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@ckunzelman.bsky.social

Critic. Tabletop columnist at The AV Club and Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.

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no just regular real life

25.11.2025 02:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

itโ€™s from real life

25.11.2025 02:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Things people say about me

25.11.2025 01:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm in the final stages of getting the 2026 new horror list ready to launch, so a reminder: please let me know about your books if you haven't already! RTs very appreciated

24.11.2025 16:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 70    ๐Ÿ” 61    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

For those who observe

22.11.2025 14:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 74    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Image from Authority #6 of Jenny Sparks in 1920 fighting a kind of scientific-romance spaceship

Image from Authority #6 of Jenny Sparks in 1920 fighting a kind of scientific-romance spaceship

In case you missed it, Cameron Kunzelman joined us on our most recent episode to talk about The Authority. We talked about (among other things) the power of images like the one below to express ideas that the script might not always be up toโ€ฆ

open.spotify.com/episode/4emy...

24.11.2025 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sickest Witchโ€ฆis sick

24.11.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Adam Vass two chicken sandwich

24.11.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

now THATโ€™s Klurg

24.11.2025 02:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey, immersive, larp, ARG, theater and game folks: I'm working on Immersipedia and I'm linking out to other design/knowledge wikis like the Puzzle Hunt wiki, Nordic Larp wiki and Game Detectives, plus the whole WikiBruce archive. Are there any others I should be including?

23.11.2025 03:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 76    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?

23.11.2025 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 739    ๐Ÿ” 183    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

this is my canonical Bilbo

23.11.2025 21:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I did forget the name and called it Klurg though

23.11.2025 21:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I challenged someone today and, well, letโ€™s just say title defended successfully

23.11.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Which is to say: itโ€™s hard to be in the world.

23.11.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I really appreciate this post because I, like many, have been on the receiving end of this. I was also in a situation fairly recently where I realized that I had legitimately misunderstood something, tried to resolve it, and was struck with the idea that it would be perceived that I was dodging!

23.11.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Today is the LAST DAY to come by booth 3850 and grab a copy of The Time We Have or A Land Once Magic!!

23.11.2025 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Why should students care about historymaking in videogames?ย  | Historical Games Network We might spend time exploring zora monoliths inย Breath of the Wildโ€™s (2017)ย Hyrule and the tales they speak around kings of old, or snooping through an itemโ€™s description (such as a holy great sword, ...

Some Sunday ready over on the HGN blog! Todayโ€™s new post from @xurvermilion.bsky.social explores the potential of videogames as a way of engaging students with historical research, and key skills in critical analysis:

www.historicalgames.net/students-his...

23.11.2025 13:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

If youโ€™re at PAX UNPLUGGED and you have a cool game to show me, this is your last opportunity to do that!

23.11.2025 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seconded.

23.11.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
the good luck press both with a white and black banner feature art by kate liset of two hooded figures hailing satan.

the good luck press both with a white and black banner feature art by kate liset of two hooded figures hailing satan.

the cover of We Shall Be Monsters featuring a muscular figure from an early edition of Frankenstein. very sexy gothic text reads: We Shall Be Monsters, surprise drop!

the cover of We Shall Be Monsters featuring a muscular figure from an early edition of Frankenstein. very sexy gothic text reads: We Shall Be Monsters, surprise drop!

i demand that you stop by the good luck press both today (4059) and check out @smolghost.bsky.socialโ€™s surprise solo drop: WE SHALL BE MONSTERS

23.11.2025 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

I think they both have an interesting rhyme with one another in terms of how they are thinking about adolescence / being trapped in a particular social system / being fit underneath vile arbitrariness

23.11.2025 04:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@oddsandents.bsky.social great chatting with you tonight!

23.11.2025 03:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Weโ€™re meeting at the big purple X by the free play area at 5:15 today right now. Iโ€™m wearing a white shirt!

22.11.2025 22:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The prehistory of the game like this barely exists, pretty cool

22.11.2025 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We ARE the Weeping Gorilla.

21.11.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 143    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SHELVED BY GENRE travels to the very cusp of imaginative possibility today in our Alan Moore unit, covering part one of PROMETHEA, a Y2K fable about art, history, and magic that also introduces one of the greatest characters in comics history: rangedtouch.com/2025/11/21/p...

21.11.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 83    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Catch me at PAX U this weekend!

21.11.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You know I gotta say itโ€ฆgo birds

21.11.2025 15:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

we talked about the comic book that is about one guy thinking about another guy who wrote some stuff that ruined the world

21.11.2025 14:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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