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christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the best part of Control Resonant is landing a Ninja Gaiden II "Obliteration Technique" (the thing where a staggered enemy can be killed by pressing L3 with a cool anim) and The Board's guttural mumbling booms through my Sennheiser HD650s through a Schiit Hel 2 and I go "FUCK YEAH" every damn time

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Sean Seanson @seanseanson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If we wanna cut these off at the source, stop sharing them, stop making videos about them, stop hosting them on your websites. Stop giving talentless hacks the attention they crave. Stop rewarding them for defiling our hobbies.

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The Zium Railway (Available September 13th) @theziumsociety.itch.io · 13/09/2026

In the Valley of the Underground Mountain, within the compartment nation of Lyptch... 🛤️🏛️🎨The Zium Railway🎨🏛️🛤️ an open world gallery, a new exhibition, now available! Free admission. Be welcomed and enjoy. thezium.art/theziumrailway

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The Zium Railway - Exhibition Now Open

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 11/09/2026

five years on from its premiere, Analects of Kung Phu, the 85-minute collage film I cut for artist Jason Phu, is heading overseas - it'll be on display as part of the Busan Museum of Art's upcoming exhibition Future Museology from the 26th of September through March 2027

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mmmmmmmmm @mmmmmmuhh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

being underwhelmed by new releases and then clicking on something and listening to it for 2 seconds and yelling that's what i'm fuckin' talking about

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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

TBH I'm grateful for bad first pages - filtering out all the books I don't need to read What I hate is a good first page that sneaks a book past the filter, so I can learn for myself that the remaining 349 pages were phoned in

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 11/08/2026

microdosing Adam Curtis films at the Massive Attack show as a treat

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John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It really sucks when someone you were following for their work in the retro scene turns out to be big on AI and using it in all their projects. That instantly kills any and all interest in anything they ever make.

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 20/07/2026

2 Die Hard With a Vengeance: the first three Die Hard films playing together as one, jumping between them in release order at every shot change (not synced temporally, so the total runtime is around 5hrs)

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 18/07/2026

very successful book fair haul at Trades Hall today - particularly stoked about The Book of Fantasy

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

People Make Games traveled to Michigan to meet Jerry Gretzinger, an 84-year-old man, who's spent most of his life working away on a single, giant map to an imaginary world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N...

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The Man Who's Spent a Lifetime Making One, Giant Map

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 02/06/2026

Dr. Nosferatu, the Gambler

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 01/06/2026

fell down a bookplate rabbithole

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mmmmmmmmm @mmmmmmuhh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

this is an excellent one of these. top notch one of these. very good high on the leader board for one of these

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絶えず変化する, by 18 DAYS

from the album 無限の色 [Infinite Color]

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 24/04/2026

1997: Gran Turismo released for the PlayStation 1998: The Cardigans release the album Gran Turismo, featuring the single "My Favourite Game" 1999: Gran Turismo 2 released for the PlayStation, with The Cardigan's "My Favourite Game" as the intro track for NA and EU versions 2026: I realise this

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 20/04/2026

the Sugarcubes cover in here is so damn good

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 02/04/2026

best Alvvays song not made by Alvvays www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQz...

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Stuck

YouTube video by Hatchie - Topic

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 19/03/2026

a few tracks on the new James Blake cross over into the Junebug zone (high praise)

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 18/03/2026

@andrew-ray.bsky.social Hi Andrew, I stumbled onto your blog via Kagi's new Small Web feature and am greatly enjoying it. If you haven't read this already, I think you might get some mileage out of Adrian Duncan's relatively recent novel The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

From the article:
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 11/03/2026

I cannot stop thinking about Marathon: aftermath.site/marathon-bungi...

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 03/03/2026

Fine's 'sonic diary' for NTS from Jan is ideal cooking music: one of the best solo Spice Girls tracks, Janet Jackson doing Moments in Love ("Anything"), and her own intimate demo sandwiched between t.A.T.u. and Jojo - www.nts.live/shows/fine/e...

