Ghost Structuralist
@quips.bsky.social
I work for Critical Distance and every year I write a few more pages of my dissertation (they/them)
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On a personal note:
1. We fucking did it. I am so proud of everyone involved.
2. Unionizing is a goddamn fight, regardless of any, ah, "diplomatic" coverage on the matter. This is a general observation, unrelated to today's news -- of course.
3. UK devs: your turn. DMs are open if you need help.
1. We fucking did it. I am so proud of everyone involved.
2. Unionizing is a goddamn fight, regardless of any, ah, "diplomatic" coverage on the matter. This is a general observation, unrelated to today's news -- of course.
3. UK devs: your turn. DMs are open if you need help.
October 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
On a personal note:
1. We fucking did it. I am so proud of everyone involved.
2. Unionizing is a goddamn fight, regardless of any, ah, "diplomatic" coverage on the matter. This is a general observation, unrelated to today's news -- of course.
3. UK devs: your turn. DMs are open if you need help.
1. We fucking did it. I am so proud of everyone involved.
2. Unionizing is a goddamn fight, regardless of any, ah, "diplomatic" coverage on the matter. This is a general observation, unrelated to today's news -- of course.
3. UK devs: your turn. DMs are open if you need help.
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The workers at ZA/UM Studio have unionized.
First recognised games union in the UK, too. May many others follow.
www.gameworkers.co.uk/workers-at-z...
First recognised games union in the UK, too. May many others follow.
www.gameworkers.co.uk/workers-at-z...
Workers at ZA/UM Announce Landmark Recognition Agreement - IWGB Game Workers
Video game developers at ZA/UM Studio, represented by the IWGB (Independent Workers Union of Great Britain) have today announced their formation of a union at their workplace. After a negotiation proc...
www.gameworkers.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The workers at ZA/UM Studio have unionized.
First recognised games union in the UK, too. May many others follow.
www.gameworkers.co.uk/workers-at-z...
First recognised games union in the UK, too. May many others follow.
www.gameworkers.co.uk/workers-at-z...
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This week: RDR2, TotK, ACVI, and several other games that aren't acronyms!
critical-distance.com/2023/10/22/o...
critical-distance.com/2023/10/22/o...
October 22nd
Welcome back readers. I want to extend my heartfelt thanks this week to our Discord community–the regulars (and not-so regulars!) there have been an essential pillar for helping us find and c…
critical-distance.com
October 23, 2023 at 12:37 AM
This week: RDR2, TotK, ACVI, and several other games that aren't acronyms!
critical-distance.com/2023/10/22/o...
critical-distance.com/2023/10/22/o...
hello it took two attempts but i made some bread, hope you do something nice for yourself too!
October 23, 2023 at 12:14 AM
hello it took two attempts but i made some bread, hope you do something nice for yourself too!
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And my new #gamestudies friends, if you find yourself even more curious abt #HistoricalGameStudies and #GamingthePastinEd, I'd be delighted if you checked out gamingthepast.net (there's a book too, but the site is where I've collected almost 20 years of work on games in and outside of history ed.)
Gaming the Past
historical video games in the classroom and beyond
gamingthepast.net
October 21, 2023 at 11:58 AM
And my new #gamestudies friends, if you find yourself even more curious abt #HistoricalGameStudies and #GamingthePastinEd, I'd be delighted if you checked out gamingthepast.net (there's a book too, but the site is where I've collected almost 20 years of work on games in and outside of history ed.)
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deep-hell.com/swim-sink/
Faith moves us forward. It is a propellant. It is sometimes a convenient excuse for violence.
@feelthebryn.bsky.social
Faith moves us forward. It is a propellant. It is sometimes a convenient excuse for violence.
@feelthebryn.bsky.social
AND WE'LL SWIM TILL WE SINK - DEEP HELL
Faith moves us forward. It is a propellant. It is sometimes a convenient excuse for violence.
deep-hell.com
October 20, 2023 at 8:46 PM
deep-hell.com/swim-sink/
Faith moves us forward. It is a propellant. It is sometimes a convenient excuse for violence.
@feelthebryn.bsky.social
Faith moves us forward. It is a propellant. It is sometimes a convenient excuse for violence.
