The peeling wallpaper of a decaying world
Backrooms, Covid, video games, slop, and the future of film
The Underline
Essays and reviews on books, film, video games. Current projects: Coen Brothers retrospective, Hideo Kojima Studies
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Computers can only play games
Computer Power and Human Reason, chapters 1-3
I was a ghost. I was the barber.
The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
Dudes rock and business is booming
Tulsa King as the anti-Sopranos
Perfect alexandrine lines in The Caboose Who Got Loose
A rare instance of good verse in a children’s book
A portrait of the artist, burned out and in despair
Your Name Here (Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff, 2025)
I figured the leader should be the one of us with the capacity for abstract thought
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
I bet if we kissed you’d taste like a wild beast
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004)
Past and future, work and vocation
Life updates, housekeeping
Death Note as millenarian apocalyptic
This is so stupid