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Vermis

A neat text-based adventure game with dark fantasy vibes and borderline perfect presentation. A bit clunky at times, and there are some issues with overwriting stuff I really don't want to be overwritten; like, one time I was swapping around armors to compare, and somehow I ended up with less max health overall. Sometimes, I'll be on a new run and I'll interact with something I know is supposed to give me an item, and I won't get it. It easily makes up for this though with a world that is surprisingly fleshed out and alive. Journal entries tell stories of the lands you find, with histories, peoples and local legends slowly building up this narrative of a world in decay. Combined with the great music and ambience, it becomes a wholly immersive experience. Overall, if you don't get too pressed about bugs and you can wrap your head around the UI it's a really fun adventure! 8/10, don't use capital letters

@Griffin

Feb 6, 2025

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Disco Elysium

This game is like reading a long choose-your-own-adventure book with dark, moody watercolor illustrations. You attempt to solve a murder as a cop suffering from amnesia and drug addiction. It’s so much weirder and cooler than I’m making it sound.

@badjuju

Feb 15, 2024

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videogames for humans ed. by merritt k

huge anthology of transcribed Twine games (Twine is a really basic HTML framework for making simple hypertext games/interactive fiction). i wasn't allowed to play video games growing up so never really developed a formative relationship to them but found this to be a really resonate & inclusive anthology of indie “games” that reads as poems/stories but still honors them as games

@reference

Jun 11, 2024

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Taiwanese Sunday Gravy

I used to be obsessed with a dish at this Taiwanese restaurant Little Fatty - a “sunday gravy” served with pipe rigate pasta instead of rice. Here’s the TOP SECRET recipe that I managed to track down and successfully prepare. Cooking time: 3 hours. Ingredients: 1 lb ground pork, 1 lb cubed pork butt, 1 lb cubed pork belly, 1/4 cup shiitake mushrooms, 1 large strip of kombu seaweed, 1/2 cup shallots, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce, 2 tbsp fish sauce, dash of sesame oil, 2 tsp hoisin sauce, 2 tsp sambal sauce, 2 tbsp Shaoxing cooking wine, 2 tbsp kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce), 1 tsp five-spice powder, chicken stock to cover. Directions: Soak the kombu and shiitake mushrooms in hot water. After 10 minutes, dice the shiitake mushrooms and kombu. Mince the garlic and shallots. In a large bowl, measure and combine all the liquids, then set aside. In a large pot, brown all the meat in two batches over medium heat. In a separate pan, sweat shallots, garlic, and mushrooms for 5 minutes, then combine them with the meat pot. Add the liquids and spices. Add enough chicken stock to cover the meat mixture by half an inch. Bring to boil, then simmer for 2 hours, stirring every 20 minutes. Serve with pasta (or steamed rice) and pickled mustard greens.

@a.

May 13, 2024

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Synplant 2

This synth-plugin has been doing the rounds amongst my producer friends since it was released at the end of last year. It has a pretty radical approach, using Sonic Charge’s “genopatch technology” to grow and unravel synth patches based on a small audio sample. It isn’t really like sampling - it’s a much more beautiful and chaotic hall of mirrors. Pure synthesis has never been easier or more uncanny than this.

@a.

May 13, 2024

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Songminer

A modern music folklore podcast hosted by Alaska Reid and featuring a wide range of interviewees. I’ve been with Alaska for the last 6 years, so I’ve really witnessed and learned a lot from her dedication to songwriting. She’s also a human can-opener, extracting golden nuggets while discussing her guests’ rawest demos. There’s a new, extremely thorough episode with Gus from Kero Kero Bonito, someone else who I’ve known for a long time, and it’s special to hear such a sincere conversation in an otherwise opaque online world. Her episode with Lauren Mayberry is also particularly direct and touches on a lot of things that musicians don’t often talk about.

@a.

May 13, 2024