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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New brief video essay detailing an observation I had about RPG writing conventions youtu.be/FxWnHYjqaiI

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The Rule of Writing RPGs Always Break

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Probably a hot take but I think Tim Robinson hot dog man is a bad meme because it relies entirely on context from the source that the meme version never provides. You have to already know that in the original context he's talking about a hot dog car crashing through a window or else it's nonsense

Pictured: Tim Robinson in a hot dog costume saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this", a popular meme. Never pictured: the "this" he's talking about, a crashed hot dog car, without which the joke doesn't make any sense

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🐶🐶🐶 Blurry da doggo 🐶🐶🐶 @blurrydawgo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's worth noting that I also watched @echobizarre.bsky.social's yesteryear video on KH earlier this week; I agree that KH is only confusing if you learn about it externally or take everything too literally I just hope my timeline page project doesn't exacerbate the problem youtu.be/RSIGtoWd734

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Kingdom Hearts Is Not Confusing

YouTube video by Echo Bizarre

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If "millennial writing" is use of blabbering, non-elegant dialogue emulating an idea of the messy way people really talk, I feel the reactionary strain of the backlash to it is part of the same intolerance for aesthetic "imperfection" that only values a middle schooler's conception of classical art

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I can't stop thinking about how Jermaine Clement is in the Cameron-Avatar sequels trying his best with an American accent right next to Brendan Cowell getting to do his natural Australian accent. Did Cameron think people would get confused by a New Zealand accent?

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just discovered Agefield High exists and having played neither this nor Mixtape, my uninformed instinct is it's like an evil-universe Mixtape. Both nostalgic throwbacks to bygone eras about a trio of high schoolers wanting one big last hurrah. But... extremely different vibes.

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Agefield High: Rock the School - Story Trailer

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

My newest video essay is live! A chunky analysis of Divinity: Original Sin II and why its narrative just doesn't click for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJSw...

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Playing Divinity Original Sin II After Baldur's Gate III

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is dreadful, I know a lot of people weren't gonna touch it because of management booting so much of the original Disco Elysium team, but once again it's workers facing the consequence from disastrous management decisions. It's a sickening state of affairs no matter how you look at it.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 17/07/2026

No matter my feelings about the studio's upper management, this is still a tragedy. The amount of talent bleeding out across the industry is catastrophic. Many of them will find footing at other studios, or start fresh as independent outfits. Many more will struggle to find work and feed families.

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muscle meat woman child @pierogibeast.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

love to open YouTube and see @echobizarre.bsky.social streaming Jade Empire, one of my favorite games of all time! People complained about the BioWare layoffs screwing the chances for future Dragon Age and Mass Effect games but personally I will die mad about never getting Jade Empire 2

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Fool that I am, I'd assumed that The Asylum had eased off on doing their Mockbuster "trick people into watching" movies after Sharknado took off, but they've still been going strong, even more shameless than I remember. "Pandora: Fire and Ice" and "Road Wars: Max Fury" are especially funny to me

List of recent Asylum movies "New Toy Story," "Alien Disclosure Day," and "Master of the Universe."

Asylum movies "Immortal Combat" and "The Last Hail M.A.R.Y."

Asylum movies "Pandora: Fire and Ice," "A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas", and "Predator: Wastelands."

Asylum movies "The Twisters," "War of the Worlds: Extinction" and "Road Wars: Max Fury"

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Trëy @quiksnowboard7.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"Humor is just another defense against the universe." - Mel Brooks Happy 100th Birthday to the legendary actor, comedian, director, filmmaker, songwriter & playwright, born on this day in 1926. One of few entertainers to achieve EGOT status (winning Emmy, Grammy, Academy aka Oscar & Tony Awards).

