🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮
@unormal.bsky.social
A semi-sentient colony of self-assembling, cooperative, biological nano-units. Still somewhat functional, despite its age. 🏆Deloitte Fast 500 🏆Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies 🏆IGF Narrative. 🚀Hugo Award Winning Caves of Qud Sproggiwood pronoun* BLM
yoda going back to the fridge for one more hated time travel story
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 AM
yoda going back to the fridge for one more hated time travel story
gender assigned at death
January 26, 2026 at 7:50 AM
gender assigned at death
they must be amazing if you have expertise in 0 topics
January 26, 2026 at 7:30 AM
they must be amazing if you have expertise in 0 topics
like literally not a single time
January 26, 2026 at 7:29 AM
like literally not a single time
I'm not sure what changed but at some point I stopped judging media on how it meets me where I am and I go to it now, and gta v has a lot of complex storytelling going on when you look sideways out of its protagonists
January 26, 2026 at 7:19 AM
I'm not sure what changed but at some point I stopped judging media on how it meets me where I am and I go to it now, and gta v has a lot of complex storytelling going on when you look sideways out of its protagonists
I think I would have also written it off as childish when I was a bit younger.
January 26, 2026 at 7:17 AM
I think I would have also written it off as childish when I was a bit younger.
yeah its great for scrabked eggs. this is yoyo fried egg
January 26, 2026 at 6:13 AM
yeah its great for scrabked eggs. this is yoyo fried egg
when you're in it, I think its not as obvious, but now that the world has moved on a little bit, it's really hitting as a portrait of an era
January 26, 2026 at 5:51 AM
when you're in it, I think its not as obvious, but now that the world has moved on a little bit, it's really hitting as a portrait of an era
it's not picking its horrors at random
January 26, 2026 at 5:41 AM
it's not picking its horrors at random
even the worst of it like roleplaying feds that are off the leash torturing people, i mean thats right here, its talking very clearly to living in a moment in time in the most strident terms
January 26, 2026 at 5:40 AM
even the worst of it like roleplaying feds that are off the leash torturing people, i mean thats right here, its talking very clearly to living in a moment in time in the most strident terms
like if someone in 150 years asks "is this really what the early 2000s were like to live in" you could only say after consideration with a shrug "well, yeah more or less"
January 26, 2026 at 5:38 AM
like if someone in 150 years asks "is this really what the early 2000s were like to live in" you could only say after consideration with a shrug "well, yeah more or less"
more than anything to me, gta v is speaking to the way it feels to live in the era it was made in, which feels almost unique in games storytelling, certainly aaa storytelling
January 26, 2026 at 5:37 AM
more than anything to me, gta v is speaking to the way it feels to live in the era it was made in, which feels almost unique in games storytelling, certainly aaa storytelling
say what you want about rockstar and their games, *most* games and stories escape the present rather than situating you so strongly in it.
January 26, 2026 at 5:36 AM
say what you want about rockstar and their games, *most* games and stories escape the present rather than situating you so strongly in it.