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‘Animal Rights’: Moby’s Attempt to Agitate Everyone Who Refused to Listen

‘Animal Rights’: Moby’s Attempt to Agitate Everyone Who Refused to Listen

Moby the artist -- and electronic music as a whole -- could not and would not be contained by fans' status-quo-worshipping conservatism.

How Video Games Engage the Imagination Muscle

Dollhouses of Desperation: Playing to Practice, Playing to Prepare

Dollhouses of Desperation: Playing to Practice, Playing to Prepare

The characters in This War of Mine live in a home situated in a larger world that is much colder, much more callous than the bright and cheery suburban void that the homes of The Sims exist in.

On Having Caught ‘Em All

Playing with the Pieces: ‘Hearthstone’ and the Physical Pleasures of Play

Playing with the Pieces: ‘Hearthstone’ and the Physical Pleasures of Play

Hearthstone concerns itself with the seemingly small, innocuous, and trivial elements of playing a game in a non-digital medium, and I admire the game for recognizing that these may not be details that are completely innocuous or unimportant in terms of why we take pleasure in the act of play.

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