Q & A - ANSWERING READER QUESTIONS

Originally published to YouTube on 12/31/2023. The writers of ON COMPUTER GAMES answer reader-submitted questions. 00:00 (Q1: Imagine that there are three games released independently from each other but which are somehow connected by a common underlying theme, theory of play, or set of motifs: What are these games and what connects them?) 5:40 (Q2: Why?) 9:28 (Q3: what's up with all the buddhist stuff in the Silent Hill review?) 13:00 (Q4: why does buru/forrest use so many semi-colons?) 13:57 (Q5: what's up with all the em-dashes? shoudl their be spaces between them and the words or not?) 15:38 (Q6: you're both not David Foster Wallace, you know that right?) 18:02 (Q7: I am a Buddhist monk and what you wrote in the Silent HIll 2 essay was complete nonsense and demonstrates a surface level understanding of the discipline at best. Also, I can tell you were just trying to fill space and sound smart instead of just writing for writing's sake. How does that make you feel?) 19:47 (Q8: Som