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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There are few greater and more consistent pleasures in this world than coming back home and being able to enjoy an evening of video games with my friends

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I will always support a fellow GRB lover... I play the same way, just walking from bivouac to bivouac; I really wish they did more with that system, the game has all the right bones for a proper expedition-style system focusing on the physical toll of moving between combat encounters

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Did you also have to rent it off of the single-use proprietary Japanese streaming service…

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I haven't meaningfully posted about game dev in probably a year on any of my social media accounts, which have largely laid fallow since. I'll probably just post here for the foreseeable future until I'm able to get the new game in a more presentable state for larger platforms.

"I've started working on a new game this month. The details are scarce for the time being, but the two major inspirations are my newfound interest in writing for various TTRPGs this past year, and a strange but fortuitous chance encounter I had back in July with a Revolutionary War re-enactment group. It's definitely planned to be more of a traditional game than Work, and much more compact in both development time and scope; but still very much in the line of "boring and occasionally unsettling things happen to people in lesser-represented geographic/historical settings in the continental United States"."

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've decided to put Work on hold as I've begun to feel a bit captive to it and don't feel in the right mindset to continue rn based on present circumstances (otherwise good). I have no plans to shelf it though, and I've started working on another project in the meantime to recuperate my motivation.

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Update 46: 46: Progress update for September 2026 · My Work Is Not Yet Done

IntroductionHey, it's been a bit. Today marks just about a year since last I wrote; and I felt it was about time to get back to this. The short version is that this project has been on hiatus for the ...

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What did she mean by this..........

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For some reason they put that sound in the Prius and that's the best I'll get these days

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Ok you've sold me.... I'll get back to you on this in a week...

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yeah, as someone who actually loves her translation, I got the exact same feeling from her essay as from those threads in which gamers lament about how the latest entry of some longtime series has invariably tarnished its reputation and only has value in drawing attention to the older titles…

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Just buy a laptop or prebuilt at this point….

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Yeah, if you play it kinda slowly with most of the HUD off, it's really enjoyable. Really solid world design too

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

KR and KR2 are some of the greatest to ever do it...

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I don't really believe in hell in any genuine moral sense until I start looking at some of the first messages I've sent on Hinge

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Feather is kinda a massive scam in my experience, idk why they bothered implementing a system like this that's so half-assed in execution that pretty much everyone I've spoken to has immediately found it to be an inconvenience to be disabled

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Oh shit.... I did not realise you were also a YUKI-CHAN fan.........

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Maybe The Night They Missed the Horror Show? It loosely fits the contours of that premise, but is pretty notable for being one of the earliest forerunners of the splatterpunk stuff

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Nah that was also my least favourite part of both games, I love the first like hour of the first one where it's just Sam carrying the body of his mother, but once you start investing in tech it robs the landscape of a certain kind of beauty and treachery in a lot of ways that mirrors reality...

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

He's already been confirmed to be in Man of Tomorrow! I think all of the ARGUS cast have

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I sure hope so, he cooked way too hard with Peacemaker and now I fear I am LOCKED IN to the lives of these random ass characters from some nowhere ass small town in Washington........

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

If James Gunn does not lock in for a Vigilante-Adebayo spinoff series I will commit *******

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

She is NOT locked into that Tung Tung Tung Sahur deep lore.............

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Five years ago in my Kickstarter campaign I wrote "expected to be finished late 2020"....

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This is one of those things that I've always known to be true but for whatever reason I had no impetus to actually believe in for myself... but oddly this gives me inspiration to commit to at the very least giving a try

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

If I’m making the game, 1 If I’m playing the game, 3…

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Man... I've had the 13 mini for years now... it's still going strong but seeing everybody else's phones, I dread the day that it fails on me and I have to start carrying around a paradoxically fragile brick in my pocket...

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Thanks to the encouragement of @dasmirts.bsky.social I have decided to start posting more development-related material here instead of just pointless personal updates... New animation framework for the notebook... zzz... #gamemaker

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Unfortunately I found Weapons really underwhelming, in an almost identical fashion to how I felt about Longlegs. Really solid technical work and superlative promo work in service of a remarkably uneventful plot whose horror elements feel largely superfluous. Sad…

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Cigarettes are at least an eminently social and ritualised form of abuse that allows you to really inhale deep and feel the bitter char debriding the insides of your lungs, this shit is just bubblegum nicotine masturbation, the culmination of decades of hyper-individualised consumerist excess

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Some random drunk girl gave me her Geek Bar on the train after I somehow managed to impossible-check convince her that cigarettes are the superlative form of nicotine abuse and I took a hit of that shit just now and I am now convinced 100% that this shit is magnitudes worse than cigarettes ever were

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Extremely good and interesting list, I would trust no one else

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Everything new is a little bit bad

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

For hard recs, there's this podcast called New Books in Critical Theory that, apropos to its title, does a decent job of curating a stream of recent titles that are representative of trends. I don't listen to most of the episodes admittedly but it's quite nice for keeping a finger on the pulse!

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

A lot of those writers in the 2010s were operating in the novelty of Fisher's "bad news you already know", during a time where people were still optimistic about the potential of a global future. That seems to have utterly collapsed now into terminal pessimism, both philosophically and individually.

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I do think though that we've reached a point where critical theory as a philosophical project has overextended itself in the way Liz suggested, by consistently demonstrating an inability to imagine, let alone enact useful, practical ways (even just of thinking) through their stated critiques.

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Spencer Yan @spncryn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Byung-Chul Han is the one that immediately jumps to mind as far as individual names go. Autotheory (Preciado, Ruti, Nelson) has become really popular lately, although not really anything new theory-wise. Stiegler's work on caring has seen a resurgence as part of a larger interest in affect.

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