Liz Ryerson
@ellaguro.bsky.social
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she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person
http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
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reminder that you can still buy a copy of my book here:
www.mostancient.com/shop/great-art
and i'll soon have some more copies on hand to sell in person as well
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i'm definitely one of those people who changed to a film major in the middle of college because it was easier lol. but then i decided i actually liked film, and specifically old european art films, in spite of not really being a "film person" before that point. so i dunno.
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Vicky ACAB
about 13 hours ago
Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain, a near century after his first appearance. In delaying this day as much as possible via lobbying and just writing copyright law Disney Corp made the public domain a joke and was crucial in producing our current economy of social media and privatized thought
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The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World
How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-extended-universe-how-disney-killed-the-movies-and-took-over-the-world-vicky-osterweil/91b9ce329b643657?ean=9798888903667&next=t&next=t&affiliate=5522
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i take it for granted now but like i could not have been a bigger fan of iD software as a kid and their productivity in the short period of time after they left Softdisk to the end of Doom 1 development is a period of endless fascination for me. so this is catnip
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcUq...
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Making Catacomb 3-D
YouTube video by John Romero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcUqwMf01pI
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and when my album finally comes out, all 20-30 of you who listen will appreciate the righteous glory of my lyrics for songs such as "go fuck yourself" and "bloodbath" (yes those are actual songs)
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about 9 hours ago
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the mixes are here btw in case anyone wants to know
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Sounds From The Abyss mixes - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEdRlER1F5rGvaoE-XbV6jz6OymxQw4jx
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when i was doing my original Sounds from the Abyss mixes of weird game music i used to just google "worst videogame music" because you could always reliably count on the taste of gamers to be against something interesting
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gen alpha can't get enough of the hit midi "holygon" by zan-zan-zawa-veia. the midi guitar is causing mass hysteria
zan-zan-zawa-veia.bandcamp.com/track/holygon
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HOLYGON, by Zan-zan-zawa-veia
from the album yak 001
https://zan-zan-zawa-veia.bandcamp.com/track/holygon
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this game looks interesting and like it hits some very specific things i am into. def one to watch
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about 9 hours ago
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also fwiw the gross and disturbing epstein email going around about trans women vs. trans men feels like it has more to do with epstein's fetishes and eugenicist fixations than it has directly to do with the current far right anti-trans wave to me.
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Vicky ACAB
about 11 hours ago
The epstein files reveal the bourgeoisie acting AS A CLASS, which is to say, sharing ideas, cultural touchstones and social circles. But they do not invent economic conditions out of idle conversations, they are idiots repeating what they hear from their underlings and colleagues, please im begging
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tbh at this point why not open the vault to older conspiracies - AIDS was intentionally unleashed to destroy the LGBTQ community and crack cocaine was created to destroy the black community. if email existed back then i bet you could at least find record of some rich guy saying those were good ideas
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Music Box Theatre
2 days ago
Catherine O'Hara & Eugene Levy performing "A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow" from A MIGHTY WIND at the 2004 Oscars🌈💔
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i regret to inform them that the wokies have already claimed the SMT games and Bloodlines. and also Fear & Hunger and Disco Elysium were already woke. like someone else said this mostly reads as of a signal of "we like to do sexual harassment" more than anything else.
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about 24 hours ago
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Meredith Gran
1 day ago
If you're in for a cold weekend, have I got a game for you! Let's live and love in 2003 (again, or for the first time) together
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Nicholas Grossman
1 day ago
Venn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom.
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Nathan Goldwag
1 day ago
The dividing line here is generational, rather than an ideological per se; there are a LOT of old communists who are incredibly reactionary on gender issues in particular. Reminded of the pro-Cuomo Trotskyite organization.
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this song is, to me, one of the best examples of something i think of in my head as The Guided By Voices Rule, which is: "you don't have to be good to be transcendent" - a very important lesson a lot of people never learn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e7L...
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Club Molluska
YouTube video by Guided by Voices - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e7LH3Kpoa4
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aoife josie clements
1 day ago
castration movie is on the internet now :
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ever since i had her on an old podcast and it was a very awkward/strange experience i felt like there was something off about this woman. and ever since then she just keeps proving me right!
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it's increasingly clear to me that none of these people in executive positions of the game industry are at all aware of stuff like Dread Delusion whatsoever - even as the sizeable cult audience for contemporary indie games directly inspired by stuff like Morrowind continues to grow
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in addition to the main video recs being good, the edit of upcoming games she has on her wishlist at the end of this video is great if you ever wanted to a curated list of a huge chunk of upcoming weird/niche artsy games, especially of the horror/lofi 3d variety
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don't mean to blow anyone's mind with this shocking insight but the direct line between epstein, 4chan, gamergate, tech bro fascists etc is misogyny. prolific rapists, guys who believe women have inferior intelligence, and guys who hate women for rejecting them all have something big in common!
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the Epstein emails are both validating and kind of maddening because i always suspect asshole billionaires to have their own networks and be up to no good but also the main thing the guy actually did which was... rape a bunch of women has increasingly gone into the rear view, which is very bizarre.
