Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!)

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A Celebration of the Abject, the Queer, and the Arcane: The Work of Writer-Musician Jenny Hval - Typebar Magazine Hval’s work, both in written and musical form, shows an artist willing to explore the limits of genres.

My essay on @jennyhval.bsky.social ‘s books and music is now free on @typebarmagazine.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/a...

Just wrapped 2077 last night so I'm looking forward to reading this.

I enjoyed reading this piece. I've ended up playing through this game a few different times, mostly provoked by writing and major updates and asks to do so, and each time I've gotten something different and weirder from it.

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This is a fucking excellent review of reviews that takes roundabout aim at the by now exhausted and exhausting surface level didacticism of our criticism.

Great article. One of the persistently funny things about the release of this game is how clearly so many reviewers had marinated in online discourse based on a largely imagined version of the genre. Of course the rough launch didn't do much to help it lol

@gaycannibalism.bsky.social wrote an excellent essay and has got me thinking about giving the game another try.

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I think this might be one of the most clear-eyed articles about Cyberpunk 2077 I've read. Actually looking at the game's themes, rather than getting caught up on a thought-terminating cliche and single word in the title.

I enjoyed this article!

Pretty good summary of the frustration I felt with early reviews of the game and whether it was "punk" when cyberpunk as a genre never was, not in the way people talked about it anyway. For better and worse it's a piece of art driven by the genre's exhausted cynicism

If you follow me you know how annoyed (too soft a word) I get with the superficial and misplaced criticism that Cyberpunk (big C but also little c) isn't "punk" enough. This essay goes at that criticism as well as I've seen it.

Good essay that digs into many of the reasons I was attracted to this game and jumped at the chance to work on the sequel

incredible thematic analysis

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This cyberpunk 2077 essay pairs nicely with the @gaycannibalism.bsky.social one about dread delusion.

One game is a ridiculous power fantasy that ultimately says nothing and the other limits player power (and other mechanics) to make a narrative point!

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"Longing for simplicity leads to the pernicious belief that dystopian narratives in games must be a power fantasy where authority is dismantled."

Great stuff here on how punk and its cyber-extrapolation has become stripped of nuance, and how we can get it back.

Very excited about this issue. Lots of excellent analysis across several media types (games, classic literature, TV, etc).

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I had never heard of this show before meeting my partner. After looking into it, it was such a marked departure from what children are exposed to today. This is a great essay showing what we've lost and what we should model rebuilt children's programming on in the age of AI slop.

This essay was fantastic and the film absolutely blew me away with how adept it is at tackling modern loneliness despite being from 1998.

1. I think I am most proud of Typebar when we do great analysis of a medium (gaming in this case) that a lot of mainstream culture/art places ignore.

2. I love how unique handles lead me to saying "hey everyone, Gay Cannibalism has a point!!"

This is an incredibly tonal essay that's one of my favorites we've published on a line level. Great work!

I very fondly remember watching Flash Gordon as a kid and I just think so much of what's wrong with contemporary creative culture is the desire to create within an IP rather than use your passion to create something new (this isn't entirely the fault of creatives, mind you).

I hadn't heard of Jenny Hval before this essay but after researching her work I was very much blown away. Good essay here!

Funny how so much of modern discourse around film ends up being my middle-aged YouTubers fuming that movies aren't source material accurate when the source material is an 8-bit platformer and a manual that has some enemy names.

This essay was good analysis of what makes a worthwhile adaptation!

This was good. Yeah lots of the modern world is shitty but a narrative that boils it all down to #dissent rather than examining the different nuances isn't the antidote.

Excellent analysis of The Odyssey; a story I think everyone should return to now and again (and try different translations too!)