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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My full story on @gamesdonequick.com is now up on the @mprnews.org YouTube channel! Get to know some of the faces behind the speedrunning event that raised $2.4 MILLION this week in Minneapolis.

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Summer Games Done Quick returns to Minneapolis to raise $2.4M for charity

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Reviving this account for the first time in a year to say I got to cover #SGDQ for @mprnews.org!! Check out my write-up here; social video is on the platforms you'd think, and a YouTube version is coming soon! Been an admirer of this event for years. V cool to see it in person.

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Summer Games Done Quick returns to Minneapolis to raise millions for charity

Back for its 10th year in the Twin Cities, the event sees speedrunners push video games to the absolute brink, for a good cause.

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Chad was nice enough to invite be back on the podcast and I punished him by making him watch an hour-long toy ad

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Happy anniversary to the best person I’ve ever met. ❤️

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Haven’t posted in nearly a year so let’s start HOT and HEAVY and RAW with this art I bought and apple tarts I made yesterday

A print of a painting by Sam Brieck. Two raccoons with big weapons fight off an angry giant goose while other raccoons run away.

Low angle of some apple tarts on a baking tray. Tasted pretty good.

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

Hi from family vacation for the next week

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

NEW VIDEO: On the Flyover Culture SEASON FINALE, veteran game designer Cole Wehrle shares invaluable insight on how he makes games. We then ignore most of that good advice for a head-to-head game design competition. It gets weird. youtu.be/4swaOx3gLVo?...

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We made a board game. It could've gone better. (feat. Cole Wehrle & @TheCritshow ) | Flyover Culture

In which an ace game designer gives me smart advice and I ignore nearly all of it.On this SEASON FINALE of Flyover Culture, it's a giant-sized special episod...

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Pretty sure IU has turned off the heat in our building for the week 🥶

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Watching Wolverine and the X-Men and this Silver Samurai episode says "honor" so many times I'm shocked it wasn't written by Akira Yoshida

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

Thought Bubble looks so fun, I wish England was real

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Midnight Ross💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

RISE OF THE POWER OF THE X #1! Variant by Alexander Lozano

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

🎃 NEW VIDEO! For this pseudo-Halloween special, we're dressing up suburban Atlanta as rural Indiana and ranking some of the most notorious fake pop culture towns. This is much more chill than the last episode, so pop it on while you prepare your Hot Lorax costume youtu.be/fn1uWKLcVEU

YouTube thumbnail with host Payton Whaley and images of Amy Poehler, Gaten Materazzo and Omri Katz. Text overlay says "CLOSE ENOUGH?"

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Got tickets to one of those AMC mystery screenings on the 6th. Hoping it’s The Marvels! Very strong possibility it’s also some heinous faith-based thing, but hey I’m down to clown

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Got my tonsils removed today. Feeling alright, just a bit of pain. Goals for the week: Finish FF16, catch up on comics, finish my Ben Percy book, and then mainline Spider-Man 2 until I feel human again

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

The Eras Tour movie runs more frequently than our city buses

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Dave Stokes @davestokes.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Daredevil inks

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

this is trash of the most cowardly order

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

NEW VIDEO! Why are so many books being banned across the country? What's the end goal here? Do book bans even work? Up now on the Flyover Culture channel. Hope you dig it! youtu.be/Z512khhQbFc

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Why Are There So Many Book Bans? | Flyover Culture

I fought in the Culture Wars and all I got was this headache.School and public libraries are the most recent targets in a growing effort to "protect our chil...

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Ahsoka feels like a cautionary tale for when reddit nerds say “they should let a real fan direct this”

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

She could hit me with her car and I’d thank her

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

On my way to see Carly Rae Jepsen, Ethel Cain, MUNA, Lana Del Ray and boygenius, or as I call it, Folsom but gayer

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Twice tonight I tried to ask Siri to play “Drive Back” by Candiace and twice she responded with “Playing ‘Genocide’ by Dr. Dre”

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

I’m such a sick little freak for how bad I want this

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 07/05/2023

A photographer took pictures of people before and after she told them that somehow, Palpatine had returned.

Two screenshots of Poe in The Rise of Skywalker as he delivers the immortal line "somehow, Palpatine has returned." You can feel Oscar Isaac's soul leave his body in the second shot.

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

I've been watching S1 of Canada's Drag Race, a.k.a. the Manitoba Prison Experiment, and it's truly wild watching people crumble down to their molecules in real time

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Frank Cvetkovic (from comics) @gofrankgo.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Jonathan Hickman wrote a cookbook???

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

Call your local public radio hottie today

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

Should’ve been home by now but instead I’ve been stuck in Philadelphia for almost four hours. Nothing is taking off. A woman is watching videos at full volume and ignoring people asking her to stop. I fear we may turn to delirium.

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Sometimes when your job is beach you don’t get holidays off

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 04/09/2023

Happy labor day, support your local union.

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

Caught up on NO/ONE and I’m really digging it. Probably the best of the Massive-Verse stuff. But now I’m three MV series in (this, Radiant Black & Dead Lucky), and they don’t really seem to have anything to do with one another. So…why have a shared universe at all?

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 23/08/2023

Looks like I’m not getting my Twitter back anytime soon, but maybe that’s for the best 🙃

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Payton Whaley @maybenotpayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

Hey, St Louis, what if we didn’t

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