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Pashford Murano
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Virtual metaphysician, freelance writer, gaming enthusiast, and editor-in-chief over at activetimeevent.com. (🏳️‍🌈)
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Pashford Murano @pashfordmurano.bsky.social · Sep 8
Silksong: Nothing Gold Can Stay- activetimeevent.com/2025/09/07/s...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #hollowknight #silksong #teamcherry #metroidvania #indie #spoopy
Silksong: Nothing Gold Can Stay - Active Time Event
The Charles Bukowski quote: “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” seems truer and truer every single day that pa...
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Which Video Games Make The Cut To Be On Your Mount Rushmore Of Gaming?: activetimeevent.com/2025/11/13/w...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #writing #nostalgia #metalgearsolid #mgs #snakeeater #Delta #remake #stealth #Kojima #konami #Playstation #mountrushmore
Which Video Games Make The Cut To Be On Your Mount Rushmore Of Gaming? - Active Time Event
Time and tide wait for no man. Even the rare individuals who have mastered “time management”, as it were… My years as a freelance writer ha...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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The Emotional Weight Of Tears: A Million Different Contexts- activetimeevent.com/2025/11/12/t...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #sadness #tears #emotional #weight #depression #sorrow #somber #lastofus #gex #bioshock #systemshock #ai #simulated #existentialism #writing
The Emotional Weight Of Tears: A Million Different Contexts - Active Time Event
I find that the only way to get through an astonishingly bleak scenario is to laugh your way through it. The rebellious nature of laughter in the face of abj...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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The Overton Window In Regards To AI Normalization: activetimeevent.com/2025/11/11/t...
#videogames #gamedesign #gaming #philosophy #metaphysics #ai #Normalization #overtonwindow #luddites #tech #development #finance #consumerism #capitalism #anxiety #society #dystopia #writing #whales #addiction
The Overton Window In Regards To AI Normalization - Active Time Event
The march of time is cruel and relentless… I’m guessing that’s why so many of us suffer cases of arrested development and remain children s...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Words Of Wisdom: Venerating Venn-Diagrammables- activetimeevent.com/2025/11/10/w...
#videogames #games #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #wordsofwisdom #Wisdom #thinking #criticalthinking #selfhelp #graphs #venndiagrams #data #science #theory
Words Of Wisdom: Venerating Venn-Diagrammables - Active Time Event
Life must be lived forward to be understood backwards, as Kierkegaard pointed out, and with good reason. A rich, varied sense of lived experience is key in c...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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My Friendly Neighborhood: Going Gonzo- activetimeevent.com/2025/11/09/m...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #writing #irony #darkhumor #parody #paradox #myfriendlyneighborhood #fps #survivalhorror #residentevil #sesamestreet #muppets #indie #saturdaymorningcartoons
My Friendly Neighborhood: Going Gonzo - Active Time Event
It takes all kinds to make a world… And if we borrow from the logic inherent in genetic legacy, the more diverse the better November has been quite the...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Standing Guard At The Gates Of Reason And Turmoil: activetimeevent.com/2025/11/08/s...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #writing #irony #myfriendlyneighborhood #paradox #survivalhorror #residentevil #sesamestreet #puppets #Reason #madness #thinking #fps #humor
Standing Guard At The Gates Of Reason And Turmoil - Active Time Event
In my many years on this Earth, one important notion that has continually revealed itself to be more true with the passage of time is simply: nothing is ever...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Quick Posit: Defining Revolutionary Standard- activetimeevent.com/2025/11/07/q...
