fuzzy lo-fi images from Lav Diaz’s first film, Burger Boys, which seems to only exist in a vhs rip online

a new favorite

some writing on songs: ohia's the lioness (2000) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

Silent Hill 2 (2024), remakes, and bad infinity maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

CORPOREAL has been selected for the SXSW Sydney games showcase, taking place Oct 15-18. If you're in Sydney come try out the new demo and the many other featured games @sxswsydney.com

Notes on Cosmic Osmo (1989) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

Birthday+PhD present made by my friend Cindy. It's so precious it kills me ❤️

La ciénaga (2001)

thoughts on cronieboy's new one - conspiracy, grief, and the text that fails to 'overcome' letterboxd.com/sisterlisa66...

Incredibly proud to have this out with the Journal of Games Criticism - Black Sun in the Land of Shadow: DLCs and Textual Depletion in Shadow of the Erdtree (2024) gamescriticism.org/2025/04/15/c...

New article published at the Journal of Games Criticism: "Black Sun in the Land of Shadow: DLCs and Textual Depletion in Shadow of the Erdtree" by @maxcoombes.bsky.social.

Early iterations of artwork from NORCO, 2015 - 2019

Winifred Knights, The Marriage at Cana (1923)

see you sunday

fucking banger of a piece by @cannibality.bsky.social newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/19/d...

Sometimes the water disappears when swimming in FF VII Rebirth's camera mode www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuQ...

Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out

WIN! - A Dinked Edition Copy of 'End of the Middle' by Richard Dawson We're going big for our first Bluesky competition! Simply like and share this post, and give us a follow to be entered. @dominorecordco.bsky.social @dinkededition.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2061...

Notes on masochism, Napster, and the embodied cognition of the ollie in Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (2004) maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

so honoured to present this paper at digraa 2025. smiling in the last one at, i think, the joy of being asked for a more deliberate use of freudian terminology

Some good people are putting together a special issue on videogame theory at Media Theory Journal. CFP: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp-videogam... #gamestudies

green, living (1929)

Two days left! Make your submission! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I've thought quite hard about what I, as a pakeha public law theorist, can add to the submissions of my Treaty expert & Māori (& Māori Treaty expert!) colleagues on the TPB. & I think it's this: under very orthodox western constitutional theory, the Bill is illegitimate & v likely unconstitutional.

One day left for submissions! www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

Sophisticated audiences have lost the appetite for direct manipulation of the story during filming - and shifted their taste to more blatantly constructed reality shows. So a reality game show needs to feel like it’s playing a straight bat. The back to front edit allows that.

Yes CEOs need to be paid less but the industry broadly (and players!) also needs to move away from the idea of endless, inevitable technological improvement (and higher energy consumption!) as the lynchpin of consumer demand and aesthetic innovation. That time is over with or without capitalism.

Know there’s been discourse about this article but it’s great to see this very real problem facing the game industry in a mainstream outlet: the industry’s silver bullet for always creating more consumer demand and higher profits simply doesn’t work anymore. web.archive.org/web/20241228...

an essay on slipknot's 1999 debut, for the end of its 25th birthday maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

one of 2024's best imo. i wrote something short on it, and intend to write more

I wrote a blog post about how generative AI scratches the same itch of uncertainty as gacha games. The silver lining of this is that the same impulse can be explored through different forms of creativity- such as prompt engineering for LARP players florencesmithnicholls.com/2024/12/27/l...

We've had an amazing first year—thanks for all the support! If you've enjoyed our show and would like to see us keep going, please share, rate and/or review! Your support means everything. Happy new year 🖤 📖 ✒️ Apple: tinyurl.com/cz97j9dj Spotify: tinyurl.com/5th8pd5d

i think of this passage when i come across whitby (i never actually come across whitby though, i tend to think of this passage and then try remember whitby). such a bizarre hallucination of homecoming & death

unexpected christmas-y songs from bill. the schmaltz works well, and any way it's a bit like those privileged moments where, in the middle of all the chaos, harpo decides to play the harp www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsK5...

thank you to these 2024 releases for distracting me from berg, sepultura, and numb

Thoughts on R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (1998), Spinoza, and peregrines maxwcoombes.neocities.org/writing-art/...

oh my god

My full comments on the cuts to the Marsden Fund of the @royalsocietynz.bsky.social are now up here:

posh christmas season open.spotify.com/playlist/782...

Registration is now open for DiGRA Australia's 2025 National Conference, which will be held at University of South Australia on 5-7 February (and online). This is the first DiGRA Australia conference held off the east coast!! events.humanitix.com/digraaustral...

Hikoi mō Te Tiriti

in the dark (2000)

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