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Silent Hill f: Atmosphere Without Attachment
When I was younger, I missed the first Silent Hill game. It was one of those games I always heard about, but never experienced. A few years ago, I decided to play it over a long holiday. I mostly played when I was the only one home and it had a predictable effect on my
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2025 Apple Replay
It’s the time of the year where folks do free advertising for their platform of choice share their yearly round-up of music they listened to. While it has its limits, I always have some curiosity about what my provider (Apple) catalogs about me during the year. For the most part, there isn’t anything too surprising,
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Review: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Raiders of the Lost Ark — the first Indiana Jones movie — opens with an iconic scene where the archeologist Indiana Jones is exploring a cave in search of a treasured artifact. After removing the artifact, a giant trap is activated and he must run away from a 12-foot boulder down the corridor. Indiana Jones
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The Locust at Michigan Fest: A Unique Experience
Growing up in the punk and hardcore scene in the 1990s, I was lucky to see a lot of amazing bands and meet incredibly passionate and talented people playing music, putting on shows, publishing zines, etc. Those experiences exposed me to foundational ideas in my life (like straight edge) and gave me a place of
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Link Dump – Recently Read Articles
Here are some articles aI am reading and found interesting: Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites digiday.com The Verge and 404 Media are exploring the fediverse as a way to take more control over their referral traffic and onsite audience engagement. Tagged: internet People swear this adorable new app helped break their phone
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Rare Sounds: Vangelis – Fais Que Ton Rêve Soit Plus Long Que La Nuit
Long before the composer Vangelis became famous for the sweeping scores of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner, he recorded one of his strangest and most elusive works: a 1971 album titled Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit. Part protest document, part symphonic poem, it was born out of the turmoil
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon Review – Heartfelt RPG Experience
Few RPGs have ever made me laugh and tear up in equal measure, but Yakuza: Like a Dragon pulled it off.I recently finished Yakuza: Like a Dragon and wasn’t surprised to see it land among my favorite games of all time. I had heard it get a lot of praise as being an interesting story
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WitchSpring R Review: A Cozy RPG Adventure
I recently finished WitchSpring R, and it turned out to be a short, breezy RPG that I enjoyed from beginning to end. Originally a mobile game from 2015, WitchSpring has been reimagined here as a full remake. While developed by a South Korean studio, it shares plenty of DNA with classic JRPGs—turn-based combat, dungeon crawling,
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Jailbreaking my Kindle Paperwhite
Early this year, I heard that it was possible to jailbreak most Amazon Kindle devices. I was interested, but ultimately decided against it. The deal-breaker for me was Libby. If jailbreaking meant losing access to library books, I was out. I couldn’t find a good answer to this initially, so I held off. Since the
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Book Review: Review: Incredible Doom, Volumes 1 and 2
Before the Internet, there were BBSes — hidden communities you had to know how to find. Incredible Doom (by Matthew Bogart, illustrated by Jesse Holden) drops you into that world, where teenage misfits built entire universes one message at a time. I don’t remember how I came across the book, but it’s been on my
