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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ok, that Control Resonant boss destroyed me, so testing Silent Hill Townfall now. Love that Fog Quality is the first graphics option on the list.

Silent Hill Townfall graphics options menu

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Been playing Control Resonant for less than an hour & I’m already at an art gallery with a funny Swedish name. Peak @remedygames.com vibes so far

A screenshot from Control Resonant with Dylan entering an art gallery

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This one by @charliejane.bsky.social has been a great companion in my hotel room while I’ve been out in the countryside teaching kids how to make Twine games. Bianca can go walk straight into the night, though.

The cover for «The city in the middle of the night» by former io9 editor & amazing writer Charlie Jane Anders

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m allowed one impulse «but it looks so good though» buy, right? Used, so I didn’t get the big buttons, but that’s fine

The 8bitdo retro keyboard with Famicom coloring. Arrived in soggy cardboard, but it works

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is probably my wildest bank statement yet

The item on the bank statement says «Teenage Sex and Death». Reader, I went to see the new Jane Schoenbrun film and for some reason the shortened name is on the statement instead of the movie theatre

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Just drop what you’re doing and go see Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma at the cinema, there can’t possibly be a more productive use of your time than watching Jane Schoenbrun topping off their Screen Trilogy with a genuine all-timer.

Image from the poster for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Grew up & stopped playing discopunk in European clubs, but here we go again. This is Barcelona.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Fatboy Slim’s first hit being a Christian acappella bop will never cease to amuse me. Picked this up at Big Dipper in Oslo yesterday

Caravan of Love 7" playing on a record player

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Spending an hour on How We Know We're Alive was worth it. Well done to @augusthakansson.bsky.social for making me nostalgic for a gas station.

The protagonist of the game in front of a Statoil

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Made a 9:16 version for people who don’t click YouTube links. Well, ok, for TikTok, but posting here too.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I recently wrapped my school tour, with over 70 performances + workshops. I performed a live video essay about expressing yourself through video games, but the best part was meeting & making Twine games with over 2000 students aged 14-19. Kids are wildly creative if you just give them the tools.

Me, talking about technology + art via the Lascaux cave paintings

Me talking over an approximate illustration of how Colossal Cave Adventure was originally played. Moving thematically from cave paintings to Colossal Cave Adventure? Yes, I am smooth like that

Me talking about the reading of games, via Mario repeatedly stomping on a goomba

My creative partner Christoffer taking suggestions from the students. We onboard them into Twine by starting an interactive story together, before they're let loose to write their own (often amazing) Twine games.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Some brutal Steam reviews for this random physics-inspired shooter

Steam review for Bohrdom, saying «Tyler Robinson ran so Cole Allen cloud walk»

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

A beautiful attempt at Harlan Ellison Youraislopbores.me

I ask the faux AI: Please find a simpler way to say this sentence: «My face has no front hole, yet I must loudly utter extreme anguish».

The response is that «my face lacks a hole, yet you’re screaming»

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A good selection of Horses in the Steam Horse Fest, but I do feel there is one game about Horses that seems to have slipped their minds when they were putting together this otherwise excellent lineup of discounted Horses-based video gaming.

A bunch of horse games on sale in the Steam horse festival. Somehow, this feels deliberate.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

My solution to this problem involves quantum entaglement theory. I exist in two places at once, and am able to bypass both the Everton supporters and the adjacent MTG cluster.

My two accounts on the Bsky map, located in video games industry and the Norwegian progressive intellectuals clusters

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Alright, firing the first shot. Just reply with a pic & a comment that could be interpreted either as a compliment or a devastating diss & we're golden.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Some final snaps from the trip. Lots more to see at the museum, well worth a visit if you’re in Berlin

A Brown Box replica built by Baer himself

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

They have some IKEA style old school gaming spaces as well. Very nice.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I thought they had the Soviet gaming exhibition going, but that turned out to be at a collab they did at a different museum. Bummer. But they did have this old GDR arcade machine. I tried this racing game + Hase und Hare, which was a pretty sad Pac-Man clone

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A lot of consoles on display, but also the first Voodoo graphics card. I remember everyone getting really, really excited for Voodoo 2 because it could do COLORED LIGHTING

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Fun to see some System Shock in the wild. The museum shop sells 3 euro fridge magnets from the game

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

….but the N-Gage money also built a lot of the Finnish gaming industry. And then there was this guy from Romania, who runs an N-Gage community online. He had cancer when he was young, and the device (which also had radio + internet) was his lifeline in the hospital.

An audio testimony by a man named Razvan

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Pandemonium was such an also-ran among the 2.5D platformers

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Behold, the worst Snake game ever created. Wildly sluggish controls. Considering the fact that Snake was THE killer app on 90s Nokia phones, this is just sad.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Played a show in Berlin on Saturday & was somehow still in shape for going to the Computerspielmuseum on Sunday powered by 2.5 hours of sleep & an espresso. They had an N-Gage exhibition themed around failure.

