Trystan McClellan
@bardcraft92.bsky.social
Who are you people?!
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Closest thing you'll see from me maybe ever to a personal essay about a video game vgbees.com/im-great-at-...
I'm Great At Baby Steps Because I Walk Like That In Real Life - VGBees
CW: medical talk, surgical talk, bones, car accident In late May, an uninsured Lexus driver ran a yellow light and pulled in front of me...
vgbees.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Closest thing you'll see from me maybe ever to a personal essay about a video game vgbees.com/im-great-at-...
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Capitalism poisoned nostalgia so much that some people can’t seem to enjoy nostalgia of *any* kind now. Not all nostalgia is bad? So what if you like a seasonal food or family tradition just because of nostalgia?? It’s fine!! Let yourself enjoy harmless things and warm fuzzy memories.
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Capitalism poisoned nostalgia so much that some people can’t seem to enjoy nostalgia of *any* kind now. Not all nostalgia is bad? So what if you like a seasonal food or family tradition just because of nostalgia?? It’s fine!! Let yourself enjoy harmless things and warm fuzzy memories.
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
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me with stranger things
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
me with stranger things
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As of today, the retail edition of How a Game Lives is available in bookstores, libraries, and online platforms. Ask for it locally! Get it from your favorite bookseller! bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
As of today, the retail edition of How a Game Lives is available in bookstores, libraries, and online platforms. Ask for it locally! Get it from your favorite bookseller! bookshop.org/p/books/how-...
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This is disgraceful toadying to someone who could well be dead, out of office, or both by the time this reanimated corpse knuckle-drags itself to the screen. Some context: Ratner directed the state-approved Melania doc that is coming to Prime, so he's now a friend of The Family. >
I teased this last night in What I’m Hearing but now confirmed: Paramount WILL release Rush Hour 4 after prodding from Trump on behalf of Brett Ratner. Distribution deal. Producer Tarak Ben Ammar is lining up financing. Get ready for the dumbest possible state-controlled media.
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is disgraceful toadying to someone who could well be dead, out of office, or both by the time this reanimated corpse knuckle-drags itself to the screen. Some context: Ratner directed the state-approved Melania doc that is coming to Prime, so he's now a friend of The Family. >
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tails: sonic, what's the true meaning of christmas?
sonic: none of us are christian, tails.
tails: i know, i'm just curious.
sonic: hmmmm.
sonic: big! what do you think the true meaning of christmas is.
big the cat: i get a 25 dollar best buy gift card and a bag of jellybeans.
sonic: yeah!
sonic: none of us are christian, tails.
tails: i know, i'm just curious.
sonic: hmmmm.
sonic: big! what do you think the true meaning of christmas is.
big the cat: i get a 25 dollar best buy gift card and a bag of jellybeans.
sonic: yeah!
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
tails: sonic, what's the true meaning of christmas?
sonic: none of us are christian, tails.
tails: i know, i'm just curious.
sonic: hmmmm.
sonic: big! what do you think the true meaning of christmas is.
big the cat: i get a 25 dollar best buy gift card and a bag of jellybeans.
sonic: yeah!
sonic: none of us are christian, tails.
tails: i know, i'm just curious.
sonic: hmmmm.
sonic: big! what do you think the true meaning of christmas is.
big the cat: i get a 25 dollar best buy gift card and a bag of jellybeans.
sonic: yeah!
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Orson Welles in The Third Man
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Orson Welles in The Third Man
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And folks this is why even if you choose not to be in a union--for whatever reason--you still owe your co-workers solidarity. The discussions were, seemingly,bcomparing salaries and talking about a company policy change to their slack server. Someone went to management and got 34 people fired.
PMG understands Rockstar became aware of these messages after at least one non-union member of the server raised concerns about these discussions with management and this either kicked off, or contributed to, a wider investigation.
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
And folks this is why even if you choose not to be in a union--for whatever reason--you still owe your co-workers solidarity. The discussions were, seemingly,bcomparing salaries and talking about a company policy change to their slack server. Someone went to management and got 34 people fired.
Cave of Qud is probably becoming my comfort game (on par with most Roguelike).
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Cave of Qud is probably becoming my comfort game (on par with most Roguelike).
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I think it's easy to try to feel "above" this kind of thing but going to movie where people are laughing and the adventure is so dang silly really is great.
Bloated and absurd movie but the vibes were great.
Bloated and absurd movie but the vibes were great.
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I think it's easy to try to feel "above" this kind of thing but going to movie where people are laughing and the adventure is so dang silly really is great.
Bloated and absurd movie but the vibes were great.
