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The Forgotten City (2021) revisited

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The game plays with this a little: there's a treasure door that opens only during the fail state. (A A hostile NPC statue wakes up, which means you can lure it away from the door.) And as the Vestal, she administers the local election, and in this ancient Roman city only the male NPC citizens are allowed to vote.

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

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"Cruising Labyrinth," Andreas Angelidakis Lindell was responding to a specific social context: the 1980s HIV/AIDS epidemic that utterly devastated the gay male community in New York City, especially the local sex clubs and bathhouses. This points to a general problem with treating sexual moods like immutable video game character classes.

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