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snuffbait bodhisattva
1 day ago
We need bystanders to actually sit and think through the traumatizing damage of abuse to victims. We need them to stop centering the abuser and their discomfort about being made to think about abuse. We need people to endure the abuse with their whole hearts & minds, and commit to healing survivors.
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maria
1 day ago
⚠️ NEW VIDEO ⚠️ 2025 was another amazing year for indies but there were too many that didn't get anywhere near as much attention as they deserved. Here are 5 of my favourite underrated titles and a montage of 129 upcoming ones, so get your wishlists ready!
youtu.be/7-bqRRN3YEY
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BUM LUNG
2 days ago
The lives of sex workers keep getting worse while the lives of pedophiles and sexual abusers keep getting easier. Every piece of evidence shows the superstructure loves sexual abuse and hates sexual agency. Destroy it or forever be Protestant.
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the videogame industry kept growing in money/scope as long as it did because there was new technology for it to attach itself to for investors to be interested in. that's no longer really the case anymore - and so videogames as a whole now are going to have to find a different identity.
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1 day ago
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let that be a lesson to us all - don't listen to the creepy guy with money
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don't mean to blow anyone's mind with this shocking insight but the direct line between epstein, 4chan, gamergate, tech bro fascists etc is misogyny. prolific rapists, guys who believe women have inferior intelligence, and guys who hate women for rejecting them all have something big in common!
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Epstein reading the 4chan yuri board and sharing FNAF porn is like a weird mirror image of finding out Luigi Mangione played a massive number of indie games and volunteered at Magfest. mostly weird because you assume those parties wouldn't be spending so much time engaging with such things
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the epstein emails more and more have this vibe lol
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i truly don't know how you could be more evil than this. every hollywood movie style conspiracy about these people seems to be true. they are literal vampires
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2 days ago
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Kim Kelly
2 days ago
insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤
2 days ago
What’s there left to say? Journalism is already on fire, and now journalists of color are getting arrested for doing their jobs. While alt-right media continues to roll in dough, those of us who want to actually speak truth to power can’t find jobs, AND have to worry about safety.
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ohh nooo =(
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2 days ago
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not the hardest per se but the all gas no breaks/channel 5 guy was the most confusing for me because it happened just as i was really getting into his stuff and he was dropped from a bunch of things immediately after and now he's just back and none of his audience seem to acknowledge it. very weird.
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always love a good pan. needed this today tbh
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it does genuinely make me insane in this era that anyone talking about how trans people are "a distraction" or "a small minority" think this is any kind of defense of our right to exist, or will help us at all in the long run??? sorry but it's trans rights are human rights or go fuck yourself
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the thing with trans rights is it's a loud minority of people who want to exterminate us, but the liberal talking points about how we're "less than 1% of the population" of the US (note: we're closer to 1.5%) and an unimportant niche issue won't prevent our rights from being eroded further
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3 days ago
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also now that i made fun of the self important wordiness of Jon Blow's old talks about game design, no one is allowed to dig up my old semi coherent game conference presentations about neoliberalism and feminism and whatever else. those were actually all fun and cool.
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3 days ago
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thinking about those old Jon Blow game design talks i used to watch and the bizarre language he uses to describe fairly basic puzzle design concepts with. every new slide was an exercise in "what on earth is this terminology he's using?"
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nearly every visible transphobe being a piece of shit in like five other ways is a strange sort of gift to us. like i'm still not convinced we could get a critical mass of people on board to support trans people by itself, but transphobia keeps being tied back into every other shit thing happening
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lindsey adler
4 days ago
71,000 dead and here in America our politicians and cops were siding with the murderous regime and expelling students from their universities. a stain that I hope future historians will contextualize for the evil it is.
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my cynicism about all the "new generation loves x" stuff is that you always hope for it to filter out into some other kind of underappreciated niche art you love but esp in this era of the internet, things tend toward passive spectacle and rarely does it seem like many people investigate deeper.
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gen alpha can't get enough of the hit midi "holygon" by zan-zan-zawa-veia. the midi guitar is causing mass hysteria
zan-zan-zawa-veia.bandcamp.com/track/holygon
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HOLYGON, by Zan-zan-zawa-veia
from the album yak 001
https://zan-zan-zawa-veia.bandcamp.com/track/holygon
3 days ago
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this is part of the 90's/early 2000's nostalgia wave which i have felt pretty mixed about - but on the other hand Aphex Twin has always kinda been the soundtrack for being on the computer.
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hey folks - just a reminder that i have a patreon! and i could use any and all of your support if you so choose as i'm finishing up some projects and need to move in a few months. money is, of course, tight as always. thank you!
www.patreon.com/ellaguro
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Get more from Liz Ryerson on Patreon
creating podcastin', Music, Criticism, Art
https://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
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CastBound🔞
4 days ago
Reminding everyone, PLEASE, DO NOT sub to your favorite content creators through phone apps as it not only charges you more, it also takes a higher % from us AND to top it all off blocks the money from being received for 30 fucking days for some goddamned reason.
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girl Jughead
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highlights include: all updated driver's licences/birth certificates are now invalid & must be replaced w sex at birth & if you accuse someone of being trans in a bathroom you get $1000
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