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Everything else. Twenty-plus years of posts, thoughts, tweets, and internet ephemera. Explore at your own risk.
The Last of Us is Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic series, set in an America brought down by a fungal infection that hollows people out into the Infected. Ellie is immune to…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is Larian’s Dungeons & Dragons RPG, which opens with a mind flayer parasite behind your eye and lets almost every scene be talked, fought or schemed through.…
World of Warcraft is Blizzard’s MMORPG, still adding chapters to Azeroth two decades on. Metzae is my own night elf rather than a character the game wrote.
Borderlands 4 is Gearbox’s looter-shooter, relocated to the world of Kairos and its ruling Timekeeper. Vex is one of four playable Vault Hunters — the Siren of the group, fighting…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is set in late-Sengoku Japan and splits its story between two protagonists. Naoe is the shinobi half — Iga-trained, built for rooftops, shadow and patience — where…
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild opens with Link waking after a hundred years asleep, Hyrule already lost and Calamity Ganon still barely held. He is the series’…
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey runs through the Peloponnesian War. Kassandra is a misthios — a mercenary for hire — descended from Leonidas and carrying what is left of his spear, and…
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based RPG whose battles are interrupted by real-time dodges and parries, set in a Belle Époque world where a figure called the Paintress erases…
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem is a 2002 GameCube horror game from Silicon Knights, built around a sanity meter that attacks the player rather than the character — muting your TV,…
Cyberpunk 2077 is set in Night City, and V is the mercenary you build — background, body and voice all chosen. A heist early on leaves a biochip lodged in…