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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 9h

Had a Real Will Day today. Solo minigolf, browsed the board game store for an hour, perfectly fresh fish and chips from a food cart. Needed the recharge.

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 13h

Less jokily, I think it extends the ITYSL vibe to full length much more successfully than Friendship did? Nobody's full-blown crazytown, but everybody has a wheelbarrow that they're all terrified someone is going to notice they've been taking outside.

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 13h

Hi yeah just a quick complaint, I'm relating to this Tim Robinson protagonist about 30 percent too much? My sense of self can't really take that much "Actually, he has a point"

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 15h

Ideal viewing conditions for The Chair Company premiere achieved

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 1d

I saw you saying that earlier and it's a bummer! My personal eyes see little/no resemblance but your self image is your self image. It's a really interesting game in terms of the feelings it produces, both through play and narrative, some really sharp stuff about "failure" running through out.

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 1d

Last night was my first two-hour Baby Steps stream in which I made NO progress, literally finished where I started, a powerful emotion, game of the year

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 1d

One of my wife's good friends is an educator here in Portland, she's looking for some help to finalize her immigration paperwork and cover some necessary medical procedures in this very scary time. Please consider kicking in a bit!

Donate to Help a Teacher Overcome Health and Immigration Hurdles, organized by Jade S.

LCS is an afro-caribbean teacher running from violence in her home coun… Jade S. needs your support for Help a Teacher Overcome Health and Immigration Hurdles

www.gofundme.com

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 1d

HOLY SHIT YES

Erik Adams @erikadams.bsky.social · 1d

Words I thought I'd never get to type again: Catch me at @avclub.com tonight, writing about Tim Robinson's latest string of onscreen humiliations and faux pas.

What's on TV this week—The Chair Company and Mr. Scorsese

www.avclub.com

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 2d

Streaming tonight at 8 p.m. Last night on Baby Steps I spent 90 minutes trying to get to a ringing phone and when I answered it my dad heavily implied he wasn't proud of me. It's a really good game!

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 2d

I tried Clover Pit for like five minutes but the "We have Luck Be A Landlord at home" of it all was just too depressing. Luck Be A Landlord is so good! store.steampowered.com/app/1404850/...

Luck be a Landlord on Steam

Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.

store.steampowered.com

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 2d

One great thing about this game: It has a perfect little reward loop, where to power up your spells you have to not just kill big roaming bosses, but in specific, puzzle-y ways. Strenuous, interesting tasks (usually involving risky Shadow Of The Colossus climbing), married to huge payoff. Love it.

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 3d

Streaming tonight at 8 p.m., more Baby Steps! If you want to understand why, please watch this clip, which comes AFTER I spent an hour carrying a melting piece of ice through the desert, and right before, at the 99 percent point, falling and flinging it in a hole. www.twitch.tv/plumberduck/...

Twitch

Twitch is the world

www.twitch.tv

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 3d

I don't like to be controversial, but fuck it: Sigourney Weaver is our best Sigourney and it's not even particularly close.

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 3d

Annoying my wife with jokes about Trump rolling troops into Portland and immediately instituting martial law at Voodoo Donuts. "Ugh, such a tourist move! All the local dictators know you launch a coup at Blue Star or Pip's."

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 3d

While I'm being critical, I think the show has a real problem with confusing the charisma of its actors and its characters. Tim Meadows? Awesome. His character? Piece of shit, weird to see him teaming up with our guys.

This goes, like, triple for Cena/Peacemaker.

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 3d

how the hell do you have one music video montage where the characters walk slowly in the same direction while smiling and nodding at each other and then think "fuck it, we need a second one"

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about Mario Galaxy and a slightly unwelcome reminder of the "Screw it, toss in some motion controls" era

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 3d

The Switch and Switch 2 re-releases of the classic Wii games have us asking ourselves: Did we really used to live like this?

Nintendo's Mario Galaxy remasters are a return to the tyranny of motion controls

www.avclub.com

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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 3d

The Switch and Switch 2 re-releases of the classic Wii games have us asking ourselves: Did we really used to live like this?

Nintendo's Mario Galaxy remasters are a return to the tyranny of motion controls

www.avclub.com

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 4d

Also: I never want to fall into the trap of being Mr. "My Political Lenses Are The TV Show's Problem" but it IS kinda wild to spend 7 episodes building up to the reveal that you're dealing with a literal Nazi world where all the brown people have been locked up, then completely ignore it for the 8th

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 4d

There are some good moments (mostly from Danielle Brooks), but between moving scenery to set up The Next Movie, the multiple music videos and slow-motion smile walks, and the bizarre comics deep pulls (we're doing Salvation Run?!) that felt shaaaaaaaaaaaggy

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 4d

Boy howdy, that Peacemaker finale is a strong argument for not having the guy writing, the guy directing, and the guy deciding whether the writer and director are doing a good job be the same guy, huh?

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 4d

I've been watching the final season of Alice In Borderland, which continues to distinguish itself from Squid Game by having murder games that have actual game design behind them, and now I have a fantasy of interviewing game designers and asking them to cook up their dream murder game.

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 4d

Eternal Strands has maybe the biggest gulf between how much I love it and how much people have played it in 2025, REALLY cool physics-heavy exploration game with a nice kernel of Shadow Of The Colossus nestled in its heart. Good writing, too!

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 5d

Eternal Strands is $13.99 on US PSN buff.ly/N8TMORi

also on Game Pass Ultimate

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 4d

I was thinking about "I'm Too Sexy" today, as one does, and it strikes me that not nearly enough songs give a concrete reason for why they're ending. Fred's telling you about the inadequacies of his shirt, he realizes he's ALSO too sexy for this song, he lets us know. Considerate!

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 4d

It's like having your own movie theater where your face and neck hurt a little bit all the time and everything's slightly blurry and if your wife walks into the room without you noticing and says something you get real scared

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