The phrase " Shadows Over Loathing " typically refers to the stick-figure RPG developed by Asymmetric, which features an in-game archive that players can explore for clues. However, if you are looking for "cracks" in the context of academic research (such as image analysis of structural defects under shadows), several papers exist on that technical subject. In-Game Paper: The Ocean City Daily

: The TSRNet model uses multi-modal neural networks to restore crack details hidden by shadows.

: The SCD (Shadow Crack Dataset) was created by applying randomly generated polygonal and elliptical shadows to images of cracks to train AI models for real-world road inspections.

: The world economy runs on "meat," which is even mentioned in the papers and dialogue.

: You find dates in the world and look up the corresponding newspaper issues to find hints or lore.