Bloated and absurd movie but the vibes were great.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Some Sunday ready over on the HGN blog! Today’s new post from @xurvermilion.bsky.social explores the potential of videogames as a way of engaging students with historical research, and key skills in critical analysis:
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
Why should students care about historymaking in videogames? | Historical Games Network
We might spend time exploring zora monoliths in Breath of the Wild’s (2017) Hyrule and the tales they speak around kings of old, or snooping through an item’s description (such as a holy great sword, ...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Some Sunday ready over on the HGN blog! Today’s new post from @xurvermilion.bsky.social explores the potential of videogames as a way of engaging students with historical research, and key skills in critical analysis:
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
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Hi! I'm Ari Aster, and I'd like to tell you a bit about my upcoming film, which explores the age-old question: what if a mother figure yelled at you?
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Hi! I'm Ari Aster, and I'd like to tell you a bit about my upcoming film, which explores the age-old question: what if a mother figure yelled at you?
It is bizarre that Nolan aged more to me than Edgar Wright. I would have said the opposite a decade ago.
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
It is bizarre that Nolan aged more to me than Edgar Wright. I would have said the opposite a decade ago.
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Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
Coming soon: Realis
A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker
www.kickstarter.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...
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finally, an upside to the ongoing scourge of political violence
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
finally, an upside to the ongoing scourge of political violence
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Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.
Top five film genres:
Flop 80’s fantasy films
Spaceships genre
A group of people traveling into a forest and discover a new world and/or existential dread.
Holden Caulfield in different time periods.
Video art artist direct a film.
Flop 80’s fantasy films
Spaceships genre
A group of people traveling into a forest and discover a new world and/or existential dread.
Holden Caulfield in different time periods.
Video art artist direct a film.
Top five film genres:
Gloopy melting monster
70s science fiction film about contemporary politics that's a total bummer
It all happened in one crazy night!
Groups of men dancing and singing about their jobs
Children's story written by someone who has never met a child
Gloopy melting monster
70s science fiction film about contemporary politics that's a total bummer
It all happened in one crazy night!
Groups of men dancing and singing about their jobs
Children's story written by someone who has never met a child
top five film genres:
lady journalist in depression era america is going to get to the bottom of this, man or no man
warriors learn magic, defeat master who killed their master
the camera moves!: an experiment
the folks in this building is a reflection of all america
immigration as a vibe
lady journalist in depression era america is going to get to the bottom of this, man or no man
warriors learn magic, defeat master who killed their master
the camera moves!: an experiment
the folks in this building is a reflection of all america
immigration as a vibe
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Top five film genres:
Flop 80’s fantasy films
Spaceships genre
A group of people traveling into a forest and discover a new world and/or existential dread.
Holden Caulfield in different time periods.
Video art artist direct a film.
Flop 80’s fantasy films
Spaceships genre
A group of people traveling into a forest and discover a new world and/or existential dread.
Holden Caulfield in different time periods.
Video art artist direct a film.
This always frustrates me when reading a lot of Ebert’s review. It is more about his own perception of the movie advertising than talking about the movie.
The thing that always rubbed me the wrong way about Ebert's dislike of Blue Velvet is he seems to project his own reactions onto Rossellini in a way that takes away her agency. I was uncomfortable with what happens to her in this movie, therefore she must have been as well, despite her reassurances
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This always frustrates me when reading a lot of Ebert’s review. It is more about his own perception of the movie advertising than talking about the movie.
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Buttigieg polled an impressive 0% with Black voters. Zero. Percent.
Do you know how kind and friendly Black voters are? Everyone gets like 3%, just for showing up! You have to work to go down from there!
It's 2025, And I still run into people that don't know why Black voters don't like Buttigieg.
Do you know how kind and friendly Black voters are? Everyone gets like 3%, just for showing up! You have to work to go down from there!
It's 2025, And I still run into people that don't know why Black voters don't like Buttigieg.
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Buttigieg polled an impressive 0% with Black voters. Zero. Percent.
Do you know how kind and friendly Black voters are? Everyone gets like 3%, just for showing up! You have to work to go down from there!
It's 2025, And I still run into people that don't know why Black voters don't like Buttigieg.
Do you know how kind and friendly Black voters are? Everyone gets like 3%, just for showing up! You have to work to go down from there!
It's 2025, And I still run into people that don't know why Black voters don't like Buttigieg.
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i don't have any easy answers to this, i just think it's really humiliating how much people who make games have this default expectation that they have to totally subjugate themselves to joe gamer and the whims of the market and act so blessed and grateful to be there the whole time
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
i don't have any easy answers to this, i just think it's really humiliating how much people who make games have this default expectation that they have to totally subjugate themselves to joe gamer and the whims of the market and act so blessed and grateful to be there the whole time
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So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
Had a realization: Guillermo Del Toro is a better version of Tim Burton.
November 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Had a realization: Guillermo Del Toro is a better version of Tim Burton.