What Is a “Video Game”?
While I suggest a universal definition of “video game,” the main purpose of this post is to make explicit my own definition of the term.
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Self-Criticism: Killing the Past with Kusabi Tetsugoro
In which I criticize one of my video essays
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An Instance of Adversity
Rot in hell, you old bastard. Also, happy birthday. I hope you choke on a piece of cake and die.
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High School Stories 4: Flowers
Spiders, cicadas, millipedes, butterflies…they’re always locked in a life-or-death struggle, but they’re much more innocent than we humans.
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Jet Set Radio: Performative Rebellion
Wine ages, physically changing. But Jet Set Radio is the same as in 2000. It is everything else that changed.
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High School Stories 3: Soot
I am alone now, but I was alone even when they lived here by the thousands, so I am used to the experience.
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Arresting Dress by Clare Sears, Featuring Milton Matson and Other Historical Trans Folks
“I’m beginning to think it pays to be notorious. It certainly does not seem to be a detriment to people in America” (104).
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The Hastur Cycle: Robert Chambers’s Wacky King in Yellow
It is as the transmission and mutation of the King in Yellow over a century, and not as narratives in of themselves, that these stories are most interesting.
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Ode to Kirihito by Osamu Tezuka: A Nightmare in More Ways Than One (NSFW)
Kirihito did leave me panting like a half-beaten dog man, but not in the way I expected.
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