Jay Howell
@adilegian.bsky.social
I make video games & arrange Baroque/late Renaissance music for solo banjo.
I finished my first piece of game criticism/interpretation in many years... "RE|SONANCE: Theme and Reference in Resident Evil Requiem."
youtu.be/mjKiM1v3hnI?...
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RE|SONANCE || Theme & Reference in Resident Evil Requiem
YouTube video by James Howell
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October 2, 2026 at 7:31 AM
I finished my first piece of game criticism/interpretation in many years... "RE|SONANCE: Theme and Reference in Resident Evil Requiem."
youtu.be/mjKiM1v3hnI?...
youtu.be/mjKiM1v3hnI?...
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I feel like society is running on Aldous Huxley software and the government is running on George Orwell software
September 27, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I feel like society is running on Aldous Huxley software and the government is running on George Orwell software
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Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
September 24, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
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Tomorrow (19th September) is #TalkLikeAPirateDay and your annual reminder that when we talk the way we talk when we're talking like a pirate, it's because of a film that was based on a book, inspired by an earlier book, inspired by a real life pirate from #Orkney!
ARRR! 🏴☠️👇
ARRR! 🏴☠️👇
September 18, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Tomorrow (19th September) is #TalkLikeAPirateDay and your annual reminder that when we talk the way we talk when we're talking like a pirate, it's because of a film that was based on a book, inspired by an earlier book, inspired by a real life pirate from #Orkney!
ARRR! 🏴☠️👇
ARRR! 🏴☠️👇
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“Then I saw two huge eyes. It was the Old Dark Frog. He was standing near me.”
September 10, 2026 at 4:37 PM
“Then I saw two huge eyes. It was the Old Dark Frog. He was standing near me.”
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I originally drew this for pinyuzumo.bsky.social's incredible book "Game Memories vol.4 セガのハードは世界いちぃぃぃ！" I recently turned it into a full color poster.
Please check out Game Memories vol.4 here! yuzumo.booth.pm/items/8528380
Or get this illustration as a poster: black.storenvy.com/products/370...
Please check out Game Memories vol.4 here! yuzumo.booth.pm/items/8528380
Or get this illustration as a poster: black.storenvy.com/products/370...
September 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I originally drew this for pinyuzumo.bsky.social's incredible book "Game Memories vol.4 セガのハードは世界いちぃぃぃ！" I recently turned it into a full color poster.
Please check out Game Memories vol.4 here! yuzumo.booth.pm/items/8528380
Or get this illustration as a poster: black.storenvy.com/products/370...
Please check out Game Memories vol.4 here! yuzumo.booth.pm/items/8528380
Or get this illustration as a poster: black.storenvy.com/products/370...
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🎂🎂🎂Happy 27th Birthday, Dreamcast!🎂🎂🎂
I'll never forget the depth of your game library and how wonderfully diverse and creative your peripherals were
I'll never forget the depth of your game library and how wonderfully diverse and creative your peripherals were
September 9, 2026 at 4:43 PM
🎂🎂🎂Happy 27th Birthday, Dreamcast!🎂🎂🎂
I'll never forget the depth of your game library and how wonderfully diverse and creative your peripherals were
I'll never forget the depth of your game library and how wonderfully diverse and creative your peripherals were
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the most realistic part of the metal gear saga is the military industrial complex's dogged, decades-long dedication to developing and testing a weapon that has never, ever, ever won a fight
September 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
the most realistic part of the metal gear saga is the military industrial complex's dogged, decades-long dedication to developing and testing a weapon that has never, ever, ever won a fight
excellent reading for the dark dark Olympic Peninsula forest, words courtesy of @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
September 7, 2026 at 4:58 AM
excellent reading for the dark dark Olympic Peninsula forest, words courtesy of @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
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macabre = “muh-KAHB”
Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer”
omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt”
reticent = “RET-uh-sunt”
epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee”
myriad = "MEER-ee-ud"
Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word.
It means they learned it by reading.
Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer”
omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt”
reticent = “RET-uh-sunt”
epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee”
myriad = "MEER-ee-ud"
Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word.
It means they learned it by reading.
August 31, 2026 at 2:53 PM
macabre = “muh-KAHB”
Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer”
omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt”
reticent = “RET-uh-sunt”
epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee”
myriad = "MEER-ee-ud"
Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word.
