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myster @mmmyster.com · 02/10/2026

i wrote about @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social's Concerning the Dog Days from the perspective of someone who has never had a dog and has no idea how to talk to dogwalkers www.arcadewatch.sk/articles/a-o...

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... a Ondřej mlčal | Concerning the Dog Days: Memories of a Dogwalker

Tento text bol pôvodne zverejnený 7. 7. 2026 vo forme dvoch osobitných správ (stále nie som ochotný kúpiť Discord Nitro) poslaných...

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Say what you want about Berserk’s (1997) toned down grimness, but the inclusion of witty Tell Me Why intro and melancholic synthpop soundtrack does wonders with the overthetop campy masculinity. I love the emotional texture it gives to the „emotionally stunted big guy with a sword kills everything“

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

One of the joys of nichepublishing on @itch.io is that every (okay, first) $2.5 feel like millions. Blessed.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“Technology is a mode of revealing. Technology comes to presence [West] in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, truth, happens.” (Heidegger, 1954)

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

God I don’t miss the sort of gamer rage that critical writing tend(s) to produce. My fb is now full of 40k fans feeling like I am attacking their very souls. Somebody wrote a report to the public TV (I wrote for) council for me being imperial when writing about space marines and fascism.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Finally making my own card game happen. It’s hopefully a bit funny.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Our obsessive digi zine on Resident Evil Doors is out! Essay on atmospheres, rhythms, liminality and doors having faces & personalities + diagrams about doors + gallery of doors. Free for all door enjoyers. Enter: ondrejtrhon.itch.io/doors-of-res... Shares appreciated.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Hey, it would mean a world to Lešek (and us) if you could share your thoughts on Playing Prague in the form of a Steam review. It’d help tremendously our game which was born as a love letter to our city. Much obliged! 🐾 #indiegame #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/4729310/...

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Transcription is about phones, but also about much more: mediation. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Ben Lerner’s Hall of Mirrors

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Damn, my article about 40k and fascism is 20k characters long...

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Digging into old #warhammer stuff for an article on 40K and fascism. Left is 5th edition core rules intro (the first I picked up). Right is current edition. It’s a VERY different vibe.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

What I like about 3D gamedev are happy accidents like this Didn’t plan on having this diffuse halo effect with my sun. It just so happened by combining the altered skybox and volumetric clouds plugin. Now it’s one of the main screenshots of the game.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It includes: a sniffing pad, a tennis ball, several sounds of crows

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

After two years, I finally completed my artgame aboug having a #dog. 🐕 It is build almost entirely from things (images, sounds, thoughts) collected on dogwalks. Trailer below, play it here, it’s short: ondrejtrhon.itch.io/concerning-t...

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Finally, it’s time to write this text.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A really good take by @lewisgordon.bsky.social: perhaps this repetetive, empty aesthetics is very timid in the face of chaotic and unpredictable reality. Unified, repeating office space anxiety (Matrix, Fight Club ...) was already there in the late 90s. artreview.com/the-life-and...

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The Life and Death of the ‘Liminal Space’

‘Backrooms’, the directorial debut by Kane Parsons, is going gangbusters at the box office, but is this just ‘prestige slop’?

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My game about dogwalking has diagrams now

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Knock, knock, it’s Lord of Contagion with gloss and Matt varnishes combination #40k #deathguard

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I attempted to go to the first Prague Warhammer store opening

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It’s in Czech, but I consider it as a shoutout to @bpbigg.bsky.social, whose Adult Analysis Anthology made me write this and drop his work on national television’s website. art.ceskatelevize.cz/inside/za-vi...

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Za virtuální čáru: Svět 18+ videoher reflektuje lidskou sexualitu v dobrém i zlém

Přečtěte si esej Ondřeje Trhoně o tom, proč stojí videohry pro dospělé za pozornost.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Another day of feeling dumber a dumber for playing this game

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The phase I’m at with developing my personal project: googling the spelling of wall jump

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Scanning my dog for my dogwalking artgame, accidentally making horrors beyond human comprehension

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Just gonna leave it here: Ikea introducted the LACK table in the same year Lacan died.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Extremely funny that corpo-cyborg-freelancers of Marathon’s dystopia are canonically better than gamers.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Late to the discourse, but bought Marathon yesterday and: 1. Graphic design top-notch, esp. the intro cinematic 2. I guess we’re officially in resigned era? You’re no longer an action hero/a "gladiator"/or even a fantasy character. You’re freelancer, contractor, doing virtual work for corporations

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 23/03/2026

One of the greats. Somehow combines Half Life 2’s Lost Highway and Silent Hill on a scratchy pencil mountain from hell.

