a new post is up on the calamity archives: a long, disappointed look at FINAL FANTASY XVI, a game that feels less like final fantasy and more like every fantasy. calamityarchives.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/f...
a new post is up on the calamity archives: a long, disappointed look at FINAL FANTASY XVI, a game that feels less like final fantasy and more like every fantasy. calamityarchives.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/f...
you know i always assumed poseidon would have had a good reason to mess with odysseus so much, but now that i'm actually reading the odyssey it is just kinda "fuck this guy in particular", huh
February 7, 2026 at 1:45 AM
you know i always assumed poseidon would have had a good reason to mess with odysseus so much, but now that i'm actually reading the odyssey it is just kinda "fuck this guy in particular", huh
a new post is up on the calamity archives: a long, disappointed look at FINAL FANTASY XVI, a game that feels less like final fantasy and more like every fantasy. calamityarchives.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/f...
a new post is up on the calamity archives: a long, disappointed look at FINAL FANTASY XVI, a game that feels less like final fantasy and more like every fantasy. calamityarchives.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/f...
started writing my review of ff16 and it's gonna need a few passes because this is way too much negativity coming out of me for a game that could best be described as "boring" and "it exists"
February 3, 2026 at 10:24 PM
started writing my review of ff16 and it's gonna need a few passes because this is way too much negativity coming out of me for a game that could best be described as "boring" and "it exists"
A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro
"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
February 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
A tough one to sit with--but we must--is that some people's ability to make good art in part derived from, or was protected by, the fact that they were enabling or doing terrible things. See also: We Need to Talk about Cosby doc. Even more troubling on this score: Read deep reporting on Alice Munro