Hey everybody, as you might have noticed there's no video essay this week. I'm shifting my work schedule around a bit and will be streaming this evening, so lots of important segments are coming soon, but the biggest reason there's no Friday essay is that my current workload has involved me overreaching a bit. It's a lot of work to write, record, edit and upload a serious video all on your own, and some of the projects I'll be giving you a preview of here have involved a lot of strenuous research and writing. I've written more than enough from the start of last July to now to fill a book -- especially given that the Dark Souls Retrospective analysis is currently at 92 pages and it's not even close to done -- and while I have so, so much interesting, provocative and incisive material to show you, I knew if I tried to push one of them out today I'd be rushing it, so I'm going to try to keep working and have these ready over the following few weeks.

Take care, much love, and I'll be dropping some hardcore effort posts very soon.

Pictured below, in order left-to-right:

"Unfortunately, 'Elemental' Has a Problem"

"The Soul of Man | A Dark Souls Trilogy Retrospective"

"The Many Design Hurdles of Overwatch 2"

"How Elden Ring Broke My Arrogant Mindset"