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    DISPATCHES JULY

    May 20, 2021 6 minutes

    Issue 358

    Dialogue

    Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’ as the subject line, to edge@futurenet.com. Our letter of the month wins a 12-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership

    Leave them all behind

    The first two letters in E358, about abandoning fandoms and losing saves, got me thinking about what we really take from our attachments to particular media. If we can walk away from a ubiquitous corporate media entity because one or more of the important people turned out to be a shit, were we already looking for an excuse to let go? I too know the mind-emptying thud of realisation that you’ve just lost a precious game save, and the peace that follows. Was I ready to find a new fixation and just hadn’t realised it?

    As series, franchises, episodes and new content updates stretch off into infinity – not just in games, but in TV, film, and books – it might pay to stop now and then, and

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