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On Doom Eternal
Doom Eternal is really good. You should play it you like shooters. It’s not without its flaws though. They tried to alter the main gameplay loop in this one. In Doom 2016 players, myself included, often stuck to the same gun (usually the super shotgun) and in Eternal they clearly want you to switch weapons…
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Secret Hitler
Secret Hitler is a hidden role multiplayer card/board game which attempts to simulate the complex political dynamics that can facilitate the rise of fascism. Players are randomly and secretly assigned one of three roles: a liberal, a fascist or Hitler. Only one player is Hitler for each game. The fascist’s aim is to either enact…
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Techniques of Thought: Cognition, Identity and Ideology in Disco Elysium
Disco Elysium begins in blackness. Words fade in against the emptiness. It is your ‘Ancient Reptilian Brain’ speaking to you. Soon enough your ‘Limbic System’ pipes up. They inform you “there is nothing” (ZA/UM, 2019). As your character (who we later learn is called Harry) awakens from his drunken stupor, we come to realize that…
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Stadia
https://www.businessinsider.sg/why-are-so-few-games-on-google-stadia-2020-2 “This concern — that Google might just give up on Stadia at some point and kill the service… was repeatedly brought up, unprompted, by every person we spoke with for this piece.” Notably the only real media distribution platform Google has successfully sustained is YouTube, which A) wasn’t started by Google and B) was…