(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: I'm working on the third entry in this PROOF series (from the Culture section) now—including 15+ new game recommendations and the first-ever Top 100 Android Video Games(!)—but if you missed the prior entry on Android games, here it is: sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-recomm…
(PS) It's funny because, when I hit 40, I suddenly found I wasn't much interested in console games anymore, and I thought, "Well—I guess that's it for me and video games"—and then, almost without realizing it, I started playing a ton of Android games, and now I'm super into them.
(PS2) For those who don't know, I was—among other things—a video game critic at Indiewire, and I actually have *taught* video games in the Digital Language Arts program at University of New Hampshire, so this review series really comes out of experience/training (not "the blue").
(PS3) I've discovered that PROOF needs a balance of dark and light: the most comprehensive investigation of one of the worst days in U.S. history *and* attempts to share the very best of contemporary digital culture—"proof" America is still a place of wonder and great innovation.
(PS4) The satisfaction I get from breaking news about January 6 at PROOF—which the publication has done weekly since January—is nothing, I must say, compared to how I feel when someone says "I played that game you recommended and loved it!" or "I loved that playlist you curated!"
(PS5) When the joint scourge of Trump and COVID-19 is over—and there's a good argument that they're intertwined and co-equally dangerous—I'm hopeful that there will be a sea change, via Substack and Patreon and Clubhouse and so on, in which we share what we *love* en masse again.
(PS6) Android games have gotten me through the pandemic—as I know they have many others. Some of you may find the same works for you. As a sneak peak of what's coming in the Proof Recommends series, here's what I'm playing now (so beautiful / engrossing!):
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