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Jack Orchard
@jarona7.bsky.social
Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
I played through A Space for the Unbound with them and had a wonderful time, but as you can tell from the frequency of my posts on here, maintaining any social media presence is tricky these days.

Hypothetically speaking though - is there a regular enough slot you'd like to give to guiltfree play?
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
That's a really good idea :) the cozy streamer Kimchica actually does run one of these, called Geeks & Grounds - www.geeksandgrounds.com - they've played through a bunch of really interesting games (1000x Resist, Citizen Sleeper, Final Fantasy X rn) and the Discord is really active!
Geeks & Grounds
www.geeksandgrounds.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Yeah this resonates 1000% :o
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Oh yeah did some admin too :p - you're right it's so hard to prioritise even when it is work/related to work - I can and do get in my playing hours at the end of the day when everyone is asleep/the house is in order, but it'd be nice to play something not half-asleep, especially stuff for work
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It's halfway through the afternoon and I have hoovered, cleaned the bathroom, done laundry, done dishes, cleaned my car, done laundry again, and cleaned the kitchen - with no prompting other than my own sense that these things need doing - does anyone else have this problem?
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Reposted by Jack Orchard
"SLAVES, toil no more! Why delve, and moil, and pine,
To glut the tyrant-forgers of your chain?"

---Thomas Cooper the Chartist, The Purgatory of Suicides (1847).

#history #poetry #politics #literature #English #Chartism
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reposted by Jack Orchard
And one other thing: we’re being told that AI is the only way to make games cheaper and faster, to pull us from this precipice of production nightmares the industry has found itself in. That it’s necessary.

We put out roughly 3 motherfucking games a year, not touching the stuff.
Skill issue.
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Team up with some godlike AIs like Navigator and Gardener and build a utopia in the stars
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
7 could be nurse shark?
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM