grace
@gracemachine.bsky.social
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Killing Our Gods: Essays on Religion, Christianity, and Video Games - ebook by graceinthemachine
criticism and rambling on digital media and its divine discontents.
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Hi! you can buy the ebook for Killing Our Gods on itch RIGHT NOW. It's a collection of essays on Christianity, religion, and video games! @dialacina.com wrote a introduction for it! It's good!
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We saw. we gamed. We talked for three hours about it.
Episode 39: Silent Hill f www.abnormalmapping.com/the-safe-roo...
Episode 39: Silent Hill f — Abnormal Mapping
Rose and Grace discuss the first (good) Silent Hill game since SH4! We talk over its deeply felt depiction of growing up, its introduction of real ensemble dynamics to the franchise, and its exhaustin...
www.abnormalmapping.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We saw. we gamed. We talked for three hours about it.
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Hello. This is probably the best episode of The Safe Room podcast. Give it a listen and tell your pals. Thank you
Episode 39: Silent Hill f www.abnormalmapping.com/the-safe-roo...
Episode 39: Silent Hill f — Abnormal Mapping
Rose and Grace discuss the first (good) Silent Hill game since SH4! We talk over its deeply felt depiction of growing up, its introduction of real ensemble dynamics to the franchise, and its exhaustin...
www.abnormalmapping.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Hello. This is probably the best episode of The Safe Room podcast. Give it a listen and tell your pals. Thank you
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Episode 39: Silent Hill f www.abnormalmapping.com/the-safe-roo...
Episode 39: Silent Hill f — Abnormal Mapping
Rose and Grace discuss the first (good) Silent Hill game since SH4! We talk over its deeply felt depiction of growing up, its introduction of real ensemble dynamics to the franchise, and its exhaustin...
www.abnormalmapping.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Episode 39: Silent Hill f www.abnormalmapping.com/the-safe-roo...
I was right lol
This is going to be a big ep...
Now is the time to send us emails about Silent Hill f! Ask us anything! questions@spookygame.club !
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I was right lol
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670/1600!!! Any help keeping this momentum up by boosting means a lot!!
🚨EMERGENCY🚨 We’re a day late on rent and only at 75/1600! The last time we were two days late on rent, our apartment served us a letter of intent to bring us to court. We don’t have any options but to continue to ask for help. If you see this, a repost and $1 would help us out a lot! 🫶 #MutualAid
🚨TIME SENSITIVE🚨Salem and I are struggling to pay rent, due TODAY, which has ballooned due to overdraft fees + food that SNAP would have covered. We’re two physically disabled trans lesbians trying our best and would really appreciate any help. Every $1 gives us so much relief! #MutualAid
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
670/1600!!! Any help keeping this momentum up by boosting means a lot!!
This is going to be a big ep...
Now is the time to send us emails about Silent Hill f! Ask us anything! questions@spookygame.club !
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is going to be a big ep...
Closet Crit returns and Sophie is back!!! For $1 a month you can hear my best friend and I yap about one of the best short stories ever written!
Closet Crit Episode 5: The Evening, the Morning, and the Night by Octavia Butler | The Safe Room
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November 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Closet Crit returns and Sophie is back!!! For $1 a month you can hear my best friend and I yap about one of the best short stories ever written!
My co-editor wraps up our issue on IF with an interrogative and expansive essay on the ideological underpinings of desktop interfaces. Really rewarding and complex work.
@phoenixsimms.bsky.social reflects on why there was an increasing emphasis in the 2010s on IF storytelling via interfaces like desktops and apps.
IF's Retrofuturist Roots
Amping up retro technological friction encourages the player to decipher an IF game's interface as if it is an alien device with its own "emotional language".
www.tier-review.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
My co-editor wraps up our issue on IF with an interrogative and expansive essay on the ideological underpinings of desktop interfaces. Really rewarding and complex work.
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Whenever I think about IF in the 2010s, I always notice that game designers were interested in retrofuturist takes on computer desktops. The first one I encountered, Digital: A Love Story, was even designed by someone who didn't grow up with the interfaces central to the game, namely the BBS.
@phoenixsimms.bsky.social reflects on why there was an increasing emphasis in the 2010s on IF storytelling via interfaces like desktops and apps.
IF's Retrofuturist Roots
Amping up retro technological friction encourages the player to decipher an IF game's interface as if it is an alien device with its own "emotional language".
www.tier-review.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Whenever I think about IF in the 2010s, I always notice that game designers were interested in retrofuturist takes on computer desktops. The first one I encountered, Digital: A Love Story, was even designed by someone who didn't grow up with the interfaces central to the game, namely the BBS.
We are continuing to post about IF... the issue is our most diverse and expansive yet...
For our IF issue, Mazen Haggag explores the tortured logics of Horse Master and how the game creates terror out of a lack of agency.
“The world is sick and ugly”
The limitations of Interactive Fiction provide a unique avenue for horror.
