The Wheel of Absurdity: How Oblivion’s Most Notorious Minigame Sparked a Cult Game Jam Phenomenon

In the pantheon of RPG mechanics, few features are as polarizing, bizarre, and inexplicably beloved as the persuasion minigame from 2006’s The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It was a system…

The Everglades’ Viper War: Xander Robin’s ‘The Python Hunt’ Captures the Absurdity of Florida’s Apex Cull

"It’s hours of boredom interrupted by a few minutes of pretty intense adrenaline." This is the assessment of one weary participant in the Florida Python Challenge, an annual, government-sanctioned event…