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Texts from the Virtual Road (opens the original)
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I was playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 recently, and as I passed by its various locales I realized just how meditative the game felt. So, as you do, I played some music - let the winds take me, and drove along with one hand on the wheel and another with a pen.<img alt=
A list of Twee Video Games (opens the original)
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What’s your favorite genre?I think the answer to that says a lot about you as a person: what you value, what you’re interested in, what you spend your time on. It speaks of qualities that easily paint a wider picture of who you are much better than something like “What’s your favorite color?”. Due to all of this, I overthink it a lot.My head goes to a lot of places. There are the main ones: horror, sci-fi, mysteries. Nicher or medium-specific genres are also touched upon: short indie games, surr
Waking Up from the Dream of OutRun (opens the original)
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There’s a specific dream I feel like a lot of people have. I’m not sure how it proliferated the cultural unconscious, or where it came from exactly, but it’s a dream I see constantly throughout media.It’s the one where you leave wherever you’ve been these last few years, or hours, or seconds, or it could even be a place that you’ve been in for forever; wherever it is, it’s the one that feels like a prison, or the one that’s holding you down or keeping you stuck to it. In it, you take all your st
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