The art of creating characters in video games is neither objectively new, nor even new to me. I’ve been messing around with video game character creation suites for decades, though I certainly never thought of it as art. I think the most common use for these creation tools […]
The Honorable Judge John Hodgman hears a Pokémon-related dispute on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. “Cameron brings the case against his friend Shooka. When Cameron and Shooka were in college, Cameron was obsessed with Pokémon Go. One day, Cameron was distracted with Pokémon Go, so Shooka took his […]
Summer isn’t quite here, but it’s been hot and a chunk of North America is already on fire, so I thought I’d go straight ahead with my Summer Fun Time Reading recommendations. There’s Gilded Age tomfoolery, science fiction, horror, mysterious figures with antlers, UFOs, ghosts, cats with skulls […]
What in the hell was Succession about? Was it a sitcom? Shakespearean tragedy? Treatise on abuse — or on America? Probably all of it, but Succession was also about dumb people making dumb choices over and over again. It was about Logan making everyone beg and cry and […]
Watch this feature length documentary on MyHouse.Wad, a map created for Doom II that is much more than it seems. Even if you don’t like Doom, you should probably watch it. Watch here.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first essay ever published on the Cultural Gutter. Read Jim Munroe’s first piece at the Cultural Gutter, all the way from May 22, 2003! ~~~ Is it possible to have a pleasure circuit overload? “Girls are to be kept away from […]
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