Author

T.A. Strunk

@Hegelbon

articles: 18
total claps: 369
top claps: 271
avg read: 10.5 min
active: 2017-03-18 → 2019-10-07

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🎮 · Gaming · 15 🎙️ · Creator Economy · 5 GEN · Genomics & Sequencing · 3 🏆 · Sports · General · 2 💑 · Relationships · 2 🧘 · Spirituality · 2 ⚾ · Baseball · 1 🔒 · Cybersecurity · 1

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#gaming ·11 #videogames ·10 #no-cartridge ·3 #firewatch ·2 #aesthetics ·2 #dark-souls ·2 #capitalism ·2 #sunless-sea ·1 #ikaruga ·1 #sports ·1

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Why I’m Breaking With the Academy

Two things off the bat:

Oct 05, 2019 · 7 min read · 271 claps

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The Monster at the End of Capitalism

Thanks so much for reading and for listening as I really take this project in new directions! Today we’re covering the final bits of the…

Apr 18, 2017 · 9 min read · 77 claps #videogames #gaming #night-in-the-woods

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Episoide 140: Found in Translation with Kevin Snow

Intro: Hi everyone. If you like what you’ve been hearing, please consider subscribing to the Patreon at Patreon.com\Hegelbon. That’s…

Oct 07, 2019 · 46 min read · 8 claps

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Players Associations

In the current moment, relationships between capital and labor are fraught to say the least. Fraught describes, in this instance, not only…

Mar 29, 2017 · 7 min read · 3 claps #sports #mlb #unions

What We Talk About When We Talk About Players Associations

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TA T.A. Strunk · No Cartridge

Stardew Valley

(EDIT: Since this is getting some tumblr attention, let me shamelessly plug my patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Hegelbon . If you like…

Mar 18, 2017 · 5 min read · 2 claps #gaming #videogames #stardew-valley

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TA T.A. Strunk · No Cartridge

Dark Souls

Hey welcome to a bonus VideoDrone. While a lot of my videogame playing has been filtered into this project (thankfully, actually), I still…

Mar 18, 2017 · 4 min read · 2 claps #videogames #gaming #dark-souls

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TA T.A. Strunk · No Cartridge

Spec Ops: The Line and Hotline Miami

((So this installment of VideoDrone starts with two things I didn’t expect I’d ever write in a tumblr post — a warning on spoilers (maybe…

Mar 18, 2017 · 15 min read · 1 claps #videogames #gaming #spec-ops-the-line

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TA T.A. Strunk · No Cartridge

Everyday Conspiracy

((Hi all! as we move into our final piece on Firewatch, a reminder that you can support No Cartridge at patreon (www.patreon.com/hegelbon)…

Mar 19, 2017 · 8 min read · 1 claps #gaming #firewatch #david-paulides

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TA T.A. Strunk · No Cartridge

Firewatch, Relationships, and Blame

As always thanks for all of your support, it means the world. If you’d like me to keep pushing this unlikely venture more into the realm of…

Mar 19, 2017 · 7 min read · 1 claps #gaming #firewatch #no-cartridge

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TA T.A. Strunk · No Cartridge

Why Ikaruga Matters As Art As Never Before

As a brief aside to start off, I think it’s only fair to tell you all that I’m no longer very good at Ikaruga.

Mar 18, 2017 · 6 min read · 1 claps #gaming #dark-souls #ikaruga

Why Ikaruga Matters As Art As Never Before

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TA T.A. Strunk · No Cartridge

The Agony and Ecstasy of Settings Menus in Nier: Automata

((As always — patreon.com/hegelbon and paypal.me/hegelbon for donations! We’re ramping up to a full domain switch-over and your…

Mar 19, 2017 · 5 min read · 1 claps #videogames #gaming #nier-automata

The Agony and Ecstasy of Settings Menus in Nier: Automata

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Sunless Sea

I didn’t really know what I was going to write about Sunless Sea until I lost my second ship to a dumb occurrence close to home. And all of…

Mar 18, 2017 · 5 min read · 1 claps #sunless-sea #videogames #no-cartridge

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No Cartridge 139: History of the Form (Transcription by William Lett)

Intro: Hi everyone. If you like what you’ve been hearing, please consider subscribing to the Patreon at Patreon.com\Hegelbon. That’s…

Sep 13, 2019 · 25 min read · 0 claps #gaming

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TA T.A. Strunk · No Cartridge

Resemblance and Revolt: Owlboy, Doom, Trump, and History

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Mar 19, 2017 · 10 min read · 0 claps #politics #videogames #owlboy

Resemblance and Revolt: Owlboy, Doom, Trump, and History

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Control Nostalgia

ED NOTE: First published July 27, 2016

Mar 18, 2017 · 8 min read · 0 claps #videogames #gaming #starseed-pilgrim

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TA T.A. Strunk · No Cartridge

The Work of Sport in the Age of Its Reproduction Under Gaming

(This piece was originally to be published in the now-defunct VICE Sports, and as such is a bit delayed in its timing. Future work along…

Jul 24, 2017 · 8 min read · 0 claps #esport #robert-morris-university #league-of-legends

The Work of Sport in the Age of Its Reproduction Under Gaming

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Art Games on Tour

I went on vacation last week and I was pretty sure I’d have to suspend VideoDrone coverage through til next week, which bummed me out…

Mar 18, 2017 · 8 min read · 0 claps #gaming #videogames #a-dark-room

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TA T.A. Strunk · No Cartridge

Bastion

There’s a bit of a built-in problem to Videodrone’s wide focus, but it’s one that I think any videogame analyst is going to face. Namely…

Mar 18, 2017 · 5 min read · 0 claps #bastion #videogames #no-cartridge