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Matthew Stuart
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Dec 19, 2022

Bouldering and the Process of Confronting the Unknown

Having gotten away with enough trash talk about bouldering in the last few posts, it’s finally time for a deeper dive. It’s no secret that I’m not as big of a fan as bouldering as when I first started, and am responsible for extremely subtle and coded quotes such as: …

This Happened To Me

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Bouldering and the Process of Confronting the Unknown
Bouldering and the Process of Confronting the Unknown
This Happened To Me

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Dec 13, 2022

Lead Climbing and the Transcendent Value of Disappointment

Why do we fall? So we can learn to- Fall better I’ve been concerned with climbing since birth, though not as a formal practice per se. Trees, pop machines, more trees, those were the subjects of my climbing. …

This Happened To Me

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Lead Climbing and the Transcendent Value of Disappointment
Lead Climbing and the Transcendent Value of Disappointment
This Happened To Me

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Dec 5, 2022

Sport Climbing and the Ongoing Battle Against Impermanence

Thanksgiving this year was a little unusual. Rather than opting for the usual display of drier-than-bone honey baked ham and loads of other visually unappealing food (to all the good cooks out there, it’s not you, it’s me) I skipped town to go climbing. Departing a little late, we were…

Reflections

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Sport Climbing and the Ongoing Battle Against Impermanence
Sport Climbing and the Ongoing Battle Against Impermanence
Reflections

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Jun 9, 2022

Psytrance and the Gospel Tent: A Bizarre Parallel

I can’t recall the last festival I’ve been to. It was probably Sacred Earth, and I imagine the people at that festival can’t remember any festival they’ve been to, so comparatively I’d say I must be doing alright. …

Thoughts

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Psytrance and the Gospel Tent: A Bizarre Parallel
Psytrance and the Gospel Tent: A Bizarre Parallel
Thoughts

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May 26, 2022

The Penfield Mood Organ and the iPod: A Lost Age of Musical Connectedness

Twenty years ago Steve Jobs unveiled a tiny device that claimed to fundamentally change the way we listen to and connect with music. Thirty-three years before that, Philip K Dick wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the source material for Bladerunner. …

Technology

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The Penfield Mood Organ and the iPod: A Lost Age of Musical Connectedness
The Penfield Mood Organ and the iPod: A Lost Age of Musical Connectedness
Technology

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Nov 27, 2021

Spiderman: No Way Home from these Leaks

No, this isn’t a drawn out complaint about the recent influx of Spiderman leaks and it isn’t exactly a praise of them either, but instead something nestled between. I’m hesitant to write an article about Marvel films as it greatly risks being included in “that” group of people. But I’ll…

Spider Man

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Spiderman: No Way Home from these Leaks
Spiderman: No Way Home from these Leaks
Spider Man

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Nov 17, 2021

Rendezvous With Rama: Accepting Difficult Truths

My first exposure to the work of Arthur C. Clarke was the result of a video game that I never actually played. Infinite Space is loosely based on Clarke’s novel Childhood’s End or so I read somewhere. At this point I wasn’t ready to accept that I was “into science…

Science Fiction

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Rendezvous With Rama: Accepting Difficult Truths
Rendezvous With Rama: Accepting Difficult Truths
Science Fiction

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Oct 28, 2021

Scourgebringer: Aptly Defining “Guns Blazing”

Upon being announced for Steam, I was immediately hooked on Scourgebringer, a lightning fast Roguelite platformer/bullet hell/dungeon crawler ish/shooter/sword-er? The only problem with being hooked was a glaring one; I primarily played games on Switch and it wasn’t until awhile after that it was finally released and found a perfect…

Gaming

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Gaming

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Oct 18, 2021

Metroid Dread:Consistency as a Crutch

Among the Metroid community, it’s no stretch to say that the announcement of Dread, a 19 year old sequel, made quite the splash. This splash did little in regards to the so far il-fated development of Metroid prime 4, which remains a giant TBD. What I’m getting at is that…

Videogames

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Videogames

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Sep 18, 2021

Seinfeld and “Success”

On a platform rife with answers to achieving “success” (BIG air quotation marks on that one) it only makes sense that I throw my hat into the ring already. Unlike all the other articles of course (particular the ones that also begin by attempting to distinguish themselves as being the…

Life

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Life

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