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Literate and nerdy. By Michael James Boyle.

Kentucky Route Zero

Apr 17, 2015

Kentucky Route Zero

Kentucky Route Zero

Cardboard Computer

January 2013 (Act I)

It’s somewhere after 4 AM, and I’m fighting my mouse cursor, trying to keep it from the button that will make me take a drink. It seems avoidable, the obvious right choice, but as I click to move on, the cursor slips, moving deliberately back to the drink. There’s a slowness to the movement, but it happens quickly enough that I’m not immediately sure what happened. Did the game register my click and contradict me? Or did it anticipate me somehow? Did it place me in one of those dreams where you see in real time, but your every movement is through molasses? Has it extended that instant while my finger depresses, drawing the cursor back while I watch, unable to stop what is already in motion? When the moment breaks, and my finger completes it’s eighth inch of travel, I’m hovering over the drink. I take it.

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May 16, 2018

My wife, Sasha, shared this audio clip with me this morning and I discovered 2018’s version of The Dress. The clip is a high pitched robotic voice repeating “Yanny” over and over… Or wait, it’s a low pitched man’s voice repeating, “Laurel.” I decided to dig a little deeper.

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May 18, 2017

I’m trying not to get into the practice of spouting off at people I don’t know on Twitter who are, mostly, just venting to each other, but I’m seeing a continuing and building pattern in lefty spaces that frustrates the hell out of me. So rather than try to speak up to people who really don’t need some random dude poking his head in to #wellactually them, I’m going to do my own venting and shout into the void here.

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Feb 1, 2017

The thing I’m finding most frustrating, after more than a week of extreme frustration, is a thing many conservative allies are doing, and it is this: the idea that any opposition to an action by Trump is illegitimate if that action is something another Republican might do.

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Mar 2, 2016

Everyone who’s throwing a fit right now, or perhaps even worse, tuning out because they don’t like any of the options in American politics, please stop and take a breath.

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