by April Tyack (October 27, 2016) Video games, like other media, often use seers, oracles, or other fortune-telling people as plot devices. These non-player characters largely exist to offer one-time insight into the game’s plot through prophecy, providing cryptic or fragmented information about your character’s destiny as a way to…

by Megan Liu (August 5, 2016) You’re raised to think family is everything, that family is the most important thing in life, that family is the foundation for everything that you are. They’re your blood — doesn’t that have to mean something? Recently, I read an AskReddit thread titled, “Survivors…

by Emilie Rākete (August 1, 2016) What happens when human survival stops being an absolute limit on capital’s ability to infinitely expand itself? What will it mean when humanity becomes yet another barrier for capital to overcome? 2.3 billion years ago, the dominant mode of production was the respiration of…

by Severin Noakes (August 8, 2016) The Wicker Man is the greatest film ever made. So great, in fact, its now infamous 2006 remake/carbuncle starring Nicolas Cage could only ever hope to materialise into what might be the most nauseatingly awful film of all time. And it did. It was…

by Danny Rood (April 11, 2016) The age-old question for any fan of The Simpsons: what’s your favourite episode? The glory run from season 2 through to about 11 is filled with heavy hitters and Homer’s Enemy is a particularly dark episode among them. It revolves around the workplace relationship…