Hello there, and welcome! I’m Nick, a video game producer who writes about the games industry, the media I’m consuming, and whatever else I am into at the moment. I’m also very nostalgic for the “old web” (which to me is the mid 2000’s – the 2010’s). A bit more about the blog:
Fleets are short but frequent posts (kind of like a Tweet). Musings are the long-form typical blog writings.
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Thursday Night Football tonight! Excited to watch the Patriots play against the Bears. Only nervous because I am finally re-starting Drake Maye on my fantasy team, and the last time I did they bombed. Maybe tonight will be different?
“You Can See Everything” continues to just live rent free in my head. I cannot stop thinking about this movie nor reading and listening to everyone’s reviews. This discourse is just so tasty.
One of my favorite conversations I’ve found so far has been between Jake Steinberg and Abram Buehner. I highly recommend you find an hour of your time to listen. The angles they approach this movie from just get you thinking.
Also, I’ve also started reading “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup” by John Carreyrou. The perspective this book is giving me on Elizabeth Holmes feels exactly what my brain is craving after seeing this documentary. I’m glad I went into the movie first a bit blind on her story, but reading this book really adds to what I already experienced. I’m only a few chapters in so far, but I look forward to writing a bit more once I finish the book.
I just wanted to take a moment to jot down a public note of the movies I want to still watch this year (or at least try to before they end up in the watchlist backlog). This is that list, plus a list of prior movies from this year, and the ones I have also seen. It's three lists in one! Continue reading →
I wrote a recommendation for the documentary “You Can See Everything” which you can read here, but here are a few more quick thoughts and takes I have coming out of this movie:
There’s something about Nathan’s emotions and reactions on screen having been nearly one-to-one of mine for the whole movie that felt incredibly fitting.
It was fascinating watching the same beats in the movie landing as comedy for some and recognition as others. Some awkwardness was funny, some awkwardness was deeply (and sometimes scarily) true. It made me wonder about my own brain’s wiring, my way of relating to Nathan, and how much deeper I was reading into Elizabeth’s situation. I too did find the humor in those moments, but viscerally felt something much deeper beyond the surface level comedy.
Even though it’s three hours long, this documentary feels like a road trip full of twists and turns that you want to be on and become deeply invested in arriving at the destination.
Amanda Seyfried’s parts and roles in this movie were so critically important and unique here and is something I did not see coming. I didn’t expect to like having an actor who played someone be a critical star in this movie.
I think the fact that Fielder and Oppenheim are still trying to make sense of the movie they filmed is incredibly accurate to how I feel after leaving the theater. (Sourcing this thought from here and here, as well as a few interviews I saw reels of on social media)
It feels like Nathan Fielder made a Season 3 to The Rehearsal but instead made it a movie.
I’m still trying to understand what I have truly taken away from seeing this movie, or at least articulating the feelings in my brain at the moment, but I know for sure that I will be trying to squeeze in one more screening. And then pre-order the Blu-Ray the second that’s available.
Verdict: It's a masterpiece| Will obsessively rewatch
I've see 17 movies so far this year, and while I've seen some movies that have made me walk away thinking "Yes, I have a seen one of the top movies of the year" I think I just walked out… Continue reading →
I just looked at the runtime for “You Can See Everything” and learned it is a few minutes longer than “The Odyssey” was. Excited to see the movie, but boy do I hope I do not need to use the bathroom at all during the showing I am going to later tonight. Might need to plan accordingly ahead of time on my food and beverage consumption…
Either way, I think this movie is going to be a really good time.
GTA VI’s launch trailer dropped today, and it is *such* a vibe. There’s just something about the energy the trailers that Rockstar has made for this game and the feelings they give off. I am so excited for November 19th.
Spent a decent amount of time tonight focused on reworking my resume. I now have two versions: one specifically for game production and another for publishing production. Feels nice to finally have bespoke versions that are specialized to the roles I generally pursue and that I can actually spend less time plussing up and adjusting per role.
Things are a doozy lately. I really want to find some time to write up my thoughts on AI and the video games industry. All the latest news around Epic’s latest internal mandates, what Xbox is doing with its new “Labs” announcement, and just the general state of things leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I have a lot of thoughts and just need to get them out of my head at some point I think my brain might boil over if I do not do so soon.
Nick Mudry @nickmudry.com (bsky) A video game producer and marketer who's worked on VALORANT, World of Warcraft, Rock Band 4, and many more great games.
Launching this month's /now page on the 13th. Better late than never though! On the hobby front… Pokemon Card Collecting – I have started to go down the rabbit hole…