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“Aerith Is Gone”: Perma-Death in Games
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Featured author Nathan Randall outlines what works and what doesn't in one of Resident Evil's iconic moments.
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Featured author Nathan Randall writes about the positivity of silently bearing witness to suffering in "Majora's Mask."