The Devil: Hell is bureaucratic by nature. It’s all layers and laws, everything stacks on top of itself. Everything is infrastructure. This was all made for me, so what do you expect that I hate bureaucracy? Bureaucracy was made to torture me. Now that I’m on Earth it’s followed me: everywhere I go I must fight … Continue reading Manifestophilis (Interviews With the Devil): Postmodernism, Memes, Politics
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Deconstruction, the Player, and the Played, Part One: “The Beginner’s Guide”
[Warning: Spoilers for The Beginner's Guide may be found below] It seems we have entered into a golden age of deconstuctive, postmodern, indie games within the last three or four years. In 2013 we were given The Stanley Parable and the first act of Kentucky Route Zero, each eschewing traditional gameplay for quirky narrative exploration … Continue reading Deconstruction, the Player, and the Played, Part One: “The Beginner’s Guide”
The Necessity of Failure
In my recent life I have experienced an increasing sense of dissatisfaction regarding irony. Irony as a worldview. Irony as an attitude. Irony as a shield. I have a great respect for the work of the absurdists, the postmodernists, and the deconstructionists. The destruction of meaning in the face of hypocrisy, in the face of … Continue reading The Necessity of Failure