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Happy 25th Anniversary of The Day That Phil Elverum Of The Microphones And Mount Eerie Saw Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon At A Dollar Theater In Aberdeen.

I would drive out to the ocean and not tell anybody

I watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in a dollar theatre in Aberdeen

It was a rainy matinée, 2001, Sunday, March 18th
And in the parking lot afterward

For a few minutes in the rain

I stood glowing with ideas

Of what I might try to convey with this music

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Israeli forces shot all four members of the Bani Odeh family in the head, including their 5yo and 7yo. The 7yo, Othman, was blind and had special needs. This comes a day after Israeli settlers shot 28yo Amir Moatasem Odeh and stabbed his father.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Field recordings from dog walks of the past two years categorized, ready to be used in my dogwalking dogscanning artgame. Praying to the Unity god that these fit.

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Italian board of tourism has its eyes on me

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Second commission was having Lily Zone build their room map into WebGL, so it’s more accessible: lilithzone.itch.io/room-map-onl... Great work, uniquely toying with perspective of the virtual camera, layering of motifs, worlds within worlds within worlds all based on a topology of a real place.

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Room Map -ONLINE- by Lilith Zone

Play in your browser

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I will stop soon, but hear me out – for the on-line exhibition I curated we had some funds to commission two games: a) @szemi-petra.bsky.social remade their Border as interface into a Twine game! How cool is that! Play here: ondrejtrhon.cz/border_as_in... #twine #interactivefiction #indiegame

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I had a joy curating this selection of game-infused art, including Twine games, WebGL games, quite a few videos about CS mods, GTA machinima and more. Quite happy with it tbh. Essay included. All in English! artycok.tv/en/post/tran...

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Translating Worlds: Přenášet světy | Artyčok TV

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Figured i might occasionally translate my game writing into English. I don’t quite like Substack, but the alternatives seem... daunting? Either pricey or lock down your mailing list. Should I just continue Substacking? Or use self-hosted Wordpress or something?

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I know the world is kinda ending again, but i put this out: ondrejtrhon.itch.io/milennial-ta... I’m quite proud of this multi-year project! It’s as much a #tarot deck as a weird literary work (the guide "explaining" memestocks, hauntology, NGE etc.). I may make raytheon expansion later.

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Milennial Tarot Cards + Divination Guide (Digital + Print files) by Ondřej Trhoň

Poetic, semi-ironic map of the contemporary condition.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

returning to sianne ngai for the homestuck book and realizing yes we do indeed now live in the the age of gimmickmaxxing

Finally, as what we call devices that strike us as cheap even when we
know they were expensive to develop, the gimmick is a judgment that asks us, in a well-nigh blasphemous way, to conflate aesthetic value with economic value—money—and more specifically, unproductively utilized money. For one of the gimmick’s paradigmatic instances is the overrated product one would be a sucker to buy, and thus an unsold commodity whose value cannot be realized. Yet from the stainless steel banana slicer to the cryptocurrency derivative, our very concept of the gimmick implies awareness that, in capitalism, misprized things
are bought and sold continuously. Its flagrantly unworthy form can be found virtually anywhere: manufacturing, law, banking, education, politics, healthcare, real estate, sports, art.

The gimmick is thus capitalism’s most successful aesthetic category but also its biggest embarrassment and structural problem. With its dubious yet attractive promises about the saving of time, the reduction of labor, and the expansion of value, it gives us tantalizing glimpses of a world in which social life will no longer be organized by labor,
while indexing one that continuously regenerates the conditions keeping labor’s social necessity in place.2

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I am basically loving Silksong so far (18hours), but damn, they didn’t have to take cues from soulslike bossruns, did they? Still can’t see the value of having to boredly traverse the same long area again and again, just make me port after a few tries or something

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Sampling that Serial Experiments for a podcast about games and art (eng)

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Here’s the reason nobody saw me after dusk this week. #wh40k

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

They, great people with great games indeed, need your support!

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Ondřej Trhoň🐍 @ondrejtrhon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A full issue on Mieville, I co-conducted an interview with the man and wrote about biopower that New Crobuzon exercises on Remade

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