Author: Brian
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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…
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Montage
I found this markdown document in a drafts folder, dated June 2022. I didn’t look at it at all, just copied and pasted into the CMS. Soviet montage theory. It’s pretty simple – the idea is that the images in cinema don’t produce meaning on their own. It’s the juxtaposition of images through editing, through…
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Gods of Mexico (Dosantos, 2022)
It’s all mining! and some cock fighting and dancing striking the portraits! love when people who aren’t usually on screens get to stare back at the camera the sound. Director from Italy, talking about fixers in the interview extra feature
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
I read a couple of Martin McDonagh plays in undergrad, and i saw a performance of The Beauty Queen of Leenane about a decade ago. I watched Banshees of Inisherin last night for the first time so I am now all caught up on his filmography. I think it was that it’s his first fully-Ireland…
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Oh no, I finished Reading Chris Crawford’s The Art of Computer Game Design
from a discord thread where I posted stuf another chapter of Chris Crawford tonight: There are situations in which it is not quite possible to attain the purity of this artistic ideal. For example, I would not claim that only immature, childish people should design games for children. Nor would I suggest that good shoot-’em-up…
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Oh no, I started Reading Chris Crawford’s The Art of Computer Game Design
I found a PDF of an HTML version online. Two quotes ripped out of their context in Chris Crawford’s preface to The Art of Computer Game Design: The computer game is an art form because it presents its audience with fantasy experiences that stimulate emotion. This more sizable investment of participation yields a commensurately greater…
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Despelote (2025)
This was beautiful and sweet and I am so glad it exists and I could not hold my attention on most of the soccer-playing* but damn that 3D scan of the area from 2024 was great *until the final scene ** but then when the camera shifted into the ball, two of the characters were…