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Big weekend coming up! Tomorrow, 6/27, I'm releasing my next video essay, a review/short analysis of Zero Parades: For Dead Spies And Sunday, 6/28 at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST, I will be doing my first ever livestream, playing Dread Delusion! Come hang out if you can

Thumbnail for my Zero Parades video, with Hershel in front of the Quest For It splash art with the text "A Replica About Replication." Ooh, wonder what that means

Thumbnail for my first livestream Sunday the 28th, with the cover art for Dread Delusion and the text "My Favorite Elder-Scrolls-Like" on it

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

1989 execs: "A movie about singular icon Batman is a hit? Surely 1930s pulp heroes are the draw, greenlight The Phantom and Dick Tracy" 2026 execs: "A movie about singular sensation/communal fiction The Backrooms is a hit? Surely just being from the Internet is the draw, greenlight r/AITA The Movie"

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My Veilguard video has hit 100K views! Still one of the videos I'm proudest of

Screenshot of my "A Nuanced Critique of Veilguard" video at 100K views hooray

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

If this is about sharing underappreciated games then let's go truly underappreciated, here's nine very cool games I've played with fewer than 1500 Steam Reviews (most only a few hundred). Let's pump those numbers up

9 Steam Games I want to spread, featuring Magenta Horizon, Mediterranea Inferno, Wishbind, Panthalassa, Malys, Betrayal at Club Low, Elsinore, Solar Ash, and Masquerada: Songs and Shadows

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muscle meat woman child @pierogibeast.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

You can’t say that Rise of Skywalker was a forgettable mess, it RUINED ALL OF STAR WARS. The latter seasons of Game of Thrones kind of stunk so THE GOOD SEASONS DON’T COUNT.

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muscle meat woman child @pierogibeast.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

watching some Dragon Age videos lately so my YouTube recs are full of “VEILGUARD WAS A CRIME” stuff and you know, I really hate that online media critique has gotten Like This

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muscle meat woman child @pierogibeast.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

anyway I agree with @echobizarre.bsky.social’s take on Veilguard: it’s another Dragon Age game. It’s the worst Dragon Age game. It’s a miracle it’s so good. It’s deeper than it’s said to be, but shallower than it should have been. It’s okay.

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

i’m so tired of hearing how much money works of art/entertainment did or did not make i am not a CEO this information has no value please stop acting like it’s the most interesting or important talking point i’m so tired

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

New video! A short rumination on a narrative trend I've noticed that I made while Real Life is making other videos I'm working on take longer youtu.be/vbASK15JIg0

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Games Where You Have a Guy in Your Head

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I saw a Cybertruck plastered with ads for a fertility clinic today. I think I found Elon's Platonic ideal of a customer

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CSarracenian @sarracenian.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I really like this video by @echobizarre.bsky.social as an outsider as it helped mapping things out [Spoilers: this video isn't inherently about how much of KH actually "works" as it is about how people experience storytelling through diff. sources] www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSIG...

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Kingdom Hearts Is Not Confusing

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My contribution to Odyssey discourse is that when I read it in 9th grade I wrote an essay saying Odysseus slaughtering the suitors showed he was trapped in a warrior's mentality and my teacher said she never thought of that before and now I make YouTube video game analysis to try to relive that rush

That small domino to big domino meme with the small domino labeled "9th Grade English Teacher saying my Odyssey take was unique" and the big, final domino labeled "3.5 hr Deus Ex Video Essay"

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What gets me is how utterly boring the sorts of people I've seen rage at Mixtape (not dislike, not be apathetic about, *rage*) are and want all games to be. Maybe it's bad, I don't have interest in playing it myself but it has an identity and a vision and it's good that games like it can be made

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

There's a bit in Perfect Tides: Station to Station where the game basically breaks the fourth wall to be like "hey I wanted to set a scene to Bohemian Rhapsody but music licensing is expensive so you just pull it up on YouTube and let's jam" and I respect that immensely

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Always annoyingly dull when reactionaries are like "we just want stories not woke stuff" as if a story somehow isn't a story when it's about race, gender, sexuality, etc. Reading this article feels like Vavra is actively refusing to have the epiphany that's screaming in his face

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Now that the dust has settled on Stranger Things is it a hot take to say Season 3 is still the worst one? The mall is a cool change of pace but introducing the Soviet plot is the start of really jumping the shark and every character but the four older teens is at their most unlikable

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

There are so many good alternate choices for each category because there were, are, and will be so many good video games