#videogames #gaming #gamesesign #philosophy #metaphysics #writing #myfriendlyneighborhood #satire #irony #darkhumor #survivalhorror #residentevil #sesamestreet #puppets #darkcarnival #Revolutionary #Standard
Quick Posit: Defining Revolutionary Standard - Active Time Event
One of the reasons ‘DON’T PANIC‘ is a personal mantra of mine, is due to the fact that panicking never helps, and that it is important to r...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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My Friendly Neighborhood: Swallowing Crow Puppet Style: activetimeevent.com/2025/11/06/m...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #writing #irony #satire #darkhumor #puppetmurderorgy #myfriendlyneighborhood #survivalhorror #residentevil #sesamestreet #saturdaymorningcartoons
My Friendly Neighborhood: Swallowing Crow Puppet Style - Active Time Event
Everyone is always looking to pass the buck, when all they really need to do to find the source for all their frustrations involves staring into a mirror. Yo...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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My Friendly Neighborhood: Sucking Felt In A Back Alley- activetimeevent.com/2025/11/05/m...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #fingerfeeling #thinking #theory #writing #myfriendlyneighborhood #survivalhorror #residentevil #sesamestreet #fps #irony #satire #darkhumor
My Friendly Neighborhood: Sucking Felt In A back Alley - Active Time Event
Slow and steady wins the race, and tripping right out of the gate isn’t necessarily a death knell. (Picture somehow related) Reflecting back on my post...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Beyond The Pretense Of Inbred Homogenization: activetimeevent.com/2025/11/04/b...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #writing #ideology #marx #indie #myfriendlyneighborhood #survivalhorror #residentevil #sesamestreet #Muppets #homogenization #socialscience #theory
Beyond The Pretense of Inbred Homogenization - Active Time Event
We are often plagued with a sense of shallow myopia, by being exposed only to the familiar reality we condemn ourselves to, by seeing only what we focus on, ...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Words of Wisdom: Self-Reflective Dynamism- activetimeevent.com/2025/11/03/w...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #wordsofwisdom #Wisdom #mirror #selfhelp #fear #anxiety #existentialism #writing #socraticmethod #self-reflection #Plato #silksong #axiom #vibe
Words Of Wisdom: Self-Reflective Dynamism - Active Time Event
Self-identity can be a tricky thing, as we don’t always like who we see in the mirror. (Be the example of what you desire to see in the world) Which is...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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My Friendly Neighborhood: The White Whale Standard- activetimeevent.com/2025/11/02/m... #videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #residentevil #sesamestreet #writing #whitewhale #survivalhorror #consumerism #myfriendlyneighborhood #impossible
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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My Friendly Neighborhood: Technical Difficulties: activetimeevent.com/2025/11/01/m...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #myfriendlyneighborhood #survivalhorror #absurdity #Muppets #residentevil #sesamestreet
My Friendly Neighborhood: Technical Difficulties - Active Time Event
Just because Halloween is over, does not mean we are yet free of the truly terrifying. Existential dread often comes packaged in the yuletide persuasion as well With Spoopy season behind us, I tip my ...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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The Blood Curdling Reality Of Your Bank Account Balance: activetimeevent.com/2025/10/31/t...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #finance #fear #anxiety #writing #spoopy #Halloween #scary #survivalhorror #residentevil #silenthill #silksong #capitalism #Marxism #alienation
The Blood Curdling Reality Of Your Bank Account Balance - Active Time Event
Halloween has a lot to compete with these days in the fear factor department, when the every day is already filled to the brim with horrendously terrifying elements to contend with. The Nope Factor is...
