Bryn Shaffer
@brynshaffer.bsky.social
PhD student at University of British Columbia's School of Information researching video games, anti-capitalism, and Horror. Making spooky games for ✨research✨
According to what my wife has told me about these games, I gather that in Resident Evil you visit a haunted village, and in Silent Hill you are the haunted village. Is this anything
Just finished Lunar Software's Routine and am shook. Fantastic immersive space horror that left me questioning my life choices. Sending this game to my family next time they ask me why I haven't had kids yet @routinegame.bsky.social
Twin Peaks: The hallway staircase at the Palmer house.
Wow - Thank you so much for taking the time and care to talk about VILE: Exhumed. If you have the time please watch this very thoughtful piece on the game. 🖤
Jack Nicholls@jackwnicholls.bsky.social · 8mo agoNEW VIDEO Last year, Steam banned Vile: Exhumed, a twisted horror experience that pulls no punches, and one of my favourites of 2025. Here's why I loved the game, and why it was wrong of Steam to ban it (and other titles too...) youtu.be/c-qaFjqJuQ4
htfcuddles@htfcuddles.mmfcomic.com · 8mo agoDo you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
I'd take a night playing the same N64 games on a tiny TV over most things.
I feel like once a character crosses X-files, Law and Order, and Sesame Street they're essentially a real person at that point.
horror Ewacui@ewacat.bsky.social · 8mo agoHoly shit man
A LEGO video game asking me to choose between performance or fidelity as if it's going to actually offer either
My top 5 games for 2025: 5. Promise Mascot Agency by @kaizengameworks.com 4. Strange Antiquities by @badvikinggames.bsky.social 3. Cruel by James Dornan 2. Hades II by @supergiantgames.bsky.social 1. Easy Delivery Company by @sweaters.bsky.social
Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...
God, that one is so good The thing I always think of is getting to pick a name for the dog in Kentucky Route Zero. Does it affect the plot or gameplay in any way? Of course not. But it changes what the dog is called.
Just checked the USPS tracker and I'm pretty sure one of my packages is stuck on Kentucky Route Zero
Do I have academic research abstract deadlines? Yes. Do I have extra free time? No. Will all my research abstracts now have to be about DoomScroll? Yes and I'm super excited about it.
James Baicoianu@bai.dev · 9mo agoSo if you're going to be doomscrolling today, at least make it a journey through decades of community creativity that helped shaped gaming as we know it. Maybe something you made is in here? doomscroll.cx
Turn old artificial Christmas trees into underwater reefs. US Patent 12495775, issued today
🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (ZTF20-background). RGB Filters: 1000, 770, 560 PI: Hillenbrand, Lynne A., program 12486. CRVAL: 44.461047, 61.213636 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
Video Cat, one of the best and last standing movie rental joints in Vancouver, has the greatest card machine going - WWE? Next Gen Trek? Pokemon? Yes.
Hubble image of Arp 283, also known as NGC 2798 and NGC 2799. The left galaxy in this interacting pair, NGC 2799, is viewed edge-on. A bridge with clumps of star formation appears to connect it to NGC 2798, at right. Credit: ESA, NASA, SDSS, J. Dalcanton, J. Schmidt Source
Didn't realize movies that happen in hotels was one of my favourite genres until the @criterionchannl.bsky.social new collection
