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Against the cultural Eternal Now

In Titanium Court, the choice you make is not the one you think you're making.

Fifteen thoughts on entertaining

My favorite Scorsese shot

Regarding James Hurley

The peerless magic of Diana Wynne Jones

The seven-point rating system that I use.

A brief guide to an impossibly good band

My take on AI's present and future

A not-quite-come-to-Jesus moment

Good design stays good

Organic surfaces vs. decorative ones

Your gifts don't define you.

Mechanic as metaphor

Two very different flavors of idea.

Regarding Colonel Miles Quaritch

Various unassembled thoughts about Avatar: Fire and Ash

Where's the line between righteous and self-righteous?

Elitism, misanthropy, and the fundamental worth of human life

"Reality" can be deceptive.

The biggest thing

The future of social media is from 2013

Regarding the strange matter of content creation

How social media fell from grace, and how we can get it back.

Ghosting

Pop music and LSD: a review

The challenge of designing community expectations

Disco Elysium: materialism vs ideology

The kinds of stories that only games can tell

The problem isn't phones. It's apps.

"Sirens" and the cruel art of telling tales

The American contempt for the Democratic party, explained

Ninth House: a review

"I did not kill anybody."

An Introduction to Twin Peaks

Let Me Tell You About Homestuck [SPEEDRUN EDITION]

Something somewhat like an artist's statement

Soul food, part 3

You'll never know what you're missing.

Some thoughts about Dune that are not really thoughts about Dune, except for the ones that are of course about Dune

The Sight and Sound 100: an incomplete series of capsule reviews

Ween live: a capsule review

The vulnerability that most men never know.

Human experience, hold the humanity.

An album review that isn't an album review, really

Harry Potter and the Cauldron of Media Illiteracy

A rant about the gaslighting bastard that is the official Shrek soundtrack.

NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS: Here's One Sparks Song From Every Sparks Album, Okay?

A skeptic's thoughts on Transcendental Meditation™

Procedural rhetoric and ludic aesthetics: understanding the relationship between play, morality, and art

The perils of a consumer mindset.

Cults of charisma

An "Unforgettable" Sound

It's clear to me that all of Blue Velvet's central conflicts could have been solved with polyamory

Amoral morality: on "Breathless" and Tarantino

Thoughts on Groundhog Day