Will Borger

@edgarallanbro

Fiction writer/essayist/consultant. Co-founder/Editor-in-Chief @skyboxcritics.com. Words: MLR, Purple Wall, ASP, The Rupture, YourTango, Vet. Life. Games: Rolling Stone, IGN, PC Gamer, Lost in Cult, Digital Trends, Shacknews, Unwinnable, Into the Spine+

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Will Borger@edgarallanbro· 28d

Jake nappin'

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· 29d

I wish Hunter S. Thompson was still alive for this sort of thing, but this is quite good.

Graham's hatreds and bigotries were bog standard for his party, and they were legion. He hated gay and queer people; he hated black and brown people; he hated Muslims; he hated liberals; he hated efforts to make the nation more just, the environment cleaner, the future better. He hated free speech and the free press and privacy for anyone else. He hated the idea that the United States ought ever to be constrained by anything other than its own self-interest, as defined exclusively by guys like him. He hated the expectation that the United States would ever project its might with anything less than maximal imperial violence and bloodlust. He hated all of these with blithe good-ol'-boy cheer and the sneer of the frontrunner. He went on The Daily Show a bunch, so that both sides could playact a kind of broadminded comity that the suckers they both held in contempt just lap right up. Guh hyuk hyuk hyuk, isn't it charming how I want all of y'awl dead.

For a little while in the aughts and again at intervals Graham played at a kind of shriekingly insincere, cornpone Bible College John McCain act, pretending to part with his party on judicial nominees, on immigration reform, on gun control, on vaccines, when that fake disunity could be performed safely at the "sponsoring a doomed, dead-on-arrival bill" or "going on Meet the Press" stage and abandoned long before anybody had to cast a vote. Like many in his party he pretended to care about decorum and civility when he thought Donald Trump was just a freak novelty act the establishment would eventually crush; like everyone in his party he ditched that pretense as soon as the prediction turned out to be wrong. He spent the last decade of his life letting Donald Trump wear him as a glove and telling himself it was the other way around. It bought him the war with Iran he'd worked for decades to make happen, and he fucked off the mortal coil before he could be made to reckon with it being a failure.

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· 29d

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jul 10

"Hold on, viewers, I'm told we're getting live footage of the person who made this post"

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jul 7

Anakin and Padme meme. Anakin syas "We're pivoting from prestige exclusives to live service games."

Padme, smiling, says "Okay, but we're good at making live service games, right?"

Anakin says nothing.

Padme, now visibly worried: "We're good at making live service games, right?"

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jul 5

Reference material. Get you an editor that says yes to pitch that involves Marathon, Gibson, Jung, and the nature of consciousness.

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jul 5

Jake nappin'

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jul 5

It's somehow even worse than you'd think

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jul 5

Jake's fearless, man. Never seen him scared of anything, always handles fireworks like a champ. Most chill cat ever.

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jul 3

The heat has gotten to Jake

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jul 3

Show me a cool physical game (bonus Jake included)

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jul 2

Extremely funny email to get given the last few days

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jul 1

Oh, you mean the one that says emulation isn't illegal, piracy is? That one? You said emulation is illegal. It isn't.

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jun 30

First run. I regret to inform you that I've still got it.

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jun 29

I haven't personally dived in yet, but I have watched a lot of gameplay and I feel this about the cutscenes. All of them have a tiny bit of character building but end up with "well, we could go here OR we could go here, no wrong answers, Fox, whatever you want" and it ends up feeling like this:

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jun 29

Hey, that's @stolisomancer.bsky.social over at @skyboxcritics.com.

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jun 28

Bro look at this fuckin' disjoint

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jun 28

Original 6S, my beloved

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jun 27

A couple retires on Area 6 (Peppy kept dying and you can't do the medal without him) and Venom, but that's a full medal run. Also probably a personal best? There's a bug that sometimes replaces 2 and 5s, so the actual numbers are: CO: 157 SY: 155 KA: 155 SO: 108 MA: 151 A6: 316 VE: 207

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jun 27

Will Borger@edgarallanbro· Jun 26

Not bad for an after midnight run when I've been drinking. Coming that close on Katina and Area 6 when I had them and made one mistake is rough, but that's Star Fox 64, baby. There's always next time.