Will Hughes (@plumberduck.bsky.social)

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Squid Game 2 kills time, not people, in a largely pointless second episode. @Plumberduck's recap: avclub.com/squid-game-rec…

Squid Game is back! And in its season-two premiere, the show is as tense as ever. @Plumberduck's recap: avclub.com/squid-game-sea…

Pick up one of our Official Best Games Of 2024 on the cheap!

As always, this year's Game Awards nominations have sparked controversy, this time over the potential GOTY status of Shadow Of The Erdtree, @Plumberduck writes: avclub.com/game-theory-el…

By reviving one of its best handheld gaming franchises, Nintendo accidentally demonstrates the pitfalls of the Switch's hybrid nature, @Plumberduck writes: avclub.com/game-theory-ma…

Stream will start at about 8:15 tonight. Heads up that I don't feel inclined to use this place anymore, so if you want this info follow me over on da other one

@GigawattConduit excuuuuuuuse me it's because he has magical crystal dagger that does that for some reason Sorry, I'll see myself back to hell.

It’s so funny how Veilguard doesn’t even try to justify why Rook can use their friends’ special magical talents when they’re not in the party. Just runs on pure video game logic, don’t think too hard

Rook’s resume: Archery expert, talented swordsman, agile, charismatic, good to be around Previous occupation: Pirate (couldn’t fucking swim)

And then an absolutely gorgeous episode of What We Do In The Shadows that dials really sharply into where Guillermo and Nandor are at these days. avclub.com/what-we-do-in-…

Who wants to blank their brain out by reading about TV? Coming off another double-recap weekend: First up, we've got The Penguin, which finally shows us Oz's Big Formative Trauma that's exactly the Big Formative Trauma you figured it was. avclub.com/the-penguin-re…

Let's play Jerkpardy, probably my single dumbest recurring stream bit. twitch.tv/Plumberduck

Streaming tonight at 8 p.m., where I'll be doing an installment of Jerkpardy, the only game show where there are no prizes because it's just me reading old Jeopardy! questions to chat.

Hey, I was on Retronauts! Please come listen to me do my best to hold my own as we talk about a game of incredible ambition and EXTREMELY weird execution.

Very excited to have a piece from Grace Benfell up on @TheAVClub today, talking about how making a slick, polished action game out of Silent Hill 2 is missing the point of Silent Hill 2 avclub.com/the-silent-hil…

In (dis)honor of this year's election week, and because there's nothing scarier than living through 2016 again (but worse), I closed out AV Club's Horrors Week by writing about one of my favorite television shows: Robert and Michelle King's BrainDead! avclub.com/horror-rewatch…

Okay, let's hunt (and get murdered by) some ghosts in Phasmophobia twitch.tv/Plumberduck

It's November 1, so obviously John and I will be playing very scary ghost-hunting game Phasmophobia on the stream tonight. Expect many arguments about who gets to hide on the nice bright safe truck to break out. 8 p.m.!

There's a new Monster Hunter game coming, which means I'm going to get PRETTY Monster Hunter focused for a while avclub.com/game-theory-mo…

I wrote this before the show EXPLODED, but I still stand by it: Squid Game's most important and cruelest episode is the second one, where the participants are given a free choice to leave, take it… and then come back. That's the heart of it all. avclub.com/korean-import-…

Three years of being chewed up by The Culture Machine has robbed some of Squid Game's power but I'm excited to see the new teaser still clearly cares more about ideas and people than "Here's five more deadly kids games" avclub.com/squid-game-sea…

Feels telling that every film discussed even halfway seriously in this piece is pre-21st century, and almost all of them from a major studio. The politics of horror, which, like sci-fi, traffics more heavily in allegory than most genres, is a fascinating topic. This ain't it.