Author: GriddleOctopus
If you’re looking for my samples folder, it’s here.
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Authority, VanderMeer
So, the second Southern Reach cycle book then (the previous book being Annihilation which was the source for the film with that bear). An alienated special agent is assigned to the base that borders the Area and struggles to achieve anything… Whilst the first book was obviously strange and excellent (though it is fuzzy in my memory,…
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Gone When I’m Dead
Gripping the edge of mountains and looking down: Masada when I was 13, belly-crawling to the edge to see a disappointing stretch of sand; Scafell, in a snowstorm, huddling in a lee with friends before the clouds broke; Striding Edge, in the snow, where the hunter and his horse fell; the Roaches, in the snow,…
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There’s nice.
“…a fascinating trip through the philosophical canon, showing how games illustrate key existential questions.”
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Margaret & Richard
…and I’m still working on the feature at 4am. I miss the dawn I’m writing so hard, lightening paragraphs with sips of akavit. I roll into bed at 6.30am, next to a sleeptalking V, and doze off… …”MARGARET” comes the cry, jolting us both awake.
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Simon Roth on Kickstarting Maia and why some studios have “killed the wonder” of making games
A distant alien world. Tuesday.