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Stacie Ponder is a writer, artist, gamer, and swamp hag best known for her long-running horror blog Final Girl (www.finalgirl.rocks) and her love of pizza.

My roommate has a copy of this that we played together ten years ago. I wanted to revisit it as this game pops into my mind every now and then. Very memorable game due to the sexual under- and over-tones. I want to see if I would consider it problematic myself, as like you said overtly it seems to be a typical game Read more

I think you’ve offered up a very well-written, very kind obituary to Friday the 13th: The Game. Read more

......im currently in my third year, first playthrough.....and..... i dont know if i can continue playing this game the same way ever again.... especaily since the wizard does say that his ex wife now spends her days roaming the countryside cursing hapless villagers. Now when i go into town i’ll think im walking into a Read more

I’m not going to lie, I love Emily. There’s a few reasons for that — mainly that I feel she’s too easy to hate, almost cartoonishly over the top so. In contrast everyone else (who do MANY scummy things, including Jess, who seems was the brains behind the prank that set this all off) who get off super easily/have their Read more

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I got her crushed in the rock grinder by mistake, but honestly, after finding her insufferable up until then, I didn’t feel bad!

I’m with you on the jump scare nonsense; it’s such a cheap way of generating fear. Read more

Something like this would make me finally find a personal reason to buy a VR headset. I’d really go for the horror stuff. And by horror I mean something like this or the lost holy grail that was Silen Hills PT.... not that stupid jump scare crap like FNAF.
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I left the Evangelical tradition after the election of 45, when it became clear to me that nobody believed a damn word of the holy book they claimed to be central to their life. Still a Christian, but not Evangelical. Read more

I really appreciate that you took the time to parse out the nuance and complexity evident in Faith’s character. She really is trying to be all things to all people—but I stop short of according her the level of sympathy you’re showing here, for three reasons:

First and foremost, even if she’s now clean, she’s actively Read more

I’m actually a little bit disappointed - when I saw Silent Hill in the thumbnail, I came down here ready for a rumble. Easily the best film adaptation of a video game, period (not counting animation), and I will fight for it’s honor. Read more

It was great how the REmake played with expectations of that hallway. Read more

When it rains, the noises creep me out Read more

I’ve never seen someone be so completely, absolute, horrifically wrong about something. Read more

2015: Carol.

Blows my mind how it wasn’t. Read more