Spooky Stories was a short-lived bot that lived in the Eggware.XYZ Discord server for the month of October 2024 and dispensed some absolutely terrible generated stories. Just some of the foulest…
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The End of Spooky Stories
Posted by brilokuloj on Jan 10, 2025
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The rise of Christian propaganda in indie horror
Posted by brilokuloj on Jun 26, 2024
As of June 24, 2024, the YouTube unfiction horror series Valle Verde has uploaded its third chapter. One of my friends took to discuss it in my Discord server, where they bemoaned that while the…
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The enduring campfire tales of the Sonic fandom
Posted by brilokuloj on May 17, 2024
I’ve been a fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog series for longer than I can remember. As far as I’m concerned, I might as well have been born clutching a copy of Sonic’s Schoolhouse. That puts my…
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KFC’S Double Down and the Skull of Doom
Posted by brilokuloj on Mar 10, 2023
Against all odds, things have managed to get even worse for America in 2023. Prices for everything are going up while wages get cut. Our nation continues to divide against itself. In my most recent…
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Nightmare Ned was Disney’s doomed dream Retrospectacles
Posted by brilokuloj on Jan 12, 2021
If you were a kid in the 90s playing CD-ROM games, you probably played at least one Disney Interactive game. For kids learning how to use the computer, Disney games were the best of the best, the…
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101 Dalmatians: Escape from DeVil Manor haunts me to this day Retrospectacles
Posted by brilokuloj on Dec 15, 2020
There’s something about the 101 Dalmatians franchise that enraptured me as a child against all odds. Be outraged if you must, but truth be told, I’m not even sure if I had watched the original movie…
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The Colors of Wishbone
Posted by palabomeno on Oct 29, 2020
The colors were so beautiful. They promised me so much. Whenever I felt sad, or lonely, or worried, all I would do is listen to the colors, and they would promise me that all things would be okay…
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Super Mario 64’s Spooky Moments Retrospectacles
Posted on Oct 31, 2015
Super Mario 64 did more than just bring Mario to the third dimension: it literally defined a new genre and revolutionized video gaming for the rest of eternity. It’s impossible to overstate just how…
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Tomba!'s Spooky Moments Retrospectacles
Posted on Oct 28, 2015
Tomba! is a 1997 side-scrolling platformer released for the Sony Playstation by Whoopee Camp. Designed by Tokuro Fujiwara, creator of the Ghosts 'n Goblins series, Tomba is an interesting…
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Banjo Kazooie’s Spooky Moments Retrospectacles
Posted on Oct 21, 2015
Banjo-Kazooie is a 1998 3D platformer game for the Nintendo 64 by Rareware, and is considered by many to be one of the best games for the N64 altogether. It involves a bear (Banjo) and his best…
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Ecco the Dolphin’s Spooky Moments Retrospectacles
Posted on Oct 19, 2015
Ecco the Dolphin is an action-adventure game developed by Novotrade International and published by Sega in 1992. Starring the titular Ecco, a bottlenosed dolphin with a strange constellation-shaped…
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Donkey Kong Country’s Spooky Moments Retrospectacles
Posted by palabomeno on Oct 16, 2015
Donkey Kong Country was released in 1994 for the Super Nintendo. It was developed by Rare, and was the first entry to make Donkey Kong his own standalone hero instead of a Mario villain. It was…
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3D Monster Maze Retrospectacles
Posted on Oct 12, 2015
Some fears are more primal than others. All things spooky tap into the darker parts of our mind, where our basic survival instincts lie, and exploit them to simulate experiencing a level of fear that…
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Croc’s Spooky Moments Retrospectacles
Posted on Oct 6, 2015
Welcome to Halloween! Or as most people like to call it, October! This Halloween, we want to talk about some of the stuff that scared us the worst when we were kids. It’s time to take a retrospective…
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Sonic’s Schoolhouse Retrospectacles
Posted on Jun 17, 2015
Why the hell did they decide to make Sonic the Hedgehog the star of an educational game for children? Who allowed this to happen? We want names. Who, somewhere in the leadership of Sega, let this…