That trendy-ish "About Me: Video Games" grid with the following games for each category:
Favorite Game: Outer Wilds
Best Story: 1000xResist
Favorite Art Style: Transistor
Biggest Personal Impact: Disco Elysium
Best Combat: Nine Sols
Overhated: Avowed
Underrated: Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
Overrated: Red Dead Redemption II
Needs a Remake: Piglet's Big Game
Criminally Underrated: Pyre
Favorite Protagonist: In Stars and Time
Favorite Antagonist: Knights of the Old Republic II
Best Soundtrack: NieR Automata
Best Multiplayer: Halo 3
Not Usually My Thing, But...: Age of Empires III
Turn my Brain Off: Skyrim
Best With Friends: Deep Rock Galactic
Best Retro Game: Deus Ex
Nostalgic Childhood Game: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Game Everyone Should Play: Portal 2

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

New video! I liked Esoteric Ebb a lot and also had some thoughts about how closely it adheres to Disco Elysium's example youtu.be/9tderdH0aMg

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Esoteric Ebb and Creative Imitation

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I usually try to avoid getting hyped for things since I want to avoid falling into the trap of getting too attached to specific expectations. That said, I am unbelievably excited for this and the team-up of sunset visitor and Black Tabby blindsided me in the best way possible

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My favorite Animorphs Lore Fact is that the big god figure is a gamer and his god name is his gamer username, and his species was wiped out by a different group of aliens that saw their Twitch streams of their Civ games and thought the Civ games were real and had to be stopped

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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Michael Grant and I have concerns that the project is under-resourced. But one of the producers, Sev Ohanian, is a friend, as well as a genuine Animorphs fan. If anyone can make it work, he can. Fingers crossed. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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‘Animorphs’ TV Series in Development at Disney+, Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media to Produce (EXCLUSIVE)

An "Animorphs" TV series is in early development at Disney+, Variety has learned exclusively.

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I know there's still 3 & 3/4 years left in the decade but whatever here's a rough "top 10 favorite games of the 2020s so far in no strict order" list 1000xResist Silksong In Stars and Time Baldur's Gate 3 Neon White Wrath of the Righteous Paradise Killer Slay the Princess Cyberpunk 2077 Wildermyth

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"Are you worried about misinformation, climate change, affordability and wage stagnation, art being flattened by business interests, and education disruption? Here at GenAI Company, we've developed a product that will make all of that worse for zero benefit. Give us the entire economy. Fuck you."

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I didn't say it in the video itself but there's a reason I decided to follow up an anti-AI vid with one about a scrappy old parody webseries. This is what true democratized concept-remixing art can be, not some overglossed "Smash Bros as Crime Drama" Midjourney images

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Jack Harvey @eljackinton.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I've been enjoying Echo's videos for a while now but I felt this recent one on Deux Ex is worth highlighting, because DE a game that has been discussed to death and I wasn't really sure there was anything new to say, but this video far exceeded my expectations when it comes to a fresh perspective.

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I read somewhere that Silksong's platforming was really hard but (once I got the crest that does a straight down pogo instead of diagonal pogo, granted) I didn't find it too bad after playing Wishbind, so thanks for the platformer boot camp @imaginativems.bsky.social

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Hornet in Silksong when it turns out there's another bug kingdom enthralled by some sort of higher power

A screenshot of Maui's song from Moana on the line "I see what's happening, yeah" but the "yeah" is replaced with Hornet's bark line (from Hollow Knight 1 but not in Silksong but whatever) "shaw" and Hornet's head is over Maui's face and Lace's head is over Moana's face

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

After I finally beat the Path of Pain when I played Hollow Knight I got really sick. Starting Silksong now and I wonder which part of the game will be so hard it strikes me with an actual physical illness this time around.

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Nostalgia Critic's initial conceit "reviewing bad old media our nostalgia goggles filter out" seems like a weirdly deradicalizing concept given how reactionaries like to romanticize past media as innately better as a recruiting tactic. His style of "angry man shoots movie with gun" is less so.

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It may have ended last May but Andor wasn't really complete until now

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Echo Bizarre @echobizarre.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Incredible that @dukeofwhales.bsky.social swooped in on December 30th after a year of radio silence to drop one of the best video essays of 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNj8...

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A Narrative Investigation of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

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Thomas Marrone @thomasthecat.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Silhouette of Batman from Batman: The Animated Series

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