Rory H

@roryaych.bsky.social

59 Followers 136 Following

I call myself a writer but I never know what to put in my bio. Check out my videos :) https://roryaych.bearblog.dev/

A drawing of an anthro Argentine Black and White Tegu, a lizard with black and white splotches and a long tongue. He is standing next to a bike.
A close up of the 787’s rear landing gear. The door is touching the ground. It is outlined in chalk.
The tail of a 787, sticking up in the air after the front gear seemingly collapsed
A screenshot of OpenTTD with a Japanese Train mod installed. There are numerous train lines crisscrossing the screen, including a Shinkansen line and a quadruple-track mainline. Lots of different trains can be seen.
A rain downspout coming off of an old stone building. It looks like a dragon with a super long neck that twists away from the wall. The water comes out of its mouth
A map of the Barcelona Metro, with lines showing the route I took to ride every line as fast as possible.
A steam discussion page for the game “Anthology of a Killer”. The first person says: “not to get too woke but how is including your hypnofetish in a game with a critical theory theme not kind of a self own… isn’t the point that victimizing to satisfy yourself is le bad or does stroking ur elephant ***** override hegelian babbling. The second person says: What the hell are you talking about?
A screenshot of the website with my test results. It says "Your JND: 0.028. You're seeing differences that most colour scientists would call noise. If you're not already calibrating displays for a living, you're leaving money on the table."
A screenshot of a video game, showing a bluesky-like social media app. The first post reads “ok I just found out “dinosaur” means “terrible lizard”?? how am I supposed to feel about this” The second post reads “why is it always ppl without horns who say shit like this” The third post reads “new year, new me. im taking this school year by the horns”
A screenshot from Football 17776. It shows a normal football field with three skyscrapers, four houses, a Bojangles store, four end zones, part of a baseball diamond, three teams, and a statue of Sir Walter Raleigh built on top of it. The ball is still in play.
A quote from the article: “”We lost all trust,” a current ICE official added. “I’m not sure I can see how we exist three years from now.””
A vintage Milwaukee Road engine in the snow. It is a bright red and orange train, and there are light-up snowflakes on its side.
A playlist titled “SBB-CFF-FFS,” the name of Switzerland’s rail company. The description reads “Swiss trains only listen to podcasts.” There is one song in the playlist, “White Noise 90 Minutes.”
A picture of a bookshelf with a lot of video game books on it, with two copies of How a Game Lives right in the center
A photo of a Beechcraft 200 Super King Air, a turboprop airplane
Me with the YouTube shocked thumbnail face pointing at a wall behind me. There are 46 sticky notes arranged in a vague diagonal line downward, planning out the points in my next essy.
A screenshot of google autocomplete results, based on my search history. The first one reads "The Tragedy of Frictionless Machines - YouTube." The second reads "The Tragedy of "Stomp Clap Hey" - Defector"
A photo of two 1/400 scale planes; an American Airlines 777-300ER and a Delta Air Lines 737-900ER
A picture of the word count of my next essay, 8845 words.
A dark blue bike with a sticker on it. The sticker has an orange corn snake surrounded by orange flowers.
A screenshot of my Youtube channel with restricted mode off. There are 9 videos.
A strip of a comic titled “get your war on 5 - #4.” Two businessmen are talking on the phone. One says “George W. Bush is the man! The motherfucker can do anything he wants now! Good think we know how much he hates incarcerating (and killing the fuck out of) his fellow Americans!” The second responds “wouldn’t it be awesome if he granted himself supernatural powers in order to fight the evil-doers? ‘My fellow citizens - fuck the constitution! I can now turn invisible at will!’” The first replies “he already has the supernatural ability to look into Vladimir Putin’s soul (P.S. What the fuck?) Soon he’ll also be able to shoot lasers out of his eyes, no matter what the ACLU says!” End alt text.
A picture of me smiling and holding a garter snake
Clicking quickly through a slideshow titled “The Global Games Industry.” There are nearly 100 slides
A picture of a captcha that says “please confirm you are human by selecting the picture of the Boeing 747 below.” Below are a picture of a small prop plane, a helicopter, an airline jet, and a turboprop plane.
A series of texts between me and a friend. I wrote: "Should I start a patreon and you can just pay me for my 20 minute uncut academic jet lag analysis." She replied "On further reflection u already give me this every Thursday [the day we watch jet lag together] no payment required so I’d say I’m winning"
A screenshot of "Situationist Theses on Traffic" by Guy Debord, reading "Those who believe that the automobile is eternal are not thinking, even from a strictly technological standpoint, of other future forms of transportation. For example, certain models of one-man helicopters currently being tested by the US Army will probably have spread to the general public within twenty years."
A screenshot of "Situationist Theses on Traffic" by Guy Debord, reading "To want to redesign architecture to accord with the needs of the present massive and parasitical existence of private automobiles reflects the most unrealistic misapprehension of where the real problems lie."
