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R.C. Miessler

@iconodule.bsky.social
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Doing digital archives and digital humanities things (sometimes with video games)

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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You know you started watching Evangelion too late in life when you identify with Gendo 1. Kids these days wtf 2. My bosses are incompetent, need to bring the end of the world on my own terms 3. Wishing you had glasses that covered your eyes to hide your true intentions at meetings
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Butlerian Jihad, come quickly
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hunter2
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think we offer a class with exactly this premise
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Langley Soryu, A. (2015). Baka Shinji! Paradigms of self-actualizing failure in teenage battlefield tactics: a case study
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Simpsons: Kent Brockman on Democracy
ALT: Simpsons: Kent Brockman on Democracy
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New trail’s stuff is usually excellent. The version of this aged in bourbon barrels is a seasonal favorite
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
At least in Terminator, the humans all eventually agree letting Skynet kill everybody was bad
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wake me up when you’re folding your piece of Lou Malnati’s
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Madeline from Celeste!
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Celeste Madeline
ALT: Celeste Madeline
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
now do Ted Cruz's zodiac killer messages
kotaku.com
Preservationist Spent $900 And Strung Together 90 GPUs To Save A Lost Final Fantasy 7 Spinoff - Kotaku
Dirge of Cerberus: Lost Episode was a fully voiced mobile game that shut down in 2018
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The past six months have been some of the shittiest I’ve dealt with personally and professionally and to be in a place where everyone cares deeply about the same thing was healing. It’s been a long time since I felt like I was actually part of a community that is trying to make a difference.
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Save the Games 2.0 at the @thestrongmuseum.bsky.social was a fantastic experience. Presenting at a video game preservation conference is not something I ever saw myself doing, and I thank @borman.bsky.social for the opportunity.
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Save the Games the Movie (console video game)
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
money, space, staff, resources. college/uni libraries typically have none of these to spare on things unless you have a $1B+ endowment
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Handy Guide to the death count in The Odyssey. #Homer #epic #film #Nolan
Text, explantion, and sources: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/30/the-odyssey-deaths-chart-data-visualisation
 "When they arrive at Circe’s island in a single ship, the survivors likely number two bands of 22, plus one leader each, including Odysseus: so 46 in total. I have based my estimate of the crew of each ship on this, plus the six for each boat killed by the Cicones, which gives 52. This is in line with the amount of oarsman you would need for a penteconter plus a couple of extra crew, so it works for me but I have also shown the possible range based on 50 to 120 for each ship." ---Nick Evershed
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
missed crossover opportunity
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
link to the presentation: gettysburg-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/person... (ignore the preview, it's public)
gettysburg-my.sharepoint.com
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
canyon.mid
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
When paired with “I discovered this in the archive” they unlock never having to return ILL books
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Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Tickets are on sale for Save the Games 2.0: A Digital Preservation Symposium. These tickets are required if you are planning on attending the conference and are NOT presenting. There is an early bird special for $55 from now through Memorial Day. store.museumofplay.org/webstore/sho...
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Colonialism?
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Finding out I’m presenting at the same conference that @jparish.bsky.social and @philsalv.bsky.social are either proves my parents right or wrong that I wasted my youth playing video games
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I think AI can have positive impacts on humanistic research when it comes to working with data and helping undergrads deal with tech learning curves. But it’s part of the process not the end point.
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
As my own institution devalues library work (by offering 16/18 full time staff a voluntary severance package) AND it begins a new AI initiative I feel a lot of this. I use AI for scripting bc I’m not a dev, don’t have access to one, and it helps me get shit done, but I’d still rather burn the looms
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
stupid happy to have my proposal for Save the Games conference at The Strong Museum of Play accepted! really excited to talk about a schema for encoding video game playthroughs and how it can be applied
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Photo of the signing of the 1933 Treaty on Friendship, Non-Aggression and Neutrality, colorized
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
And a foreign student said to me Was it really true There are
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
At first I thought this was some Temu thing because of the orange background. Then I thought “I guess most executives are probably all ‘man the temu spinner didn’t give me 100% off OH WAIT I GET A SECOND SPIN’” and it makes sense
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The whole thing is a scam. March 10 was invented by Nintendo to sell video games. #mar10
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Hegseth the kind of guy who was cheering for WOPR in Wargames
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
cool, thinglink's pricing jumped 1000% for the plan I was on, and they locked down all of the public-facing image annotations a class has been doing for the last few years because no way in hell am I paying for that 🫠 #dh #ephemerality
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I’d like a coffee
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
In a meeting: Them: the <system> is an archive right Me: no the archive is the archive
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
My favorite part is when one of the colors fucks up and makes the entire pen unusable, which is also a metaphor for higher ed administration
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
“Like boats and planes are both constant monuments to hubris, but a plane, its goal is to be in the air just as long as it needs. And then you get it back on the ground where it belongs. A boat's always mocking God in the sea.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Part One: The Zizians: How Harry Potter Fanfic Inspired a Death Cult
Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · 03/11/2025 · 1h 12m
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
faculty: we love librarians they're our colleagues also faculty: f*ck you I'm not going to fill out the form you created to do the thing I need for my class, I'm just going to send you emails so you can fill out the form for me
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
hey @oharawe.bsky.social what are we proposing?
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Thanks to @feitclub.bsky.social I knew this existed and now I can watch a castlevania musical instead of working today youtu.be/uC_MQ3qK110?...
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Castlevania: Awakening in the Moonlight - English Subtitles
YouTube video by Castlevania Fangirl
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I definitely had the burger but the face was more pissed off, probably because the UK elected thatcher for the 3rd time
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
youtu.be/1eOaI6wSP5E?...
youtu.be
supra mayro 64 trailer
YouTube video by reallyhandsomepeople
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I’m assuming ALLIEN^5 STRIKER is a space-horror-soccer game, and PAC is demonic Pokémon
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I think you’ve convinced me to get one to put up against the AP
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Me in 1991: plays Mega Man Dr Wily’s Revenge on the GameBoy for 5 minutes, turns it off, wonders if my copy of the Tiger Handheld Karnov has batteries
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
“I Didn’t Beat Bionic Commando and Explode Hitler’s Head Just to Have a GameBoy Be Made Out of Weapons That Kill Kids”: Antifacist Encounters with Embodied Play
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R.C. Miessler @iconodule.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
That’s fucked
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