Marathon is so good I may have to break my rule on excluding any multiplayer only title from GOTY conversations.

Excellent movie, McCarthy is one of the most must-watch horror directors right now. I do want to see him swing harder next time, with this showcasing both his many strengths but also the same tendencies. He just does patient piss-your-pants scares well with unique supernaturalism

Is it another Bandcamp Friday? Was listening to this split again, think we did the damn thing! Need to write some more Acrid Tomb tracks soon. Purple death doom! acridtomb.bandcamp.com/album/hermet...

You should have to drop an immediate disclaimer on whether you were a Destiny 2 fan and if you even like extraction shooters in the first place before other people have to hear your opinion about Marathon’s future lol.

It’s just now hitting me that Lantlos have made a real worst album of the year contender. Lantlos, who made .neon, arguably the best post black metal album ever. Lantlos.

Between Esoteric Ebb and the Zero Parades demo I actually think EE is the more debilitatingly indebted to Disco Elysium actually. That’s not to say it’s not looking like the better game, but I do find its nature as a Disco-like a bit too glaring from the jump.

Marathon is so fucking good when you don’t have a dumb bitch in your ear going “no one is playing it dead game haha check the steam charts”.

“Hand it over. That thing. Your dark soul.”

I would like to be sh*t now.

Dark’s inclusion of Kreator’s Pleasure to Kill not just as a texture but later as a straight up plot point instantly makes it a good show. A bad show would never do that.

It doesn’t seem like anyone on Euphoria really wanted to be there in this first episode . . .

We talk a lot about how stupid and evil Trump is but we mustn’t forget that he’s also a crybaby ass punk bitch. Should have spent more of 2024 reminding everyone what a whiny little fuck he is, since Amerifats don’t give a shit about policy.

Yeah ok fuck it Requiem is the best Resident Evil, having replayed the whole series again this last month.

They comically underutilize the Baker House in Resident Evil 7 and this is really evident on replays. A couple hours at the start then done for the whole game, when it’s the best part! And the house is so hilariously big and well designed!

I finished my adventure through their discography. Best band ever probably I guess.

My favorite Park Chan-wook film so far. If you’re into stylish editing this is straight crack cocaine.

Resident Evil 4R is a really wonderful game . . . but I could do without nearly all of the island section tbh.

It’s the 5 year anniversary of this bad boy, which was, I think, my first really legitimate recording maybe. Felt like the songs all fit together, the sound really manifested, I like to think it holds up well :P darkwatcher.bandcamp.com/album/hymns-...

Surprise Starer drop. Featuring what’s possibly the world’s first black metal cover of John Mellencamp. Also this is a fundraiser for the ESMA animal shelter so please share and help if you can. Thank you. starer.bandcamp.com/album/skelet...

It’s the 5 year anniversary of this bad boy, which was, I think, my first really legitimate recording maybe. Felt like the songs all fit together, the sound really manifested, I like to think it holds up well :P darkwatcher.bandcamp.com/album/hymns-...

Wow that kicked ass. One of the best but bleakest endings to a western. Aesthetically superb.

Idk if you guys have heard of this little band called Neurosis but uh they’re pretty good 😊 been listening to them a lot.

You can tell a lot about a person based on if they look back during the chase sequences in horror games.

Used to be DSBM actually sounded like some suicidal kid in their bedroom but it’s become this genre of really elegant but somber atmoblack and can rule quite hard.

Was always being a little hyperbolic and facetious about these new Gaerea songs being blackened metalcore, but the full album is actually *just* metalcore. And not like interesting metalcore, like 2010s trend ripper metalcore.

Im sorta interested in Crimson Desert but the way they keep promoting it by talking about how many hundreds of hours of content there is just not spiking what interest Ive got.

It would be so embarrassing to be a Trump voter if they could read. Alas.

I do think Sinners is a wonderful blockbuster that manages to have important themes and takes a few palatable swings beyond mainstream horror but One Battle After Another is a little bit better of a movie Id say. Sinners should have been weirder though!

Unreal new album of mighty warrior caste black metal from Iron Firmament. A vivid world of raw melodicism and explorative atmospherics.. Love the Bruce Pennington artwork and landscape j-card design too.

I think this bit about “toxic positivity” having been the norm for a while is a total myth btw, and one of my points there would be how tediously joyless casual critique has become, a miserable need to checklist minor flaws for objectivity rather than celebrate the core fundamental successes of art.

Kind of generic on paper but Id be lying if I said this didn’t scare the absolute shit out of me. Wonderful time at the movies.

I am finding this pretty stimulating.

It’s somehow specifically on bandcamp fridays that I don’t have any energy to promote my stuff lol. Haha yeah I make riffs of a black metal variety. Uh . . . go find it.

Did you know @bretttharp.bsky.social's band Dark Watcher released an amazing album last year? Did you know it was alongside this rad old-west T-shirt? (Sorry if I look wet, I just showered) Today's a great day to buy this album and/or shirt! #bandcampfriday darkwatcher.bandcamp.com/merch

We gotta [redacted] commercial lit redditors, every day it’s another post like “haha I didn’t really gel with this adult fantasy series or acclaimed horror novel, anyone else wanna affirm my insecurity about this, also I only really like YA fiction”.

I think I could actually pick at a lot of things about Resident Evil 9 but also I literally played the whole thing in a day and immediately hit NG+ and loved it 😊

Hey my book is free now through the 5th

We’re literally probably gonna get the next season of Knight of the Seven Kingdoms next year and I still feel like Im saying final goodbyes to the best of old friends, what a glorious adaptation.

Well Ive been pretty cleanly transitioning from a country music binge to a hiphop kick these last months but these two albums pulled me back to extreme realms like a shotgun blast to the ear.

Im gonna be doing nothing but staring at these for days.

Iron Lung was good. First couple scenes I was just kind of laughing at Markiplier being there but actually totally dissolved into the role pretty quick. Cool ass idea, struggled with the pacing.

The Bright Sword - Lev Grossman An Arthurian reimagining that predictably made me think of T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, which is of course a more important and inventive work but Bright Sword holds its own in thrills and heart and some inventiveness of its own. Loved it.

You ever just finish a beautiful, gorgeous transcendent book with a perfect bittersweet sendoff Then log onto social media right after and want to kys again Cuz yea

This may be surprising but the phrase I least like to hear in literature discussion is “likable characters”. That’s pop media tourist shit. Nobody should be reading books so they can like the fuck out of the main character. Are they interesting? Do their actions reveal something about life?

That’s crazy that we unironically call somebody in government the “border czar”. It’s so humiliating being american, somebody please conquer us.

Chris Buehlman has a great line from his last novel for the moment, “the mask one’s face becomes after too many outrages”. It’s endless the humiliations these bloodthirsty pigs put us through. Too weary to even mount the rage necessary.

Dusting off the substack. Best 10 things I read last year. Bangers only. bretttharp.substack.com/p/best-stuff...

Dusting off the substack. Best 10 things I read last year. Bangers only. bretttharp.substack.com/p/best-stuff...

I hadn’t even gotten to backwards baseball cap Hilary Swank and Joel McHale as a grizzled survivalist yet, actually shoot me.