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Grace Benfell
@grace_machine
Writer and critic. Editor at The Imaginary Engine Review. Co-host @PodcastSafeRoom.
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Joined March 2012
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    I'm looking for work! I’m a sharp writer and a keen editor. I’ve written for Vice, Bulletpoints, GameSpot, The A.V. Club, Paste, among many others! I've also edited in marketing, written grants for non-profits, and ran a successful kickstarter.
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    Replying to @capybaroness
    The way he says Black Adam makes you hear the TM afterwords.
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    This morning, I’m thinking a lot about Pathologic 2. A game that is unflinchingly harrowing, but also grounded in a compassionate politics of care.
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    It should not have taken a Twitter thread for me to find out about this. Mad that nobody I read on LoU2 even briefly mentioned this.
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    It's wild that both these pieces came out today, but I also wrote about Final Fantasy 7, environmentalism, and cinematography for @waypoint.
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    I really loved Sable and tried to talk about why.
    The beautiful new game Sable gives one choice in one girl's life the scale most games lend only to heroes and gods. Read our review. bit.ly/3AyyaRn
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    Pathologic 2 has me constantly yelling "Damn Video Games can be like this?!" which means it rules.
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    BYU’s increasingly obvious, institutional surveillance IS evidence that protests ARE working. You hold so much power and they are scared of you.
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    E̸̝̓n̸̪͐̊t̵̝̄̊ȩ̸̐ŕ̵̲̭͑ ̷̨̣̉t̷̟͗̎h̷̺͎́̾e̶̬̊ ̷͂̅ͅg̵̠̗͐ŏ̷̱ò̸̻͝ŝ̴͉ẽ̴̤̔c̵͇̞̿o̷̢͎̽u̷̮̲͝r̶͉͐̀ś̷̯̗e̵̹̹̕ graceinthemachine.com/2019/10/13/unt…
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    I wrote about 2019, Dark Souls 2, Twin Peaks, Is This The Life We Really Want, Anodyne 2, and Final Fantasy VII, but really it's just about living in American Capitalism.
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    She's on HRT leave her alone.
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    I wrote about Ico as a game of artful, simple gestures, which the games it influenced strip out in favor of something far flatter and less meaningful.
    Ico quietly influenced so many major game franchises, including God of War and The Last of Us, and yet some of its most important lessons have been ignored. bit.ly/3O0muwP
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    Replying to @grace_machine
    Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor: God is in alleyways, trenches, and sewers. Gods are in street corners, hovering over your shoulder, creeping around your feet. Poverty cannot rid you of your magic.
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    We simply do not have to have pleasant podcast chats with known grifters and bigots.