David Kocik
@davidkocik.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
Went to rotating sushi for my birthday! 🎂
November 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Went to rotating sushi for my birthday! 🎂
These spot the difference games are getting easier and easier
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
These spot the difference games are getting easier and easier
Happy Friday folks! Wishing you the best Autumn vibes
October 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Happy Friday folks! Wishing you the best Autumn vibes
I also think it's pretty tasteless to equate the memeified "suffering" and devotion of fans of Hollow Knight to the very real critiques of religious capitalism and death in the name of a global world order that has betrayed everyone but the elites of society.
September 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I also think it's pretty tasteless to equate the memeified "suffering" and devotion of fans of Hollow Knight to the very real critiques of religious capitalism and death in the name of a global world order that has betrayed everyone but the elites of society.
The Polygon review is the most thoughtful one I've encountered so far. Patience, discipline, and calm in the face of suffering is required both by the game and the gameworld, where religious devotion is at once the only means of living and what suppresses life in every sense of the word.
September 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The Polygon review is the most thoughtful one I've encountered so far. Patience, discipline, and calm in the face of suffering is required both by the game and the gameworld, where religious devotion is at once the only means of living and what suppresses life in every sense of the word.
I've been routinely disappointed by popular press games criticism in general since AV Club got bought out. But the misunderstanding of the themes, plot, and gameplay of Silksong in the NYT review are astounding. Meaninglessness due to crushing political and religious power is essential to the series
September 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I've been routinely disappointed by popular press games criticism in general since AV Club got bought out. But the misunderstanding of the themes, plot, and gameplay of Silksong in the NYT review are astounding. Meaninglessness due to crushing political and religious power is essential to the series
Me pulling up to watch the next Knives Out movie:
September 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Me pulling up to watch the next Knives Out movie:
I have the best Sunday morning crossword helper
September 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I have the best Sunday morning crossword helper
"We're here on Earth to fart around" is an all timer.
September 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"We're here on Earth to fart around" is an all timer.
When the crossword answer is Sussudio, which Weird Al famously parodied as Soupsoupio
September 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
When the crossword answer is Sussudio, which Weird Al famously parodied as Soupsoupio
I saw The Night of the Hunter (1955) last night and I CAN'T believe a movie this good can be scary while giving us the camp characters Icey Spoon and Birdie Steptoe. Makes complete sense Charles Laughton was gay. The man has taste
August 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I saw The Night of the Hunter (1955) last night and I CAN'T believe a movie this good can be scary while giving us the camp characters Icey Spoon and Birdie Steptoe. Makes complete sense Charles Laughton was gay. The man has taste
Also if I send you this, it means I don't know what a drive-in is (I'm 29)
June 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Also if I send you this, it means I don't know what a drive-in is (I'm 29)
If I send you this that means I'm a little baffled over here
June 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
If I send you this that means I'm a little baffled over here
Loved when Dulcea drove away the Infected with her staff
June 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Loved when Dulcea drove away the Infected with her staff
Currently in my fifth day of AP Seminar grading and third day of a sinus infection!
June 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Currently in my fifth day of AP Seminar grading and third day of a sinus infection!
Important: I fell in love with a bookstore cat
May 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Important: I fell in love with a bookstore cat
Fifth day in a row of sub-50 temps and high winds 😫
May 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fifth day in a row of sub-50 temps and high winds 😫
Required posting today. Also Scooby-Doo isn't a great movie, but the casting fires on all cylinders. Plus: random Pamela Anderson cameo, lesbian-coded deleted scenes, making fun of Sugar Ray, obvious weed references! They truly don't make em like this anymore, for better and worse
May 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Required posting today. Also Scooby-Doo isn't a great movie, but the casting fires on all cylinders. Plus: random Pamela Anderson cameo, lesbian-coded deleted scenes, making fun of Sugar Ray, obvious weed references! They truly don't make em like this anymore, for better and worse
And of course I couldn't have done any of this without the support of my partner Tony. ❤️❤️❤️ I love you so much!
May 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
And of course I couldn't have done any of this without the support of my partner Tony. ❤️❤️❤️ I love you so much!