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Tonight You Die draws out our fear in a concrete terrorscape
A brutalist stab of the dark.
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Paint the screen with glitches in this virtualization of our chaotic online lives
A virtual storm of emoticons and floppy disks.
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Discover the hollow remnants of capitalism’s "greatness" in Luxury $imulator
Those who contribute the least to the world’s downfall will suffer the most.
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Windows93 is the operating system that internet culture really wants
Sometimes the internet guffs out material so zany that I remember why I like it. This month it’s a new website titled WINDOWS93 that’s providing this service. It transports you back to the 1990s through a wormhole made of broken memories. Starting up as if it were Windows 95—albeit with the nostalgi
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The deformed, lonely bodies of Kyttenjanae’s colorful worlds
Kyttenjanae depicts loneliness and sickness in an unusual way. It’s almost always as a rainbow-flavored mix of gross-out and grace. The signature animated art that she shares on her Tumblr page is recognizable for the eyeless humanoids that ebb and flow as if made of pink and polychromatic liquids.
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A hot date with a pug reminded me why I hate dating
I went on a hot date with a pug. He stared into my soul, and found it lacking.
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It’s about time there was a lo-fi Blade Runner videogame
Our present reimagined from the future visions of the 1980s.
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Inside The Yearning Tree is an enchanting microcosm for our fears and desires
Creator Alexander Ocias calls The Yearning Tree “a quiet space for you,” the player. At first, the muted scene depicting a lonely flame in front of a tree does appear to be yours and yours alone. At the zoomed out angle, even the looming tree stands at a distance, accompanying you only at arms lengt
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Wander through a tranquil wilderness in these 3D painted worlds
In 1964, Julie Andrews jumped into a chalk drawing. Inside, she discovered a whole new beautiful world. The film was, of course, Mary Poppins, and ever since having watched it as a child, I’ve had the desire to take a similar leap. It’d be great to spring ourselves, both feet forward, into the soft
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The life and times of a Garbage Cat, and his human’s futile attempts to sleep
Cats: why do we worship their every judgmental glance and begrudging move? Perhaps its writ in our DNA to adore their disdain for us, and to, day in day out, pick up the stinky poops of a creature that (on a good day) barely puts up with your people crap. Ever since the Egyptians up and declared the
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Blow your haters a big fat smooch in Kissing Foes
In the age of social media toxicity, people need a plan of action for dealing with hater McFrowny Faces now more than ever. There seems to be two divergent paths in the quest to conquer a hater: either go into battle mode and attempt to defeat your foe, or kill ’em with kindness. One of the most dis
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Pippin Barr’s virtual art gallery contains no art, but lots of questions
When 3D spaces were popularized in videogames it led to a new kind of energy bubbling up through creative pores. Those who worked within the medium had a whole new avenue to explore—all this extra space, and what to do with it? No longer did illusions have be figured out, but actual working 3D space