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A Cruise Skeptic Sails to Alaska

A Cruise Skeptic Sails to Alaska

12. July 2016 · by Rydain Darkstar · in Travel

I hiked. I biked. I trekked on a glacier past swirling blue holes of death. I toured totem pole parks and historic bordellos. And of course there was beer.

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Himeji Castle

Adventures in Kyoto and Beyond

1. November 2020 · by Rydain Darkstar · in Travel

In which a dear friend’s wedding brings us halfway around the world for sushi-fueled city exploration, temples and gardens and traditional performances, reflections on the weight of history, more friendly fortuitous meetups, and a fancy photo shoot of our own.

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.projekt

.projekt

29. May 2018 · by Rydain Darkstar · in Reviews

Smart, smooth, and satisfying, .projekt takes a constructive approach to puzzles of shadow casting.

We are the Music Makers

We are the Music Makers

13. August 2017 · by Rydain Darkstar · in Creations

Redd Rockridge and Tequila Belle of The Sexy Brutale making beautiful music together.

The Sexy Brutale

The Sexy Brutale

22. April 2017 · by Rydain Darkstar · in Reviews

A cheekily macabre game of stumbling across murder, rewinding time to solve it, and losing oneself in the sumptuous style of its finely tuned clockwork world.

The Silent Age

The Silent Age

6. March 2017 · by Rydain Darkstar · in Reviews

On paper, The Silent Age is a standard point and click puzzler with a familiar time travel premise. As an experience, it rises above this common foundation with engaging atmosphere, smooth pacing, and pervasive situational humor from its likable Everyman protagonist.

Hidden Folks

Hidden Folks

25. February 2017 · by Rydain Darkstar · in Reviews

An absurdly adorable and lovingly crafted game of Find the Stuff. Packed with detailed vignettes in constant gentle motion, brought to life with a gleeful variety of spoken beeps and percussion and chatter, it’s as if an artist gave voice to a flip book which somehow became interactive.

After Coal

After Coal

6. December 2016 · by Rydain Darkstar · in Reviews

After Coal examines the renaissance of mining towns in eastern Kentucky and South Wales, the socioeconomic challenges of transitioning away from fossil fuel extraction, and the ground-up change through which these communities establish a new identity.

Precarious Perch

Precarious Perch

4. December 2016 · by Rydain Darkstar · in Creations

Rescue Ranger Cao Ren saves a cat.

Henry Rollins Spoken Word Tour 2016

Henry Rollins Spoken Word Tour 2016

11. November 2016 · by Rydain Darkstar · in Reviews

Like being shoved off a launching platform down a two-hour slide through Willy Wonka’s riverboat tunnel, but through a kaleidoscope of allusions and insight and inspiration rather than headless chicken nightmare fuel.

Blathering Past Writer's Block

Blathering Past Writer’s Block

26. October 2016 · by Rydain Darkstar · in Advice & Tutorials

Quantity over quality can get you past the trap of rethinking your work before completion. It can also trap you into writing reams of useless material for its own sake. You can’t edit a blank page, but you do need potential for refinement. For that, you can harness the quantity beast by giving it a sense of direction.

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