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The Non-Player Review of Video Games: The Music of the BioShock Series

| June 25, 2025

I love music in general, and music in video games is a large part of what makes them memorable for me, possibly especially because I’m not playing the games. The first two BioShock games have a ton of music from the first half of the twentieth century, with a few assorted pieces from earlier and […]

The Non-Player Review of Video Games: Where are the Big Daddies?

| January 15, 2025

Jeremy curates lists of YouTube videos for me, which include trailers that he thinks I might be interested in. Which means that when the trailer for theĀ Fallout TV series came out, he put that on the list. I watched it with some confusion, because I didn’t remember any wild west zombies, and the weapons didn’t […]