Bryn Shaffer
@brynshaffer.bsky.social
PhD student at University of British Columbia's School of Information researching video games, anti-capitalism, and Horror. Making silly retro games for ✨research✨
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Bryn Shaffer
@brynshaffer.bsky.social
· Dec 13
Diane is this thing on? Diane I've been sucked into another social media platform.
Damn fine coffee coop.
January 31, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Damn fine coffee coop.
But what if instead no? This is not education this is the endorsement of corporate technologies that destroy our environment, spread disinformation, and operate on principles of theft and exploitation.
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 30, 2026 at 2:09 AM
But what if instead no? This is not education this is the endorsement of corporate technologies that destroy our environment, spread disinformation, and operate on principles of theft and exploitation.
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I'd take a night playing the same N64 games on a tiny TV over most things.
January 29, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I'd take a night playing the same N64 games on a tiny TV over most things.
I feel like once a character crosses X-files, Law and Order, and Sesame Street they're essentially a real person at that point.
January 11, 2026 at 6:25 PM
I feel like once a character crosses X-files, Law and Order, and Sesame Street they're essentially a real person at that point.
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A LEGO video game asking me to choose between performance or fidelity as if it's going to actually offer either
January 9, 2026 at 8:34 PM
A LEGO video game asking me to choose between performance or fidelity as if it's going to actually offer either
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An Irish reboot of Star Trek the Next Generation where instead of teaching Data about human emotions they lie constantly so he makes a fool of himself every time he meets a stranger.
December 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
An Irish reboot of Star Trek the Next Generation where instead of teaching Data about human emotions they lie constantly so he makes a fool of himself every time he meets a stranger.
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sparkling apple spider
January 1, 2026 at 12:29 AM
sparkling apple spider
My top 5 games for 2025:
5. Promise Mascot Agency by @kaizengameworks.com
4. Strange Antiquities by @badvikinggames.bsky.social
3. Cruel by James Dornan
2. Hades II by @supergiantgames.bsky.social
1. Easy Delivery Company by @sweaters.bsky.social
5. Promise Mascot Agency by @kaizengameworks.com
4. Strange Antiquities by @badvikinggames.bsky.social
3. Cruel by James Dornan
2. Hades II by @supergiantgames.bsky.social
1. Easy Delivery Company by @sweaters.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My top 5 games for 2025:
5. Promise Mascot Agency by @kaizengameworks.com
4. Strange Antiquities by @badvikinggames.bsky.social
3. Cruel by James Dornan
2. Hades II by @supergiantgames.bsky.social
1. Easy Delivery Company by @sweaters.bsky.social
5. Promise Mascot Agency by @kaizengameworks.com
4. Strange Antiquities by @badvikinggames.bsky.social
3. Cruel by James Dornan
2. Hades II by @supergiantgames.bsky.social
1. Easy Delivery Company by @sweaters.bsky.social
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Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive.
✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive.
✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
archive.org/details/sier...
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God, that one is so good
The thing I always think of is getting to pick a name for the dog in Kentucky Route Zero. Does it affect the plot or gameplay in any way? Of course not. But it changes what the dog is called.
The thing I always think of is getting to pick a name for the dog in Kentucky Route Zero. Does it affect the plot or gameplay in any way? Of course not. But it changes what the dog is called.
December 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
God, that one is so good
The thing I always think of is getting to pick a name for the dog in Kentucky Route Zero. Does it affect the plot or gameplay in any way? Of course not. But it changes what the dog is called.
The thing I always think of is getting to pick a name for the dog in Kentucky Route Zero. Does it affect the plot or gameplay in any way? Of course not. But it changes what the dog is called.
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Just checked the USPS tracker and I'm pretty sure one of my packages is stuck on Kentucky Route Zero
December 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Just checked the USPS tracker and I'm pretty sure one of my packages is stuck on Kentucky Route Zero
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Turning online console games into the garbage that is software as a service wasn't just a scam - it was a calculated decision to create a deeply classist social divide in who gets participate in gaming and generate continuous profit off people's (especially youth) sense of feeling included.
I feel like paying a subscription to allow game consoles to connect to the internet is a scam that we just quietly accepted.
