Bandersnatch and the Paxman

Thoughts on gaming, naming, and interactive media

The author, Pax, in August 2017, posing next to the logo of a jeweler in Montréal that bears their name. Photo by Ziggy Tomcich, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Note: This post includes some spoilers for “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch”.

Recently, I developed a questionable habit of browsing the trending topics on Twitter. I generally dislike that platform, so I follow no one and only use it to post links to my own work. But the social network has taken on such outsize…