cmrn knzlmn
@ckunzelman.bsky.social
Critic. Tabletop columnist for 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.
A sample of the kind of stuff going up on Decayed Orbjt this Friday. I cleaned out the bins of mass markets I haven’t opened in literal years. Lots of stuff just getting put up as big lots of books I need out of my house. Nothing perfect, but great reading copies.
The 96th episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES finds some time for a rather big announcement about the show and its near future, but we mostly talk about technology, critical practice, death, and the nature of images with Roland Barthes' CAMERA LUCIDA: rangedtouch.com/2026/08/03/9...
GSSB was the first podcast I did with Ranged Touch! It's incredible to think how long we've been at it. And while I have enjoyed every minute, sometimes as you near episode 100 you think, "Maybe I could take a few months off and come back reading some.... slightly different books."
Ranged Touch@rangedtouch.bsky.social · 3d agoThe 96th episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES finds some time for a rather big announcement about the show and its near future, but we mostly talk about technology, critical practice, death, and the nature of images with Roland Barthes' CAMERA LUCIDA: rangedtouch.com/2026/08/03/9...
Being the finance lead for rascal the last year has been a gradually worsening job, only because I have to be the bearer of bad news each month as the global economy gets worse and worse. If you want Rascal to continue to exist for years to come, we need your support
Rascal News@rascal.news · 3d agoState of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...
Big announcement: Game Studies Study Buddies is going on hiatus after the 100th episode and will return in 2027 in a slightly different form. We talk about it extensively near the end of this episode.
Ranged Touch@rangedtouch.bsky.social · 3d agoThe 96th episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES finds some time for a rather big announcement about the show and its near future, but we mostly talk about technology, critical practice, death, and the nature of images with Roland Barthes' CAMERA LUCIDA: rangedtouch.com/2026/08/03/9...
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Rascal News@rascal.news · 3d agoState of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...
Big announcement: Game Studies Study Buddies is going on hiatus after the 100th episode and will return in 2027 in a slightly different form. We talk about it extensively near the end of this episode.
Ranged Touch@rangedtouch.bsky.social · 3d agoThe 96th episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES finds some time for a rather big announcement about the show and its near future, but we mostly talk about technology, critical practice, death, and the nature of images with Roland Barthes' CAMERA LUCIDA: rangedtouch.com/2026/08/03/9...
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I cut about 20 minutes of myself just talking about the status of theory in academia right now from tomorrow's GSSB, but Josh hits some of the same points I was making. I'm deeply mournful of the slow disappearance of rigorous theory, but also aware that the slapdash way it's done right now is rough
The new and exciting, never-before-seen McDonald's "Deep Fried Onion" is unlike anything you've imagined
15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.
Weird podcast request: we're recording something about airplanes coming up, what's your favorite activity on an airplane?
The halflings are triumphant (praise them)!!! The Dark Lord has fallen!!!! But the book ISN'T over???? SBG continues the quest of RETURN OF THE KING, talking about lights in windows and trying to figure out what Middle-Earth praise music might sound like: rangedtouch.com/2026/07/31/t...
I don’t talk about this a lot but I’m a fluent speaker of Elvish as demonstrated here.
Ranged Touch@rangedtouch.bsky.social · 6d agoThe halflings are triumphant (praise them)!!! The Dark Lord has fallen!!!! But the book ISN'T over???? SBG continues the quest of RETURN OF THE KING, talking about lights in windows and trying to figure out what Middle-Earth praise music might sound like: rangedtouch.com/2026/07/31/t...
my headcanon is this is what the mirkwood elves sound like
I don’t talk about this a lot but I’m a fluent speaker of Elvish as demonstrated here.
Ranged Touch@rangedtouch.bsky.social · 6d agoThe halflings are triumphant (praise them)!!! The Dark Lord has fallen!!!! But the book ISN'T over???? SBG continues the quest of RETURN OF THE KING, talking about lights in windows and trying to figure out what Middle-Earth praise music might sound like: rangedtouch.com/2026/07/31/t...
if you've been enjoying The Prisoner on Criterion Channel, might i recommend Tsui Hark's first american feature Double Team starring JCVD and Dennis Rodman, the middle act of which is a loving homage to the show where Van Damme is trapped in Not The Village
Praise them! Praise them!
Ranged Touch@rangedtouch.bsky.social · 6d agoThe halflings are triumphant (praise them)!!! The Dark Lord has fallen!!!! But the book ISN'T over???? SBG continues the quest of RETURN OF THE KING, talking about lights in windows and trying to figure out what Middle-Earth praise music might sound like: rangedtouch.com/2026/07/31/t...
ALERT: It will go up on August 7, I have been TOO BUSY to put my items up
cmrn knzlmn@ckunzelman.bsky.social · 2w agoNext decayedorbit.com drop will go live a week from today. finishing up (and shipping out) the last couple essays from the previous drop by Monday -- they take a while to write and assemble!
when I saw the odyssey there was a southern hoss dad sitting near me who was clearly enjoying the fight scenes and sort of tuning out for the rest of but but when Odysseus finally got back to see Argos the man let out the most plaintive “weoow”
We're tabling at GenCon this week! Stop by Booth #1553 to say hello, grab a copy of the @ludopolitics.bsky.social's newly ENNIE-awarded Tacklebox, flip through previews of upcoming games including @austinwalker.bsky.social's Realis, or pick up TTRPGs from our back catalog at con-exclusive discounts!
so fucking tired of how socially acceptable it is, even encouraged, to film random people for no good reason at all other than clout and post it online. I cover surveillance all day every day and this shift sometimes scares me the most watch more/subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Sb...
I designed an extremely aggressive and difficult to parse out new shirt about a plague that is ravaging the country, please help me raise awareness. roryblank.bigcartel.com
I had a subscription for a year and this is the most accurate thing that could be ever said
Scooby Doo Philosopher (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!!@dayofthemutants.bsky.social · last wk.can't find a way to shorten this one; each detail is so important
I am writing a travel guide about college football game days for Moon Travel Guides. @moonguides.bsky.social
I've really become a Himesh Patel fan lately -- thought he was great in The Franchise; TENET rewatch revealed him as a standout; obviously one of the strongest parts of The Odyssey. Shout out to Himesh Patel.