THE ACCURSED SHAREWARE

Welcome, O kind sightseer, to The Spieler. Here, a once-upright Millennial computer nerd turned spiteful and dissident by corporate IT paradigms lashes out against an indifferent universe.

Dissolute are those who come here seeking idle discourse and unchallenging punditry. A world grown languid and dyspeptic from its diet of facile distractions must have audacious creativity as its poultice — The Spieler therefore collects gaming history, critical theory, and Judeo-Christian esotericism into a vast cauldron and from the gruesome mélange distills insight into the Real. By so doing, I intend to one day vanquish and subjugate entropy itself, or at least fight it to a draw.

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