Wrestling Blather
This year feels like it has mostly been spent watching lots of wrestling
It good? Like, I never got into it when I was younger, got into Chikara a few years back, which was fun indie stuff (now gone, owner was awful). Been watching AEW since a partner introduced me to it.
AEW Dark (freebie Youtube weekly show) is really good! Like, goofy indie-vibe stuff with lots of high-flyers is my thing way more than growly musclemen, and Dark is way more that-kinda-thing than their main TV show (Dynamite).
Happily surprised that the one I look forward to every week is free on Youtube.
Hypnospace Outlaw is so fantastically good
I was worried it would just be a nostalgia trip, but instead it uses the period & the context as incredible framing to enable some incredible storytelling techniques
in part because what it simulates is corporate-space artificiality, the arbitrary mechanical rules and the forced detachment, so those aspects of gameplay enhance the immersion rather than damaging it
also playing with the detached-observer perspective, the mindset it pushes you into and all its contradictions
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