WILL BUTLER
@carrythezero.bsky.social
PhD researcher at Bath Spa | videogame preservation | lifting my skinny fists like antennas to heaven
This is how you know you're cooking.
November 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is how you know you're cooking.
Can't wait to see the first Any% Sekiro speedrun on the Gboard. I love this thing.
October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Can't wait to see the first Any% Sekiro speedrun on the Gboard. I love this thing.
Star Wars is a franchise built on a foundation of funny little freaks. But the second you commodify them, they stop being little freaks and become mascots.
We can all still enjoy Salacious B. Crumb because Disney haven't realised how popular a disgusting little rat man would be in the right show.
We can all still enjoy Salacious B. Crumb because Disney haven't realised how popular a disgusting little rat man would be in the right show.
September 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Star Wars is a franchise built on a foundation of funny little freaks. But the second you commodify them, they stop being little freaks and become mascots.
We can all still enjoy Salacious B. Crumb because Disney haven't realised how popular a disgusting little rat man would be in the right show.
We can all still enjoy Salacious B. Crumb because Disney haven't realised how popular a disgusting little rat man would be in the right show.
This is the best slide I've made this year.
August 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is the best slide I've made this year.
Went to the Gamescom Baby Club and everyone knew who you were.
August 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Went to the Gamescom Baby Club and everyone knew who you were.
Turns out I really liked Undertale in 2016 - and so did my sibling!
August 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Turns out I really liked Undertale in 2016 - and so did my sibling!
Humidity in London is killer today. Need an appropriately 'melty' record.
WIWTT: King Krule - The Ooz (2017)
WIWTT: King Krule - The Ooz (2017)
August 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Humidity in London is killer today. Need an appropriately 'melty' record.
WIWTT: King Krule - The Ooz (2017)
WIWTT: King Krule - The Ooz (2017)
Helsinki Airport rules
August 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Helsinki Airport rules
I spin records most writing days so thought it'd be fun to share what I'm listening out of my collection on writing days in a thread: 'What I'm Writing to Today'.
WIWTT: Force of Nature, Nujabes, and Fat Jon - 'Samurai Champloo Music Record' - Impression (2022 print.)
WIWTT: Force of Nature, Nujabes, and Fat Jon - 'Samurai Champloo Music Record' - Impression (2022 print.)
August 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I spin records most writing days so thought it'd be fun to share what I'm listening out of my collection on writing days in a thread: 'What I'm Writing to Today'.
WIWTT: Force of Nature, Nujabes, and Fat Jon - 'Samurai Champloo Music Record' - Impression (2022 print.)
WIWTT: Force of Nature, Nujabes, and Fat Jon - 'Samurai Champloo Music Record' - Impression (2022 print.)
Late night cracking booster packs in the chicken shop. This is London to me.
August 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Late night cracking booster packs in the chicken shop. This is London to me.
Yeah he was a god awful person and a craven freak but Hulk Hogan did give us this banger tweet that one time
July 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Yeah he was a god awful person and a craven freak but Hulk Hogan did give us this banger tweet that one time
Had a wonderful workshop yesterday at Manchester Met about the future of games preservation! Lots of exciting work to come.
We also dug through the game centre's collection and found absolutely gems like this. "Be careful when saving your games" should basically be the games preservation motto
We also dug through the game centre's collection and found absolutely gems like this. "Be careful when saving your games" should basically be the games preservation motto
July 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Had a wonderful workshop yesterday at Manchester Met about the future of games preservation! Lots of exciting work to come.
We also dug through the game centre's collection and found absolutely gems like this. "Be careful when saving your games" should basically be the games preservation motto
We also dug through the game centre's collection and found absolutely gems like this. "Be careful when saving your games" should basically be the games preservation motto
AI, unable to understand that more than one person can have the same name.
June 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
AI, unable to understand that more than one person can have the same name.
FlyKnight is one of the few 'Souls-likes' that really gets the griminess of the Souls series. Especially because everything's bugs!
May 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
FlyKnight is one of the few 'Souls-likes' that really gets the griminess of the Souls series. Especially because everything's bugs!
Lots of games evoke a sense of place but I'm not sure I've played anything that evokes such sense of time *within* a place as despelote.
May 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Lots of games evoke a sense of place but I'm not sure I've played anything that evokes such sense of time *within* a place as despelote.
The thing about that Mind's Eye trailer is that showing something like this just makes me think there's going to be a hilarious Heavy Rain fail state. I just can't take these kind of QTEs seriously.
May 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The thing about that Mind's Eye trailer is that showing something like this just makes me think there's going to be a hilarious Heavy Rain fail state. I just can't take these kind of QTEs seriously.
A perfect meld of aesthetic and mechanical design. 10/10
May 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A perfect meld of aesthetic and mechanical design. 10/10
Andra Ivanescu on the wild history of game censorship and certification in the UK.
Side note: video nasties is a great name up for grabs by someone. #Bdigra25
Side note: video nasties is a great name up for grabs by someone. #Bdigra25
May 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Andra Ivanescu on the wild history of game censorship and certification in the UK.
Side note: video nasties is a great name up for grabs by someone. #Bdigra25
Side note: video nasties is a great name up for grabs by someone. #Bdigra25
@gealga.bsky.social here with transmedia in the 18th and 19th century. These Dickens pincushions must have been the Funko pops of their time #Bdigra25
May 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
@gealga.bsky.social here with transmedia in the 18th and 19th century. These Dickens pincushions must have been the Funko pops of their time #Bdigra25
@jarona7.bsky.social bringing the diagram heat that makes everyone sit forward in their chair #bdigra25
May 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
@jarona7.bsky.social bringing the diagram heat that makes everyone sit forward in their chair #bdigra25
A gorgeous read on the way to Brum for British DIGRA!
May 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
A gorgeous read on the way to Brum for British DIGRA!
MY BOY. THAT'S MY BOY
May 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
MY BOY. THAT'S MY BOY
