Nick O'Brien
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I've been through the forest on a
December 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I've been through the forest on a
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Some friends last weekend kinda landed on a working theory that Important Art Museums are some of the last places random Americans will be exposed to surprise in art that might make them feel something--even if the feeling is distaste--because you go as a Tourist Destination and can't pick the art.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Some friends last weekend kinda landed on a working theory that Important Art Museums are some of the last places random Americans will be exposed to surprise in art that might make them feel something--even if the feeling is distaste--because you go as a Tourist Destination and can't pick the art.
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when the snare hit comes in while you're playing Yacht Dice in Clubhouse Games 51 Worldwide Classics on the Nintendo Switch
November 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
when the snare hit comes in while you're playing Yacht Dice in Clubhouse Games 51 Worldwide Classics on the Nintendo Switch
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Hanging out with the boys in the Blue Prince house. I'm trying to start a game of darts but they're too busy doing arithmetic on the board.
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hanging out with the boys in the Blue Prince house. I'm trying to start a game of darts but they're too busy doing arithmetic on the board.
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fo- five. five shrews tall.
November 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
fo- five. five shrews tall.
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jacking in to look at wreaths
November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
jacking in to look at wreaths
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I often wonder how many people think of a wildly popular game like "Stray", which is basically structurally identical to a classic point and click adventure game, as something else entirely because it is expensive looking and has direct controls.
With adventure games specifically, the idea that adventure games are a "dead genre" is almost baked into the received narrative about adventure games to the point of distracting people from the fact that more adventure games are coming out now than ever were in the 90s
Been seeing an interesting thing on social media with both fighting games and adventure games, where people who haven’t played them since the 90s will say “I wish they still made X genre” or “there aren’t any indie games in X genre”, when they’re more active than they’ve ever been
November 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I often wonder how many people think of a wildly popular game like "Stray", which is basically structurally identical to a classic point and click adventure game, as something else entirely because it is expensive looking and has direct controls.
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Neuromancer still relatable this day. Thank you, Gibson
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Neuromancer still relatable this day. Thank you, Gibson
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This is gonna save me a fortune on #Halloween candy!
October 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is gonna save me a fortune on #Halloween candy!
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imo Shigeru Miyamoto and Masahiro Sakurai both get that Games exist on the same plane connecting Toys and Movies. But Miyamoto only values movies insofar as they can sell the toys, whereas Sakurai understands that a fundamental joy of toys is making up little movies in your head about them.
October 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
imo Shigeru Miyamoto and Masahiro Sakurai both get that Games exist on the same plane connecting Toys and Movies. But Miyamoto only values movies insofar as they can sell the toys, whereas Sakurai understands that a fundamental joy of toys is making up little movies in your head about them.
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Arthur Rackham, English (1867-1939), Flight, illustration from The Ingoldsby Legends, Richard Harris Barham, 1907, watercolor on paper, 33 x 22 cm
October 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Arthur Rackham, English (1867-1939), Flight, illustration from The Ingoldsby Legends, Richard Harris Barham, 1907, watercolor on paper, 33 x 22 cm
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me in the morning
#MonochromeMonday :
Huang Yongyu 黄永玉 (Tujia; China, 1924-2023)
Black Swine, 1994
Ink on paper, hanging scroll
#ChineseArt
www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/...
Huang Yongyu 黄永玉 (Tujia; China, 1924-2023)
Black Swine, 1994
Ink on paper, hanging scroll
#ChineseArt
www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/...
October 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
me in the morning
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당도 높은 주둥이를 담가서 흑당밀크티를 타요
October 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
당도 높은 주둥이를 담가서 흑당밀크티를 타요
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In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
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Dancing thru grief - 30x40” acrylic on canvas. Available.
September 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Dancing thru grief - 30x40” acrylic on canvas. Available.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
After re-watching and looking at its production history, realizing how important it was for the historical context of New Line Cinema, Jim Henson, and corporate sponsorship in blockbuster movies, my new hot take is that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) should be in the Criterion Collection.
September 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
After re-watching and looking at its production history, realizing how important it was for the historical context of New Line Cinema, Jim Henson, and corporate sponsorship in blockbuster movies, my new hot take is that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) should be in the Criterion Collection.
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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Asked my daughter what she thought of her first viewing of THE THING and got this in response.
August 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Asked my daughter what she thought of her first viewing of THE THING and got this in response.
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They’re calling me “Five Meetings Foster” because of the five meetings on my calendar today. I yearn for the days when I was “mid-day nap Foster”
July 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
They’re calling me “Five Meetings Foster” because of the five meetings on my calendar today. I yearn for the days when I was “mid-day nap Foster”
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sketching at the museum
May 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
sketching at the museum
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