Ranged Touch
@rangedtouch.bsky.social
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Bespoke critical deep dives. JUST KING THINGS. HOMESTUCK MADE THIS WORLD. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social and Danni too. www.rangedtouch.com
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Hello! Ranged Touch is a podcast network touching on various aspects of popular culture. A selection of currently running shows is below, and everything we do and have done (including a completed Actual Play series and a longform series on the webcomic Homestuck) can be found at rangedtouch.com
GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES - Discussing books of academic game studies for a general audience.

JUST KING THINGS - Reading the works of Stephen King in publication order.

SHELVED BY GENRE - Reading selected works of genre fiction, including Ursula K. LeGuin, William Gibson, Junji Ito, and more.

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I ended up liking this movie on rewatch more than I thought I would, but mostly because the final minute or so (which I had forgotten) totally got my ass
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There's a SBG Bonus ep today, with a movie as beloved (?) as it is reviled (??), the freewheeling Bush-era adaptation of V FOR VENDETTA: www.patreon.com/posts/shelve...
Shelved By Genre Bonusode: V For Vendetta (2005) | Ranged Touch
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There's a SBG Bonus ep today, with a movie as beloved (?) as it is reviled (??), the freewheeling Bush-era adaptation of V FOR VENDETTA: www.patreon.com/posts/shelve...
Shelved By Genre Bonusode: V For Vendetta (2005) | Ranged Touch
Get more from Ranged Touch on Patreon
www.patreon.com
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ztul.bsky.social
Big thanks to Jacob for dropping by GSSB this month! Sorry to miss it, as unfortunately I am recovering in the virtual hospital from a virtual trucking accident, but I am working tirelessly to heal my virtual bones and manage the virtual lawsuits so as to be back in your ears as soon as possible.
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This month's GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES is a little bit of a swerve. @ckunzelman.bsky.social talks to @jacobgeller.com about YouTube essaying and how it intersects with knowledge production! rangedtouch.com/2025/09/30/8...
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This month's GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES is a little bit of a swerve. @ckunzelman.bsky.social talks to @jacobgeller.com about YouTube essaying and how it intersects with knowledge production! rangedtouch.com/2025/09/30/8...
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Today on SHELVED BY GENRE we continue our Alan Moore unit by talking about the first three books of SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING and we also talk about how this guy sounds like Jiminy Cricket. rangedtouch.com/2025/09/26/s...
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al it takes is one person saying balls to change the world
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We asked and Chicoblue from the discord delivered. We present this for you to witness:
Beavis and Butthead are in the scene where the girl says "bollocks" in V for Vendetta. Butthead says balls instead.
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Our Moore unit is off and running now that we’ve completed V for Vendetta, a comic I forgot so much about because the film had taken its place in my mind. Much more Moore-y, largely I think for the better. More than that, it’s also so much more direct about what contemporary fascism would look like.
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The cabaret is leaving town--SHELVED BY GENRE today discusses the last book of V FOR VENDETTA, in which everything sort of wraps up, and we wonder which debonair antiheroes might be our next object of fixation: rangedtouch.com/2025/09/12/v...
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the soil of a man's heart is hard as fuck, louis
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Finally ranged touch is taking down the smug faux-intellectualism of C is for Cookie
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V for Vendetta is nice because it doesn't pretend vendetta is the only word that starts with V and actually tells you about a bunch of the others
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V for Vendetta is nice because it doesn't pretend vendetta is the only word that starts with V and actually tells you about a bunch of the others
rangedtouch.bsky.social
The cabaret is leaving town--SHELVED BY GENRE today discusses the last book of V FOR VENDETTA, in which everything sort of wraps up, and we wonder which debonair antiheroes might be our next object of fixation: rangedtouch.com/2025/09/12/v...
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ztul.bsky.social
The Kennedy book is a fun romp and way weirder than it needs to be. It's a crime story pretending to be a time travel story. The first third is a sequel to IT and the last eighth is a Dark Tower epilogue. I don't know how anyone who hasn't spent their life reading Stephen King makes sense of it.
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JUST KING THINGS heads to the local diner to discuss one high school teacher's mission to go back in time and teach more high school, and also get a girlfriend, learn how microphones work, and if he has time, stop the Kennedy assassination. It's all here in 11/22/63: rangedtouch.com/2025/09/08/1...
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Halloweentown, the Disney Channel Original Movie starring Debbie Reynolds!
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Meanwhile on Patreon, our Bonus Episode for this month covers the TV miniseries adaptation of 11/22/63, which features some incredible performances and interesting changes, and also one of the worst performances we've seen in a King adaptation, or maybe anything! www.patreon.com/posts/just-k...
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JUST KING THINGS heads to the local diner to discuss one high school teacher's mission to go back in time and teach more high school, and also get a girlfriend, learn how microphones work, and if he has time, stop the Kennedy assassination. It's all here in 11/22/63: rangedtouch.com/2025/09/08/1...
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It's a VERY special episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, as we conclude The Summer of Simulation with a special VIDEO-EPISODE concerning our thoughts and adventures on the simulated roads of a simulated America with AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1n8...
Game Studies Truckin' Buddies
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This week it's a Shelved By Genre bonus ep, and Patreon supports can hear us talk about one of V for Vendetta's key influences, the absurd, campy, and immaculate revenge flick THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES: www.patreon.com/posts/138200...
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This week it's a Shelved By Genre bonus ep, and Patreon supports can hear us talk about one of V for Vendetta's key influences, the absurd, campy, and immaculate revenge flick THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES: www.patreon.com/posts/138200...
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ztul.bsky.social
I will play this game again and record it if they add Indiana. I promise. I will take you all on a Tour
rangedtouch.bsky.social
It's a VERY special episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, as we conclude The Summer of Simulation with a special VIDEO-EPISODE concerning our thoughts and adventures on the simulated roads of a simulated America with AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1n8...
Game Studies Truckin' Buddies
YouTube video by Ranged Touch
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A new unit begins today on SHELVED BY GENRE, now covering selected works of Alan Moore. We kick things off with a long chat on the first two books of V FOR VENDETTA, making time to offer up some of our trademark earthshaking reinterpretations of the classics: rangedtouch.com/2025/08/29/v...
rangedtouch.bsky.social
A new unit begins today on SHELVED BY GENRE, now covering selected works of Alan Moore. We kick things off with a long chat on the first two books of V FOR VENDETTA, making time to offer up some of our trademark earthshaking reinterpretations of the classics: rangedtouch.com/2025/08/29/v...
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dmartincampbell.bsky.social
My wife's cousins once took an hour on his birthday (December 26th) setting up a scenario where my father-in-law, a long-haul trucker for five years, could play this game. He wound up watching them play because he refused to really get his truck going saying he had too many safety checks left to do
rangedtouch.bsky.social
It's a VERY special episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, as we conclude The Summer of Simulation with a special VIDEO-EPISODE concerning our thoughts and adventures on the simulated roads of a simulated America with AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1n8...
Game Studies Truckin' Buddies
YouTube video by Ranged Touch
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