Payton Whaley
@maybenotpayton.bsky.social
Digital producer at MPR News and way too eager to argue about X-Men. Previously made Flyover Culture. (He/him 🏳️🌈)
My full story on @gamesdonequick.com is now up on the @mprnews.org YouTube channel! Get to know some of the faces behind the speedrunning event that raised $2.4 MILLION this week in Minneapolis.
Summer Games Done Quick returns to Minneapolis to raise $2.4M for charity
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Reviving this account for the first time in a year to say I got to cover #SGDQ for @mprnews.org!! Check out my write-up here; social video is on the platforms you'd think, and a YouTube version is coming soon! Been an admirer of this event for years. V cool to see it in person.
Summer Games Done Quick returns to Minneapolis to raise millions for charity
Back for its 10th year in the Twin Cities, the event sees speedrunners push video games to the absolute brink, for a good cause.
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Chad was nice enough to invite be back on the podcast and I punished him by making him watch an hour-long toy ad
Stories That Stick Podcast@storiesthatstick.bsky.social · last yr.Ep 195 - Bionicle the Mask of Light. Guest @maybenotpayton.bsky.social joins to discuss this 2003 cultural appropriation toy ad nightmare. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/21CN... iTunes: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... YT: youtu.be/ktL7nSFNHlo?...
Payton has a new video out! @maybenotpayton.bsky.social Jackie is in it! @jackiefortier.bsky.social Watch it! youtu.be/DJvfAuPLJh4?...
What Makes a Midwest Princess? On Chappell Roan and Pop
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Haven’t posted in nearly a year so let’s start HOT and HEAVY and RAW with this art I bought and apple tarts I made yesterday
NEW VIDEO: On the Flyover Culture SEASON FINALE, veteran game designer Cole Wehrle shares invaluable insight on how he makes games. We then ignore most of that good advice for a head-to-head game design competition. It gets weird. youtu.be/4swaOx3gLVo?...
We made a board game. It could've gone better. (feat. Cole Wehrle & @TheCritshow ) | Flyover Culture
In which an ace game designer gives me smart advice and I ignore nearly all of it.On this SEASON FINALE of Flyover Culture, it's a giant-sized special episod...
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Pretty sure IU has turned off the heat in our building for the week 🥶
Watching Wolverine and the X-Men and this Silver Samurai episode says "honor" so many times I'm shocked it wasn't written by Akira Yoshida
Thought Bubble looks so fun, I wish England was real
RISE OF THE POWER OF THE X #1! Variant by Alexander Lozano
🎃 NEW VIDEO! For this pseudo-Halloween special, we're dressing up suburban Atlanta as rural Indiana and ranking some of the most notorious fake pop culture towns. This is much more chill than the last episode, so pop it on while you prepare your Hot Lorax costume youtu.be/fn1uWKLcVEU
Got tickets to one of those AMC mystery screenings on the 6th. Hoping it’s The Marvels! Very strong possibility it’s also some heinous faith-based thing, but hey I’m down to clown
Got my tonsils removed today. Feeling alright, just a bit of pain. Goals for the week: Finish FF16, catch up on comics, finish my Ben Percy book, and then mainline Spider-Man 2 until I feel human again
The Eras Tour movie runs more frequently than our city buses
NEW VIDEO! Why are so many books being banned across the country? What's the end goal here? Do book bans even work? Up now on the Flyover Culture channel. Hope you dig it! youtu.be/Z512khhQbFc
Why Are There So Many Book Bans? | Flyover Culture
I fought in the Culture Wars and all I got was this headache.School and public libraries are the most recent targets in a growing effort to "protect our chil...
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Ahsoka feels like a cautionary tale for when reddit nerds say “they should let a real fan direct this”
On my way to see Carly Rae Jepsen, Ethel Cain, MUNA, Lana Del Ray and boygenius, or as I call it, Folsom but gayer
Twice tonight I tried to ask Siri to play “Drive Back” by Candiace and twice she responded with “Playing ‘Genocide’ by Dr. Dre”
A photographer took pictures of people before and after she told them that somehow, Palpatine had returned.
