Essay
Hurt You So
A conceptual game about “real interaction” has players burning, electrocuting, and whipping each other. When they are finished, they may find Painstation was not the game they signed off on.
A conceptual game about “real interaction” has players burning, electrocuting, and whipping each other. When they are finished, they may find Painstation was not the game they signed off on.
When he walked past the office at 5:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, Paolo saw my wife and me sleeping facedown on a desk, sitting side-by-side on rolling chairs. On the screen of my laptop, the tail end of Kiki’s Delivery Service was squeaking away, Kirsten Dunst’s piercing voice somehow failing to wake us. Later that morning, when we got up after our hour-and-a-half of sleep, Paolo told us he’d seen us. He told us, “You were beautiful.”