Joey ‘Detchibe' W.

"Goose chasing guy" meme, with text: "Where do you think scanned books come from? WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?"

And if you think the digital world makes physical libraries obsolete: Where the fuck do you think they got the old books to scan?

SEGA JACK Vol. 1

Been busy spending time with my husband but more scans are coming along

Parappa the rappa IRL and he's crying while his family leaves the house

your wife and kids won't understand why you quit your job to pursue hiphop

I’ve never met an unhappy archivist!(except when patrons use materials for ai slop, that makes them pretty unhappy)

The latest from Puke (@puke.bsky.social) is featured in this week’s Critical Distance 😇 Make sure to check it out!
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This is the second in a series of four articles coming over the next couple months on The Stacks, because...

💛The Stacks is open for pitches & paid writing!💛

I'm looking for writing on obscure games history, art history, sex/gender, and more

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The Copied Cathedral: NIER Weiss, you dumbass.

NEW ARTICLE! "In The Copied Cathedral", my exploration of the Drakengard/NieR series, continues with a bumper dissection of 2010's NIER. Cavia's swansong is strange and formulaic, inventive and predictable, and finds its own kind of beauty in how these things clash together.

The Futanari to Femboy Pipeline Steam, sex, and societal obsession with transgender identity.

This week in The Stacks, Puke (@puke.bsky.social) takes a look at society's obsession with trans bodies, the seeming explosion of femboys on Steam, and how sex sells in all its permutations.
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Thank you Melora!! 💛

interesting reading on the subject of how trans identity and bodies are treated in porn games, and how the shift from "futa" (which wasn't exactly great to begin with) to "femboy" is probably the result of fascist trends seeping into everything

This is the second in a series of four articles coming over the next couple months on The Stacks, because...

💛The Stacks is open for pitches & paid writing!💛

I'm looking for writing on obscure games history, art history, sex/gender, and more

Full guidelines + rates: thestacks.ca/submissions

Oh and and this thing I wrote is up!

I think Joey already summarized it well. I talk about femboys suddenly appearing everywhere and the shift in sexual content in games. And, you know..."society"

It took quite a while. I would appreciate it if you read it and shared it around 💜

The Futanari to Femboy Pipeline Steam, sex, and societal obsession with transgender identity.

This week in The Stacks, Puke (@puke.bsky.social) takes a look at society's obsession with trans bodies, the seeming explosion of femboys on Steam, and how sex sells in all its permutations.
thestacks.ca/posts/2026-0...

Domino meme where the big domino is “I’m an actual archivist” and the small domino is “What the hell is Hustler Hard Drive”

Joey with their hair up in a white graphic tee and navy cardigan. The room they are in has very warm lighting. A wine glass sits in front of them.

Landed a summer job at a govt archives I never thought I’d get 🥳
Silly as it sounds, a huge part of it is thanks to this whole games archiving/preservation/scanning deal!

Domino meme where the big domino is “I’m an actual archivist” and the small domino is “What the hell is Hustler Hard Drive”

Joey with their hair up in a white graphic tee and navy cardigan. The room they are in has very warm lighting. A wine glass sits in front of them.

Landed a summer job at a govt archives I never thought I’d get 🥳
Silly as it sounds, a huge part of it is thanks to this whole games archiving/preservation/scanning deal!

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

feeling pretty vindicated in thinking these games were nothing more than gutter propaganda for the past couple decades

They're calling them the 9 Joey Games
#My9Games
These are the games I think have had the biggest impact on my psyche and who I am as a person today

I took matters into my own hands

Three of the four lots were secured, the last one went for a comical amount of money but it’ll be nice to get a good chunk of the magazine scanned! Thank you to all who donated or shared

Making one last call for donations, these will of course all be digitised by myself if won, and every little bit helps
ko-fi.com/detchibe

Seeing my site touch tips with Fox News and NatGeo is bizarre. Also bizarre is keeping my pitch guidelines behind a membership.
That stuff's all on my website and I don't think most freelancers want their work near my writing on school shootings and sexual violence.
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GameWalker is a magazine I've been passively collecting and rarely see show up in particularly large lots. You can read four issues I've archived here: archive.org/details/@chu...

Making one last call for donations, these will of course all be digitised by myself if won, and every little bit helps
ko-fi.com/detchibe

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

This interview comes from Gamer Handbook which I scanned last year! Be sure to check it out, I was quite chuffed to come across it

archive.org/details/Game...

I try not to think too much about the cost 😉
If it’s any help for the future, myself and my volunteers have been documenting interviewees in my (to be launched) database
collection.thestacks.ca/s/main/page/...

I feel that it's been long enough that I can remind everyone that Wikipedia shows you the canonical way of playing your Monster Monpiece waifu game is to jerk off the PS Vita:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster...

This interview comes from Gamer Handbook which I scanned last year! Be sure to check it out, I was quite chuffed to come across it

archive.org/details/Game...