Liz Ryerson
@ellaguro.bsky.social
she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
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Liz Ryerson
@ellaguro.bsky.social
· Jul 25
reminder that you can still buy a copy of my book here: www.mostancient.com/shop/great-art and i'll soon have some more copies on hand to sell in person as well
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Of the Game Awards controversies right now this one is the most frustrating.
When I attended via Future Class, I was seated next to an award-winning game dev. We were both on our phones. During a break a director came up to him, got in his ear, and said "seat fillers shouldn't be on their phones".
When I attended via Future Class, I was seated next to an award-winning game dev. We were both on our phones. During a break a director came up to him, got in his ear, and said "seat fillers shouldn't be on their phones".
Devs were only allowed a few (I believe two) tickets per nomination before Geoff charged them. Resale tickets were in the hundreds. And we all know what happened to Future Class (if you don’t, read my piece).
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Of the Game Awards controversies right now this one is the most frustrating.
When I attended via Future Class, I was seated next to an award-winning game dev. We were both on our phones. During a break a director came up to him, got in his ear, and said "seat fillers shouldn't be on their phones".
When I attended via Future Class, I was seated next to an award-winning game dev. We were both on our phones. During a break a director came up to him, got in his ear, and said "seat fillers shouldn't be on their phones".
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It's important to note that Geoff Keighley's mother and father are high ranking executives for IMAX and he is independently wealthy and could give every award winner free plane fare to the event if he wanted to but instead pretends to be broke and says everything is about making money instead.
Devs were only allowed a few (I believe two) tickets per nomination before Geoff charged them. Resale tickets were in the hundreds. And we all know what happened to Future Class (if you don’t, read my piece).
November 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
It's important to note that Geoff Keighley's mother and father are high ranking executives for IMAX and he is independently wealthy and could give every award winner free plane fare to the event if he wanted to but instead pretends to be broke and says everything is about making money instead.
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
Grimes's whole career arc is a great lesson of what continually chasing wealth and power inevitably gets you as an artist in this day and age - you become a massively embarrassing sideshow attraction
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Grimes's whole career arc is a great lesson of what continually chasing wealth and power inevitably gets you as an artist in this day and age - you become a massively embarrassing sideshow attraction
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games are central to the media consumption of many people who have come up in the world with zero cultural or media literacy. that's part of why so many are eager to watch, like children, as the corporate political order redraws the lines around basic standards for free expression and thought.
Games are constantly under attack for doing things other mediums have tackled for decades as if it's some new taboo.
Just watched @charalanahzard.bsky.social video that sums things up more eloquently youtu.be/G-7r9pL0Hqo?...
#Indiedev should be talking more about the freedom of the artform.
Just watched @charalanahzard.bsky.social video that sums things up more eloquently youtu.be/G-7r9pL0Hqo?...
#Indiedev should be talking more about the freedom of the artform.
why is anyone ok with this
YouTube video by Charalanahzard
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
games are central to the media consumption of many people who have come up in the world with zero cultural or media literacy. that's part of why so many are eager to watch, like children, as the corporate political order redraws the lines around basic standards for free expression and thought.
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they’ve been begging usc students to fill seats
Devs were only allowed a few (I believe two) tickets per nomination before Geoff charged them. Resale tickets were in the hundreds. And we all know what happened to Future Class (if you don’t, read my piece).
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
they’ve been begging usc students to fill seats
in abstract this really represents how the larger game industry much prefers to have loyal fandoms do all the unpaid work to represent the interests of big companies while treating the actual people who work on games as completely disposable
Devs were only allowed a few (I believe two) tickets per nomination before Geoff charged them. Resale tickets were in the hundreds. And we all know what happened to Future Class (if you don’t, read my piece).
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
in abstract this really represents how the larger game industry much prefers to have loyal fandoms do all the unpaid work to represent the interests of big companies while treating the actual people who work on games as completely disposable
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Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Feels really significant that the Trump admin is making a concerted effort to force colleges to undo policies that made campus safe and accessible for trans people, because for so many trans people college is the first place they ever get to be themselves.
Iggy's Reckin' Balls Must Be Acknowledged
the correct way to do retro gaming is to arbitrarily seek out one super-obscure game to make into “your thing” and if you see anyone else discussing it you basically need to attempt to ruin their entire life
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Iggy's Reckin' Balls Must Be Acknowledged
i normally think Eagles/Philly sports fans are kind of ridiculously emo/overreactive... but there is really something just kind of weird and wrong about that team and i think they are right to sense it.
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
i normally think Eagles/Philly sports fans are kind of ridiculously emo/overreactive... but there is really something just kind of weird and wrong about that team and i think they are right to sense it.
