Author Archives: Miles

Invisible Embrace.

When one man dies it’s a tragedy, when a million men die it is a statistic. When a million grizzled and scarred veterans from the gloomy bowels of the internet dive into a downwards spiral of emotions it should shake … Continue reading

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Somewhere but not here

My dearest internet, I think I owe you an explanation. Although you may enjoy Jack’s well structured arguments, and biting witticisms. And my words. We are kind of on hiatus. This is until we get the chance to stop writing … Continue reading

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The Dead Island or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the trailer

By now it is statistically likely that you have seen the trailer. If not, it is stastically likely that a friend, a family member, or a loved one has seen the trailer. If not, statistics are irrelevant because you’re lying … Continue reading

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Emergency Future: Humanity Conjecture

Video games aside, there is a lot that has managed to arrest my interest within the sphere of humanity, a considerable amount of which has bled into my central essays on this blog. Regardless of what it is that I … Continue reading

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You are not welcome here

A house sits plump and in decay on the edge of town; empty, save for the aura is casts over anyone who glimpses its weathered facade and black, empty windows. What is simply an abandoned structure, cast away from the … Continue reading

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The Personal Narrative

I was wandering through a narrow stretch of path on the outskirts of the suburb where I live, wondering what constituted my human experience. Not long ago, a good friend of mine raised the question of how we think, and … Continue reading

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Narrative – the inorganic experience

Like a dog wandering amidst the plains and trenches of sleep, there has been something kicking away in the coils of my mind for a very long time. Well, at least since last year. Last year I began embarking on … Continue reading

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A topical update

…To distract from the current lack of topical updates. As shall be detailed in the next installment of me getting around to writing an article, I have been working on a mod. You can follow it here The Machination’s ModDB-type-thing … Continue reading

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Scenic World

The very idea of something being made just for us is more than enough to send the ego sprawled so deep within its leather-bound chair that it would take the force of a thousand suns to do as much as … Continue reading

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If these walls could talk

I’d have to say that my favourite narrative, if not favourite game of all time is Half Life 2. There I said it. I named, irrevocably, my favourite game of all time without so much as an act of prosaic … Continue reading

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