HITMAN: World of Assassination | Livestreams
After playing so many story-intense open-world RPGs, we decided to go for some, uh, levity. Yeah, sure. We're hitting men! New episodes will go up on YouTube every Tuesday.
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Ghost of Tsushima | Livestreams
We recently finished our many months long stream let's play of Ghost of Tsushima! All side quests, all shrines, all hot springs... it's been a long old road! And in the end, we confronted the Khan–no. I shan't say.
Previously on... TITANFALL 2
This is a very silly little speed let's play series I cooked up over the holidays. New videos will become available every Sunday and Wednesday. Enjoy!
Let's Play THE INVINCIBLE
THE INVINCIBLE, a narrative science fiction game based on the novel by Stanisław Lem. In Episode 1, we meet our intrepid protagonist, astrobiologist Yasna, who wakes up on the planet surface alone, without radio contact, and missing a chunk of her memories. She sets out to investigate what happened to
Indie Game Livestreams
This is a collection of livestreams featuring beloved indie games such as Journey, Vampire Survivors, Hades II, Season, Dredge, and most recently: Return of the Obra Dinn.
Horizon Forbidden West | Livestreams
In November, we finished our 90-hour playthrough of Horizon Forbidden West. We didn't see absolutely everything, but we completed almost all NPC sidequests and the DLC, Burning Shores!
Redfall's Vampire Myth, the Modern Gothic, and Monstrous Capitalism | Essay
Or, When they had everything, they wanted more. Please beware major story spoilers for the game’s main path as well as sidequests. All references will be linked below under works cited. I actually dug up a final essay for this that I wrote at uni, so shoutout to Professor
Killer Frequency | Review
Killer Frequency is a game about a late-night radio host and his producer who, due to events and circumstances, end up in charge of all emergency calls in the fictional town of Gallows Creek. Starting at midnight on a balmy late summer night, all 911 calls are going to be
The Ethics of Knowledge in Horizon Zero Dawn & Forbidden West | Essay
Note: this essay was originally published on my Ko-fi and Patreon pages. I'm now archiving it here. In the Horizon series, knowledge as a concept is many things to many people. Empowerment and survival for some; for others, an object of desire. Or, a secret third thing: danger.
Monthly Playlists | Archive
January: A New Beginning (Mixtape) Welcome to 2022! We pitched 2021 out the airlock, now let's repair this spaceship! February: Drink Up, Me Hearties (Mixtape) Just like that, January's gone, but it's not quite yet spring. So what shall we become? Pirates! March: Sway
Eternal Threads | Review
Eternal Threads of time, or: how to save humanity one butterfly wingflap at a time. Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence. Developed by Cosmonaut Studios, based in Liverpool, and published by Secret Mode, it was released on PS4, the Nintendo Switch,
The Remains of the Cult (of the Lamb) | Essay
You’ve defeated the Bishops of the Old Faith, and the Witnesses that sprung up in their wake. You refused to relinquish the Red Crown; refused to bow to the One Who Waits. Your patron, the on in whose name you committed countless atrocities — in whose name do you fulfil
Literary Fiction
Concerning My Daughter — Kim Hye-Jin | Review
I can hardly believe that these words that had sunk deep inside me are surfacing and coming out through my own lips rather than resting heavily all the way to my grave. — Mother, Concerning My Daughter Recently I’ve been very taken with My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan
Essays
There's No Escape (It's In The Blood) | An Essay About Hades
The world very likely does not need another essay about Hades — its perfect gameplay loop, its well-judged narrative pacing and the tools it hands you to make your own luck in this shifting maze of chambers and stories — and yet here I am writing another one, because. Well. In short,
Mystery/Thriller
That Green-Eyed Girl — Julie Owen Moylan | Review
I couldn't imagine one day where I might be happy, or even sad in an ordinary way. I'd run away, but I couldn't seem to forget. — Dovie, That Green Eyed Girl That Green Eyed Girl tells two stories: one set in 1955, the other
Reviews
Delilah Green Doesn't Care — Ashley Herring Blake | Review
From my Pride Reads list 2022, here’s Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake, #1 in the Bright Falls series! I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Kristen DiMercurio, which I very much enjoyed. In this sapphic rom-com featuring a lesbian and a bi woman as
Reviews
Unpacking | Review
Unpacking, dev. Witchbeam, available on Nintendo Switch, macOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 5 A game about a life told through the act of unpacking it — and about queer joy. When you play Unpacking, the game is telling you its story without words — well, except for the caption
Reviews
The Other Black Girl — Zakiya Dalila Harris | Review
The “Couldn’t put this down even for a sip of water” Award for June goes to: The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris. This medium-paced thriller in three acts has the perfect suspense arc from start to finish — it never lets up. The mystery and the terror are
Reviews
Something Like Love — Christina C. Jones | Review
“Well… I think we should resume our ‘mutually beneficial exchange of energy…’ on an exclusive basis.” — Astrid, Something Like Love From my Pride Reads list 2022, here’s Something Like Love by Christina C. Jones, #6 in the Serendipitous Love series! I listened to the audiobook, narrated by Sean Crisden
Reviews
Daisy Jones & The Six — Taylor Jenkins Reid | Review
Quick review Absolutely loved it — the format of fake interviews to piece together the strange and magnetic oral history of a fictional 70s rock band was just what I needed to get me back into reading after being too busy (or feeling too busy, at least) to really sit down
Reviews
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 — Cho Nam-Joo | Review
Kim Jiyoung… is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung… is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity. Kim Jiyoung… has started acting strangely. Kim Jiyoung… is her own woman. Kim Jiyoung… is every woman. While offenders
Queer Lit
Perfect On Paper — Sophie Gonzales | Review
“Self-Analysis: Darcy Phillips Is not set in stone.” — Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper Darcy Phillips has a secret. It’s not that she’s smart, kind, stubborn, generous, impulsive, or occasionally jealous. Her secret… is Locker 89. A prestigious private school’s favourite agony aunt, scholarship student and teacher’s
Reviews
K-Drama Quick Review Round-up!
I've been watching a ton of Korean dramas this spring — so many of the classics have been on German Netflix for a while, and they're now also adding shows produced in 2020 and 2021, so I have a looong list still to go. Here's
Essays
Dishonored’s Flooded District: Crumbling Bonds and the Trials of Revenge | Essay
Or, why this mission is my favourite If you'd rather watch this as a video, then I've got you covered: Every now and again I get asked what’s my favourite Dishonored mission, and every time I come back to the Flooded District. I love the