Somehow another year has passed, and though I theoretically can still blame the pandemic for […]
Author: Parker LaMascus
Star Wars and Genre: A Mixing of Categories
One of the things I love about Star Wars is that it is many things […]
Tact Into A Corner: Optimizing Fun
Like many children of the ’90s, I have fond memories of discovering the Pokémon game […]
Second. Annual. Poley. Awards. (2020)
Another year passed, this one in a haze of COVID-19 and in a fog of […]
Tact Into a Corner: Luck vs Skill
The game-theory concept of luck is famously elusive. Luck sometimes operates like an “invisible hand”, […]
Tact Into A Corner: A Primer on Tactical Heuristics
The year is 2035. Aliens have invaded Earth and subjugated its population. You are awakened […]
Quanta of Wisdom, 11-20
Time does not travel in a line, but a circle. The only thing greater than […]
Snowpiercer: Allegory & Opiate
A great train speeds through icy wastes, ferrying the last remnants of humanity through an […]
Pandemic
One fortnight ago, I deeply dreamed, even as my legs propelled me along the shore. […]
Exodus
Anxious work we to forstall The plague that has made slaves of all, Heedless of […]