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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

incredibly heinous, even in light of the normalized evils of the current era. they want bloodlust

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this blew my mind as a kid and has been the touchstone of my tastes and interests in games ever since!

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this and Godzilla Melee = my GTA

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Machine vs. Samaritan was overly optimistic tbh

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

dude not only do I like to play woke games where everyone wins, I like to play woke games where there’s nothing to win at all other than having a good (or sad/weird/funny/scary) time

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

my most concrete memories of this kind of thing was watching taped Zoids episodes from Toonami late at night during sleepovers at a friend’s house. the late night rotation was that and listening to Jurassic Park (the novel) on cassette

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I love all the Godzilla monsters, but it’s true. my favorite random power is in Rebirth of Mothra III when King Ghidorah teleports and imprisons children in a big dome/egg thing to destroy the future of humanity, abilities and levels of strategic machinations never seen before or since

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

the Scorsese thing is sad. this, I just assumed

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

preordering, submitting time off request, purchasing Hmart snack haul, filling my Godzilla head popcorn bucket

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

me driving around Chicagoland today with broken AC

Roy Scheider sweating in Friedkin’s “Sorcerer” (1977)

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

watching Twin Peaks before bed is making my dreams weird. I’d like to think I’m engaging in a sort of language immersion exercise

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

for a few years I went as far as being an academic who made students listen to free jazz

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

it’s happening again (starting a rewatch of Twin Peaks) what a weird wonderful thing that this was on television

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

how open source or freeware is funded matters. call me radical and unrealistic, but I want tech communities that are outside alternatives to ethically compromised big tech

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

had my first experience where someone showed me AI concept art to recruit me onto a project. I appreciate the plan to commission human-made music, but it felt soulless to have the material introduced with "I asked AI to come up with some stuff..." what is the point? (I don't plan to do the project)

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

saw the show in Chicago. incredible. not to be missed by true movie buffs

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Book of the New Sun except Severian claims to have the opposite of amnesia (unless he forgets forgetting…)

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I’m from IL 9th. I’m bummed Kat didn’t win, but I’m encouraged by what was accomplished and hopeful for the future. her campaign had and will continue to have a meaningful impact in my corner of the world

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Gregg's superpower (besides movie expertise) is not caring what else is going on in the room when it's Movie Time #oncinema

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

we need to keep sending Gregg letters of support. he needs us now more than ever #oncinema

Gregg turkington dressed as “Michael” from the movie “Michael” (1996), frowning at New Heidecker during the On Cinema Oscar special

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

as someone who did one grad degree in person & now am working on a different one online: while I’m grateful for the chance to study online (cost, season of life/work, etc.), lack of connection is a struggle. discussion boards, discord, zoom etc. don’t replace “being in” a program with others irl

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

… because you can’t use it critically for writing. it’s a wrong answers/plagiarism/does-the-work-for-you machine that compromises your learning and human expression. and even if it wasn’t those things, it’s fueled by an industry that is actively harming—even killing—people and the planet

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I suppose I did this to myself by watching all the Gamera movies in a row

Letterboxd 2025 summary: Most Watched Actor: Kojiro Hongo. Most Watched Director: Noriaki Yuasa. Highest rated films: One Battle After Another, Adolescence, and The Mastermind

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

… so I guess as far as I’m concerned, Subnautica 2 is DEAD dead

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

we need this, as a society

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Myst was my first “immersive” experience in a game as a kid—the first game to transport me beyond the awareness that I was playing with a toy on the computer. I was hooked on the series that followed. they’re foundational to my personal journey of playing, studying, and creating games!

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

they gotta let him direct one. his love of G would undo Emmerich’s hate

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

he’s an enemy of art and artists. he turned his 4K “remasters” into AI-smoothed sludge and he’s feeding the workers who have made his VFX-driven projects possible into the chipper to save money and push the use of tech he’s invested in I’ll happily continue to ignore this series

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Drewcifer Rising 🎃😈 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I'm not watching WAR OF THE WORLDS and I don't think you should either. Why? Because the bean counters at Amazon don't see hate-watching as a bad thing. In fact, they are playing to that.

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You Won't Make Me Watch The Worst Non-Movie Of The Year

No, I'm not going to watch that movie everyone is saying is so awful that I have to see it. I'm not falling for that trap.

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Would You Like To Know More?

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

since it’s being talked about, imo (personally) 1) all games are “art” and 2) player choice/a certain threshold of interactivity is not required to qualify as a game. “play” takes many forms. games as multimedia storytelling are valid even if they are completely linear and lack choice

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

not good! people should not lose their livelihoods to “AI efficiencies”—and libraries and the orgs around them should be a bastion of information for and by humans. machine readable things like the semantic web etc. are only as good as they are useful to humans on both ends of the sharing of info

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

so basically, the D’ni number system logic @cyan.com

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

love how they so subtly honored the American TriStar Zilla

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

incredible piece of criticism

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

it is distressing that “Processed by the Boys” not only remains relevant but has never been truer in its description of a police/surveillance state fueled by xenophobia and marketed as “cool and nice”

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

this is the tie-in that would get me to play

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Steam is almost correct. there is 1 perfect game, and it's Frog Detective, but there are 2 others: Frog Detective 2 and 3.

Screenshot of "Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island" with a badge in Steam

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

me when I download the Taco Bell app again

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I never considered that a pope could be from where I’m from. somehow it’s strange

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

the Japanese Breakfast show was so good that I forgot to take a picture

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I remember this cover story because it pushed me over the edge to cancel my Atlantic print subscription and seek out more progressive voices

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

We're suing Trump to save library funding. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

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ben @benrich.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

it’s Christmas in Tinseltown!

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