Justin Keever
@justakeever.bsky.social
Academic, Youtuber, Game Studies/Continental Philosophy Guy
https://www.youtube.com/@justinkeever2524
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This sucks!
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This sucks!
How does one market a videogame in 2025. This is a serious question
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
How does one market a videogame in 2025. This is a serious question
Probably gotta sell what remains of my magic collection to pay for yet another car repair. Fortunately, it seems like magic is just gonna get worse
November 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Probably gotta sell what remains of my magic collection to pay for yet another car repair. Fortunately, it seems like magic is just gonna get worse
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I do agree that the market for "professional" game's writing is basically non-existent, but there are plenty of blog posts getting posted every week on sites like @critdistance.bsky.social to basically no attention. social media as a way to discourse and share work has become a dead end, imo.
October 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I do agree that the market for "professional" game's writing is basically non-existent, but there are plenty of blog posts getting posted every week on sites like @critdistance.bsky.social to basically no attention. social media as a way to discourse and share work has become a dead end, imo.
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my hot take is that the fantasy that’s being catered to with videos like the one going around is of participation in a seamless, infinite, directed loop where the player and computer are constantly updating each other. which is where I think a lot of the satisfaction in systemic video games is. 🧵
this is stupid but at some point i think we have to confront the fact that there appears to be a not insignificant demand for videogames to be the holodeck, an infinite virtual playground you can basically live in. except even holodeck programs were actually written by someone, right?
Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
October 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
my hot take is that the fantasy that’s being catered to with videos like the one going around is of participation in a seamless, infinite, directed loop where the player and computer are constantly updating each other. which is where I think a lot of the satisfaction in systemic video games is. 🧵
Dark Souls II
October 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Dark Souls II
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Pathologic 3 launches on January 9, 2026.
A new free demo — an introduction to the full game — is out now on Steam!
We’re also unveiling the first of three trailers, each offering a different perspective on Pathologic 3.
youtu.be/XcgH-s7vgAY
A new free demo — an introduction to the full game — is out now on Steam!
We’re also unveiling the first of three trailers, each offering a different perspective on Pathologic 3.
youtu.be/XcgH-s7vgAY
Pathologic 3: Release Date Announcement
YouTube video by IcePickLodge
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Pathologic 3 launches on January 9, 2026.
A new free demo — an introduction to the full game — is out now on Steam!
We’re also unveiling the first of three trailers, each offering a different perspective on Pathologic 3.
youtu.be/XcgH-s7vgAY
A new free demo — an introduction to the full game — is out now on Steam!
We’re also unveiling the first of three trailers, each offering a different perspective on Pathologic 3.
youtu.be/XcgH-s7vgAY
100% co-sign. Marx did in fact have AI dialed in, somehow
I know it's a real cliché but I still think Karl Marx is one of the most important theorists to read if you want to understand capital's obsession with generative AI. This is from pg 692-93 of the Grundrisse.
September 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
100% co-sign. Marx did in fact have AI dialed in, somehow
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Yeah I'm in deep for 1,200 dollars just for the tow. Please help
This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856
Donate to Help me fix my car and afford food, organized by Justin Keever
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September 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Yeah I'm in deep for 1,200 dollars just for the tow. Please help
Yeah I'm in deep for 1,200 dollars just for the tow. Please help
This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856
Donate to Help me fix my car and afford food, organized by Justin Keever
I just moved across the country to a major city for a job that pays 40,000 a year. Th… Justin Keever needs your support for Help me fix my car and afford food
gofund.me
September 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Yeah I'm in deep for 1,200 dollars just for the tow. Please help
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This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856
Donate to Help me fix my car and afford food, organized by Justin Keever
I just moved across the country to a major city for a job that pays 40,000 a year. Th… Justin Keever needs your support for Help me fix my car and afford food
gofund.me
September 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856
This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856
Donate to Help me fix my car and afford food, organized by Justin Keever
I just moved across the country to a major city for a job that pays 40,000 a year. Th… Justin Keever needs your support for Help me fix my car and afford food
gofund.me
September 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856
Lessons from this cross-country move: I am too poor to have ever thought I should be allowed to own things. Can't afford to move 'em! Can't afford help! No one will buy them!
August 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Lessons from this cross-country move: I am too poor to have ever thought I should be allowed to own things. Can't afford to move 'em! Can't afford help! No one will buy them!