A photo of 3 documents and a book on a desk. The documents are all by Guy Debord, and are titled “Perspectives for Conscious Alterations in Everyday Life,” “Theory of the Derive,” and “Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography. The book is by J. G. Ballard, and is titled “Concrete Island.”
A photo of a YouTube video scheduled to upload on March 15th at 12:00. The thumbnail shows a mech with the words “politics of control” written behind it.
An ad for "Lots and Lots of Jets and Planes," with an enthusiastic voiceover and rock music in the background. He says "Here they come, screaming across the sky! It's lots and lots of jets and planes! Big planes, little planes, soaring stunt and passenger planes, even planes that fly real low! Old planes, new planes, fast planes, slow planes, smoking planes, even planes at supersonic speeds! Plus much much more when you order lots and lots of jets and planes!" In the background is footage of, indeed, lots and lots of jets and planes.
A screenshot of the Dubai level from Hitman 3. A bald white man in a white suit walks across a reflective black-and-gold floor. In front of him enormous windows show the tops of clouds and a very bright sun. The room is crowded with people.
A video of the game Hitman 2. I trigger an explosion, and a guy riding a jet ski goes flying across the sky in a beautiful arc
A picture of the Italian town of Sapienza, from Hitman 2016. It is a hilly town on the sea, with lots of colorful buildings.
A photo of a bunch of folders in DaVinci. In order, they’re labeled AC 7, ACVI, Cocoon, Furi, Hotline Miami, Hotline Miami 2, Humanity, OpenTTD, Portal, Portal 2, Terraria, and Umurangi Generation
A picture of Elon Musk and Donald Trump in the oval office. To their left is a kid (probably 3 or 4 years old)
A picture of a word count, showing 7074 words.
A photo of a cutscene from the game Hitman. Agent 47, a bald white man in a suit, sits in the foreground. In the background, out of focus, is a commercial airliner.
A photo of a printed story, with some underlines. The text is cut off at the side of the photo. It reads “I sexually identify as an attack helicopter. I lied. According to US Army Technical Manual 0, The… a gender identity, not biological sex. My dog tags and… karyotope somatic female. But really, I didn’t lie. My body is a component in my mission… say I am an attack helicopter, then my body, my sex, is too… When I joined the Army I consented to tactical-role gender… the MOS Id tested into. I was nervous. I’d never been anything… But I decided I was done with womanhood, over what… wanted to be something furiously new. To the people who say a woman would’ve refused to do what… Isn’t that the point?”
A screenshot of a line of text, reading "Military industrial complex? I actually find it very complicated!"
A screenshot of my youtube channel, called Rory Aych. It shows videos on Portal's music, Hollow Knight's combat, Disco Elysium's portrayal of the past, as well as videos analyzing movement systems, committed movies, and collaborative games.
A screenshot of the article, reading "ICAO Annex 13 "doesn't specifically prohibit the president of a country or whater [from speaking about an incident], but... the whole framework is about aviation expertise and independence and free of political bias and not apportioning blame," said Jeff Guzzetti, who formerly served as head of accident investigation for the Federal Aviation Administration wand was an NTSB specialist for numerous investigations. "The purpose of the investigation is not to apportion blame. And that's exactly what our president did on the public stage."
The XFA-27 from Ace Combat 7, a white fighter jet with red highlights. It is very pointy and the stabilizers form an X.
A screenshot of the F2-A from Ace Combat 7, a variant of the F16 fighter jet. It has a dark blue camo livery.
A picture of a carton of oat milk, with "Gamechanger! Revolutionary! Life-altering! Paradigm-shifting!" written on it
A meme of a despondent man on a beach in several different devastated poses. It is captioned “when the flight lesson is canceled”
A picture of the Arizona desert, with a large rock formation in the background and telephone poles in the foreground
A picture of the cover of “Skunk Works” by Ben Rich. A quote from Tom Clancy says “Dynamite - the true story of one of America’s crown jewels
A stack of books, including: “The Little Blue Book: A Short History of the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana” by Frederic Burton. “Skunk Works” by Ben Rich. “User Friendly: How the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play” by Cliff Kuang. The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. “The Language of the Night” by Ursula K. LeGuin. “The World is Born From Zero” by Cameron Kunzelman. “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us” by Hanif Abdurraqib. “Killed By A Traffic Engineer” by Wes Marshall. “Station: A journey through 20th and 21st century railway architecture and design” by Christopher Beanland.
A photo of an Argentine Black and White Tegu, a large black-and-white lizard
A picture of a Brazilian Rainbow Boa, a brown spotted snake with iridescent scales
A photo of the YouTube studio, showing a thumbnail with a Pacific Rim mech that reads “movies that commit.” The upload time is scheduled for December 19th, 2 pm.
a picture of a sun country 737, photoshopped to say "serve country"
A picture of a Switch running Nine Sols. It’s held up to a train window, with a frozen river in the background
A picture of Nine Sols on switch
Me smiling and looking at a delta 717 flying close overhead. The ILS is visible in the background, along with some other people.
A picture of YouTube channel analytics, showing 100 subscribers