Tag: games

• Bringing up the conversation UI (September 12, 2025)

  Sometimes I feel the urge to say something snide, cutting, or otherwise intentionally hurtful to someone I love. It may come in response to some perceived slight or annoyance, or in shock and retaliation for something hurtful they just said. The words rise up my throat in a peristalsis of emotion, and it takes an act of will to delay their expulsion.

• Cursed weapons (August 31, 2025)

  In A Haunting Relic From America’s Past, Wright Thompson describes his encounter with the Army-issued pistol that was used to beat and murder 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955. Thompson located the gun while writing a book about the context and legacy of that murder. Subsequently, the person who had inherited it—a local crop duster—donated it to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, where it just went on permanent display.

• X SHIP (August 17, 2020)

  Zarf detailed a retroactively obvious but quite forgivable plot hole in Myst which nobody in that game’s fandom can recall ever having discussed before.