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I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked.
Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?
Also go support Nakufin.
Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?
Also go support Nakufin.
I'm devastated, if I don't find an alternative that works with argentinians I'm contemplating the worst, I can't do regular jobs, art was my job for around 15 years
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked.
Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?
Also go support Nakufin.
Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?
Also go support Nakufin.
Ross's Game Dungeon is my favorite youtube game series, maybe because it's neither really a review nor an essay (in spite of Ross Scott calling them reviews). it's like some kind of attempt to squeeze transcendent moments or ideas in the most random of places www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV2k...
Ross's Game Dungeon: Harry Buster
YouTube video by Accursed Farms
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Ross's Game Dungeon is my favorite youtube game series, maybe because it's neither really a review nor an essay (in spite of Ross Scott calling them reviews). it's like some kind of attempt to squeeze transcendent moments or ideas in the most random of places www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV2k...
watching a machine struggle at its edges to handle the weight of something it's not made for is like watching a person's body fail them. the truest of horrors www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fgz...
sm64 on ps1 (atleast it works)
YouTube video by hajduga1974
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
watching a machine struggle at its edges to handle the weight of something it's not made for is like watching a person's body fail them. the truest of horrors www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fgz...
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"rally around the flag" vs READ THEORY
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"rally around the flag" vs READ THEORY
this song just popped in my head, so this is now the theme for today. i'm powerless to stop it www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCHA...
Cuckoo's Out
YouTube video by High Llamas - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
this song just popped in my head, so this is now the theme for today. i'm powerless to stop it www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCHA...
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Please consider picking up some of my games, supplements, and resources today. I’ve been sick all week and can’t work and also being sick is expensive.
emosludge.itch.io
emosludge.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Please consider picking up some of my games, supplements, and resources today. I’ve been sick all week and can’t work and also being sick is expensive.
emosludge.itch.io
emosludge.itch.io
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Special thanks to GOG for being so supportive of the project! HORSES preorders are now available on the store: www.gog.com/en/game/horses 🙏
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Special thanks to GOG for being so supportive of the project! HORSES preorders are now available on the store: www.gog.com/en/game/horses 🙏
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
i can't express why in a coherent way, but this album is spiritually holiday music to me - so please enjoy it on this holiday barchboi.bandcamp.com/album/feral-...
Feral Scape II :: Wolf Dragon .Midi, by Barchboi
26 track album
barchboi.bandcamp.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
i can't express why in a coherent way, but this album is spiritually holiday music to me - so please enjoy it on this holiday barchboi.bandcamp.com/album/feral-...
i heard someone recently say that this is basically a Velvet Underground song and i was really confused by that statement initially. but i hear it now. it could be something off the third album sans orchestra www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNnb...
The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by TheTemptationsVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i heard someone recently say that this is basically a Velvet Underground song and i was really confused by that statement initially. but i hear it now. it could be something off the third album sans orchestra www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNnb...
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Found on Horror Ads on Facebook.
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Found on Horror Ads on Facebook.
a great crime of capitalism to me is how a lot of art (like, say, My Dinner With Andre) ends up taking on the role of an empty signifier of a particular type of person who will wield it as something "not for you" if you're below a certain income bracket or education level. art is for everyone
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
a great crime of capitalism to me is how a lot of art (like, say, My Dinner With Andre) ends up taking on the role of an empty signifier of a particular type of person who will wield it as something "not for you" if you're below a certain income bracket or education level. art is for everyone
my dinner with andre is about culture slipping in a more selfish, zero sum direction and people pulling away from collective commitments to private comforts and how artists lost the battle against that - it's so relevant. and it's weird that i only ever hear about it as the "two guys talking movie"
There is almost nothing lazier than using MY DINNER WITH ANDRE as a shorthand for empty pretention. I know "The Simpsons" did it with a video game cabinet Martin's obsessed with, but I'd argue that the joke about Martin was never that he was pretentious - just maybe stuck in the wrong town.
a cartoon character with a tv pg d logo on the bottom
ALT: a cartoon character with a tv pg d logo on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
my dinner with andre is about culture slipping in a more selfish, zero sum direction and people pulling away from collective commitments to private comforts and how artists lost the battle against that - it's so relevant. and it's weird that i only ever hear about it as the "two guys talking movie"
tbh i think a good chunk of my resentment that i've carried with me all these years really just comes down to being forced to listen to "I Can Only Imagine" by MercyMe seemingly endlessly at the outdoor public pool i worked at one summer
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
tbh i think a good chunk of my resentment that i've carried with me all these years really just comes down to being forced to listen to "I Can Only Imagine" by MercyMe seemingly endlessly at the outdoor public pool i worked at one summer