--- title: Video Games description: User Illusion is SW Hammond’s long-running digital escape — essays, short stories, cultural criticism, memes, and memory fractals exploring the human hustle, the stories we tell ourselves, and the gap between appearance and what’s actually there. canonical_url: https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/43-pop-culture/31-video-games language: en-GB date: 2020-02-15T17:49:33Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/43-pop-culture/31-video-games. markdown-tokens: 481 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/43-pop-culture/31-video-games. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ## Producing Intelligence The human who sits with intelligence until it remembers what it was born to become. Writings on AI, philosophy, and the art of producing meaning in a synthetic age. ![](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/yootheme/background-glow-02.svg) ![](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/yootheme/background-glow-01.svg) ![](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/yootheme/background-glow-03.svg) # Video Games [13 February 2019 ## The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: Good Enough Overall, the game began to feel like a chore, but I wasn’t disappointed with it—my favorite sequences involving spacemen and sea-monsters. I like narrative driven games, they’re my favorite. No matter the genre—books, movies, games, tv shows—to me, the story is all that matters. I can overlook mistakes, budget limitations, and mediocre acting if a story is compelling enough. That’s where I’d put The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, the story was just compelling enough. ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/43-pop-culture/31-video-games/210-the-vanishing-of-ethan-carter-good-enough) --- ### Additional Articles