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I've been a longtime video game obsessor, but recently I packed everything up and decided to say goodbye for a while.. my plan is to live life "fully" while I still can and then become deeply obsessed again when I'm retired. In the meantime, I like to watch this youtube channel which is tirelessly dedicated to trying out every variety of new indie game. I literally don't know how he finds the time to play all this shit.
Sep 20, 2022
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A calm British lad nerds out over retro handheld gaming devices. This is what I put on when I want to turn my brain off.
Nov 7, 2023
I never understood the appeal of watching let's plays but I'll make an exception for gaming archeology. Seeing these silly, dated games be played is fun. But the video is really an ode to web 1.0—freeware, personal websites, and creativity.
Dec 2, 2024
probably the best let’s play series on YouTube. Incredibly chill japanese guy (English subs don’t worry) plays through Minecraft for the first time with zero tutorial or outside help. as such he really reignites the magic that we all felt playing the game for the first time, the apparent mysteriousness and endlessness of its world becomes real again. on his adventure he decides that the goal of the game for him is to just travel in one direction, building a massive 1-block bridge across the entire world. his bizarre dedication to this goal eventually overtakes the entire series, which, in a world where Minecraft let’s play content is so focused on beating the game in essentially the same way (often in the most heavily optimised speed run route possible), is a reminder of the game’s true sandbox nature.
Also the guy is the creator of some of the internet’s most famous viral horror videos, e.g. username666, which basically invented analog horror as a genre
Jan 29, 2025
Top Recs from @colin-caulfield
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Obsessed with this Chinese sci-fi novel right now. It's putting to words a lot of the unavoidable existential dread that we're all trying to ignore. I'm not usually a big fan of super hard sci-fi because I'm for the most part scientifically illiterate, but this book does such a good job of making physics poetic and kind of horrifying.
Sep 20, 2022
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This book destroyed me. It's a reinterpretation of the myth of Circe, one of the OG witches in Greek mythology who was exiled to an island for eternity. She's a minor character in the Odyssey, but is given the lead role in this. Unbelievably poignant writing about life and death. Sobbed at the ending - it's a beautiful book.
Sep 20, 2022
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Shout out to my friend Kirby who is undoubtedly one of the most talented musicians I know. Creatively, he's had an amazing pandemic that started off with this really sparse and luxurious instrumental record. It's like ambient solo piano with expert synth and flute arrangements. The songs are so meditative and neutrally emotional in that magical way good ambient music is. 10/10 from me.
Sep 20, 2022