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FINE 6th January 2026

Playing Pop, Hip Hop , RNB. Sonic diaries from Fine…

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 28/01/2026

My cyberpunk video collage RESET is now on display in Singapore at ArtScience Museum as part of the exhibition Another World is Possible, which runs until 22 Feb. It was single channel at ACMI in 2024, but for this exhibition it's been fractured and placed onto a heap of screens, which is fitting.

A collection of screens - including older TV monitors and contemporary LCD screens - show clips from sci-fi films. They are arranged almost in a pyramid form.

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 05/01/2026

@jacobgeller.com have you read Lisa Tuttle's novella My Death? I finished playing Returnal this week and watched your video - this book is very much within the wheelhouse of that game thematically

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 30/12/2025

The ten best books I read this year.

A stack of books on a table, with a small plant behind them. The books are: Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan, The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth by Adrian Duncan, The Railway Station Man by Jennifer Johnston, The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor, Fraud by Anita Brookner, Summer by Ali Smith, In the Café of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano, Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories and On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 21/12/2025

i think if you use genai for anything, even writing an email, you're both a moron and a huge baby, and i dont want to play your video game as a result. its not that hard!

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I had to capture the intro to GP mode because it's just. this is how you fucking DO it

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 17/11/2025

I recently copped some HD 600s at half price and the most notable 'oh god these are great' moment so far has been listening to the latest Stereolab double a-side

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 27/10/2025

really enjoying the new CV Vision album, it's like scanning through stations late at night, pausing intermittently to catch a fuzzy psych rock track: cvvision.bandcamp.com/album/releas...

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Release The Beast, by CV Vision

14 track album

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 24/10/2025

well read - you've correctly identified a situation you're well read - you've read a lot of books well red - an Englishman describing a fire extinguisher

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The second LaserDisc Rip today is rarer than the first, and also is by Japanese City Pop artist Tats Yamashita. Early 90s. New York City. Real people. A single day documented from morning to midnight. Christmas comes early this year: Christmas in New York. archive.org/details/chri...

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The first LaserDisc upload today: a video art City Pop love letter to the American Southwest. A collaboration between two Japanese pop artists in the 1980s. Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator. archive.org/details/tats...

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

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Naoise Dolan | ‘You’re here now’

The steel handcuffs the Israeli guard locked on me were ‘Tri-Max Made in England’. Clanking mine to the beat, I sang...

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 17/10/2025

my related belief is that the c-format paperback should be outlawed

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 25/09/2025

smashed through Easy Delivery Co. this week, impeccable vibe, great arcade rally-style handling

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 18/09/2025

My new video work, gameObject Permanence, is now on display in Melbourne as part of the massive @acmimuseum.bsky.social exhibition Game Worlds, curated by @astroblob.bsky.social + Bethan Johnson: www.acmi.net.au/works/125360...

A grid of footage from MMORPGs is presented next to a countdown timer. Beneath the grid is a TV news-style ticker.

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Jini Maxwell @astroblob.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Game Worlds opens this Thursday. An insane sentence to type out.

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 22/08/2025

saw rRoxymore play at the Royal Exhibition Building tonight. entrancing stuff, though it did occur to me that you could describe some of the sound as an ambient dub take on Max Richter's Blue Notebooks

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 15/08/2025

you know what they say, one LSD: dream emulator day a day keeps the doctor away

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 15/08/2025

this afternoon I took myself to Docklands (cursed) to check out a secondhand bookshop (wonderfully chaotic)

A stack of secondhand paperback books, featuring work by Muriel Spark, William Trevor and Sarah Hall.

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Conor Bateman @norbateman.co · 23/07/2025

@seanseanson.bsky.social have you ever delved into the PS1 VHS promos sent to VJs? this one in particular captured such an incredible vibe, and sent me down many rabbitholes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QOK...

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PlayStation UK 1997 promo VHS

YouTube video by Tired Old Hack

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