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For Discussion #2: The Sound of Gaming

This may surprise you, but our weekly discussion post is supposed to go up on Monday every week. Last week we had a delay for reasons I forgot about. This week we had Irene the timehurricane. You might be saying,

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For Discussion #2: The Sound of Gaming

This may surprise you, but our weekly discussion post is supposed to go up on Monday every week. Last week we had a delay for reasons I forgot about. This week we had Irene the timehurricane. You might be saying,

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For Discussion #1: Your Favorite Moments

Hello y’all! Yes, you, the person reading these words. There are two of you, which is why I’m responding to you in the plural. Two of you right there LOOK BEHIND YOU! Ahem. We here at Nightmare Mode have a

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For Discussion #1: Your Favorite Moments

Hello y’all! Yes, you, the person reading these words. There are two of you, which is why I’m responding to you in the plural. Two of you right there LOOK BEHIND YOU! Ahem. We here at Nightmare Mode have a

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_____ On The Planet X – A Year of Interviews With Jeffrey Auburn, #2

  MAR You take a term like “geomorphologic unconformity,” you drop it into the real world, say, the intersection of the Appalachians and the coastal plain, and then you wind the Ocmulgee River through it; now give it the heartbeat

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_____ On The Planet X – A Year of Interviews With Jeffrey Auburn, #2

  MAR You take a term like “geomorphologic unconformity,” you drop it into the real world, say, the intersection of the Appalachians and the coastal plain, and then you wind the Ocmulgee River through it; now give it the heartbeat

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August Omnitopic: Simplicity

August is the most venerable month, the wisest of months. The wisest among us are often the simplest, so simplicity will be our omnitopic for the coming twenty odd days. Okay, that was bullshit. We picked it because it’s important.

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August Omnitopic: Simplicity

August is the most venerable month, the wisest of months. The wisest among us are often the simplest, so simplicity will be our omnitopic for the coming twenty odd days. Okay, that was bullshit. We picked it because it’s important.

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July Omnitopic: Weakness

(We’re only running a week or so late. Blame Steam! Steam, father of all lies! Mother of all untruths!) Video games are about power. When we have power, we have fun, or so the story goes. Power lets us do

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July Omnitopic: Weakness

(We’re only running a week or so late. Blame Steam! Steam, father of all lies! Mother of all untruths!) Video games are about power. When we have power, we have fun, or so the story goes. Power lets us do

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Growing Up in Color

Growing up everyone had their favorite color. As a child it almost defined your life. It was somehow yours and yours alone. Your favorite color was one of the first things you innocently answered when someone asked you to describe

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Growing Up in Color

Growing up everyone had their favorite color. As a child it almost defined your life. It was somehow yours and yours alone. Your favorite color was one of the first things you innocently answered when someone asked you to describe

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Your Homosexual Lover Is In Another Castle – A Year of Interviews With Jeffrey Auburn, #1

BY ERIC LOCKABY     FEB In the icy heliopause between Jeffrey Auburn’s kitchen window and the antique Arvin buzzing at our feet, I can’t help but wonder if maybe he’s just full of shit. “We’re not artists,” he says,

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Your Homosexual Lover Is In Another Castle – A Year of Interviews With Jeffrey Auburn, #1

BY ERIC LOCKABY     FEB In the icy heliopause between Jeffrey Auburn’s kitchen window and the antique Arvin buzzing at our feet, I can’t help but wonder if maybe he’s just full of shit. “We’re not artists,” he says,

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Color Coded

When playing a game, what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you see a horizontal red strip? How about a horizontal blue one or a yellow one? What if I show you a bunch of little

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Color Coded

When playing a game, what is the first thing that comes to your mind when you see a horizontal red strip? How about a horizontal blue one or a yellow one? What if I show you a bunch of little

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June Omnitopic: Color

Join us at Nightmare Mode for this month’s Omnitopic, Color! For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of the Omnitopic (and you shouldn’t be: we’ve done one before!), what it is is a chance for all of us to

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June Omnitopic: Color

Join us at Nightmare Mode for this month’s Omnitopic, Color! For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of the Omnitopic (and you shouldn’t be: we’ve done one before!), what it is is a chance for all of us to

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May Omnitopic Roundup

Hey friends and gentle readers! We’ve gone quite the places in this past month, from being a ragtag band of nobodies who write about games to a large ragtag band of nobodies who write about games, and nothing signifies this

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May Omnitopic Roundup

Hey friends and gentle readers! We’ve gone quite the places in this past month, from being a ragtag band of nobodies who write about games to a large ragtag band of nobodies who write about games, and nothing signifies this

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