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  <title><![CDATA[Master Chief Took His Helmet Off]]></title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Fidelity isn't the variable. The question is whether they understood what the thing was doing in the first place.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Are game companies talking to us, or at us?]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Basement flower shop, Canal St]]></title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[A frame with nothing attached. Just the door, the light, and whoever that is waiting at the bottom.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Kiersau Abbey, before anyone speaks]]></title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[A room drawn by hand, holding still, waiting for somebody to start the day.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Every game movie is a heist about memory]]></title>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Every one of them is trying to steal a feeling you had at fourteen, and most of them get caught.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Boys stopped following the comic. Good.]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The comic was a shrug at superheroes. The show is about the people who vote for them.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Andor owes the Expanded Universe nothing]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[The most unfaithful Star Wars project of the decade is also the only one that understood the assignment.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Last of Us is a better show than it is a game, and that's fine]]></title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Cutting the combat cut the part that was arguing with the story the whole time.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[Absolute Batman is a reboot that understands why reboots fail]]></title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Change the money, not the mask. Everything else follows from there.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Quarry, mid-levitate]]></title>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[A place that keeps running whether or not anybody is standing in it.]]></description>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Steam Deck is the console Valve never called a console]]></title>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description><![CDATA[Suspend and resume did more for how I actually play than any graphics card ever has.]]></description>
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