Lasers & Feelings

The Problem with "Cozy" Modern "cozy" media has been colonized by productivity culture. What began as genuine comfort has become optimization disguised as rest. Animal Crossing gives you debt cycles with cute animals. Stardew Valley offers profit maximization with pastoral aesthetics. Self-care apps gamify mindfulness with

A Personal Journey Through History, Memory, and Game Design This essay explores the historical and cultural currents that flow beneath Steel & Soul's mythic surface, but also examines how we come to understand complex historical patterns and why that understanding matters for how we create and play games.

Compiled from open-channel memory caches, ghost logs, and residual mindprint overlays. 1. The Neon Liturgy (Archive Loop 7) "This city's made of light..." Found on a corrupted DAT relic embedded in a broken synthpriest's chest cavity. It loops endlessly, like a hymn from an

A Lasers & Feelings hack of legendary studio sessions, inter-band drama, substance abuse, sprawling double-LPs, and Michael McDonald Character Creation Name: Pick something that sounds good on a marquee Role: Choose your position in the chaos: * The Songwriter (tortured genius with too many feelings) * The Producer (trying to wrangle chaos