A sign saying later versions of the console did not require… removing the battery to switch games? Oh wow

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Oh hey I wrote a song about a dog haunted by the Google Street View car, just in time for Halloween Yes it's a niche haunting but please go listen, my daughter is doing the backing vocals (also doing ghost moves) linktr.ee/nachtleben

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The entire release strategy for my upcoming single is exploiting this tiny dog for views until people love me.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Fingers crossed we get an update to this all-timer

A Larson strip of a child playing video games while his hopeful parents look at him, imagining job offers for Nintendo experts who know how to save the princess

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Lo Fidelity Allstars! Dancepunkey genre-mashup ahead of its time. Happy I bought it on vinyl back then, because it has the original version of «Battle Flag» from before they removed the Prince interpolation and messed up the ending. «Kasparov's Revenge» is good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul4d...

The cover art for Lo Fidelity Allstars - How to operate with a blown mind

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

45 minutes with the demo & I'm now pretty confident that Skate Story by @bysameng.com is gonna fill the Sayonara Wild Hearts sized hole in my life

A glass skater in Skate Story studying a description of various hells

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Alright, my favorite insect cutie is now the hummingbird moth that’s started hanging out in our flowerbed. A very chunky boy!

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

This flush button held a lot more narrative promise before they corrected it

A flush button for a toilet on a ferry I’m currently taking. The text above it reads «hold the button in 3 seconds» with «in» crossed out and «for» written above it in sharpie

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Immaculate Alan Wake 2 vibes at the Charli XCX gig last night

Charli XCX performing in Oslo. The red lights are very red.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Sorry you feel that way. It was edited as a mood piece for my music, but here, the musicless version:

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Ah, sorry about that. I was editing this as a mood piece kind of thing to go with my music (although I did use some plugins to give the voices more clarity in the mix). But no worries, I cooked up a non-music edit for you. Enjoy!

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Found a police training video about satanism & it’s the most amazing thing. Here’s an edit. Music is my track ‘Heartslow’, which just so happens to be out tomorrow.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Trying to sell my (old, have no practical use for any longer, humming a sad tune from its box in my basement) beautiful baby online and bracing for the torrent of messages that want to exhange it for an iPhone 5 or electric flyswatter.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Getting ready to release my fun little ditties and quirky little tunes

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A Scandinavian tome in a Scandinavian home. Shipping & customs was pretty brutal for the new Simon Stålenhag book & prints, but I’m pretty sure it’ll be worth it when I get to reading. This thing is THICK & super pretty.

Simon Stålenhag’s «Swedish Machines» book + three prints

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Watching this video at 10 years old was my first encounter with cyberpunk AND Billy Idol. That practical effect thing going into the hand has stuck with me to this day. Also: Philippe.

Philippe from Achewood, possessed by Billy Idol’s soul

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Not just games, but I’m happy with this shelf (& sad about all the big box games I didn’t keep)

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Thanks for the thread, Rami. I’m working on a live video essay + Twine workshop revolving around video game history and storytelling + art & creativity that I’ll be touring schools in Oslo with this fall. It’s time for kids aged 13-19 to learn about William Crowther’s divorce.

Me in front of a Twine story projected on a big screen

Me in front of a video projection of Zelda

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Came to work today to discover this on my desk. Our IT guy had remembered a conversation from years ago about my Pebble Time being on the fritz, and decided to gift me his. Class act.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I’ve had my Beyerdynamic Custom Ones for more than 12 years. Replaceable padding, replaceable cable. Great. But the plastic on the headband broke, and I’ve been using superglue and Sugru for years to hold it in place. Turns out, someone made a 3D printable replacement. This is what joy looks like.

Trusty headset. Yes, I’ve sugrued the cable as well.

The Sugru/superglue solution. Wobbly but workable.

The 3D printed, non-wobbly replacement. Perfection.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I’m considering Perpeteia for the system requirements alone

Banger system requirements such as «Windows 7 if you’re cool like us» and a note that «Steam UI is hell for developers»

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Impressed by how coherent 1000x Resist by @sunsetvisitor.studio managed to be, despite all the wild turns the story took. Started playing this Christmas but only got about halfway. Picked it up again this week & amazingly, I could still follow the story. And it's a good story.

1000x Resist character Watcher, with a look of much annoyance. Well, anger. Some rage too.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

*Star Wars theme plays from a CD player because I'm 12 & can't afford a sound card for Tie Fighter*

QuickShot QS-191 gamepad. Yes I played Tie Fighter on one of these.

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Finally, I have become Video Games @videogames.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I am now convinced all live shows should include puppeteering

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