Text based games cannot replicate the kind of tension that many survival horror games thrive in. The possibilities for emerg...
www.tier-review.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We are continuing to post about IF... the issue is our most diverse and expansive yet...
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New Stop Caring article from yours truly.
@quimbles.bsky.social forced me to play the impressively mediocre videogame The Evil Within, so to """spite""" them I wrote about how the forced stealth section at the beginning reminded me of having sex with men.
Always appreciate a read or a share!
@quimbles.bsky.social forced me to play the impressively mediocre videogame The Evil Within, so to """spite""" them I wrote about how the forced stealth section at the beginning reminded me of having sex with men.
Always appreciate a read or a share!
Sex With a Sadist
The psycho-homosexual drama of The Evil Within's intro.
www.stopcar.ing
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
New Stop Caring article from yours truly.
@quimbles.bsky.social forced me to play the impressively mediocre videogame The Evil Within, so to """spite""" them I wrote about how the forced stealth section at the beginning reminded me of having sex with men.
Always appreciate a read or a share!
@quimbles.bsky.social forced me to play the impressively mediocre videogame The Evil Within, so to """spite""" them I wrote about how the forced stealth section at the beginning reminded me of having sex with men.
Always appreciate a read or a share!
Tried to dig into SHf's themes of domesticity and how they relate to these threads throughout the series.
Silent Hill's most potent theme has always been of home and women's roles in it, and it's never been more profound than in Silent Hill f. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...
Silent Hill f Is the Series' Most Profound Reckoning with the Horror of Home
Silent Hill's most potent theme has always been of home and women's roles in it, and it's never been more profound than in Silent Hill f.
www.endlessmode.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tried to dig into SHf's themes of domesticity and how they relate to these threads throughout the series.
Was replaying Halo 1 years ago and my wife told me to “stop shooting the flood” because they were “hungry little babies.” Time has validated her in ways neither of us could have imagined.
October 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Was replaying Halo 1 years ago and my wife told me to “stop shooting the flood” because they were “hungry little babies.” Time has validated her in ways neither of us could have imagined.
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40/1000!! We still need an immediate ~$60 to take care of Salem’s overdraft, as well as get food and some of Salem’s meds. We’d really appreciate any reposts! Every $1 helps! #MutualAidRequest
Salem’s been hit with back-to-back bills and is sitting at an overdraft of $100. We’re missing about $800 for rent due on the 5th. And the likely cutting of SNAP benefits is hitting us hard. We’re desperate — please repost to help two disabled trans lesbians raise $1000! #MutualAid
October 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
40/1000!! We still need an immediate ~$60 to take care of Salem’s overdraft, as well as get food and some of Salem’s meds. We’d really appreciate any reposts! Every $1 helps! #MutualAidRequest
Saw some ages ago say that they should make a silent hill about a gay man and I would humbly submit that this is SH2.
October 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Saw some ages ago say that they should make a silent hill about a gay man and I would humbly submit that this is SH2.
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I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.
October 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.
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READER BEWARE: FUNLAND NO. 04 IS ALIVE!!!
Spill BLOOD with KEVIN KILSTROM ahead of @nightdivestudios.bsky.social's REFRESHED SUPPLY. Go into the BEAK OF MADNESS with @veselekov.bsky.social. Can you SURVIVE @puppetcombo.bsky.social's movie debut?
Cover by Plastiboo!
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Spill BLOOD with KEVIN KILSTROM ahead of @nightdivestudios.bsky.social's REFRESHED SUPPLY. Go into the BEAK OF MADNESS with @veselekov.bsky.social. Can you SURVIVE @puppetcombo.bsky.social's movie debut?
Cover by Plastiboo!
funland.itch.io/funland-zine...
October 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
READER BEWARE: FUNLAND NO. 04 IS ALIVE!!!
Spill BLOOD with KEVIN KILSTROM ahead of @nightdivestudios.bsky.social's REFRESHED SUPPLY. Go into the BEAK OF MADNESS with @veselekov.bsky.social. Can you SURVIVE @puppetcombo.bsky.social's movie debut?
Cover by Plastiboo!
funland.itch.io/funland-zine...
Spill BLOOD with KEVIN KILSTROM ahead of @nightdivestudios.bsky.social's REFRESHED SUPPLY. Go into the BEAK OF MADNESS with @veselekov.bsky.social. Can you SURVIVE @puppetcombo.bsky.social's movie debut?
Cover by Plastiboo!
funland.itch.io/funland-zine...
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The review crew (@strida.bsky.social, @gracemachine.bsky.social, @crapstacular.bsky.social, @grahamsig.bsky.social, @thestacks.ca, @daviscox.bsky.social) encounter CHILDREN OF CLAY, THE DRIFTER +MORE!
Issues available on @itch.io. Want to save? Consider subscribing: www.patreon.com/funlandmag
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October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The review crew (@strida.bsky.social, @gracemachine.bsky.social, @crapstacular.bsky.social, @grahamsig.bsky.social, @thestacks.ca, @daviscox.bsky.social) encounter CHILDREN OF CLAY, THE DRIFTER +MORE!
