A link to the past… few games that were also SNES Action/Adventure also available on Steam… Looking back, all of my favorite games (Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Pokémon) in some way emulate what The Legend of Zelda started back in 1986: Assumption: Most of you have played these games, finished these games, and played them again and again. Objectively, these games
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Surveillance: noun: close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion We live in a world where constant surveillance has been weaponized by overreaching technocratic dictatorships, projecting the right to privacy as a necessary sacrifice to ensure safety and security from both foreign and domestic threats. Observation devices are purchased at-will, sometimes worn on our wrists as status symbols, and other times installed in our homes
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An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you. -Dom Cobb from Inception, 2010 Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Let’s try a social experiment, shall we? I’m going to give you a scenario, and you tell me if it sounds familiar. In a
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It’s 1996, and Nintendo’s Super Mario RPG was released only four months before Super Mario 64. Super Mario RPG on May 13, and Super Mario 64 on September 29. Also in 1996, cows were big mad about something… I don’t remember what. 90’s Nintendo Finance 101: Mario = $ // Mario x 2 = $$ Nintendo was not wrong. Both
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If you are old enough to vaguely remember your parents panicking over Y2K, then you are old enough to remember a time when the FBI was cool, tossing plastic waste into the trash made it disappear, and being a conspiracy theorist was not only associated with voting for (non-descriptive color and political animal mascot). However, if that does not sound
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The Splintering 