Welcome to my (sometimes) weekly round-up of witty writing from virtual worlds. This week features Anodyne 2, Edith Finch, and more Zelda. 1) Around kids | Anodyne 2: Return to Dust The character C Psalmist is “awkward around kids”. 2) Pretend life | Supraland In Supraland, the NPCs draw attention to their superficial existence: “Let’s just walk back and forth and pretend we have…

Welcome to my (sometimes) weekly round-up of witty writing from virtual worlds. This week features Earthbound, Death’s Door, and Hades. 1) Don’t care | Earthbound Earthbound wants you to name your character. You can comply, or respond flippantly with “Don’t Care”. 2) Hungover person | Wide Ocean, Big Jacket Wise-cracking, 13-year-old Mord enjoys trolling her uncle during their camping trip. Over breakfast, she…

Welcome to my (sometimes) weekly round-up of witty writing from virtual worlds. This week features Return to Monkey Island, Disco Elysium, and Overboard. 1) Skiffle roots | The Artful Escape In your charatcter’s home town of Calypso, this group desperately try to convince you that skiffle is in by playing the Beatles card. 2) New catchphrase | Return to Monkey Island Monkey Island series antagonist…

Welcome to my (sometimes) weekly round-up of witty writing from virtual worlds. This week features Zelda, The Stanley Parable, and Stardew Valley. 1) Fashion interest | The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Link receives a brutal aesthetic assessment from the woman who transformed Hateno village into “the birthplace of nouveau fashion”. 2) Broom closet | The Stanley Parable There’s a lot of comedy splashed across this particular…

You sit looking at a lake, watching as a couple of loons pierce the pristine glaze of the water’s surface. Clumps of clouds hang in the sky, painted violet by the setting sun. You hear the hum of a boat’s motor in the distance — it fades into nothing. The…

Contains game spoilers While scraping my molars, the dentist asked me what I did for a living. “Imma wry-er,” I said. She stopped and removed various implements from my mouth. “I’m a writer,” I repeated, more clearly this time. But saying I’m a writer is a simplification. I write words…

So you’ve landed a job in tech. Congratulations! But don’t pop that bubbly just yet, because the real work starts here. Namely: do you speak tech? No? Don’t panic. Just bookmark this handy jargon translator — you’ll be confidently serving up the hottest buzzwords and impressing your peers in no…

Warning: this article contains a) talk about death and b) spoilers. Avoid reading if either of those cause distress. I’ve never grieved anyone’s death. Properly grieved, I mean. My mum’s parents died before my first birthday. …

This article contains swear words that some may consider “offensive”. If you can’t handle my raw, unfiltered realness, I expect you’re not handling life very well in general. Last summer I founded my own company. “What?” I hear you whimper in disbelief. …