Author: Chuck
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Look Into Your Heart
Animal Crossing: New Leaf brought out the darkest parts of my personality. It’s still better than free-to-play.
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A Country Boy Can Survive
on a multi-million dollar multimedia and merchandising agreement. A bit of faux-populism is more valuable than any number of duck calls.
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Bilbo of the Nine Hours
The Desolation of Smaug is as overstuffed and self-indulgent as its title. But that’s kind of the point of the whole thing.
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Wicked Cold
Frozen is ridiculously charming and makes me optimistic about a resurgence in Disney Feature Animation
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What Nintendon’t
Overcome the overwhelming sense of futility in video games with this one weird trick
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One In a Million
Device 6 is what I imagine all the books on The Island in The Prisoner were like. (In other words: it’s amazing).
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Gorilla Filmmaking
On Escape from Tomorrow, how Disney works, and why more people seriously need to read David Foster Wallace already.
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Men Are From World 1-1, Women Are From World 2-2
What we talk about when we talk about female video game characters
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Miss Opportunity
Grand Theft Auto 5, the true death of satire, and giving audiences what you think they want
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Ms. Representation
An objection to Strong Female Characters reveals how well-intentioned discussions of gender politics invariably become divisive and unproductive.