The first time I ever experienced loss was at a pretty young age.
A touching piece about loss, and how TF2's workshop is a wonderful place to honor those important to you. John wrote about memorialising friends and family in Team Fortress 2 over on Pixels For Breakfast. A content creator with long, straight hair sits at her kitchen table, rapidly stringing together nonsense catchphrases, over and over with the same cheerful expression and tone.
If you haven’t seen them yet, the videos are mesmerizing. Also, where are the real NPCs? The ones who say, 'Saw a mudcrab the other day, horrible creatures'. 'Erotic undertone' is quite the understatement here. Over on The Guardian, Wilfred Chan wrote about the TikTokers pretending to be NPCs.
Before you watch the fizz, let's read this week's best writing about games (and game related things). The Sunday Papers is our weekly roundup of great writing about (mostly) videogames from across the web.