What is a review? What are they doing, and what makes a good one?
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Instead, I propose that we should think of “X-wave” names as, essentially meaning “operating as if X is true or hegemonic.” So “synthwave” is “operating as if synthwave is hegemonic”, or — to put it in less theory nerd terms — music from an imagined alternate history where Grunge and Rap never displaced New Wave. Ergo “Satanwave” is “operating as if the satanic panic were true.”
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Really loving living in a pivotal historical moment, still. Enjoying bothering my city council and my state representatives, though, and producing primary sources.
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Once again, I find myself hoist by a petard with my name on it, in the midst of another year for the fucking history books at only two months in.
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Much earlier this year, I came across references to a new RPG from the Gauntlet, a group whose podcasts I’ve been listening to for several years now. They’re a group of people who run, review, and publish role playing games. Originally based out of Austen, Texas, they have largely moved online. The RPG in question was a new game from designer Jason Cordova, Public Access, and and I paid the $15 to get the pdf of it as soon as I saw it had gone live.
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