Eric McAdams
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Mindhunter and the Optics of Murder
There’ss a scene in the second episode of the second season of Netflix’s Mindhunter where Special Agent Bill Tench (Holt…
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses Is All About Power, But Doesn’t Understand It
Fire Emblem has has always been a franchise that juxtaposes the florid magic of fantasy roleplaying games with the grim…
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Is Fire Emblem Heroes Secretly the Best Game in the Series?
I played Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn in the summer of 2008. It was my first Fire Emblem game, and despite…
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BAKI is “Guys Being Dudes”: The Anime
Editor’s Note: This piece was written collaboratively by Eric McAdams and Thomas Loughney. “I want to taste defeat.” This is…
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Why Loving the Source Material Isn’t Enough to Make a Good Movie
There are moments where a movie loses you. You haven’t rejected or embraced it yet, until you witness one moment…
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Why on Earth Isn’t There a Pokémon Animal Crossing Game?
The Pokémon franchise has been a global phenomenon for over twenty years. Everyone knows what it is, and to a…
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Growing Up in Mob Psycho 100
Kageyama Shigeo just wants to be a good person. Shigeo — better known as Mob — is the protagonist of…
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