Category Archives: Video games

The Long Dark

Posted on Sunday, March 20th, 2016 5:37 pm by

The Long Dark* At night, on the lake, The ice becomes a steel drum Rapid, thready pulse Counterpoints a wolf’s tenor Saxophone wavering near *Everything is writing fodder. The Long Dark is a survival videogame set in the northern Canadian … Continue reading →

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Here There Be Dragons (or, A Doggerel Out of Skyrim)

Posted on Thursday, November 14th, 2013 1:24 pm by

Here’s why I should perhaps never be allowed to play video games. Things like this happen. I’ve never been very good at video games, and I’ve always particularly sucked at RPGs. But in Skyrim, that doesn’t matter. I just wander … Continue reading →

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