Over/Under #79 with James Sweeting

This week my guest is James Sweeting. He’s a lecturer/researcher in Game Studies with a focus on nostalgia, hauntology, and media form. He manages a blog and also Relative Nostalgia. You can follow him on Mastodon, Bluesky or subscribe to his RSS feed. Today, here are his topics ⤵️ Bluesky Given how Threads is apparently used daily by millions of users and somehow X still has a strong core userbase I would say that Bluesky is still underrated. Sure, in practice it’s basically a copy of what Twitter was, but to me it feels like it occupies a weird limbo space. It’s certainly not mainstream nor is it quite niche. It does have a bit of an echo chamber vibe to it though. If it can get past that it would be better, although I don’t see how that can be manufactured by Bluesky. Steam Machine This is a tough one. I’m going to go with underrated. This is due to what it is meant to be. That being a very small form factor PC with a focus on console-like gaming. The overall price is something out…