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Graphic Design is Hip-Hop
by Lone Archivist It’s the early 2000’s. Steven Ellison has a solid music career and a burgeoning label but isn’t yet a household name. He hasn’t been nominated for a grammy or scored the original animation Yasuke. He’s worked closely with Stephen Lee Bruner but the 1985 cartoon still comes up first when you Google…
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More than Vagabonds and Mystics, by Rue Dickey
The full title of this article, as it was originally published (Nerves Zine, 2021) is “More than Vagabonds and Mystics: Unlearning Roma and Sinti Stereotypes in TTRPGS.” Rue was kind enough to let me repost this for the site. Content Warnings: Mention of kidnapping, hypersexualization/fetishization, racism, genocide, Holocaust references, generational trauma, antisemitism A caravan of…
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A Curious Glance at DIE, the RPG
Kieron Gillen is partially responsible for this (gestures broadly at the website). Two years ago, at the height of the first wave of the pandemic, I was leaving my office job to go into games full time and I was scared and frustrated. Someone linked me to an article that could only be read in…
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Toward a Definition of Game, by Jared Sinclair
Jared helped me start my small Youtube career by writing Anti-Sisyphus, which begged me to make a video about it. He wrote this article for the Nerves Zine in 2021 and was gracious enough to let me post it here on the site. Enjoy. Toward a Definition of Game: Two Propositions and Their Antecedents 1.…
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Chris Bissette on what makes the “Thousand Year Old Companion” Special
Chris was kind enough to let me repost this article from their personal storefront/blog. It’s one of the articles I think about often as Fitting Into the Nerves Cannon. Enjoy. – John Content Warning: The essay touches briefly on an account of an abusive relationship, and gaslighting. It also contains spoilers for Tim Hutching’s Thousand…
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Meanwhile in the Subway is a poster with a big promise.
“Meanwhile, in the Subway” (MitS) revels in immensity. In print, you’re looking at a ninety by sixty centimeter poster. If you’re American like me, let me save you the trouble of googling that and tell you that it’s thirty-five by twenty-three inches, or three feet by two feet. Bigger than the mostly-useless maps that come…
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A Statement of Intent Against God and All of Gaming
Hi, My name is John Battle and welcome to project NERVES. This is the end of my rope. This is me doing what I should have done a long time ago and I bet there’s a great quote I could put here that would really tie it all together, but fuck you if you think…
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