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A series of short monologues about the Valve Steam Deck video game console, and tangential musings.
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Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
9 minutes
English
United States
13 episodes
since Oct. 22, 2024
episodic
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Rounding out the second season of Venthuffer is the episode about the origins of “Halstrick”, my relatively recent nom de jeu, as promised back in the zine’s earliest episodes.
When I began planning this episode last week, I thought it would be a memoir of my history with usernames, a meditation …
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Through sheer luck I happened to overhear an offhand mention of a new Llamasoft game, a remake of an obscure coin-op from the 1980s with which I happen to have a peculiar history. This leads me to reflect on one of the longest still-active auteur careers in video games, and ask the question: Who ar…
“Good enough for your eyes and mine.” Applying Depression-era thinking to modern hardware upgrade cycles.
Things mentioned in this episode:
“Everything can can be invented has been invented.”
Agmena Paneuropean Book, the typeface used by Elden Ring
The $485 Volume Knob
Godot, an open-sourc…
Recalling the time when House Flipper forced me to take a hard look at a real-life household crisis brewing behind the refrigerator.
Things mentioned in this episode:
House Flipper on Steam
German cockroach (Blattella germanica) in Wikipedia
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The Steam Deck has a one-button suspension feature that lets you safely set the console down and immediately turn your full attention to something else, at any time, even in the middle of a game. Even though this is one of the best features of the Deck, it’s in tension with another feature, one tha…
On Balatro, and my diminishing personal susceptibility to videogame addiction—even when I invite it in.
Things mentioned or alluded to in this episode:
The Salmon Walk in Ketchikan
The Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau
“Shipping Out” by David Foster Wallace, better known by its reprint…
Hello, dear Venthuffer listener. I am retroactively declaring that the previous six episodes constitute season one of this audio zine. One consequence of launching a weekly publication in October is that no sooner does the show start to get its legs under itself, than the wintertime holiday vortex …
On UFO 50 and ever-flowering cycles of the simplest game designs.
Things mentioned in this episode:
Spelunky
UFO 50
Carl Muckenhoupt’s post
The Eggplant podcast discusses Magic Garden
Jim Stormdancer’s critique
Wikipedia’s article on the Snake game genre
Snak by Zach Gage and Neven Mrga…
Appreciating Caves of Qud as a gymnasium for Stoic thinking.
Things mentioned in this episode:
Caves of Qud
Jotun, Who Parts Limbs
Rogue
NetHack
Angband
A snapshot of my Stoic studies as they stood when my character “Kiyuwumar” met their end
An example of the Mastodon posts I made durin…
Examining the origins and motivations of this audio project, four episodes in.
Things mentioned in this episode:
Jmac’s Arcade, my previous monologue series
Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It, monologues by Jason Scott
Permanently Moved, monologues by Jay Springett
Third Strongest Podcast…
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