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November 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Hey Bluesky, I'm quite the hermit, so it takes a lot for me to be sociable, which is why I'm forcing myself to not just post a gaming article I've written today and say Happy Halloween, and share a picture of my void darling Uno to celebrate the spoopy season. Stay Groovy. #cats #spoopy #videogames
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Stranded At The Station Of Indecision: activetimeevent.com/2025/10/30/s...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #existentialism #thinking #anxiety #fear #spoopy #writing #cosmic #space #horror #sci-fi #returnal #roguelike
Stranded At The Station of Indecision - Active Time Event
Given the state of the world as it stands, the only thing I can think of more terrifying than this year ending is next year beginning. The horrendous and the terrifying don’t end just because Hallowee...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Returnal: Et Tu, Deja Vu?- activetimeevent.com/2025/10/29/r...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #returnal #scifi #timetravel #deathloop #timeywimey #writing #roguelike
Returnal: Et Tu, Deja Vu? - Active Time Event
While video games provide a lot of different options in terms of what one can play, part of the difficulty is in fact just honing in on one single thing to focus on. So many things to focus on, so lit...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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The Existential Joy Of Self-Negation Through Mastery: activetimeevent.com/2025/10/28/t...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #existentialism #fear #anxiety #spoopy #writing #survivalhorror #silenthill #residentevil #slenderman #walkingsimulator #speedrunning
The Existential Joy Of Self-Negation Through Mastery - Active Time Event
The irony of the ‘Spoopy season is that it is always over compensating with fear and dread, as the average person deals with something much scarier than whatever Halloween can throw at us. I.E. the sc...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Words of Wisdom: Ratifying Radiance- activetimeevent.com/2025/10/27/w...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #wordsofwisdom #wisdom #inspiration #proverbs #advice
Words Of Wisdom: Ratifying Radiance - Active Time Event
Even the most confident of us need help at times, and it’s important to know who to turn to in providing the guiding light of clarity, to help us find our way out of the darkness. A Dayman, if you wil...
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October 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Theory Vs Execution: Fearful Intent- activetimeevent.com/2025/10/26/t...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #fear #anxiety #writing #spoopy #survivalhorror #theory #Execution #silenthill #silenthill2remake #pyramidhead #konami #blooperteam
Theory Vs Execution: Fearful Intent - Active Time Event
There’s something to be said about the satisfaction that comes with “flipping the script”, and turning a situation on it’s head. What the monsters in Silent Hill look like when they realize I’m not go...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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A Chainsaw By Any Other Name: activetimeevent.com/2025/10/25/a...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #fear #anxiety #spoopy #survivalhorror #writing #Shakespeare #silenthill #silenthill2remake #residentevil #silksong #konami #blooperteam #chainsaw
A Chainsaw By Any Other Name - Active Time Event
Always important to keep in mind we do the best with what we have… …even if the battle is ultimately futile I was about to remark “now with Silent Hill in my rear view mirror”, in an effort of a more ...
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October 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Silent Hill 2 Remake: Occult Opulence- activetimeevent.com/2025/10/24/s...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #fear #anxiety #spoopy #writing #survivalhorror #silenthill #silenthill2remake #konamj #blooperteam
Silent Hill 2 Remake: Occult Opulence - Active Time Event
Let it not be said that life has a cruel sense of humor… Even the act of charity can act as a grim omen of the turning of tides in ones immediate future Yesterday was a rare moment in the style of man...
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October 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Silent Hill: Where Nightmares Bleed Into Reality- activetimeevent.com/2025/10/23/s...
#videogames #games #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #writing #fear #anxiety #depression #nightmare #hell #occult #spoopy #survivalhorror #silenthill #blooperteam #konami
Silent Hill: Where Nightmares Bleed Into Reality - Active Time Event
We are constantly at odds with ourselves, only thinking we know what we really desire. We are often times betrayed by our own desires Not sure if my current predicament is just an extraordinary coinci...
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October 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Like Squeezing Blood From A Rock: activetimeevent.com/2025/10/22/l...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #fear #anxiety #depression #writing #spoopy #survivalhorror #Davidlynch #jacobsladder #silenthill #konami #residentevil #capcom
Like Squeezing Blood From A Rock - Active Time Event
Sometimes, the sweet treat we thought we had, reveals itself to contain horror beyond imagination. This is most certainly not what mamma told me life was going to be like *clap, clap, clap, clap* In m...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Uniquely Familiar Feelings With Knowing The Fear Of The Unknown- activetimeevent.com/2025/10/21/u...
#videogames #gaming #gamedesign #philosophy #metaphysics #fear #anxiety #spoopy #depression #writing #survivalhoror #silenthill #residentevil #konami #capcom
Uniquely Familiar Feelings Knowing the Fear Of The Unknown - Active Time Event
The paradoxical nature of apathetically drenched fear is thusly: it is impossible to be scared shitless when one doesn’t have a single shit left to give. More like “rough month” for me, but same vibes...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM