Author: Brian
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A Puzzle In Microid’s Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
In Microid’s Agatha Christie’s The Murder on the Orient Express, there’s a minigame where you turn dials on a briefcase lock. A click sounds plays as you pass each number, with a louder sound played on the correct number for each dial. The dial is surrounded by a white oval which becomes squiggly as each…
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a poem which I like
“Moss”, by Jon Silkin as quoted in The Unofficial Countryside, by Richard Mabey (introduction by Iain Sinclair) The next step (of course) is to request Nature With Man from the university library.
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Paratext – columns at Joystick Division and Unwinnable – 2011-2013 (with two post-Paratext pieces from 2014)
“From 2011-2014 I wrote some columns called “Paratext” for the websites Joystick Division and Unwinnable. These are those columns.” is a collection of columns I wrote for Joystick Division and Unwinnable. The rest of this post is the same as on my other zine pages. Have fun! You can download the PDF above, and then…
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Electronics I Have Purchased But Don’t Use (yet?)
I finished up a month+ long clean-out with lots of donate/keep/trash sorting, and these all are still kept. Along with my other music gear and my photography gear. Most of that was cheap and untouched for years now, gathered over nearly 25 years. Maybe all of that can go into some rubbermaid containers in the…
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I Made U a Mix (CD)
Friend Blush Response posted in discord this weekend about the power of CDs, and then blogged “Music is a vehicle for human connection. Don’t let streaming strip that power away”, a journey through tween-and-teenhood and compact discs and sharing music. In between these two posts, I was inspired to finally go through the stack of…
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City Paper 2011-2014 – Another PDF for You to Read and Print
The Blocks Killed the Pittsburgh City Paper so Here Are Some Things I Wrote For It and Its Blog and Also Some Photos From A Couple of Shows I Went To That Were Posted on Their Blog (2011- 2014) is a few photos from two shows, an essay about seeing Bruce Springsteen (which is also…
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XVIII Indulgences – a PDF for you to read and print
XVIII Indulgences is a collection of essays and notes from around 2012 through, oh, 2025? Maybe 2026? I put a bunch of stuff into a word document then saved it as a PDF. You can download the PDF above, and then print it out in booklet form, then go buy a zine stapler and staple…
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I read Marie-Laure Ryan’s Beyond Myth and Metaphor – The Case of Narrative in Digital Media about a week after finishing playing Immortality
https://www.gamestudies.org/0101/ryan Beyond Myth and Metaphor* -The Case of Narrative in Digital Media by Marie-Laure Ryan Games Studies Issue 01 Volume 01 and Immortality, the game by Half-Mermaid I read this piece after reading Aarseth, Juul, and Frasca’s contributions to this initial issue of the Games Studies journal. It is gutsy and important, I think, to…