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Dress-Up RPG Has Loophole That Lets Disney Princesses Wield Guns
The most beautiful thing about the 2021 follow-up to dress-up role-playing game Love Nikki, Shining Nikki, is its arcane strangeness. The clothes are pretty, too — glittery dresses with skirts shaped like a tulip petals’ cup, tiaras with knots of pearls like dollops of cake frosting, one implausibly pastel Sanrio collab — but I find…
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Belle Is a Sumptuous, Unflinchingly Optimistic View of Our Digital Future
It’s hard not to be pessimistic about the internet these days. From big tech companies’ capitalistic stranglehold on its structure to toxic online harassment, from adjacent ideas like the depressingly corporate metaverse trend to NFTs burning away the planet in the name of some ugly cartoon apes — it all feels like the bright digital…