Rationalizing Brutality: The Cultural Legacy of the Headshot

November 18, 2019 at 1:15 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

[Music] [Music] We didn’t always talk about shooting people in the head. That’s a weird opening sentence I know, but it’s true! Obviously there’s a large part of human history without guns, but even with them, headshots weren’t the near ubiquitous term they are now. If someone was gonna be shot in pre- sixties pulp,

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“Rationalizing Brutality: The Cultural Legacy of the Headshot”

Untitled Goose Game and Player-Driven Comedy

October 3, 2019 at 7:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

The idea of comedy games has fascinated me for some time, likely due to the fact that, when compared to, say, action or horror, it’s a genre that’s remained remarkably underexplored in the interactive realm. It’s easy to create action by putting a gun in a player’s hand and telling them to shoot things; you

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“Untitled Goose Game and Player-Driven Comedy”

Socialist Games Reviews: Neocolonialism

August 15, 2019 at 3:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

Even from the developer logo, we get the impression that Neocolonialism might explore economic issues in a slightly more mature way than our last outing. For once we have a game that actually could sort of be described as an example of cultural marxism, albeit the neo or post-marxism inspired by the Frankfurt School. The

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Homebrew Review Episode Two: Benjamin Huffman's Pugilist Class

July 8, 2019 at 6:05 pm | Articles | Ruben Talley -

Meme Analysis: Garfield / I'm Sorry Jon

at 3:35 pm | Articles | Ruben Talley -

hello this is meme analysis and today we're going to be looking at Garfield and the scary Garfield that is becoming popular in memes we're going to take a look at his origins some of the traits of the meme and what they mean and ultimately the implications for the world so I shall stick

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Communist Manifesto Review – Radical Reviewer

June 12, 2019 at 10:32 am | Articles | Ruben Talley -

hey I know you do that jaywalking punk anarchist do that G walking poking our keys she walk east hello this is the radical reviewer ticking you look at the communist manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels the edition I have is by flick where Ian's press 2005 originally published in 1848 the key

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THE SOCIETY | Critique à chaud (spoilers à 10:12)

June 4, 2019 at 3:58 pm | Articles | Ruben Talley -

je comprends vraiment pas les soirées américaine ils n'arrêtent pas de se jeter de la bière dessus c'est dégueulasse a arrêté [Musique] 2 society comme d'habitude jusque mi temps indiqué dans le titre de la vidéo n'y a pas de ce pôle et on faisait tranquille après on va tout spoiler 2 society est l'histoire

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The Finnish Bolshevik is Wrong About Anarchism Part 2: The State

May 16, 2019 at 10:27 am | Articles | Ruben Talley -

hey everyone according to the Finnish Bolshevik the Marxist perspective on the state is as follows the state is all the oppressive mechanisms like the police and the army and all that secret police intelligence service whatnot and then the the bureaucracy which is needed to run things at this stage of development the state

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The Finnish Bolshevik Is Wrong About Anarchism Part 1: Bakunin and Freedom

May 15, 2019 at 7:58 am | Articles | Ruben Talley -

one of the dangers of the Internet is that people who don't know what they're talking about can make videos on any subject and be believed by their fans simply because they said it with enough confidence viewers rarely fact-check youtubers and so as youtubers we have a responsibility to seriously research a topic before

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“The Finnish Bolshevik Is Wrong About Anarchism Part 1: Bakunin and Freedom”

Great Films About Personal Responsibility

May 10, 2019 at 4:18 am | Articles | Ruben Talley -

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