William Hughes
@plumberduck.bsky.social
Staff writer for The A.V. Club, co-host of Everything To Guppy on the Duckfeed podcast network, creator of the idea "What if John Wick fought Dracula?"
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William Hughes
@plumberduck.bsky.social
· Nov 15
For new followers, my posts on here fall into three categories of various levels of irritating:
1) Posting pieces of my A.V. Club writing I think didn't completely suck.
2) Letting people know what I'm streaming on Friday/Saturday nights
3) INTRUSIVE THOUGHT DISPOSAL
1) Posting pieces of my A.V. Club writing I think didn't completely suck.
2) Letting people know what I'm streaming on Friday/Saturday nights
3) INTRUSIVE THOUGHT DISPOSAL
Stream question for tonight: I'm running John-less this weekend, would folks prefer I a) keep going with Lies Of P: Overture, or b) run a couple of my one-off streams (FUSER, Jeopardy!, other weird crap?)
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Stream question for tonight: I'm running John-less this weekend, would folks prefer I a) keep going with Lies Of P: Overture, or b) run a couple of my one-off streams (FUSER, Jeopardy!, other weird crap?)
Please enjoy this incredible deal where you can get my thoughts on Kirby Air Riders and its big, addictive walls of achievements for practically free. (Also actually free.) www.avclub.com/game-theory-...
Kirby Air Riders is a so-so racing game, but a nifty little addiction
Kirby Air Riders is a so-so racing game, but a nifty little addiction
www.avclub.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Please enjoy this incredible deal where you can get my thoughts on Kirby Air Riders and its big, addictive walls of achievements for practically free. (Also actually free.) www.avclub.com/game-theory-...
It's important to note the exact moment you officially become old and for me it was when the Spider-Man 2 video game needle-dropped "New Slang" by The Shins, and I realized it had been so long since Garden State that a new generation had no longer internalized what an incredibly cliché move it was.
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It's important to note the exact moment you officially become old and for me it was when the Spider-Man 2 video game needle-dropped "New Slang" by The Shins, and I realized it had been so long since Garden State that a new generation had no longer internalized what an incredibly cliché move it was.
Today I am thankful to my brain, which is apparently capable of generating angry AV Club comments in my dreams to ensure I do not grow complacent in my sleep.
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Today I am thankful to my brain, which is apparently capable of generating angry AV Club comments in my dreams to ensure I do not grow complacent in my sleep.
It's going to be so exciting to wake up tomorrow to all the people thanking me, best day of the year.
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It's going to be so exciting to wake up tomorrow to all the people thanking me, best day of the year.
This was so g-d cute that I went outside in the rain to get the photo
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This was so g-d cute that I went outside in the rain to get the photo
Looking this up on JArchive and seeing that the current champion who got this right is originally from my hometown in Indiana produced a powerful blend of pride and envy in me
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Looking this up on JArchive and seeing that the current champion who got this right is originally from my hometown in Indiana produced a powerful blend of pride and envy in me
After a year, off-and-on, of binges, I have finally watched every David Suchet Hercule Poirot adaptation. My stance is that the funny, sitcom-ish ones are good and the sad, overly Catholic ones are good. Suchet is good. Poirot is good.
November 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
After a year, off-and-on, of binges, I have finally watched every David Suchet Hercule Poirot adaptation. My stance is that the funny, sitcom-ish ones are good and the sad, overly Catholic ones are good. Suchet is good. Poirot is good.
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Earlier this month, I got laid off from The A.V. Club after 3.5 years. It changed my life and I’m going to miss it so much. Don’t know what’s coming next but I do feel more committed to the work than ever. I wrote about it on Substack if you care to check it out ❤️
open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...
open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...
Everything dies baby that's a fact / We keep singing even so
Another digital media worker joins the unemployment line, ponders the meaning of everything
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Earlier this month, I got laid off from The A.V. Club after 3.5 years. It changed my life and I’m going to miss it so much. Don’t know what’s coming next but I do feel more committed to the work than ever. I wrote about it on Substack if you care to check it out ❤️
open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...
open.substack.com/pub/thedesko...
Managed to only work for five hours of my weekend this week, I am the King Of Work-Life Balance, seated on a throne of work-life balance beams.
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Managed to only work for five hours of my weekend this week, I am the King Of Work-Life Balance, seated on a throne of work-life balance beams.
Munchausen's By Gucci IS THIS ANYTHING
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Munchausen's By Gucci IS THIS ANYTHING
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Coming Monday: The Untitled Comic Book Newsletter! Me, in your inbox once a week, with a short essay of some sort about a more or less random comic book. Starting off with THE ETERNAUT.
untitledcomicbook.beehiiv.com
untitledcomicbook.beehiiv.com
Untitled Comic Book Newsletter
This is the Untitled Comic Book Newsletter, a weekly roundup of semi-random comic essays.
untitledcomicbook.beehiiv.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Coming Monday: The Untitled Comic Book Newsletter! Me, in your inbox once a week, with a short essay of some sort about a more or less random comic book. Starting off with THE ETERNAUT.
untitledcomicbook.beehiiv.com
untitledcomicbook.beehiiv.com
Streaming at 8 p.m., this time J will ACTUALLY be starting Lies Of P: Overture, having now remembered to actually download the game.
