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...

Elbereth is good All the time

Ranged Touch@rangedtouch.bsky.social · 5d ago

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...

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...

ALERT: It will go up on August 7, I have been TOO BUSY to put my items up

cmrn knzlmn@ckunzelman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Next 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!

cillian murphwater

Hey I uh, I wrote some songs? There's five of them, and they're on an EP called Meanwhile, which is out now and you can listen to it. Wow! It's an acoustic/folk thing with some avant-garde wrinkles and I hope you like it! soundcloud.com/jordanmallor... jordanmallory.bandcamp.com/album/meanwh...

Phil: "Do you need me to do the can too?" Jimbo: "No, we got Savini coming in next week, he's like a wizard with that shit."

Big Jim: "No one makes a Pepsi Machine like you, Phil. I need you on this!" Phil: "OK, Jim."

they brought him in on T2 special just to do that machine. For union reasons, he couldn't be credited under his own name, but there's a listing in the credits that says "Special Props: Alan Pepsee"

This card box is basically the platonic ideal of Samwise Gamgee. A brick of loyalty and love for rope. @rangedtouch.bsky.social

SHELVED BY GENRE continues RETURN OF THE KING in the latest episode, discussing portentous dreams, the apparent fall of evil, and the deleterious effects of media distortion throughout histories real and imagined: rangedtouch.com/2026/07/17/t...

I’m 20 minutes into a 3-hour episode of @rangedtouch.bsky.social Shelved by Genre and it’s already an all-timer.

SHELVED BY GENRE continues RETURN OF THE KING in the latest episode, discussing portentous dreams, the apparent fall of evil, and the deleterious effects of media distortion throughout histories real and imagined: rangedtouch.com/2026/07/17/t...

@rangedtouch.bsky.social @ckunzelman.bsky.social A little delayed as I'm behind on my listening, but had I been up to date I wouldn't have had an appropriately timed afternoon sick in bed to spend making this. As requested... youtu.be/Em4nupjAo0U

The Lord of the Year: The Two Caves

YouTube video by David Way

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First read of Sword of the Lictor is going well. Thanks to @rangedtouch.bsky.social !

JKT Bonus Episode!!! WOW! With 2025's THE RUNNING MAN, Edgar Wright will make you believe that Glen Powell can run. And, well, what do with think about that? You'll have to listen to find out (and learn our thoughts on Gen X's corpo-captured Nerd Whisperers): www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

Return to Castle Rock (again) as JUST KING THINGS works through a brief, thematically thin, but nonetheless interesting novella co-authored with Richard Chizmar, giving us a chance to talk genre, fanfic, brand name cash-ins, and good cartoons written by Joe Lansdale: rangedtouch.com/2026/07/13/g...

Return to Castle Rock (again) as JUST KING THINGS works through a brief, thematically thin, but nonetheless interesting novella co-authored with Richard Chizmar, giving us a chance to talk genre, fanfic, brand name cash-ins, and good cartoons written by Joe Lansdale: rangedtouch.com/2026/07/13/g...

SHELVED BY GENRE covers the 2002 film THE TWO TOWERS in this month's bonus episode, pondering a rich legacy of memes, the Raimi legacy, the cracks starting to show in the Jacksonian adaptational method, and of course, the magic of elf cinema www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

Five and a half hours of Sean attempting to bully me, half of which is his defense of Zuma (difficulty level: impossible). It's a good show!

Rico Charges@nochorus.bsky.social · 4w ago

Happy to announce the first episode of Me Here To Do The Thinking, a show that exists so @ckunzelman.bsky.social and I can listen to all of Neil Young's albums and talk about them. In #1, we go from his debut to Zuma. Available here now: www.patreon.com/SFULTRA/post... (and on podcatchers soon)

i'm so glad the episode is out and i can finally say "bilbofied" in public

Ranged Touch@rangedtouch.bsky.social · last mo.

SHELVED BY GENRE has begun THE RETURN OF THE KING, so come get Bilbofied with us: rangedtouch.com/2026/07/03/t...

SHELVED BY GENRE has begun THE RETURN OF THE KING, so come get Bilbofied with us: rangedtouch.com/2026/07/03/t...

GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES takes a strange detour through academic history, methodological fights in early modern literary criticism, and ponders what play is conceptually good for anyway with Anna K. Nardo's THE LUDIC SELF IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE: rangedtouch.com/2026/06/30/9...

me and my buddy Elfhelm are going to Mundburg

SHELVED BY GENRE lingers in the darkness at the end of THE TWO TOWERS, facing desolation, monsters, the specters of England's national mythologies, and the disastrous consequences of telling one guy he has to read all the poetry: rangedtouch.com/2026/06/19/t...

After years of yearning for it, the latest SHELVED BY GENRE Bonus Episode has finally gotten around to watching the central text of millennial genre cinema, THE MATRIX. You remember when people believed in people believing in things? www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...

there's been a mistake, i'm thorin oakendesk and i work in accounts receivable

Finally, after years of waiting, we watched The Matrix. It's good.

Ranged Touch@rangedtouch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After years of yearning for it, the latest SHELVED BY GENRE Bonus Episode has finally gotten around to watching the central text of millennial genre cinema, THE MATRIX. You remember when people believed in people believing in things? www.patreon.com/rangedtouch/...