The accommodater vs. the accommodated

I notice feeling a dualism of roles: The one who accommodates and the one who is accommodated. This is a little like the 'helper'-'helped' relationship described in E-mailing the Lamas from Afar and a little like "the strongest person in our culture is

The benefit of "slacker monk mindset"

There's a certain narrative I think of as the slacker monk story. It says: Don't get involved, man. Keep your head down. It's not worth it. What "it" is doesn't matter. Usually it means volunteering to interact on an ongoing

Confused stances? of submission and rebellion

I'm noticing a pattern of relating (which I want to call dysfunctional) that is about power. There is a subject and an authority. For example: A student and a teacher. A less-experienced person and a more-experienced person. A younger person and an older person. From the student/less-experienced/

Yuppie Psycho's delightful Mr. Swery

(Minor spoilers for Yuppie Psycho.) I love Mr. Swery from Yuppie Psycho. He's a delightful bright spot in a wasteland of an office building. He's the "ayy lmao" of this game. Mr. Swery lives in a gruesome, dangerous, and surreal world. Monsters, blood, and

Ghost stories come with a paranoid aftertaste

I find ghost stories often come with a paranoid aftertaste. I just finished playing Yuppie Psycho, a ghost story type of game. It's not the most intense example, and yet it still had me feeling slightly on edge after playing it intensely for two days and after thinking