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Niv M. Sultan

@nivmsultan.bsky.social

videogame critic, other stuff. he/him. nivmsultan.com

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Niv M. Sultan@nivmsultan.bsky.social · 4d ago

been really missing David Lynch lately. not in a parasocial way, just mourning the fact that we’ll never see him make something again. (thus has the Roadhouse set list been on repeat)

Niv M. Sultan@nivmsultan.bsky.social · last wk.

the problem with pursuing a public career after having done potentially catastrophic harm to someone is less in the obfuscation of it all than in your acceptance of the likelihood that the person you harmed may see your face, and hear about you, and see people praise you, again and again and again

Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · last wk.

A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.

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Niv M. Sultan@nivmsultan.bsky.social · 2w ago

not sure where the random encounter convo is stemming from, but my two cents is that random encounters are good and that sometimes you just need to get your shit blown up out of nowhere

Niv M. Sultan@nivmsultan.bsky.social · 2w ago

sharing this one more time — on the distinctive and inventive world Control Resonant creates. (trying to free myself from the need to discuss every single element, plus, and minus of a game when reviewing; how liberating)

Niv M. Sultan@nivmsultan.bsky.social · 2w ago

my review of Control Resonant, which remarkably maps Dylan's inner life onto an open world, reckons with COVID, and all but bursts with spectacle and emotive heft www.slantmagazine.com/games/contro...

Text: Traversal is far more compelling, as Control Resonant remarkably maps Dylan’s inner life onto his movement through the open world. Though Dylan’s capacity to levitate carries a sense of liberation—from the inconveniences of urban planning, from the F.B.C.’s unshakable grip on him—so, too, does it communicate his ostracization. Rather than walking among the F.B.C., whose agents hush their conversations or berate Dylan when he approaches, he soars above them, a pariah tolerated solely as a weapon. All the while, he floats across chasms with the same relaxed, Peter Pan-esque bearing as Jesse, underscoring her absence and his loneliness.
Niv M. Sultan@nivmsultan.bsky.social · 3w ago

conversations about videogames make a lot more sense when you realize that everyone's wrong, all the time. someone disagrees with you? they're wrong. someone agrees with you? they're wrong. does that mean you're wrong? yes, always