@feelthebryn.bsky.social
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Wrote about Hydlide, a game notorious in North America for sounding and looking and playing poorly, but it's actually a vital piece of action RPG history that, for a few reasons, never got its due outside Japan. One of those reasons? The failure to update it even a little bit for 1989's standards.
It's new to me: Hydlide
Hydlide might have been derided when it arrived on the NES, but it's a vital game in the history of action RPGs.
retroxp.substack.com
October 20, 2023 at 3:36 PM
Wrote about Hydlide, a game notorious in North America for sounding and looking and playing poorly, but it's actually a vital piece of action RPG history that, for a few reasons, never got its due outside Japan. One of those reasons? The failure to update it even a little bit for 1989's standards.
hahaha not me; I could sail through Lost Levels like it was nothing when I was 9, but now you throw that shit at me and I'm just, you want me to do WHAT?
To anyone who might want to use SMB Wonder as an opportunity to say “Mario games were harder back in my day!” may I suggest the idea that you may have gotten much better at video games (and basic hand eye coordination) since you were 9?
October 20, 2023 at 3:21 PM
hahaha not me; I could sail through Lost Levels like it was nothing when I was 9, but now you throw that shit at me and I'm just, you want me to do WHAT?
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I reviewed Saltsea Chronicles for @pastemagazine.bsky.social !!! glad to give the new @gutefabrik.bsky.social a Paste 9.7 (i.e. go play this, it’s special)
Saltsea Chronicles Beautifully Finds A Way Forward
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.
www.pastemagazine.com
October 19, 2023 at 7:31 PM
I reviewed Saltsea Chronicles for @pastemagazine.bsky.social !!! glad to give the new @gutefabrik.bsky.social a Paste 9.7 (i.e. go play this, it’s special)
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Full sequence of the annular solar eclipse at Shiprock, New Mexico. This was a dream composition of mine. So much time, energy, and money went into making it happen. I'm forever grateful to the Navajo for letting me shoot it from sacred ground. An experience I'll never forget.
October 19, 2023 at 2:50 AM
Full sequence of the annular solar eclipse at Shiprock, New Mexico. This was a dream composition of mine. So much time, energy, and money went into making it happen. I'm forever grateful to the Navajo for letting me shoot it from sacred ground. An experience I'll never forget.
A very kind friend gifted me a smartwatch and the thing I love most about it is now I get to feel like shit about the 5800 steps I get in on a work day because the watch thinks I should be getting 10,000
October 18, 2023 at 11:29 PM
A very kind friend gifted me a smartwatch and the thing I love most about it is now I get to feel like shit about the 5800 steps I get in on a work day because the watch thinks I should be getting 10,000
When I see some middle-aged neoliberal doing corporate apologia on here I have to wonder what prompted them to choose the trans shitposters/sex workers/autistic millennials site of all sites for their pulpit
October 18, 2023 at 9:51 PM
When I see some middle-aged neoliberal doing corporate apologia on here I have to wonder what prompted them to choose the trans shitposters/sex workers/autistic millennials site of all sites for their pulpit
I'm seeing an increase across faculties here in (well intentioned!) assignments asking students to engage with Indigeneity and historical colonial injustices in Canada, but I think these assignments were designed for a settler audience rather than the actual student audience taking these courses.
October 18, 2023 at 7:25 PM
I'm seeing an increase across faculties here in (well intentioned!) assignments asking students to engage with Indigeneity and historical colonial injustices in Canada, but I think these assignments were designed for a settler audience rather than the actual student audience taking these courses.
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For Bullet Points, I tried to figure out what Starfield, ostensibly a game about space exploration, actually thinks space exploration is. Unsurprisingly, it's mostly a vehicle for becoming the specialest guy there ever was bulletpointsmonthly.com/2023/10/05/a...
A Recursive Universe
Monthly magazine for long-form articles and podcasts on videogames
bulletpointsmonthly.com
October 18, 2023 at 1:34 PM
For Bullet Points, I tried to figure out what Starfield, ostensibly a game about space exploration, actually thinks space exploration is. Unsurprisingly, it's mostly a vehicle for becoming the specialest guy there ever was bulletpointsmonthly.com/2023/10/05/a...
It is essential to fascism's endurance that you mistake stupid people as simply evil, and evil people as simply stupid.
October 18, 2023 at 4:33 AM
It is essential to fascism's endurance that you mistake stupid people as simply evil, and evil people as simply stupid.