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Streaming at 8 p.m., this time J will ACTUALLY be starting Lies Of P: Overture, having now remembered to actually download the game.
Honestly cannot blame the guy, his big intro episode is one of the darkest things I've seen in a grip
Paul says he turned down an offer to reprise his role as vigilante Powerplex in the show's fourth season: "I didn't want to do it anymore. What it did to me, I didn't like."
www.avclub.com/aaron-paul-d...
www.avclub.com/aaron-paul-d...
Breaking Bad and Bojack survivor Aaron Paul declares Invincible too brutal to keep doing
Breaking Bad and Bojack survivor Aaron Paul declares Invincible too brutal to keep doing
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November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Honestly cannot blame the guy, his big intro episode is one of the darkest things I've seen in a grip
In honor of the Xbox 360's 20th birthday, here's my piece from 2005 Week about how it helped turn us all into dopamine-addicted maniacs www.avclub.com/video-game-a...
In 2005, games started rewiring our brains
In 2005, games started rewiring our brains
www.avclub.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
In honor of the Xbox 360's 20th birthday, here's my piece from 2005 Week about how it helped turn us all into dopamine-addicted maniacs www.avclub.com/video-game-a...
Holy shit they're too fucking cute
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Holy shit they're too fucking cute
Streaming tonight at 8 p.m. Pacific. Having beat Baby Steps, I figured I'd keep the Pinocchio theme going by embarking on a playthrough of the Lies Of P DLC, Overture. Come hang out!
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Streaming tonight at 8 p.m. Pacific. Having beat Baby Steps, I figured I'd keep the Pinocchio theme going by embarking on a playthrough of the Lies Of P DLC, Overture. Come hang out!
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Big news for fans of You're Email:
I've just introduced my game's Premium Thanksgiving Expansion, which finally allows you to send an email to a turkey. I know this is what players have been asking for since launch, and now you can live out your dream of... doing that.
sbarsanti.itch.io/youre-email
I've just introduced my game's Premium Thanksgiving Expansion, which finally allows you to send an email to a turkey. I know this is what players have been asking for since launch, and now you can live out your dream of... doing that.
sbarsanti.itch.io/youre-email
You're Email by You Are Games
A text adventure about sending an email.
sbarsanti.itch.io
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Big news for fans of You're Email:
I've just introduced my game's Premium Thanksgiving Expansion, which finally allows you to send an email to a turkey. I know this is what players have been asking for since launch, and now you can live out your dream of... doing that.
sbarsanti.itch.io/youre-email
I've just introduced my game's Premium Thanksgiving Expansion, which finally allows you to send an email to a turkey. I know this is what players have been asking for since launch, and now you can live out your dream of... doing that.
sbarsanti.itch.io/youre-email
In honor of finishing Baby Steps, I wrote a little post-mortem about why it's a perfect streaming game - and why that enhances, not diminishes, what's so great about it.
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In honor of finishing Baby Steps, I wrote a little post-mortem about why it's a perfect streaming game - and why that enhances, not diminishes, what's so great about it.
First thought: This is a weird thing for an Oscar winner to do 10 years after the sitcom she kind of starred in went off the air.
Second thought: Dobby's so cool! www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertain...
Second thought: Dobby's so cool! www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertain...
Peep Show stars confirmed for a very special Great British Bake Off episode celebrating sitcom
It's bound to be a hilarious episode.
www.radiotimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
First thought: This is a weird thing for an Oscar winner to do 10 years after the sitcom she kind of starred in went off the air.
Second thought: Dobby's so cool! www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertain...
Second thought: Dobby's so cool! www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertain...
I have become completely disconnected this week from the delusion that anyone could give two fucks about anything I have to say about anything but that should be fine as long as my job isn't entirely predicated on that oh noooooooooooooooooooooooo
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I have become completely disconnected this week from the delusion that anyone could give two fucks about anything I have to say about anything but that should be fine as long as my job isn't entirely predicated on that oh noooooooooooooooooooooooo
When life feels out of control, bake
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
When life feels out of control, bake
Thinking a lot about TGA today. (This Guy Actually [Beat Baby Steps])
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Thinking a lot about TGA today. (This Guy Actually [Beat Baby Steps])
Streaming tonight at 8 p.m. We have ascended The Man-Breaker. What other horrors can Baby Steps still hold?
November 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Streaming tonight at 8 p.m. We have ascended The Man-Breaker. What other horrors can Baby Steps still hold?
If this is not the farthest you can fall in a single go in Baby Steps, it's gotta be pretty damn close.
Gotta show an outtake just to highlight how much a feat this was
Twitch
Twitch is the world
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November 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If this is not the farthest you can fall in a single go in Baby Steps, it's gotta be pretty damn close.