DEEP FOG: The Horror Game that’s Janky, Goofy, and My Most Anticipated Title Currently, Japanese developer Devil Beetle Games is not an auspicious publisher. At the time of writing its Twitter page has only 117 followers. Its Youtube page has only 50 subscribers. None of this is too surprising, as…

Cult film director Stuart Gordon once said that “big ideas are not scary.” Horror is all about intimate, primal feelings. By that philosophy, indie horror games have a sort of built in advantage over Triple A horror games in that their limitations tend to force a more bare bones approach…

Based on my past experience watching A24 films in theaters, I couldn’t help but feel a tinge of apprehension when a couple sat next to me in the theater this afternoon. To me movies such as The Witch, It Comes at Night, Midsommar, etc. are not to be watched while…

People have been declaring the end of novels due to one newly emergent form of communication or another since at least 1902 when Jules Verne declared newspapers the cause of death. In truth technology does much to prop up or even keep alive appreciation for classic literary works. One of…

The notion of ironically enjoying bad media became mainstream with Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay on Notes on Camp. Movies have historically been especially popular for this sort of past time. The viewer can bask in the feeling that they are smarter than the media they’re consuming, since they didn’t put…

At the time of writing, Amazon is battling scandals such as allegations that it interfered with the vote for employees in Bessemer, Alabama to unionize. There is also a class action lawsuit that Amazon conspired with major publishers to fix prices. While indie authors don’t have anything like the means…

It’s been an honor and a privilege to work for the River Falls Public Library since 2011. Even before I was officially hired it was one of my favorite places to hang out while growing up and get work done after I had grown up. It’s also taught me many…

Electing Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff are critical not only for the Democratic Party but also for the nation. The general narrative is that Kentucky has clearly given Senate Majority Leader McConnell a mandate through his effortless reelection to do whatever he wants as long as he keeps making…

I became a supporter of the junior senator from Vermont after hearing his detailed, substantive response to the 2019 State of the Union Address, which I found far more compelling and substantive than the response by Stacey Abrams. Since then, I attended his Twin Cities rally in November 2019, maxed…