Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 19hMaybe we should make kids’ fantasy movies that feel like they take place outside 010
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. Akhurstrowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 11/10/2026Woman walks in and says "Uh, is a problem if I try to speak Huttese with an Aussie accent?" And I pull my butterfly knife out and say "Lady, it's gonna be a problem if you DON'T" 020220
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. Akhurstdepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026 1552949
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I played the scary secret on a treasure island game again medium.com/@ak.mitch/ad...medium.comAdventures in old places filled with scary bullshitAs a 9-year-old reading The Lord of the Rings, I was as happy as a pig wallowing in the halls of Moria. My favourite part of Alien is the… 010
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We were also taught that things always “seem like” they’re getting worse and that actually it’s a cycle despite the demonstrable fact that THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE 1200
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026PSA: the steam description still starts with "Flock is a multiplayer co-op game", but it can be played solo if you like 000
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Games have stagnated” is a funny thing to finally say now when it’s now multiple years from Concord, a game that (as far as I know) was quite fun to play, got saddled with some of the worst aesthetics and marketing and sank like a stone 000
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think Dawnwalker became that for some people, I just can’t do that myself anymore because I can’t afford to spend >$100 on a bunch of games I don’t know if I’ll want to play 001
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. AkhurstLee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 03/10/2026 013220
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I just saw someone refer to Stephen Sommers’ Mummy film being “reclaimed” and uh…? when did we stop liking that movie so it would need reclamation? As far as I know that movie has been enjoyed as it is since it released 000
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026there aren’t many meme templates that leave a bad taste in my mouth worse than “we are not the same” well duh 000
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026IIRC this is about plausibly deniable stuff where like … if you happened to be very old and credulous, you might see this message and think you forgot something or someone 010
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Some stories are well-made square pegs in square holes, some stories are square pegs inexpertly shoved into round holes, and a lot of the good stories we remember have roughly shaped pegs but the experience is about "surprise, this peg can be rotated LIKE SO and pow, see? it fits" 020
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We also just need to rewild the concept of the terrifying descent where things only get worse and scarier away from the “numbered-floor-and-dungeon-logistics” game writers 111
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have tried half a dozen times to write the “make the whole plane out of black box” fantasy story equivalent with deep dark underground scary dungeon places and despite my travails I still believe it can be done; metroidvania games are my evidence 010
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Oh yeah it is absolutely that. What I mean is that I lived for that stuff when I was eight or nine and I think a lot of these Tolkien second generation are too stingy with their dark deep underground scary places. Gimme three or more. I don’t care for litRPG but I would buy the hell out of that book 110
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I really like Moria but I like it more as “the first of several big scary places” followed by the likes of Shelob and Dunharrow. The idea of “but early in the book they have to go through a mine” feels like a very narrow interpretation of what makes fantasy dungeons so fun 120
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The first three Tom Holland Spider-Men 000
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. AkhurstMicah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026it’s nice to know that, as a nerdy and insufferable kid with good standardized test scores, I could really have turned out a whole lot worse 211116110
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. Akhurstdoctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026*beaming as I listen to two of my team members talking very excitedly about how an idea came to be* 1283
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026How seriously should I take this? I was not very moved by the episodes of Castlevania and Blood of Zeus that I saw 000
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. AkhurstMike Minotti @tolkoto.com · 22/09/2026Renaming a developer to “Halo Studios” and now being like “btw they aren’t making the next Halo” is just incredible 281269179
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I dislike this sort of thing but unfortunately I have definitely done the opposite. A precipitous bridge showed up in Missing Link and I was like “score! I knew I liked this movie!” 100
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The Netflix movie I went out of my way to see a second time 010
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And therefore they can’t afford to not give a shit about the logic of their zombie world. They’re journeyman comedians, they need their tight five, they can’t just ignore A to B 100
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There’s an almost dunning-kruger type of thing going on here I think. In that there are levels of “I don’t give a shit” that _very good writers_ achieve when they can pump out Pure Story by reflex, and I just don’t believe the people behind the thing you’re watching are that good 101
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026American players in particular should be livid about what’s happened to their country’s once great stable of CRPG teams 000
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. AkhurstJames B. Jones @jamesbjones.com · 22/09/2026What is there to even say at this point? Literally everything I could think to say about this is something I’ve already said a half-dozen times in the past year alone. Game devs deserve better than the video game industry. 083
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’ve been wondering why I wanted to reply to this when I fundamentally agree with it, and realised it’s because yes they have bad storytelling in many areas but in the ways that matter to the _game_ (level design and pacing), there’s implicit narrative work that I enjoy 030
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I still have trouble with the dichotomy between “I haven’t found a game that does this better than Nioh yet” and “the Nioh games really don’t seem to have a lot of respect in game discussion circles” 120
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. AkhurstMax Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I know exactly what this work entails—I personally led the last effort to port old campaigns to the current version of Destiny 2, & wrote hundreds of pages of documentation about exactly how to do it again! Though I wish I could be there myself, I’m glad me & my team’s efforts are being put to use 41029
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. Akhurst🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026i need someone to make a complex political crpg set in Al-Andalus 7535
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. AkhurstNayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026Dragon Warrior (1989) It's the game that introduced me to the world of RPGs, which still remains my favorite genre, 37 years later.static.klipy.comDragon Warrior Ghost BattleAlt: Dragon Warrior Ghost Battle 0103
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Turned 35 and really started feeling the sensation of becoming older than average in the old nerd socials 000
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. AkhurstMicah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026getting into bed after a shower at the end of a long day of running around outside is such an incredible feeling 52887
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I don’t know how they do it with the games, hmm… maybe they just … make games people want to play … instead of movies that feel like obligations 000
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Thinking about how many “love it or hate it” books that I feel merely whelmed over and worried it says very middling and mild things about my personality 😂 000
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’s going to be very funny when The Legend of Zelda movie is the way it is and nobody expected it because they didn’t watch the Maze Runners or Kingdom Apes 000
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Somehow it’s absolutely packed with plot but by the time you get to the end it feels like Stage 1 of 9 101
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I really wish they’d do Pirates of the Caribbean in concert because the themes are iconic but the score in that first movie is so chintzy and cheap 000
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“Well you see, he is an actor who is designed to LOOK like the Iron Giant …” 0170
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. AkhurstVictor Hunter @victorehunter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026First time Ive taken myself to the movies since The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya like 15 years ago It was… okay! Tonally completely different from the trailer so my expectations were all out of whack For better or worse it was very RE in every way except for the dialogue? 5 bags of popcorn 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 1132
Mitchell R. R. Akhurst @mrrakhurst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Sounds like a “wait for my movie friends to pay for it” flick 😅 100
Reposted by Mitchell R. R. AkhurstNayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026Sincerely, if you're not enjoying video games like you used to, maybe it's time to step away and enjoy another hobby. Go read a comic book. Or a novel. Or watch a TV show. Play a sport. Just go do something else for a couple months. If you want to play again, you'll come back eventually. 153
