the last days of summer #film #olympusxa #fomapan100

Rob Reiner made THE PRINCESS BRIDE. He made WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. He made MISERY, SPINAL TAP, and countless other classics. Rob gave us a great gift, and his and his wife's senseless murders are a devastating loss.

"And Here You Are, and It's A Beautiful Day."

This is heartbreaking. To a T is delightful and Keita is very possibly the kindest soul on this earth. Feels like none of us have enough money to go around to support the artists we love, while the corporations who own their creations keep cranking out sequels.

I promise I will eventually stop posting about speeding but it’s so rare that an opportunity exists to argue a position that is as controversial as it is irrefutable. It’s like walking in to a dog torturer convention and saying you think it’s wrong to torture dogs

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

Clair Obscur is a totally fine game but man it was weird to know back in April that this was gonna be how it all played out. The way in which the game is discussed, the narrative around the game so quickly consumed the reality of the thing itself in a way I found personally frustrating.

YES MEGA MAN YES! YES. IT'S POSSIBLE. YOU CAN GO BACK HOME AGAIN. YOU CAN GET A SECOND CHANCE. YOUR REGRETS AREN'T SET IN STONE! IT'S NOT TOO LATE FOR ANY OF US! MEGA MAN IS BACK! MY MEGA MAN. YOU WERE GONE BUT NOW YOU'RE BACK.

One reason Disney is OK with allowing OpenAI to torpedo their brands after decades of cracking down on childrens hospitals for painting comforting characters on the walls or a dad who wanted his son's favorite character Spider-Man etched onto his grave is that grieving families don't have $1 billion

I feel like caves of qud's controller setup is so good that it should just become the canonical controller layout for roguelikes from now on. it's so good I might actually prefer it to mouse and keyboard. Wildly underappreciated revolutionary genre work in that one element alone

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Meanwhile James Cameron keeps making movies about “all american imperialists will rot in the hot hot fires of hell, and also I will sue you to death for harming the whales” and a quarter of the globe heads to the box office

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

THE CHAIR COMPANY is TWIN PEAKS if Leland Palmer was the one trying to solve the mystery

Like seriously, this shit is inescapable when it comes to Tbolt. it's literally the least interesting/important thing about December Sky in particular. If anything, setting it in a version of the OYW as we know drives home how meaningless the fight is and how much of a dead end the Psycho Zaku is.

that shits going straight to the database and you know it!!! stop posting for two seconds!!!

Gavin Newsom is a Republican and supporting him for president means you are, too

in addition to lite mode and dark mode, discord should add a 'calm' mode where they turn off all the bullshit

spider is a nice animal. I was afraid of it but now I'm not.

Not to mention that Netflix wants to destroy movie theaters, an essential third space and meeting ground for cinema

The Netflix deal is obviously a fucking nightmare if only because I don’t want to see Hollywood taken over by big tech

MISCHIEF MAKERS TREASURE 1997 N64

I feel real bad for Grasshopper Manufacture. There's the Lollipop Chainsaw remake whose developer says there'll be "no DEI" in the game. Then there's the Let it Die sequel that's jammed up with AI. They have nothing to do with/no input on either game. This is what happens when you don't own your IP!

Video games are back

I do think that games are maybe in the worse overall state I've ever seen? particularly the AAA space, which is truly dire. but I think that just makes it clear to me why taking about them passionately still maybe "matters" in some way. in the same way that planting a flag anywhere re: art matters

本日の一枚。 26年前の1999年12月、AC『ストライダー飛竜2』稼働開始！ #カプコンアートワーク #CAPCOM #ARTWORK #ガストライダー飛竜

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

it's that time of year when a bunch of people start pretending their personal distaste for the avatar franchise can bend reality in their favor against the inevitable tide of james "big jim" cameron's next guaranteed blockbuster smash hit. you can ignore them, they are fools

I will never forgive that tweet for suppressing my desire to talk like Sephiroth. I fuckin love talking like Sephiroth. I fuckin love calling people 'impudent.'

The Benoit Blanc trilogy might end up as one of the best artistic statements on the diseased conservatism of our era, and l think Wake Up Dead Man is my favorite of the trilogy, largely because it’s Rian Johnson trying to understand Christianity and its adherents more than having a definitive take.

Stoppard, regrettably, was a pro-transphobia, anti-cancel culture guy in his late years and signed a defense letter of Rowling… but “R+G Are Dead” was a seminal work for me in high school and stoked a passion for art, the possibilities of theater and the written word

A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:

As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”

This is one of the biggest problems with so-called "AI". EVERY branch of computer science and thought ever accomplished is now included as part of "AI". It's a gigantic hoax. Guess what? Computers, research and algos all existed before the current hoax.

Immaculate vibes, that Angel's Egg. gizmodo.com/angels-egg-a...

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse

It is truly a land of contrasts

People tend to move right as they age because they gain access to the wealth that conservative thought protects, Millennials by and large have been denied that generational transfer so this is hardly surprising.

INSANE LIFE CHEATCODE: choose to be miserable and then play the victim about it

Whenever I say this, people get Really Mad, but it's true. Same of any other art, too. You have to read the book, watch the film, see the painting, listen to the song, whatever. I'm sorry, but watching a video about it on YouTube is not enough. You have not experience the art.

Kirby Air Riders is peak “jpegs of real food” content.

i'm always thinking this

Immediate jump scare in #demonschool because my name is Wil and I thought it knew that somehow

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away. Fuck cancer. Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.