Mark Kretzschmar
@professthor.bsky.social
Shelter academic looking for a forever home and family. Writes academic stuff and then random video game blogs. Some of it is good. Speaks golden retriever. https://markkretz.com
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This thread got a little unruly since I haven't updated it in a while. I'll jump back into it, though, and have now made it through Volume 20. Halfway through! Here's my current breakdown based on what I've viewed thus far. Might be of interest to you, @optimstie.bsky.social :
Reposted by Mark Kretzschmar
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
Surprise, surprise. Another Broncos game decided in the closing seconds of the 4th.
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Surprise, surprise. Another Broncos game decided in the closing seconds of the 4th.
"His kitchen table, adorned with copies of James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Larry Hama's G.I. Joe Compendium One..."
Prompt: if you had to performatively display two books that you wanted the NYT writer profiling you about your career ending scandal to notice, what would they be?
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"His kitchen table, adorned with copies of James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Larry Hama's G.I. Joe Compendium One..."
Reposted by Mark Kretzschmar
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
Dude. Come on. I have to re-post these.
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Dude. Come on. I have to re-post these.
I have a friend at the gym. Whenever we talk, if the clock hits 11:11, she stops our conversation and tells me to make a wish. Cute and superstitious? Absolutely. However, I just saw my first Aurora Borealis lightshow on 11/11, so I can't help but smile right now.
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I have a friend at the gym. Whenever we talk, if the clock hits 11:11, she stops our conversation and tells me to make a wish. Cute and superstitious? Absolutely. However, I just saw my first Aurora Borealis lightshow on 11/11, so I can't help but smile right now.
Northern Lights (Original Mix)
YouTube video by Smith & Pledger - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Northern Lights texting me like, "...You up?"
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Northern Lights texting me like, "...You up?"
I might be staying up a bit longer tonight for this show.
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I might be staying up a bit longer tonight for this show.
Aurora Borealis Update!
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Aurora Borealis Update!
Aurora Borealis check-in.
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Aurora Borealis check-in.
Hit 245 for ten reps on ass-to-grass squats today. This was the song, courtesy of 13 Sentinels:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyWR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyWR...
(ISOLEUCINE)- -Branched- | 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim
YouTube video by Sentinals Good
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Hit 245 for ten reps on ass-to-grass squats today. This was the song, courtesy of 13 Sentinels:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyWR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyWR...
Digitizing home movies I've never seen in this era is a wild exercise in ersatz nostalgia. Now I can make a vaporwave music video featuring me getting last place at a 7th grade swim meet. Thanks, for just keeping the camera on me, mom and dad. I'd get there. Eventually.
November 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Digitizing home movies I've never seen in this era is a wild exercise in ersatz nostalgia. Now I can make a vaporwave music video featuring me getting last place at a 7th grade swim meet. Thanks, for just keeping the camera on me, mom and dad. I'd get there. Eventually.
On a whim, I replayed RE2R and RE3R over these last few days for the first time in 5 years (PS5 upgrades). RE2R blew me away to the point that I think it's one of the best games ever made. RE3 is fun, but it's still incomplete, a prime example of a "what if..." beta version in video game history.
November 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
On a whim, I replayed RE2R and RE3R over these last few days for the first time in 5 years (PS5 upgrades). RE2R blew me away to the point that I think it's one of the best games ever made. RE3 is fun, but it's still incomplete, a prime example of a "what if..." beta version in video game history.
Honestly, at this point, it's pretty clear that you can sleep during the third quarter when the Broncos play because they are just waiting for the 4th.
November 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Honestly, at this point, it's pretty clear that you can sleep during the third quarter when the Broncos play because they are just waiting for the 4th.
@darthbluesky.bsky.social: These best boys wanted to audition to play Krypto on this Hallow's Eve.
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
@darthbluesky.bsky.social: These best boys wanted to audition to play Krypto on this Hallow's Eve.
Now it's official. Happy Halloween.
I dunno. Is it too early to post Tim Curry's Halloween video from The Worst Witch? No? Okay, then.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K608...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K608...
The Worst Witch (1986) "Halloween Song"
YouTube video by harrypottersdaddy
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Now it's official. Happy Halloween.
It's completely terrible, and yet hypnotic at the same time. The dialogue reminds me of dialogue from some of my dreams in which I know people are talking, but I cannot for the life of me make out what they say.
AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
It's completely terrible, and yet hypnotic at the same time. The dialogue reminds me of dialogue from some of my dreams in which I know people are talking, but I cannot for the life of me make out what they say.
Anyone else already opened up their Halloween candy, or do you have self-control? Asking for...for me. Those Reese's were just sitting there.
October 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Anyone else already opened up their Halloween candy, or do you have self-control? Asking for...for me. Those Reese's were just sitting there.
So many choices, but I keep coming back to the outro from Fallujah's "Chemical Cave":
youtu.be/yOr5TFLmP5s?...
youtu.be/yOr5TFLmP5s?...
October 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
So many choices, but I keep coming back to the outro from Fallujah's "Chemical Cave":
youtu.be/yOr5TFLmP5s?...
youtu.be/yOr5TFLmP5s?...
I fired up Resident Evil 2 R on a whim tonight. I don't think I've played it since 2020, so I'm playing it on the PS5 for the first time without my PS4 saves. I forgot how legitimately great this game is.
October 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I fired up Resident Evil 2 R on a whim tonight. I don't think I've played it since 2020, so I'm playing it on the PS5 for the first time without my PS4 saves. I forgot how legitimately great this game is.
Okay. That Broncos 4th quarter was absolutely ridiculous! What a comeback!
October 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Okay. That Broncos 4th quarter was absolutely ridiculous! What a comeback!
Mind Fruit by Opus 3. I first heard this on the radio in 1997 and would sit by the boombox for days to try to record it. I didn't locate the actual song until 2002 or so. Baller album. Kirsty Hackshaw, of course, would eventually work with trance titans like BT.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2um...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2um...
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Mind Fruit by Opus 3. I first heard this on the radio in 1997 and would sit by the boombox for days to try to record it. I didn't locate the actual song until 2002 or so. Baller album. Kirsty Hackshaw, of course, would eventually work with trance titans like BT.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2um...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2um...
Day 14 of Spooky Season Save Room Music. Ephraim Lovelace is another YouTube artist I discovered through my research. This is one of those tracks that you can just drift off to. Funnily enough, I hear a little of the Nibelheim theme from FF7 in here as well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4k...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4k...
October 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Day 14 of Spooky Season Save Room Music. Ephraim Lovelace is another YouTube artist I discovered through my research. This is one of those tracks that you can just drift off to. Funnily enough, I hear a little of the Nibelheim theme from FF7 in here as well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4k...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4k...