The Tale of Orpheo’s Curse

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story, “The Tale of Orpheo’s Curse.” For kids who grew up in the 1990s, “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” was practically a right of passage. Along with R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books (the television series wouldn’t begin until 1996) and Alvin Schwartz’s “Scary Stories…

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You can build your own Starfield space stations thanks to this modder who found the code ‘already in the game’

If you’re anything like me, you were a little underwhelmed by Starfield’s outpost systems. We’re eight years out from Fallout 4, but the process of plonking down habitats and mining rigs on the games’ fifty bajillion planets didn’t feel much different to building tin sheds for the Wasteland’s countless hapless farmers back in 2015. If…

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