in both temporal directions, forcing a re-evaluation of the history that led games to “be a boy’s medium” through the NES’s placement in toy aisles at stores, all the wayContinue reading “Pretending to Care: Saints Row (2022)”
Why Start a Blog
I spent a hundred dollars on booze today. Before this sounds like the ramblings of someone with a severe problem, I must clarify not only the date, June 24th 2022, the day the United States Supreme Court voted to overturn the landmark case known as Roe v. Wade, but the frequency with which I visitContinue reading “Why Start a Blog”
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