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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Academia tough but clown is more difficult

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What is up folks if anyone here thinks I should stay in academia this would be a terrific time to say so

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Worst part of citing @ckunzelman.bsky.social's first book is having to look up how VA-11 Hall-A stylizes its stupid title every time

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

And they’ll say they can’t be held accountable because when they pulled the trigger they were afraid for their lives. Their lives which they spent serving an ideology of fear, a machine of fear, a holistic regime of fear. A culture-spanning engine of the ugliest and most dishonest fears there are.

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Having now played Horses: if I ever teach the videogame version of my animals and media course it's getting added to the syllabus because it is one of the most straightforward, teachable games I've ever played. This is a neutral opinion.

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This sucks!

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

How does one market a videogame in 2025. This is a serious question

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Probably gotta sell what remains of my magic collection to pay for yet another car repair. Fortunately, it seems like magic is just gonna get worse

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Yussef @youmeyou.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I do agree that the market for "professional" game's writing is basically non-existent, but there are plenty of blog posts getting posted every week on sites like @critdistance.bsky.social to basically no attention. social media as a way to discourse and share work has become a dead end, imo.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

my hot take is that the fantasy that’s being catered to with videos like the one going around is of participation in a seamless, infinite, directed loop where the player and computer are constantly updating each other. which is where I think a lot of the satisfaction in systemic video games is. 🧵

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Ice-Pick Lodge @icepicklodge.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Pathologic 3 launches on January 9, 2026. A new free demo — an introduction to the full game — is out now on Steam! We’re also unveiling the first of three trailers, each offering a different perspective on Pathologic 3. youtu.be/XcgH-s7vgAY

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Pathologic 3: Release Date Announcement

YouTube video by IcePickLodge

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

100% co-sign. Marx did in fact have AI dialed in, somehow

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The only good things that have happened to me have been the result of random chance and unfortunately the precondition to random chance occurring is not throwing in the towel and pushing forward

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Yeah I'm in deep for 1,200 dollars just for the tow. Please help

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Yeah I'm in deep for 1,200 dollars just for the tow. Please help

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

This is not a good look, but: I am out of money and my car has broken down for the third time in a month. I have just moved across the country. I need a little help to make it through September: gofund.me/47e4a1856

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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I just moved across the country to a major city for a job that pays 40,000 a year. Th… Justin Keever needs your support for Help me fix my car and afford food

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Lesson learned, and I will commit to asceticism from here on in

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Lessons from this cross-country move: I am too poor to have ever thought I should be allowed to own things. Can't afford to move 'em! Can't afford help! No one will buy them!

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

So, what are the odds of someone like me, with no online following to really speak of, raising like $1,500 to move across the country?

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

McKenzie Wark, "Gamer Theory" (2007)

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Has a diagram of a concept in a book of critical theory/philosophy ever been helpful? Even once??

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The way the game falls back on the least interesting possible explanation for its metaphysics (i.e. the way that beaches work) was the final nail in the coffin

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I've been playing the original Death Stranding and, having now reached chapter 8, I think I've stopped believing this game is going to become good. It's just a slightly slower open world action game! With bad characters!

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

"who cares?" The people seem to say

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Tapped out on Clair Obscur right at the end of act 2 because I got bored of the combat. Should I finish it?

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Is there any scholarship out there on those bodycam shooters that are slowly rising in popularity?

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Bumping this one more time - it's in dire need of a boost!

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Which is itself made possible by the speculative asset-ification of the cards, to be clear

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

In addition to the speculative asset-ification of trading cards that's taken hold, for the boosters specifically there's also the parasitic economy of pack-opening content, where viewers get to by proxy experience the expenditure of opening an expensive pack w/nothing in it

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

If you're looking for a distraction, I've got a new video essay out about character-driven storytelling, Choice and Forgiveness in, well, a shooter whose whole bit is being irreverent. I think this is a fun one! (link below)

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Finished video up in the next couple days. Need to add music and some subtitles that assure audiences I don't actually hate Baldur's Gate 3

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

By the by, I just uploaded a rough cut of my next video on Patreon, which you could watch now if you throw me a couple bucks: www.patreon.com/posts/130958...

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Proof of Life: The Bulletstorm Video rough cut | Justin Keever

Get more from Justin Keever on Patreon

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I spent some time this spring learning unreal. Wanted to make an fps where you could throw things. The CASCADE of questions and problems that emerged from this desire is captured well in this thread:

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

If you enjoy academic inside baseball and want to know more about what the hell I actually do in my academic work, you should listen to this long, rambling conversation I had with Justin.

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I (along with my colleagues at Visual Decay) am starting a podcast! You can listen to the first episode, an interview with Cameron Kunzelman (@ckunzelman.bsky.social) here: open.substack.com/pub/visualde...

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Visual Decay Podcast Episode 1: An Interview with Cameron Kunzelman

We’re starting a podcast!

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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Visual Decay Podcast Episode 1: An Interview with Cameron Kunzelman

We’re starting a podcast!

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I'm back on Substack writing about Rogue One, a film I like and think owes less to Andor (a superior Star Wars property, I admit) than people think: open.substack.com/pub/visualde...

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'Rogue One' did not need 'Andor' to be Interesting

On a Hollywood cinema of minor characters, or, watch me post cringe about Star Wars

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My kingdom for a solo board game that is not about efficiency and resource management

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This Expedition 33 game is pretty cool, except for the recurring issue of getting out of a fight and having no memory of which direction I came from and where I'm supposed to be going

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Justin Keever @justakeever.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is now my most-watched video (even though I've marketed it the least?)!

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