Issues available on @itch.io. Want to save? Consider subscribing: www.patreon.com/funlandmag
Issues available on @itch.io. Want to save? Consider subscribing: www.patreon.com/funlandmag
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I've pledged not to write for the NYT until it reviews its anti-Palestinian bias, retracts "Screams Without Words," and calls for a U.S. arms embargo on Israel. I'm honored to join Catherine Lacey, Kiese Laymon, Sally Rooney, and many more in this www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...
No Opinion — The New York Times: Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe
www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I've pledged not to write for the NYT until it reviews its anti-Palestinian bias, retracts "Screams Without Words," and calls for a U.S. arms embargo on Israel. I'm honored to join Catherine Lacey, Kiese Laymon, Sally Rooney, and many more in this www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...
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Always great to have @gracemachine.bsky.social on the site, in this case interrogating (on its 70th anniversary) why Return Of The King's most interesting chapter never makes the cut.
Peter Jackson made many cuts while fitting J.R.R. Tolkien into cinematic form, but none crueler than The Scouring Of The Shire.
Why do Return Of The King adaptations flinch away from its most crucial chapter?
Why do Return Of The King adaptations flinch away from its most crucial chapter?
www.avclub.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Always great to have @gracemachine.bsky.social on the site, in this case interrogating (on its 70th anniversary) why Return Of The King's most interesting chapter never makes the cut.
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Salem’s been hit with back-to-back bills and is sitting at an overdraft of $100. We’re missing about $800 for rent due on the 5th. And the likely cutting of SNAP benefits is hitting us hard. We’re desperate — please repost to help two disabled trans lesbians raise $1000! #MutualAid
October 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Salem’s been hit with back-to-back bills and is sitting at an overdraft of $100. We’re missing about $800 for rent due on the 5th. And the likely cutting of SNAP benefits is hitting us hard. We’re desperate — please repost to help two disabled trans lesbians raise $1000! #MutualAid
Wrote about Return of the King’s thematic lynchpin, the chapter that most hovers in my mind.
Peter Jackson made many cuts while fitting J.R.R. Tolkien into cinematic form, but none crueler than The Scouring Of The Shire.
Why do Return Of The King adaptations flinch away from its most crucial chapter?
Why do Return Of The King adaptations flinch away from its most crucial chapter?
www.avclub.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Wrote about Return of the King’s thematic lynchpin, the chapter that most hovers in my mind.
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In her first interview since he was killed by federal agents, Silverio Villegas González's partner Blanca Mora talked about the impact his death has had on their family.
Be sure to read this moving piece by Alma Campos about Silverio's final journey back to Loma de Chupio, Michoacán.
Be sure to read this moving piece by Alma Campos about Silverio's final journey back to Loma de Chupio, Michoacán.
A Tragic Homecoming
The casket of Silverio Villegas González rests inside his family’s modest home in Michoacán.
southsideweekly.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
In her first interview since he was killed by federal agents, Silverio Villegas González's partner Blanca Mora talked about the impact his death has had on their family.
Be sure to read this moving piece by Alma Campos about Silverio's final journey back to Loma de Chupio, Michoacán.
Be sure to read this moving piece by Alma Campos about Silverio's final journey back to Loma de Chupio, Michoacán.
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We’re still at $112; getting $100 more would really help us out with food for the rest of the month. Please boost to help out two trans lesbians! #MutualAid
Hey all: Salem and I really need $150 for the next few days for food, gas, doctors appointments, and meds. Any help would be greatly appreciated! #MutualAid #MutualAidBoost #MutualAidRequest
October 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We’re still at $112; getting $100 more would really help us out with food for the rest of the month. Please boost to help out two trans lesbians! #MutualAid
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⚠️♿️⚠️
Doaa is an embroiderer.
She managed to escape to Egypt
with her 6yo child Omar who has autism.
Doaa is now with no support.
The rest of her family remained in Gaza.
She is trying to help Omar and
her family in Gaza.
Please help.
✅ Verified by Molly Shah
chuffed.org/project/1153...
Doaa is an embroiderer.
She managed to escape to Egypt
with her 6yo child Omar who has autism.
Doaa is now with no support.
The rest of her family remained in Gaza.
She is trying to help Omar and
her family in Gaza.
Please help.
✅ Verified by Molly Shah
chuffed.org/project/1153...
October 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
⚠️♿️⚠️
Doaa is an embroiderer.
She managed to escape to Egypt
with her 6yo child Omar who has autism.
Doaa is now with no support.
The rest of her family remained in Gaza.
She is trying to help Omar and
her family in Gaza.
Please help.
✅ Verified by Molly Shah
chuffed.org/project/1153...
Doaa is an embroiderer.
She managed to escape to Egypt
with her 6yo child Omar who has autism.
Doaa is now with no support.
The rest of her family remained in Gaza.
She is trying to help Omar and
her family in Gaza.
Please help.
✅ Verified by Molly Shah
chuffed.org/project/1153...