Stefan

Good article! Will y'all discuss Marathon on upcoming livestreams? Id love to tune in. I appreciate the healthy skepticism given Destiny's story debacles, but other CCs (who've been involved with Marathon for years) claim there's tons more story. It's rather early to say the story is threadbare, no?

Reading about the White Sea-Baltic Canal that was dug BY HAND via forced GULAG labor... makes me curious how survival video games are about player freedom but have the mechanics of forced labor: chopping trees, digging tunnels. I'm waiting for a Papers, Please take on survival crafting

Mining the Starfield & Clarissa Tossin's to take root among the stars A survey through Clarissa Tossin's work pertaining to space colonization, and a critique of Starfield's outpost building.

I wrote a blog post about Clarissa Tossin's Frye Art Museum exhibit in conjunction with notes about Starfield, capitalism, and more.
www.stefankowal.com/blog/tossin-...