So, what are the odds of someone like me, with no online following to really speak of, raising like $1,500 to move across the country?
July 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
So, what are the odds of someone like me, with no online following to really speak of, raising like $1,500 to move across the country?
McKenzie Wark, "Gamer Theory" (2007)
I have long said that the dream of a huge number of video games is "what if capitalism but it worked"
84% of indie video games are basically like, 'What if you were employed'
July 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
McKenzie Wark, "Gamer Theory" (2007)
Has a diagram of a concept in a book of critical theory/philosophy ever been helpful? Even once??
July 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Has a diagram of a concept in a book of critical theory/philosophy ever been helpful? Even once??
I've been playing the original Death Stranding and, having now reached chapter 8, I think I've stopped believing this game is going to become good. It's just a slightly slower open world action game! With bad characters!
July 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I've been playing the original Death Stranding and, having now reached chapter 8, I think I've stopped believing this game is going to become good. It's just a slightly slower open world action game! With bad characters!
Tapped out on Clair Obscur right at the end of act 2 because I got bored of the combat. Should I finish it?
June 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Tapped out on Clair Obscur right at the end of act 2 because I got bored of the combat. Should I finish it?
Is there any scholarship out there on those bodycam shooters that are slowly rising in popularity?
June 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Is there any scholarship out there on those bodycam shooters that are slowly rising in popularity?
Bumping this one more time - it's in dire need of a boost!
If you're looking for a distraction, I've got a new video essay out about character-driven storytelling, Choice and Forgiveness in, well, a shooter whose whole bit is being irreverent. I think this is a fun one! (link below)
June 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Bumping this one more time - it's in dire need of a boost!
In addition to the speculative asset-ification of trading cards that's taken hold, for the boosters specifically there's also the parasitic economy of pack-opening content, where viewers get to by proxy experience the expenditure of opening an expensive pack w/nothing in it
I went to a regional "market for collectors" the other day and saw people engaged in Wall Street-esque table trading of Pokemon cards for marginal speculative value. People constantly checking apps, walking from table to table, buying boosters at really high rates. 2/
June 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In addition to the speculative asset-ification of trading cards that's taken hold, for the boosters specifically there's also the parasitic economy of pack-opening content, where viewers get to by proxy experience the expenditure of opening an expensive pack w/nothing in it
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If you're looking for a distraction, I've got a new video essay out about character-driven storytelling, Choice and Forgiveness in, well, a shooter whose whole bit is being irreverent. I think this is a fun one! (link below)
June 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If you're looking for a distraction, I've got a new video essay out about character-driven storytelling, Choice and Forgiveness in, well, a shooter whose whole bit is being irreverent. I think this is a fun one! (link below)
If you're looking for a distraction, I've got a new video essay out about character-driven storytelling, Choice and Forgiveness in, well, a shooter whose whole bit is being irreverent. I think this is a fun one! (link below)
June 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If you're looking for a distraction, I've got a new video essay out about character-driven storytelling, Choice and Forgiveness in, well, a shooter whose whole bit is being irreverent. I think this is a fun one! (link below)
By the by, I just uploaded a rough cut of my next video on Patreon, which you could watch now if you throw me a couple bucks: www.patreon.com/posts/130958...
Proof of Life: The Bulletstorm Video rough cut | Justin Keever
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June 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
By the by, I just uploaded a rough cut of my next video on Patreon, which you could watch now if you throw me a couple bucks: www.patreon.com/posts/130958...
I spent some time this spring learning unreal. Wanted to make an fps where you could throw things. The CASCADE of questions and problems that emerged from this desire is captured well in this thread:
chipping in my take on this:
It's amazing how fiddly making a game can be. There's a conflict between the boilerplate systems built to make Stuff you find in modern engines and the need to hand-tune things to make any game actually feel good. That friction is where a huge amount of dev time is spent
It's amazing how fiddly making a game can be. There's a conflict between the boilerplate systems built to make Stuff you find in modern engines and the need to hand-tune things to make any game actually feel good. That friction is where a huge amount of dev time is spent
It's here! A story I've wanted to do for years and have been working on for months. I asked over 40 game devs one question: what is something that people get wrong about how games are made? Most of those devs are in here, some will be in a... future story. www.gamesradar.com/games/game-d...
June 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I spent some time this spring learning unreal. Wanted to make an fps where you could throw things. The CASCADE of questions and problems that emerged from this desire is captured well in this thread: