‘AN ANTHEM FOR THE CO-DEPENDENT’: BAD MAGPIE’S CORVID CARNAGE WITH A SIDE OF EXISTENTIAL ANGST
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Going by the mantra, if you want to make someone laugh, make them cry first, the game’s developers have created a lonely magpie who fills the void by wreaking havoc Amid the gleeful anarchy of Bad Magpie’s debut… The game’s protagonist – a wounded corvid that creates havoc wherever she goes – calls out forlornly as a flock of her kind passes above, with a conspicuous gap in their formation.
According to Culture | The Guardian, Going by the mantra, if you want to make someone laugh, make them cry first, the game’s developers have created a lonely magpie who fills the void by wreaking havoc Amid the gleeful anarchy of Bad Magpie’s debut…
The available RSS description adds: The game’s protagonist – a wounded corvid that creates havoc wherever she goes – calls out forlornly as a flock of her kind passes above, with a conspicuous gap in their formation.
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- Culture | The Guardian: Going by the mantra, if you want to make someone laugh, make them cry first, the game’s developers have created a lonely magpie who fills the void by wreaking havoc Amid the gleeful anarchy of Bad Magpie’s debut…
- Culture | The Guardian: The game’s protagonist – a wounded corvid that creates havoc wherever she goes – calls out forlornly as a flock of her kind passes above, with a conspicuous gap in their formation.
- Culture | The Guardian: Milktooth games designer and co-founder Daisy Fernandez has had this particular image in her head for years.
- Culture | The Guardian: Lying in the grass one afternoon during the 2020 lockdowns, she looked up and saw a V-shaped pattern in the sky, poignantly incomplete.
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- 24/07/2026, 13:00 PRIMARY FEED ‘AN ANTHEM FOR THE CO-DEPENDENT’: BAD MAGPIE’S CORVID CARNAGE WITH A SIDE OF EXISTENTIAL ANGST (Culture | The Guardian • 2 hrs ago) [Story Intel]
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