donkey kong

Void Stranger is a game I almost dropped early on that I ending up falling head over heels for. I can't get it out of my mind and had to make a video gushing about this truly special experience. I went to great lengths to be as spoiler-free as possible as this video is very much directed towards people who haven't tried the game yet, but if you already love it I think you'll enjoy hearing me gush about it, too despite not giving story specific reasons why.

I am very emotional. Very emotional about video games.

it's good that we're all familiar with the "return to tradition" type of fascist thought, particularly in the way they discuss aesthetics and classical european design—but i think it's led to the conflation of modernist architecture with leftism, which is very silly at best

well it's midnight and i wrote about modern architecture and fascism

I think a similar caution applies to the too-easy linkages sometimes made between aesthetic traditions and political tendencies in other mediums too.

when i play a pc stg that doesnt have remappable keyboard controls, i cross one arm over the other like it's 2012 and i'm doing gangnam style, because movement is for the left hand and actions are for the right, and i won't hear otherwise

much has been written about onimai anime as this euphoric trans fantasy but what intrigues me the most about the anime is how, through its slice-of-life worldbuilding, it constructs this utopia of the present that feels realizable.