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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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How the French crime/horror drama series gleefully subverts key moments & concepts from the 90s cult show as it flirts with the genre and parallels. Warning: contains major spoilers for Season 1, minor spoilers for Season 2, of Black Spot; as well as for Twin Peaks. 1. The new
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The twentieth-century James Bond is, to use M's words, 'a misogynist dinosaur, a relic of [a] cold war' that never turned hot, and he's the result of an unholy trinity of (toxic) hyper-masculinity, international terrorism, and whatever the hell 'quintessential Englishness' actually
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I've noticed a disturbing trend -- well, no, that's a blatant lie. It's not a trend, it's part of our culture. But it is disturbing, so it's only a small lie. This fall season, two TV series have premiered that