Happy to see Remap launch their full site and look forward to their continued success.
October 17, 2023 at 10:15 PM
Happy to see Remap launch their full site and look forward to their continued success.
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If you missed our stream, Remap's big announcement today was the re-launch of remapradio.com. Not only does it look awesome, but it heralds some big news: we're bringing back writing. Many of us at Waypoint are writers at heart, and we don't want to lose that at Remap.
Remap
Remap is a new media company from the creators behind Waypoint.
remapradio.com
October 17, 2023 at 10:01 PM
If you missed our stream, Remap's big announcement today was the re-launch of remapradio.com. Not only does it look awesome, but it heralds some big news: we're bringing back writing. Many of us at Waypoint are writers at heart, and we don't want to lose that at Remap.
I like Analogue's products but I really do not like their business model, practices, or branding. Their identity is predicated on further and continued gentrification of retro games, turning it into a playground for guys in their forties who got in just before the middle class evaporated.
Some speculations:
1) It's gonna be expensive, moreso than the Duo. The FPGA grunt to drive an N64 core won't be cheap
2) If Analogue does PS1 or Saturn, expect one or the other in two years
3) I think Analogue increasingly sees themselves in competition with upscalers and modders
1) It's gonna be expensive, moreso than the Duo. The FPGA grunt to drive an N64 core won't be cheap
2) If Analogue does PS1 or Saturn, expect one or the other in two years
3) I think Analogue increasingly sees themselves in competition with upscalers and modders
Analogue is making a 4K Nintendo 64
Break out those cartridges.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2023 at 10:23 PM
I like Analogue's products but I really do not like their business model, practices, or branding. Their identity is predicated on further and continued gentrification of retro games, turning it into a playground for guys in their forties who got in just before the middle class evaporated.
Some speculations:
1) It's gonna be expensive, moreso than the Duo. The FPGA grunt to drive an N64 core won't be cheap
2) If Analogue does PS1 or Saturn, expect one or the other in two years
3) I think Analogue increasingly sees themselves in competition with upscalers and modders
1) It's gonna be expensive, moreso than the Duo. The FPGA grunt to drive an N64 core won't be cheap
2) If Analogue does PS1 or Saturn, expect one or the other in two years
3) I think Analogue increasingly sees themselves in competition with upscalers and modders
Analogue is making a 4K Nintendo 64
Break out those cartridges.
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2023 at 9:44 PM
Some speculations:
1) It's gonna be expensive, moreso than the Duo. The FPGA grunt to drive an N64 core won't be cheap
2) If Analogue does PS1 or Saturn, expect one or the other in two years
3) I think Analogue increasingly sees themselves in competition with upscalers and modders
1) It's gonna be expensive, moreso than the Duo. The FPGA grunt to drive an N64 core won't be cheap
2) If Analogue does PS1 or Saturn, expect one or the other in two years
3) I think Analogue increasingly sees themselves in competition with upscalers and modders
If this place ever gets promoted posts I hope it's sooner than later so the site is still small enough that I can personally make an outsized contribution to making each and every promoted account here miserable
October 16, 2023 at 9:02 PM
If this place ever gets promoted posts I hope it's sooner than later so the site is still small enough that I can personally make an outsized contribution to making each and every promoted account here miserable
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Reskeet with a banger pic of your cat
October 16, 2023 at 8:53 PM
Reskeet with a banger pic of your cat
I recently re-watched The Matrix films with a friend and I was struck not with smug condescension that we used to think trenchcoats and polarized lenses were cool, but rather with a bit of melancholy that we used to think computers were cool.
October 16, 2023 at 8:28 PM
I recently re-watched The Matrix films with a friend and I was struck not with smug condescension that we used to think trenchcoats and polarized lenses were cool, but rather with a bit of melancholy that we used to think computers were cool.
If you ever need a healthier place to put unfocused rage you could do worse than Vulture Capital firms:
www.vulture.com/article/epic...
www.vulture.com/article/epic...
Bandcamp Hit With Layoffs After Sale to Songtradr
Epic sold the company last month.
www.vulture.com
October 16, 2023 at 6:38 PM
If you ever need a healthier place to put unfocused rage you could do worse than Vulture Capital firms:
www.vulture.com/article/epic...
www.vulture.com/article/epic...