{"id":33,"date":"2026-08-03T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/?p=33"},"modified":"2026-08-16T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:15:10","slug":"welcome-to-themarmar0326-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to TheMarMar0326.show!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ba-buh-beh-ba-ba! Ba-buh-beh-ba-ba! Ba-buh-bada-ba-buh-baaaaaah!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See, it&#8217;s funny because a text blog is kind of like a dinosaur: it&#8217;s extinct. I should be doing hour long video essays on Youtube about how the new James Bond game is woke. That&#8217;s where the real money is. But, I have nothing if not my stupid fucking integrity, so let&#8217;s lay a few words down and see what happens.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really know what I want to do with this page. There&#8217;s a part of me that wants to write 5,000-word essays about video games, movies, and culture. There&#8217;s another part of me that just wants to write 500-word reviews about whatever game I&#8217;m playing at the moment. Or maybe I should just say fuck it, and write some Paste-style listicles. Or guides. I hear there&#8217;s good money in guides. Not as much as right-wing grifting on Youtube, but still more money than academic essays.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe <span data-tt=\"{}\">the best way to explain what to expect on this blog is to explain a bit about myself. I am MarMar0326, but you can call me Chris. I am a pop culture essayist living in eastern Nebraska, where I live with my wife and dogs. I play a lot of video games, but I absolutely love RPGs and Souls-likes. I watch a ton of movies, but my favorite genres are science-fiction and horror. I am a card-carrying socialist, and much of my writing examines how the media we consume both empowers and counters the power structures between lower and upper classes. I&#8217;m sure that all sounds incredibly exciting to you. I know it sounds exciting to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, if nothing else, it gives you an idea of what I intend to write about. Maybe one day, you can read my thoughts on game developers losing their jobs (spoiler alert: it&#8217;s bad!). Another day, you might find a 2,500-word piece on how\u00a0<strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/strong> contains shades of an ideology of Imperialism. Or, you might even get my opinion on\u00a0<strong>Obsession<\/strong>, the best horror movie of the year (spoiler alert: it&#8217;s very good).<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you find, I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy writing it. Even if you don&#8217;t come back, I leave you with one message I hope you take to heart: go see\u00a0<strong>Obsession<\/strong>, because that movie fucking rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ba-buh-beh-ba-ba! Ba-buh-beh-ba-ba! Ba-buh-bada-ba-buh-baaaaaah! See, it&#8217;s funny because a text blog is kind of like a dinosaur: it&#8217;s extinct. I should be doing hour long video essays on Youtube about how the new James Bond game is woke. That&#8217;s where the real money is. But, I have nothing if not my stupid fucking integrity, so let&#8217;s lay a few words down&hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/?p=33\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to TheMarMar0326.show!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state-of-the-site","tag-state-of-the-site","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/John_Hammond.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themarmar0326.show\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}