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William Hughes

@plumberduck.bsky.social

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Staff writer for The A.V. Club, co-host of Everything To Guppy on the Duckfeed podcast network, creator of the idea "What if John Wick fought Dracula?"

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · Nov 15

For new followers, my posts on here fall into three categories of various levels of irritating:

1) Posting pieces of my A.V. Club writing I think didn't completely suck.

2) Letting people know what I'm streaming on Friday/Saturday nights

3) INTRUSIVE THOUGHT DISPOSAL

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 56m

Streaming tonight at 8 p.m., more Baby Steps! If you want to understand why, please watch this clip, which comes AFTER I spent an hour carrying a melting piece of ice through the desert, and right before, at the 99 percent point, falling and flinging it in a hole. www.twitch.tv/plumberduck/...

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Twitch is the world

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 3h

I don't like to be controversial, but fuck it: Sigourney Weaver is our best Sigourney and it's not even particularly close.

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 4h

Annoying my wife with jokes about Trump rolling troops into Portland and immediately instituting martial law at Voodoo Donuts. "Ugh, such a tourist move! All the local dictators know you launch a coup at Blue Star or Pip's."

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 5h

While I'm being critical, I think the show has a real problem with confusing the charisma of its actors and its characters. Tim Meadows? Awesome. His character? Piece of shit, weird to see him teaming up with our guys.

This goes, like, triple for Cena/Peacemaker.

William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 5h

how the hell do you have one music video montage where the characters walk slowly in the same direction while smiling and nodding at each other and then think "fuck it, we need a second one"

William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 7h

I wrote about Mario Galaxy and a slightly unwelcome reminder of the "Screw it, toss in some motion controls" era

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 9h

The Switch and Switch 2 re-releases of the classic Wii games have us asking ourselves: Did we really used to live like this?

Nintendo's Mario Galaxy remasters are a return to the tyranny of motion controls

www.avclub.com

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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 9h

The Switch and Switch 2 re-releases of the classic Wii games have us asking ourselves: Did we really used to live like this?

Nintendo's Mario Galaxy remasters are a return to the tyranny of motion controls

www.avclub.com

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 18h

Also: I never want to fall into the trap of being Mr. "My Political Lenses Are The TV Show's Problem" but it IS kinda wild to spend 7 episodes building up to the reveal that you're dealing with a literal Nazi world where all the brown people have been locked up, then completely ignore it for the 8th

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 19h

There are some good moments (mostly from Danielle Brooks), but between moving scenery to set up The Next Movie, the multiple music videos and slow-motion smile walks, and the bizarre comics deep pulls (we're doing Salvation Run?!) that felt shaaaaaaaaaaaggy

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 19h

Boy howdy, that Peacemaker finale is a strong argument for not having the guy writing, the guy directing, and the guy deciding whether the writer and director are doing a good job be the same guy, huh?

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 22h

I've been watching the final season of Alice In Borderland, which continues to distinguish itself from Squid Game by having murder games that have actual game design behind them, and now I have a fantasy of interviewing game designers and asking them to cook up their dream murder game.

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 1d

Eternal Strands has maybe the biggest gulf between how much I love it and how much people have played it in 2025, REALLY cool physics-heavy exploration game with a nice kernel of Shadow Of The Colossus nestled in its heart. Good writing, too!

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 2d

Eternal Strands is $13.99 on US PSN buff.ly/N8TMORi

also on Game Pass Ultimate

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 1d

I was thinking about "I'm Too Sexy" today, as one does, and it strikes me that not nearly enough songs give a concrete reason for why they're ending. Fred's telling you about the inadequacies of his shirt, he realizes he's ALSO too sexy for this song, he lets us know. Considerate!

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 1d

It's like having your own movie theater where your face and neck hurt a little bit all the time and everything's slightly blurry and if your wife walks into the room without you noticing and says something you get real scared

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 1d

I am definitely not suffering from depression and the fact that I've started watching TV and playing non-VR games in my VR headset again, where there is no world and only comforting entertainment and darkness, is entirely a coincidence.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the president's only friend lying to him

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 2d

We are going to be walking around PRGE together next week and it's going to turn into a nuclear firestorm of bit energy.

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 3d

ICE signing bonuses are UBI for guys who've gotten their photos put up behind the counter at at least three bikini coffee stands.

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 5d

Haha, no, I wasn't laughing at you, I was thinking about a parody version of Master Of Puppets where they go "Obey! Your! Pastor!" What's that? An ass-kicking, regardless? Right you are, guv'nor, no protest from me

William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 5d

I don't think the game puts its very best foot forward with its verbal comedy but the timing on how it deploys stuff is so good so often.

William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 5d

There's a bit I wrote about in Baby Steps where the game basically dares you to step off a ledge that will lose a LOT of progress and I previously wrote about the dignity of not giving in to it but it turns out that being a nihilism pervert is also p. good. www.twitch.tv/plumberduck/...

Twitch

Twitch is the world

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 6d

Streaming tonight at 8 p.m. I know last night I said I would actually progress in Baby Steps but then we started late and I saw a cardboard box on top of a ladder so I had to spend three hours getting THAT but now we're going to progress

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 6d

Pinkwater wrote weird books about weird children for weird children and I devoured those suckers.

William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 6d

Fingers crossed that Dwayne Johnson and Benny Safdie's Lizard Music adaptation is a huge hit and spawns a whole Daniel Pinkwater extended universe. Can't wait for Snarkout Boys And The Avocado Of Death as their version of The Avengers

William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 6d

I try not to write too many things that are JUST dunks on societal bad actors but, like, sometimes the spirit of the dunk moves ya