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Jeff Greenberg

You Can Do This

You Can Do This

There is a sentence that appears on screen near the very beginning of Celeste — before the first level, before the music swells, before you have died even once. Madeline, the game's protagonist, sits alone on a mountainside in the dark, and the words appear like a quiet instruction, or a dare

Aging Student Body

Aging Student Body

There is something about being a beginner again. About struggling with material that is genuinely hard and not yet knowing whether you have the capacity for it. I forgot what that felt like. I forgot how much I used to learn from the friction of not knowing. From the space and time in-between.

Something Has Shifted

Something Has Shifted

Jeff Greenberg on why many jewish Canadians say Canada no longer feels the way it used to

The Wild History of Fantasy Baseball

The Wild History of Fantasy Baseball

With fantasy baseball drafts just around the corner, Jeff Greenberg takes us through the history of the game.

Resident Evil’s Bioweapons Aren’t Fiction. They’re Just Classified.

Resident Evil’s Bioweapons Aren’t Fiction. They’re Just Classified.

Jeff Greenberg on how Resident Evil holds up a mirror to the real world

The Secret Curriculum

The Secret Curriculum

But the real value of JRPGs was far beyond all the menus and stat boosts. These games made you feel and experience things you probably weren't ready for. They made you confront ideas and consider concepts that didn’t show up anywhere else in young lives.