The Beautiful End of the World: Nature and Apocalypse in Video Games

So anyway, I guess it’s probably time to write another book.

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Re: The Beautiful End of the World

Just to get it off my chest: ecofascism is the idea that (a) environmental change is inevitable; (b) only “strong” people will survive the resulting disasters, and (c) this is how it should be. To give an example: It’s okay that people in Texas die during extreme heat events, because if they weren’t poor (and therefore without value as human beings) they would have AC or live somewhere else. Americans often like to give examples in other countries (generally in South Asia, and generally in relation to flooding, mainly in Bangladesh and Pakistan), but climate-related catastrophes definitely happen in the United States.

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Re: The Beautiful End of the World, part two

There's a type of writing about media that I've come to think of as "posting," and I get the feeling that it's probably best for me to avoid.

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Essentially, when it comes to this sort of longterm research project, I should write about what gives me joy instead of writing about what gives me panic attacks.