Sophia is taking the milf pills to become a milf

Bloodborne Essay Teaser

Curio Mini-Essay 4: Back When Things Were Good

Back when things were good

In the 20th century there was a powerful expanding civilisation who idolised the Ancient Romans. They had big regal red flags held up by golden eagles, an autocratic political system, huge oratorical rallies - they even saluted just like the Romans did. Do I need to keep pretending I’m not talking...

Curio Mini Essay: Gritty Realism or, STOP IT WITH THE GRITTY REALISM

Curio Essay 7: What is a Fargo?

Names for the credits

I'm editing my Fargo essay now, and this is going to be the first video to have credits with patrons in! How exciting! On that topic, I'd like to know for sure what names you want to appear in the comments. It can be whatever you want (if it's not offensive I guess), so please comment here and let m...

A Little Love Letter to ROMs

Pokemon Liquid Crystal is a ROM that has been in development since 2007. It has been being developed by a 4 person team, known online as: Linkandzelda, Zeikku, Jambo51 and Magnius. In this video I’d like to talk about why Pokemon Liquid Crystal is completely amazing. First though, ROMs:

A ROM is...

Discussion videos

Hey guys! We're going to try out a new, slightly podcasty format. They'll be titled something like "Curio discussion episode:" and then a description of the video. So for example I'm about to upload "Curio discussion episode: Prey and DOOM (but mostly Prey)" I'd really like your thoughts on this vid...

Gritty Realism or, STOP IT WITH THE GRITTY REALISM

The DC Cinematic universe looks pretty much dead in the water, and while this is pretty satisfying to me, because honestly, DC has an insidious conservative bias that taints all of their work… while that is extremely satisfying, it isn’t the reason all their films tank. It isn’t. I mean it cou...

What is a Fargo?

Spoilers for: anything called Fargo.

Section 1: Introduction

I've been thinking recently about Fargo and what it is. There's been a movie called Fargo, and now three seasons of pretty high quality television, also called Fargo. The thing is though, the movie doesn...

Bloodborne and the lovecraftian curse of class consciousness

This video will be dedicated to the commenters who told me that calling Nazis “sad nerds” was the reason I would never be taken seriously. No. This is the reason I will never be taken seriously. Since this video is my october essay, I wanted to make it really spooky. So let’s discuss the 2018-09-21 21:27:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Curio Essay 6: On Getting Stung by Annoying Insects like Sargon of Akkad

On Getting Stung By Annoying Insects, Like Sargon Of Akkad

Section 1: Introduction - A puppy that nobody loves

There’s this YouTuber called Coyote Peterson, and I’d like to talk about him for a bit - so I will. I mean, it’s my video. So who is Coyote Peterson and what does he do? Well, he’s a nature filmmaker who travels from plac...

Curio Mini Essay: Night in the Woods and the Horror of the Familiar

Night In The Woods and the Horror of the Familiar

When I was a little kid I distinctly remember once, finding a toy I had had when I was an even littler kid. I don’t remember what age I was but I can infer that information because of my reaction - because I burst into tears. I clocked, in a real sense, looking at that thing from my past, that I h...

Curio Mini-Essay: Mastodon or, Designing Sociology

Mastodon or, Designing Sociology

I joined Twitter nearly 10 years ago now, which was fairly early on in terms of Twitter’s popular growth. I was there back when it was akin to shouting into the void, I was there when it was a place to get into beefs with your friends other than just facebook, I was there when it morphed into a va...

Curio Essay 5: Wolfenstein and Gut-punch Storytelling

Curio Essay 4: Wolfenstein and the Fear of Living

Wolfenstein Essay part 2: The prevalence of gut-punch storytelling in games

Section 1: Gut-punch storytelling

(This video is going to require me to spoil a lot of big twists, because when it comes to it what I’m talking about is big twists, and different examples of them, so like… pay attention to spoiler warnings.)

Warnings: Di...

How Wolfenstein (I&II) subverts the monomyth - confronting the fear of living

I’m just going to rattle off some facts here and you can stop watching if you want to, as soon you disagree with any of them: immigration is a good thing; being a racist is worse and more offensive than being accused of being a racist; 6 million jews were killed in the holocaust; oh, and lastly, <...

Curio Essay 3: Sexuality in Fallout New Vegas, An NPC Love Story

Sexuality in Fallout: New Vegas - an NPC love story

Section 1: Introduction

Fallout New Vegas starts with your character - the POV character - being literally shot in the head, and then dying, and then being resurrected by the futuristic medical technology of the wasteland. As far as game openers go, I give Fallout New Vegas a 10/1...

Curio Essay 2: Bioshock Infinite and the Political Philosophy of Reincarnation

Bioshock Infinite and the political philosophy of reincarnation

So here’s my hot take:

Bioshock Infinite wants us to murder America to death

Section 1: Introduction

In 2007, 2K games, later Irrational Games, released Bioshock.

Metacritic gave Bioshock 96/100 on Xbox 360 and PC,and 94/100 on PS3 and it won B...

Curio Essay 1: SotC and the Powerlessness of Violence

Shadow of the Colossus and the powerlessness of violence

Section 1: Shadow of the Colossus

Shadow of the Colossus tells the story of a young man called Wander, who wants to resurrect his love, Mono. Wander travels to the temple and prison of a god called Dormin, who can save Mono, but only once his power is restored. To restore Dormin�...