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I'm back on my game preservation bs with this one.
UnwinnableThe wind is rising. This month's issue of Unwinnable Monthly features @autumn-wright.com on The Wind Rises and terror plus our regulars on topics like Marathon, Alan Wake II and Silent Hill f. Buy: buff.ly/ci350lH Subscribe: buff.ly/2FiTW11
out: the VR suit that hurts you in: perfumes that smell like Nurikabe World, Harvest Moon, and Assassins Creed 2
GameSmell: A Videogame-Perfume Pairing List - UnwinnableI like the idea of spraying a perfume before you sit down to play a game; it’s like the VR suit that hurts you but, uh, more pleasant.unwinnable.com
I wrote in @unwinnable.com today about my toxic relationship with Mina the Hollower's giant hammer, and why I love it and hate it in equal parts. Check it out!
My Toxic Relationship with Mina the Hollower’s Giant Hammer - UnwinnableThe hammer feels inevitable.unwinnable.com
Please let me be a witch! unwinnable.com/2026/07/29/i... @unwinnable.com
I So Badly Want To Live In Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood’s World - UnwinnableWhat follows rocks the very foundation of witch society.unwinnable.com
Cool that my piece on math and history in accounting for @unwinnable.com came out the same day as Microsoft's financials. unwinnable.com/2026/07/29/l...
Line Go Up - UnwinnableBut David, how do these super-mergers create value for the shareholders and why did we talk about the Italian Renaissance?unwinnable.com
This month for @unwinnable.com, I wrote about *that* new Sleep EP and other fine records. Share, subscribe, etc.
Stu Horvath@bensailer.bsky.social has some heavy tunes for you. Check your expectations. Or don't. He's not your dad. "Each of this month’s selections wrestles with the tensions between artist and audience in ways that are inseparable from the stories we tell about the work."
In my latest essay: I watch the international aerial review and The Wind Rises, I read Tatsuo Hori and Jiro Horikoshi, and I diagnose empire and tuberculosis. unwinnable.com/2026/07/28/t...
The Many Faces of Naoko Satomi - UnwinnableAs the literal winds blowing off the Gulf of Lion are transformed into the winds of war in The Wind Rises, a person becomes a metaphor, too.unwinnable.com
Hey if you saw this you gotta try King's Field IV if you haven't please I'm insane I'm so unhinged about it
Unwinnable"King’s Field IV, twenty-some years on, became for me what my childhood fantasy of Dark Souls could not manifest." @jhensliterature.bsky.social explains what makes King's Field IV so compelling to them:
here it is, for your reading pleasure on @unwinnable.com : the full one-act play, "Two Women Talking about STALKER" :) unwinnable.com/2026/07/24/t...
Two Women Talking about Stalker (Extended Cut) - UnwinnableThe Zone is this object of pure radiation, like the sun on Earth.unwinnable.com
Loving this issue, particularly the piece on games preservation by Phoenix Simms - "Games are both objects and ephemera, offering players chances to perform themselves in ways that exceed the experience of the game as a product."
UnwinnableThe wind is rising. This month's issue of Unwinnable Monthly features @autumn-wright.com on The Wind Rises and terror plus our regulars on topics like Marathon, Alan Wake II and Silent Hill f. Buy: buff.ly/ci350lH Subscribe: buff.ly/2FiTW11
My cover story at Unwinnable this month is about air shows, the men who fanned the flames of empire, and other stories of deadly infectious disease.
UnwinnableThe wind is rising. This month's issue of Unwinnable Monthly features @autumn-wright.com on The Wind Rises and terror plus our regulars on topics like Marathon, Alan Wake II and Silent Hill f. Buy: buff.ly/ci350lH Subscribe: buff.ly/2FiTW11
It was a pleasure to paint the cover art for @autumn-wright.com's feature on The Wind Rises in this month's issue of @unwinnable.com ! Go read it!
UnwinnableThe wind is rising. This month's issue of Unwinnable Monthly features @autumn-wright.com on The Wind Rises and terror plus our regulars on topics like Marathon, Alan Wake II and Silent Hill f. Buy: buff.ly/ci350lH Subscribe: buff.ly/2FiTW11
Got off the bench this issue to disinterestedly set the table for why the biggest movers in the industry are moving the way they do and how you can put on a pair of They Live glasses to see the world they stole from you.
UnwinnableThe wind is rising. This month's issue of Unwinnable Monthly features @autumn-wright.com on The Wind Rises and terror plus our regulars on topics like Marathon, Alan Wake II and Silent Hill f. Buy: buff.ly/ci350lH Subscribe: buff.ly/2FiTW11
Absolutely fascinating read!
Unwinnable"Assassin’s Creed was unusual: a game produced in the West in which we inhabit an (albeit Occidentalized) West Asian freedom fighter resisting a European invasion." @mlupetti.upandpunch.red on playing the first Assassin's Creed during the Gaza genocide and 25 years after 9/11:
"Twenty-five years since September 11, 2001, more than 1,000 days into the genocide in Gaza carried out by Israel, and after months of more or less overt U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran and Lebanon, I’m replaying the first Assassin’s Creed game." My first for @unwinnable.com.
Priests, whores, and brassieres as Mad Men S2 officially gets cooking.
Unwinnable"The absolute jump-scare of the tiny shorts Pete is wearing with his preppy sweater. 10/10 look, honestly." @nochshorn.bsky.social watches Mad Men S2E4–S2E6:
Thanks @unabridgedgamer.bsky.social for writing the article at @unwinnable.com that inspired me to check out Absolute Wonder Woman Vol. 1, and then write about it too 🐍
UnwinnableICYMI: "The slithering, the fire-breathing, the clawed and the weird don’t have to be dangerous threats, not even in the underworld." @alyssawejebe.bsky.social looks at Diana's relationships with creatures in Absolute Wonder Woman:
I've been way behind on my @unwinnable.com reading but finally up to the Final Fantasy x politics issue. "<The games contending with politics> is perhaps only escapable in the sense that one must make the active choice to be ignorant."
NEW FROM ME @unwinnable.com: I have infected the good ship unwinnable with my Children of Lightning nonsense and they are now the second games publication I have snuck insurrectionist anarchist quotes into (the first was @bpmonthly.bsky.social) unwinnable.com/2026/07/15/f...
Final Fantasy XIII's Anarchist Dream - UnwinnableWhile the party doesn’t find a cure or stymie for their divine curse, they do find and reaffirm the need for solidarity.unwinnable.com