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Okay look, I think people basically know my deal at this point, I really like punk rock and hardcore, and I'm always looking for new noise to kill my eardrums. But I've been neglectful this year, as shit has been hard and I've been
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Hey y'all, this is kinda-sorta like a crosspost with No Escape's Patreon Subscribers (which you might consider joining if you like the rest of this article, js). Last week I shared an update with them about the direction I wanted to take No Escape, and I&
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It's been about three rough weeks since the assassination of right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk. In that time we've seen the president declare "antifa" to be a domestic terrorist organization, the so-called "secretary of war" excoriate generals for being fat at a meeting
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A response to Grace Benfell's Endless Mode piece, "Silksong Hastens the Death of the Critic" Last week the long-awaited sequel to Team Cherry's hit search-action game Hollow Knight, Silksong, released to much popular acclaim—and no full day-of reviews by mainstream video game criticism
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Hey y'all, I am deep in the weeds putting together No Escape's first major retrospective right now, a book I'm calling Escape Velocity, so I haven't really been playing many video games or writing about much here except for some errant thoughts
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Throughout the decades hardcore punk has been defined mostly by its simplicity, even compared to punk rock proper. Four chords and a shout became three chords and even, in some instances, two or less. Subgenres like grindcore, fastcore and powerviolence push the absolute lowest limits on how short and fast
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Valve's decision to ban NSFW content at the behest of credit card companies is the wrong move
Digital Culture and its Discontents
man fuck this week can it be over
Look, I'll just say it so nobody else has to: no one goes into the Summer Game Fest presentation truly believing that it's a heartfelt celebration of the art, craft and hobby of video games. We all understand to varying degrees that it is a corporate
Look, there was only one showcase yesterday, and it was actually really fucking rad to the point where I don't think me summarizing it's gonna go do it justice. It was the Unearthed Treasure Room hosted by Melos Han-Tani (Anodyne, Sephonie, Angeline Era) and Liz Ryerson
So last week I sort of mused aloud on Bluesky about the efficacy of doing daily roundup-style posts of Summer Geoff Fest, given the particularly bad time I've had with attempting coverage of the week in the past. It's no surprise or shock to anyone that
Day 2: Indie games and a State of Play.
A tech demo and a trailer dump full of surprises kicked SGF week off right.
I don't think I'm a big fan of where "criticism" writ large is headed.
on remakes, remasters and remembering
I've successfully played everything else *but* Final Fantasy XIII-2. It's time I got back to work.
ed sheeran doesn't need music critics Rolling Stone published an article of cut content from a recent Ed Sheeran feature, in which the pop musician said, "Why do you need to read a review? Listen to it. It’s freely available! Make up your own mind. I
There's relics. There's jerseys and there's songs. We have songs for everything. We still sing those songs.
Change is both possible and inevitable, and with discipline and persistence, we can make this change a good one.