#editorial
#editorial
By: Kevin (@prufesuroak)
Every week we’ll be recommending you a game and either an album or movie to check out. This week I’m… falling short, but I got a movie to recommend.
by Omar (@siegarettes)
This is an impressions piece based on a single playthrough of the game. The full game has multiple worlds and endings.
Amnesia has to be one of the most played out narrative devices in fiction. It’s an easy way to create a sense of mystery and give the protagonist the same denial of information that the audience has. That gets weird real fast when you drop that into the context of a romance, especially when you’re not trying to build up a relationship but figure out what it was to start with.
By: Bridget Gordon (@thaumatropia)
This is the final installment of a 3-part series. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2.
There’s a particular kind of fanfiction called Fix Fic. These stories essentially try to address something in the story or the universe that the fic writer believes is wrong somehow. An example would be Firefly fanfic that features Asian characters— something the original canon, despite borrowing so heavily from Chinese culture, frustratingly neglects.
Eventually I realized that my playing FIFA is, in effect, a way of creating Fix Fix in order to reconcile how the current landscape of English football is and how I think it should be. In the real world, AFC Wimbledon are stuck in England’s fourth division, struggling each season to avoid relegation to the semi-professional leagues. They have barely any money and, while several promising young talents have emerged from the academy system and broken into the first team, none of them are going to be world-beaters.
This is the second of a three-part series. You can find Part 1 here. Look for the final installment next Friday.
By: Bridget Gordon (@thaumatropia)
Two years ago I was broke and couchsurfing with a friend. While channel surfing for something to have on in the background while I searched for jobs, I discovered Fox Soccer Channel, which offered 24/7 soccer programming. I developed a love for the sport as a kid, but they didn’t show soccer on network TV much when I was a kid (and my family couldn’t afford cable). So I drifted in and out, catching most of every World Cup but missing out on most everything else.
While desperately searching for work, I would have FSC on in the background, which in the afternoons meant either replays of Premier League games from the weekend or, occasionally, a Champions League game. When I finished looking for work, I would keep the TV on and lose myself in whatever games were on. I rediscovered everything I loved about the Beautiful Game— the speed, the unpredictability, the moments of individual brilliance, the fan culture.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
Growing up, I knew next to no one with SEGA hardware. To this day, I only know a couple of people who still swear by company like it was the early 90s again (clickbliss’ very own Editor-In-Chief being one of them). I’ve always viewed them as some secondary gaming company due to my little exposure to them. Some of their games looked interesting, but they were never on my radar. I’d only play them if I was at a friend’s house who owned SEGA games or if they were gifted to me. Looking back however, I’ve had a lot of memories with that “secondary company”.
By: Bridget Gordon (@thaumatropia)
This is the first of a three-part series. Look for the next installment next Friday.
I’m going to tell you a story.
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Once upon a time there was a young boy named Nathan. He was ten years old and lived with his Mom and Dad in Seattle. His Dad was English and grew up in a modest but loving home in South London, while his Mom grew up in North Carolina and met her future husband while studying abroad in England. Nathan had no brothers or sisters. They lived in a bright green house in Ballard. His Dad worked long hours but always made sure he had Sundays off. Sundays were their day together.
One Sunday in late November, Dad had surprised everyone with Sonics tickets. Nate was so excited to go to the game he could barely sit still. Everyone had a great time, even though the Sonics got beat pretty handily by Utah.
By Kevin (@prufesuroak)
Ghost Notes is Veruca Salt’s fifth studio album and the first done with with all the original members since their second release in 1997.
Veruca Salt has had an interesting history, three of the four original members left the band for various reasons between ‘97 and ‘98, leaving Louise Post to continue on herself. Post continued to lead the band with a cast of new members but never really cemented a new hit. The band’s announcement of a reunion in 2013 however opened up new hope for many of the fans and as well as hopes of making good music.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
I was recently helping out my parents set up their fancy new Bravia TV. I then noticed that it was PlayStation Now enabled. This spiked up my interest as I never really got a chance to play around with PlayStation Now for an extended period before. This service could be the future of gaming.
I had the TV all to myself for the weekend to experience the future. That weekend however, was one that made me shun the potential future of gaming.