It's been a hard week. Like many, I am struggling to find words to fill the emptiness of my soul in this weary world. Most days, I am able to power through with the help of massive amounts of caffeine and spite. I am determined to not let the bastards outlive me. But this week was a series of black dog days where little is enjoyable and every little pinprick of annoyance turns into a sword.

You think they serve you. But they'll be there long after you're gone. This week I've been contemplating zombies. Now, my favorite version of the risen is Shaun of the Dead. Not only is it one of the funniest movies ever made, it ends with people just continuing to exist after cataclysm. Liz and Shaun clean up the blood, ignore the death rattles from the shed, and use the newly dead for menial labor.

Today, we must talk about the Grave Keeper himself. Not as a lost hero, not as a cruel victim of the Ancient Contract. But as Greed incarnate. The Sin is You -The Seven Deadly Sins as Quest-Givers Graveyard Keeper is structured like a catechism of decay. Each major quest-giving NPC embodies one of the Seven Deadly Sins, not by accident but by design:

I never expected to develop a strange new class consciousness—or rediscover religion—in a pixelated medieval corpse-management sim. Graveyard Keeper is an incredibly inaccurate historical depiction of cemetery work. After a car accident, our unnamed protagonist wakes up in a vaguely medieval village and is promptly declared the new Keeper of the local graveyard. The promise is simple: manage the graveyard, improve the church, do a good job… and maybe, one day, you'll go home.

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Lately, it seems like those in power are working toward that end. And worse, some of us are cheering it on. I’m a typical middle-aged millennial in the Midwest muddling over minutia. I go to …