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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 3d

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Jonathan Thornton @jonathanthornton.bsky.social · 7d

My essay on @jennyhval.bsky.social ‘s books and music is now free on @typebarmagazine.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/a...

A Celebration of the Abject, the Queer, and the Arcane: The Work of Writer-Musician Jenny Hval - Typebar Magazine

Hval’s work, both in written and musical form, shows an artist willing to explore the limits of genres.

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Land of 10,000 Takes @notokayfabe.bsky.social · 8d

Just wrapped 2077 last night so I'm looking forward to reading this.

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

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Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 8d

I enjoyed reading this piece. I've ended up playing through this game a few different times, mostly provoked by writing and major updates and asks to do so, and each time I've gotten something different and weirder from it.

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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Mr. Emotion @mr-e-motion.bsky.social · 8d

My latest is now free to read!

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

"To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist. It flatters our desire to be special and also our desire to be absolved for our failures." -- Danny Cohen on our (un)exceptional present.

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/w...

White Noise, Talk Radio, and Our Unexceptional Present - Typebar Magazine

To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist.

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 8d

This is a fucking excellent review of reviews that takes roundabout aim at the by now exhausted and exhausting surface level didacticism of our criticism.

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 8d

Great article. One of the persistently funny things about the release of this game is how clearly so many reviewers had marinated in online discourse based on a largely imagined version of the genre. Of course the rough launch didn't do much to help it lol

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 8d

@gaycannibalism.bsky.social wrote an excellent essay and has got me thinking about giving the game another try.

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

Dread Delusion is a masterclass in designing game mechanics around a deeply thematic narrative, says @gaycannibalism.bsky.social

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/g...

Git Gud? More Like Get Literate: Dread Delusion and the Art of Gameplay-as-Story - Typebar Magazine

This game is about choice, belief, and the weight of being a person.

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 8d

If you liked my Cyberpunk piece, you'll love the numerous excellent thinkers and writers here at Typebar. Read around and subscribe, you won't be disappointed. Here's a thread to get you started.

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

Typebar Magazine Issue 7 is now FREE for EVERYONE.

Read all 10 magnificent essays on topics ranging from The Odyssey to Super Mario Bros. Threading all of them below!

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 9d

I think this might be one of the most clear-eyed articles about Cyberpunk 2077 I've read. Actually looking at the game's themes, rather than getting caught up on a thought-terminating cliche and single word in the title.

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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This Is Another Weird Website! @hoboabobo8d8.bsky.social · 9d

I enjoyed this article!

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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Down and Out in Hydaelyn's Embrace @sadgirlfantasy.bsky.social · 9d

Pretty good summary of the frustration I felt with early reviews of the game and whether it was "punk" when cyberpunk as a genre never was, not in the way people talked about it anyway. For better and worse it's a piece of art driven by the genre's exhausted cynicism

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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Patrick K Mills @pkernaghan.bsky.social · 9d

If you follow me you know how annoyed (too soft a word) I get with the superficial and misplaced criticism that Cyberpunk (big C but also little c) isn't "punk" enough. This essay goes at that criticism as well as I've seen it.

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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Anna Megill @annamegill.com · 9d

Good essay that digs into many of the reasons I was attracted to this game and jumped at the chance to work on the sequel

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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alex, but spooky @pipzt3r.bsky.social · 9d

incredible thematic analysis

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 10d

May I humbly request all treats and no tricks?

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 10d

Typebar Magazine will be re-opening to pitches on 10/31!

www.typebarmagazine.com/submissions/

Pitches - Typebar Magazine

HOW DO I PITCH TYPEBAR MAGAZINE? Pitches to Typebar Magazine are currently CLOSED. They will reopen on 10/31/2025. Our guidelines are below so that you can prepare any pitches you ...

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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 10d

Typebar Magazine will be re-opening to pitches on 10/31!

www.typebarmagazine.com/submissions/

Pitches - Typebar Magazine

HOW DO I PITCH TYPEBAR MAGAZINE? Pitches to Typebar Magazine are currently CLOSED. They will reopen on 10/31/2025. Our guidelines are below so that you can prepare any pitches you ...

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 10d

This cyberpunk 2077 essay pairs nicely with the @gaycannibalism.bsky.social one about dread delusion.

One game is a ridiculous power fantasy that ultimately says nothing and the other limits player power (and other mechanics) to make a narrative point!

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/g...

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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

If you enjoy the work of our amazing writers, please consider contributing to our Ko-Fi. We were fortunate enough to increase writer pay at the start of the year. We'd love to pay $100/essay in 2026.

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Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

Typebar Magazine Issue 7 is now FREE for EVERYONE.

Read all 10 magnificent essays on topics ranging from The Odyssey to Super Mario Bros. Threading all of them below!

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 11d

"Longing for simplicity leads to the pernicious belief that dystopian narratives in games must be a power fantasy where authority is dismantled."

Great stuff here on how punk and its cyber-extrapolation has become stripped of nuance, and how we can get it back.

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/c...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 11d

Very excited about this issue. Lots of excellent analysis across several media types (games, classic literature, TV, etc).

Now F-R-E-E FREE!!!

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

Typebar Magazine Issue 7 is now FREE for EVERYONE.

Read all 10 magnificent essays on topics ranging from The Odyssey to Super Mario Bros. Threading all of them below!

🧵

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 11d

I had never heard of this show before meeting my partner. After looking into it, it was such a marked departure from what children are exposed to today. This is a great essay showing what we've lost and what we should model rebuilt children's programming on in the age of AI slop.

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

Between the Lions was the apex of children's educational programming, and it shines even brighter against the deluge of AI slop infecting YouTube, writes @justinaverysmith.bsky.social

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/b...

Between the Lions, "Elsagate," and the Fall of Quality Children's Programming - Typebar Magazine

Young imaginations should be expanded, not exploited.

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 11d

This essay was fantastic and the film absolutely blew me away with how adept it is at tackling modern loneliness despite being from 1998.

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

Hideaki Anno is best known for Neon Genesis Evangelion, but it's his less-heralded 1998 live action feature length debut Love & Pop that's his most eerily prescient work -- especially where loneliness is concerned -- argues Timothy Lee

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Love & Pop: The Evangelion Creator’s Live-Action Time Capsule Masterpiece That’s Even More Relevant Today - Typebar Magazine

There are no shortcuts to developing real human connections.

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 11d

1. I think I am most proud of Typebar when we do great analysis of a medium (gaming in this case) that a lot of mainstream culture/art places ignore.

2. I love how unique handles lead me to saying "hey everyone, Gay Cannibalism has a point!!"

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

Dread Delusion is a masterclass in designing game mechanics around a deeply thematic narrative, says @gaycannibalism.bsky.social

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/g...

Git Gud? More Like Get Literate: Dread Delusion and the Art of Gameplay-as-Story - Typebar Magazine

This game is about choice, belief, and the weight of being a person.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 11d

This is an incredibly tonal essay that's one of my favorites we've published on a line level. Great work!

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 11d

"To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist. It flatters our desire to be special and also our desire to be absolved for our failures." -- Danny Cohen on our (un)exceptional present.

www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/08/29/w...

White Noise, Talk Radio, and Our Unexceptional Present - Typebar Magazine

To view our era as unprecedented is both chauvinist and defeatist.

www.typebarmagazine.com

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