Ranged Touch

We read the first six stories of William Gibson’s Burning Chrome. CWs for: sexual assault, racism, addiction, animal abuse, suicide. For the next show, we are finishing Burning Chrome. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is hosted by Cameron Kunzelman, Michael Lutz, and Austin Walker. You… Continue reading Burn...

We talk about Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson’s Playing Oppression. You can read the book open access on The MIT Press website: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5547/Playing-OppressionThe-Legacy-of-Conquest-and Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Chris...

We watch the Hallmark film Love in Paradise. For the next episode, we are reading the first five stories of William Gibson’s Burning Chrome. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is hosted by Cameron Kunzelman, Michael Lutz, and Austin Walker. You can get the mentioned shirt… Continue reading Love in Paradise

We talk about the 2004 nonfiction book about baseball, Faithful. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things merchandise! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Come hang out in our Discord channel. Geneva “Gensuta” Heyward did the theme for this show. Thomas Hammersley-Ambroise did the art for the… Continue reading Faithful

We finish Magic’s Price. CWs for: extreme sexual assault, homophobia, animal abuse. For the next show, we are watching Love in Paradise. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is hosted by Cameron Kunzelman, Michael Lutz, and Austin Walker. You can get the mentioned shirt for a… Continue reading Magic’s Pric...

We talk about Aaron Trammell’s Repairing Play. It is open access on The MIT Press’s website: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5530/Repairing-PlayA-Black-Phenomenology Note: Did one last final check — Riven did eventually release for the Sega Saturn. Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on...

We read the first eight chapters of Magic’s Price. CWs for: homophobia. For the next show, we are reading the rest of Magic’s Price. CMRN might be misremembering the plot of “Dethcarraldo” as something that actually happened. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is hosted by… Continue reading M...

We talk about the 2004 novel The Dark Tower. Content warnings for this episode include: animal endangerment and death, child death, automobile accidents and injury, mind control, mutilation, eye trauma, sexual assault, ableism, racism. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things merchandise! Buy books from our Bookshop.org… Continue reading The Dar...

We finish Magic’s Promise. CWs for: child and domestic abuse, incest, misogyny, homophobia. For the next show, we are reading the first eight chapters of Magic’s Price. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is hosted by Cameron Kunzelman, Michael Lutz, and Austin Walker. You can get… Continue reading Magic’...

We talk about Fredric Jameson’s “Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” which was originally published in New Left Review in 1984. Note: Checked one more time — Riven did eventually release for the Sega Saturn. Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Follow Ranged Touch on… Continue reading 75 – Jameson &#82...

We read the first seven chapters of Magic’s Promise, the second book in the Last Herald-Mage Trilogy. CWs for: Homophobia, incest, child abuse and domestic violence. For the next show, we are finishing Magic’s Promise. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is hosted by Cameron Kunzelman,… Continue reading M...

We talk about the 2004 novel Song of Susannah. Content warnings for this episode include: racism, terrorism, alcoholism, rape. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things merchandise! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Come hang out in our Discord channel. Geneva “Gensuta” Heyward did the theme for… Continue reading Song of Susannah

We finish Magic’s Pawn, the first book in the Last Herald-Mage Trilogy. CWs for: manipulation and abuse, suicide and self-harm, homophobia, sexual assault and rape. For the next show, we are reading the first seven chapters of Magic’s Promise. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is… Continue reading Magic&#8217...

We talk about Douglas Guerra’s Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America. Note: Checked again — Riven did eventually release for the Sega Saturn. Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Chris… Continue reading 7...

We read the first seven chapters of Magic’s Pawn, the first book in the Last Herald-Mage Trilogy. CWs for: homophobia, domestic abuse, csa. For the next show, we are reading through the end of Magic’s Pawn. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is hosted by Cameron… Continue reading Magic’s Pawn &#821...

We talk about Final Days of Planet Earth. We had some audio issues on this one. Please forgive us. CWs for: misogyny, body horror. For the next show, we are reading the first seven chapters of Mercedes Lackey’s Magic’s Pawn. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show… Continue reading Final Days of Planet Earth...

We talk about the 2003 novel Wolves of the Calla. Content warnings for this episode include: ableism, racism, mutilation, hate crimes. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things merchandise! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Come hang out in our Discord channel. Geneva “Gensuta” Heyward did the… Continue reading Wolves of the Calla

We talk about Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s How Pac-Man Eats. Note: Still confirming that Riven eventually released for the Sega Saturn. Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter. Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

We finish the game.

We read Sensor. CWs for: misogyny, body horror, suicide, descriptions of gore. For the next show, we will watch an as-yet-unnamed Hallmark movie. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is hosted by Cameron Kunzelman, Michael Lutz, and Austin Walker. The show is produced by Jordan Mallory… Continue reading Sensor

We read Remina. CWs for: misogyny, torture, body horror. For the next show, we are reading all of Sensor. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is hosted by Cameron Kunzelman, Michael Lutz, and Austin Walker. The show is produced by Jordan Mallory (https://linktr.ee/jordanmallory) The show theme… Continue reading Remin...

We (almost) finish the game.

We talk about the 2002 novel From A Buick 8. Content warnings for this episode include: description of injuries from auto accidents, domestic and police violence, animal injury and death, body horror. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter! Support this show on Patreon! Buy some Just King Things merchandise! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Come… Continue reading From A Buick 8

We read Gyo. CWs for: extreme body horror, disease and infection, suicide, misogyny, sexual violence, animal mistreatment and death. For the next show, we are reading all of Remina. You can go to patreon.com/rangedtouch to support the show and access the bonus episode feed. The show is hosted by Cameron Kunzelman, Michael Lutz, and Austin Walker. The… Continue reading Gyo

We learn about the chosen ones. Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter. Follow Danni on Twitter. Come hang out in our Discord channel. Support this show and all of our videos on Patreon. @silverskinned created the cartoon versions of us.