The Player Character

The Existential Entourage — “The Script and the Sherpa”

Mass Effect: Andromeda and its Fake Gamer Agenda

Boogie2988 and The Internet Victim Machine

The Top 3 Zelda Dungeons

One of the many good reasons to follow VICIST and Thumb — still a Thumb…

The Existential Entourage — “Entourage”

I was a fan of Entourage in the ’00s, in much the same way I was a fan of telling my internship supervisor about my favorite Curb Your Enthusiasm plots involving misogynistic slurs and blithely tittering to myself over his astonished indignation at my choice…

The Walking Dead: Season Two — “All That Remains”

The sequel to the best game of last year has begun, and while it does nothing which fails to live up to the considerable legacy it bears, it also does little to distinguish itself thus far. The first half of the smartly titled “All That…

The Existential Entourage — “The Review”

Reviews of the HBO series Entourage which make me want to kill myself.

It’s an important note, critically, that Entourage was originally conceived with E as the protagonist. The pilot is clearly built around his arc, not Vince’s, and…

Games Aren’t Games

Like human sexuality in the mind of someone ashamed of their search history, a video game’s story and gameplay are frequently treated as two discrete and diametric opposites. There is a superficial assumption that one is playing a game while in control of their avatar, but when that control is…

The Existential Entourage: 106 “Busey and the Beach”