It means they learned it by reading.
Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer”
omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt”
reticent = “RET-uh-sunt”
epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee”
myriad = "MEER-ee-ud"
Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word.
It means they learned it by reading.
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“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4
August 31, 2026 at 4:19 PM
“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4
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I hope to finally get this to Steam this time (and this summer).
June 18, 2026 at 3:41 AM
I hope to finally get this to Steam this time (and this summer).
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This is the news I've been waiting for: Blackwell's will be stocking my new short story collection, which means readers outside the UK can pre-order it for September 15th with FREE INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY...
Oh yes, and they have SIGNED copies too!
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Oh yes, and they have SIGNED copies too!
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
August 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
This is the news I've been waiting for: Blackwell's will be stocking my new short story collection, which means readers outside the UK can pre-order it for September 15th with FREE INTERNATIONAL DELIVERY...
Oh yes, and they have SIGNED copies too!
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Oh yes, and they have SIGNED copies too!
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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Optimist: The glass is half full
Pessimist: The glass is half empty
Game Writer: why did no one tell narrative there's a glass in this game
Pessimist: The glass is half empty
Game Writer: why did no one tell narrative there's a glass in this game
Optimist: The glass is half full
Pessimist: The glass is half empty
Combat Designer: The glass is entering its second phase with elevated and more dangerous abilities.
Pessimist: The glass is half empty
Combat Designer: The glass is entering its second phase with elevated and more dangerous abilities.
Optimist: the glass is half full
Pessimist: the glass is half empty
Producer: Does the glass need to be interactable?
Pessimist: the glass is half empty
Producer: Does the glass need to be interactable?
August 22, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Optimist: The glass is half full
Pessimist: The glass is half empty
Game Writer: why did no one tell narrative there's a glass in this game
Pessimist: The glass is half empty
Game Writer: why did no one tell narrative there's a glass in this game
Doc's gym in Smash Ultimate is now the roof of Arsenal Gear.
Points for style: the relative character levels are canon.
Points for style: the relative character levels are canon.
August 22, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Doc's gym in Smash Ultimate is now the roof of Arsenal Gear.
Points for style: the relative character levels are canon.
Points for style: the relative character levels are canon.
This is a thoughtful take on MGS4, and it’s worth your time to read. I also appreciate the shoutout to “Monstrous Births,” my MGS4 analysis written some time ago.
I'm moving cross country in a few days so I regrettably couldn't participate in any review process for the Master Collection vol 2. Glad cool folks are hitting it from good angles.
For MGS4: I wrote my own thoughts in June. It's a ~fascinating game that puts every piece of the canon into a blender.
For MGS4: I wrote my own thoughts in June. It's a ~fascinating game that puts every piece of the canon into a blender.
Metal Gear Solid 4 Is An Important Disaster Of A Game
Guns of the Patriots foresaw our current flood of messy cinematic universe mashups
kotaku.com
August 21, 2026 at 2:58 PM
This is a thoughtful take on MGS4, and it’s worth your time to read. I also appreciate the shoutout to “Monstrous Births,” my MGS4 analysis written some time ago.
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Cow helps his Dog pal get his stuffy and they play
August 8, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Cow helps his Dog pal get his stuffy and they play
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I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…
August 2, 2026 at 6:43 PM
I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…
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Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.
July 28, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.
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in robocop the ed-209 is a piece of garbage that doesn't follow prompts properly and kills people and it does not matter because it's still profitable and the "ai" that does work is just a dude who they don't have to pay a full wage
You won't catch me posting matrix or terminator bits in relation to real-world AI deployment because that would constitute a reproduction and endorsement of the foundational marketing lie that these technologies ought to be conceived of as comparable to the "thinking machine" science fiction premise
July 25, 2026 at 2:43 AM
in robocop the ed-209 is a piece of garbage that doesn't follow prompts properly and kills people and it does not matter because it's still profitable and the "ai" that does work is just a dude who they don't have to pay a full wage
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We've got movie (ticket) sign! Get your tickets now to see The RiffTrax Experiments in theaters nationwide!
www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/mst...
www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/mst...
July 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
We've got movie (ticket) sign! Get your tickets now to see The RiffTrax Experiments in theaters nationwide!
www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/mst...
www.fathomentertainment.com/releases/mst...