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Jul 24, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jacob Austin
Fallout 414 hours agoSurprise, Fallout Fans Are Basically Getting An Entirely New Game TomorrowKotaku - Willa Rowe • 14hIf you’ve been waiting for the ambitious Fallout: London mod to release, then I have good news for you—it’s out tomorrow.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jacob Austin
Dungeons & Dragons often becomes an exercise of improvisation and quick thinking from the dungeon master. Even when ample time is available, creating …
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jacob Austin
Science3 hours agoAncient Mayan pyramid — still topped with offerings — located by satellite in Mexicokentucky.com - By Irene Wright • 3hWith the human eye, the area between the Mexican towns of Conhuás and Constitución is empty.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
popmatters.com | Jacob Austin
What often gets mistaken for liminality is more accurately kenopsia, or the eerie atmosphere of a place that is usually bustling with people but is now abandoned. Liminal spaces, meanwhile, are no-places, or between places, transitory stations. While the two are not entirely unrelated, and one may even act to enhance the feeling of the other, there are essential differences. Wim Wenders’ 1984 masterpiece, Paris, Texas, is concerned with the liminal.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jacob Austin
Diablo22 hours agoStruggling in No Rest for the Wicked? Stop playing it like Diablodestructoid.com • 22hNo Rest for the Wicked, Moon Studio’s new action RPG, is a little less Diablo than many players (myself included) were expecting.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jacob Austin
The Best Comic Book Tabletop Games In 2024Days of tabletop gaming and comic books often go hand-in-hand at local game stores. When you pick up your next board game consider these offerings …
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
popmatters.com | Jacob Austin
“I feel God in this Chili’s tonight” is an absurd line played for laughs by The Office’s Pam Beesly (Jenna Fisher in the US version of the series). Absurd, for wherever God may ultimately reside, it surely cannot be at the Scranton, Pennsylvania, Chili’s. However, that is not to say God or something that might be mistaken for God could not have been felt in this particular branch of America’s second most popular casual eatery. The location is unimportant.
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Jul 22, 2023 | 
esotericamagazine.substack.com | Jacob Austin
By Jacob Austin, The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas is hosting a traveling exhibit called Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art. One of the items on display is a conch shell trumpet. It sits alone, under halogen bulb, in a sterile glass box. The plaque and the voice on the audio tour recording reports that the Maya considered such objects to be ensouled. It has an entrancing presence, sad yet powerful, like many of the artifacts on display.
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Apr 27, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Luis Aguasvivas |Jordan Kessler |Ana Yorke |Jacob Austin
Everyone tells Joey that he “ain’t got no heart”, and he somewhat agrees. Sink: A Memoir written by award-winning writer Joseph Earl Thomas is an unusual coming-of-age tale. The protagonist, the aforementioned Joey—Thomas as a child – undergoes a transformation. Externally he physically grows to be the tallest kid in class, a noticeable change akin to when the Pokémon he loves evolve. Internally the transformation is much more subtle.
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Apr 27, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Ana Yorke |Jordan Kessler |Jacob Austin
With the dread of the COVID-19 pandemic and mass performance cancelations behind us (hopefully forever), music festivals across the (North)Western hemisphere have had all hands on deck for media exposure and prime slots on our Instagram and TikTok feeds for months already. Among the usual narratives of art, “freedom”, and “joy”, another trend has solidified in the post-pandemic reality: proliferation and franchising.
