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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 4h

Made the mistake of watching this scene while eating when I was five.

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Chestbuster Aliens

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Recently learned that some of my close friends and colleagues refer to to the more recent God of War games as "Angry Josh Simulator" and that is both hilarious and the nicest things anyone has said in a while.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Taking the day to fix a bunch of things around the house while the family goes to see Wicked.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Once more, for those higher ed folks in the back who have not yet figured this out...

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

First day of discussion in my Good and Evil class focusing on apocalyptic fiction and we're starting with The Road. First comment from a student: "Man, fuck that little kid." It's going to be a good semester!

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DanHELL M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don't know how long this sale will last, but my first trilogy, THE PALADIN TRILOGY, is on sale on Kindle for $3.99. www.amazon.com/Paladin-Tril...?

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I get to teach The Poetic Edda for the first time in a long time this semester and I'm really excited to go back to some texts I love.

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DanHELL M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don’t really think bluesky sells books but I’d love to be proven wrong.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Back-to-school shooping for the kids and my wife- who is going back to pursue her graduate degree! This means pens and notebooks for everyone, a fancy new school bag for my wife, and a new hat for me. Let the semester begin!

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Gearing up for a 20 credit semester. Just one syllabus left to finish, and then course portals to build. Still three weeks until the semester starts, but a mountain of other things to do before then.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Did I just order myself a new lightsaber? Yes. Why? Becasue I'm an adult with adult money, and the wishful, nostalgic, fantasies of a child. And becasue lightsabers are damn cool.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

More and more I think about how the thing that kills so many youth activities is the absolutely terrible parents involved. Starting to see why my own parents were so angry and insisted on managing everything I did as a kid.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Taking my son on a five-day backpacking trek. Going to try for 50 miles by then end. Might just move into the woods forever and finally embrace my inner feral druid. Will likely be persuade out by a hot shower, and the promise of actuall (not freeze dried) food.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Gearing up for another backpacking trip this week withmy son. Going to try for another 20 miles.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Did a ten mile hike with my sixteen-year-old son today. Judging by my pace and the amount of pain and blisters at the end, I am officially old.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

My honors students opted for a desert final this spring becasue the finals week scheudle made my usual cooking dinner option impossible. So, we're having cheesecakes, cookies, brownies, and charcuterie.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Ending my spring honors class by watching Grave of the Fireflies.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

My students in my visual rhetoric class are making such amazing work this semester and it's giving me so much hope and joy.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Well, since I turn 48 this year I guess it's finally time to start getting those hand tattoos I've been thinking about.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I just need to find the last 1k words to put this draft to bed. Just a few more. Feel like an old man trying to talk himself into climbing up a hill.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Teaching The Society of the Spectacle today in my Visual Culture class and it feels almost too much on-the-nose for the moment.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

My body has waited until the last three weeks of the semester to fail me with sickness. Could also be becasue I spent the weekend outside in the cold and the wet.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

One of the things I appreciate about the Band Director for my son's school is that they send out calenda details for a year in advance. So, I'm updating my calendar through next March. This is great for being prepared and not having conflicts, but it's also fucking with my sense of time.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Spring trap season is now in full swing, so my free time has completely vanished. The upside though is that I love being able to have this adventure with my son. I wouldn't trade the time for anything.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Spring is approaching. This means it's time to develp new hobbies that I'll never have time to fully pursue, but will enjoy knowing how to do. On this year's list, we're going to learn how to make homemade cheese.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New volume in the Approaches to Digital Game Studies series! Games That Haunt Us: Gothic Game Space As a Living Nightmare edited by @mutanttheorist.bsky.social released today! Very worth your time to check out! www.bloomsbury.com/us/games-tha...

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Writing about necropolitics and cultural erasure in games and struggling to reign in my inner monologue about bad design in the process. The inabiltiy of games to deal with various cultural representations well is no accident- it's a feature of a system that profits from poor design decisions.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

It's a writing day with @tlecaque.bsky.social which feels like a good reason to also make corned beef reubens with malt vinegar chips. At some point we'll break out the whisky, but we have to hit some word counts first.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Prepping 30 lbs of bbq pork, 15lbs of bbq jackfruit, and assorted baked goods for our PRIDE fundrasier tomorrow. I love feeding people in general, but feeding people for a good cause is even better.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This week's batch of meal-prep burritos is desperately in need of hot sauce. Or really flavor of any kind. Not my best work.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I am starting to think that teaching six classes on top of everything else this semester was a poor choice. I'm going to have to give myself a hard age cutoff for doing this. No excessive overload after reaching fifty.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It's Play week for my game design students. They voted for Slay the Princess, but Firewatch was such a close second we're going to carve out another week later in the semester to play that one also.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

As a treat for myself, I have just ordered a warhammer. As one does.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

My students in Visual Culture and Rhetoric this semester are feisty and creative. This gives me hope and joy.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

We have reached the stage of life where I am incredibly excited about getting new socks.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My daughter is in her second year of college. Today, during her graphic design class, she played a game of "Cheese or Font." She became so animated that her smartwatch registerd the class activity as a high-stress workout. I love hearing these stories on our way home everyday.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Office is cleaned and organized, syllabi are finished, Blackboard portals are built and done. It's going to be a twenty-credit semester, but I've still managed to fit in some weekly writing time. Now to make sure I also keep fitting in lunch and weight lifting for my health/sanity.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Publication announcement! The two-volume collection on game genres is finally out today! Thanks to my co-editors @gerald-voorhees.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social for all the work and friendship. Thanks also to our excellent contributors for their time and energy!

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Doing some writing today, and I have no idea why it's taken me this long in life to realize that Phil Collins might just be some of the best writing music there is.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I can't remember the last time a game made me laugh so hard as Dispatch.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Got all the holiday shopping done early this year. It's more fun shooping for my kids now that they are older and they want specific, nerdy things related to their interests. Also, all everyone really wants is the family tradition of a day at the bookstore followed by deep-dish pizza.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I think the highlight of my day has been having a conversation on this platform using memes and quotes from the movie Predator.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Anyone else having that non-specific end of semester anxiety? Everything is done, for the moment, but I keep looking for the things I'm forgetting...

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Ordering a bunch of books to start a new thread of research around some long-running work. It's always exciting when following a new idea down the rabbit hole!

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Heading into the holiday break with all of my grading finished, writing deadlines met, and personal obligations satisfied. Going to live in sweat pants for a week reading, playing some games, working on some new projects, and hanging out with my family. Also, there will be several soups made.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Academic friends, we're looking for a new Graphic Design colleague to join us in the Art and Design Program here at Grand View. It's a tenure-track position in a small, highly collaborative department with areas in Graphic Design, Studio Arts, and Game Design. www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

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Assistant Professor of Graphic Design

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Watching my game capstone students collaborate to make really interesting work, and it reminds me why I love this job.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Keep thinking about this poster and how true it is. Mighht be time to hang it back up in my office.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Everyone around me is excited for Spoopy Season. Meanwhile, I'm over here cheering for soup season. Thinking of making some lasagne pesto soup this weekend.

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Josh Call @joshcall.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Saw a student walking across campus today dressed as a Wookie. The kids are alright.

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