December 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Turning online console games into the garbage that is software as a service wasn't just a scam - it was a calculated decision to create a deeply classist social divide in who gets participate in gaming and generate continuous profit off people's (especially youth) sense of feeling included.
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Twin Peaks: Audrey dancing at the RR Cafe.
December 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Twin Peaks: Audrey dancing at the RR Cafe.
Now, look, don't make me take off my sunglasses!
"While Martin Scorsese's BRINGING OUT THE DEAD is ultimately about many things—suffering, guilt, compassion, redemption—it’s Cage's eyes, throughout the movie and long afterwards, that stay with you." - @chadperman.bsky.social
Nobody Told You To Suffer: On 'Bringing Out the Dead' (1999)
From the opening frames of Martin Scorsese's 'Bringing Out the Dead,' Nicolas Cage’s eyes are front and center, his weary, haunted visage telling you most everything you need to know about his charact...
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Now, look, don't make me take off my sunglasses!
Do I have academic research abstract deadlines? Yes. Do I have extra free time? No. Will all my research abstracts now have to be about DoomScroll? Yes and I'm super excited about it.
So if you're going to be doomscrolling today, at least make it a journey through decades of community creativity that helped shaped gaming as we know it.
Maybe something you made is in here?
doomscroll.cx
Maybe something you made is in here?
doomscroll.cx
DoomScroll — Browse, Preview, and Play Thousands of User-Made Doom WADs
Endlessly scroll through decades of user-made Doom maps. Preview and play WADs instantly in your browser.
doomscroll.cx
December 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Do I have academic research abstract deadlines? Yes. Do I have extra free time? No. Will all my research abstracts now have to be about DoomScroll? Yes and I'm super excited about it.
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Turn old artificial Christmas trees into underwater reefs.
US Patent 12495775, issued today
US Patent 12495775, issued today
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Turn old artificial Christmas trees into underwater reefs.
US Patent 12495775, issued today
US Patent 12495775, issued today
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🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (ZTF20-background). RGB Filters: 1000, 770, 560
PI: Hillenbrand, Lynne A., program 12486. CRVAL: 44.461047, 61.213636
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
PI: Hillenbrand, Lynne A., program 12486. CRVAL: 44.461047, 61.213636
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
December 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (ZTF20-background). RGB Filters: 1000, 770, 560
PI: Hillenbrand, Lynne A., program 12486. CRVAL: 44.461047, 61.213636
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
PI: Hillenbrand, Lynne A., program 12486. CRVAL: 44.461047, 61.213636
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
Video Cat, one of the best and last standing movie rental joints in Vancouver, has the greatest card machine going - WWE? Next Gen Trek? Pokemon? Yes.
December 17, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Video Cat, one of the best and last standing movie rental joints in Vancouver, has the greatest card machine going - WWE? Next Gen Trek? Pokemon? Yes.
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Hubble image of Arp 283, also known as NGC 2798 and NGC 2799.
The left galaxy in this interacting pair, NGC 2799, is viewed edge-on. A bridge with clumps of star formation appears to connect it to NGC 2798, at right.
Credit: ESA, NASA, SDSS, J. Dalcanton, J. Schmidt
Source
The left galaxy in this interacting pair, NGC 2799, is viewed edge-on. A bridge with clumps of star formation appears to connect it to NGC 2798, at right.
Credit: ESA, NASA, SDSS, J. Dalcanton, J. Schmidt
Source
December 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Hubble image of Arp 283, also known as NGC 2798 and NGC 2799.
The left galaxy in this interacting pair, NGC 2799, is viewed edge-on. A bridge with clumps of star formation appears to connect it to NGC 2798, at right.
Credit: ESA, NASA, SDSS, J. Dalcanton, J. Schmidt
Source
The left galaxy in this interacting pair, NGC 2799, is viewed edge-on. A bridge with clumps of star formation appears to connect it to NGC 2798, at right.
Credit: ESA, NASA, SDSS, J. Dalcanton, J. Schmidt
Source
Didn't realize movies that happen in hotels was one of my favourite genres until the @criterionchannl.bsky.social new collection
December 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Didn't realize movies that happen in hotels was one of my favourite genres until the @criterionchannl.bsky.social new collection
The only archival theory I need.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
December 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The only archival theory I need.
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Heading into 2026
December 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Heading into 2026