agree with this thread, but: i wouldn't assume people have seen some challenging piece of art. so many gamers don't engage with any media outside 'nerd' spaces. likely a big reason why we're sleepwalking into reliving 20th century censorship battles is these people don't know the history at all

#WakeUpDeadMan convinced me The Last Jedi is about Rian Johnson's relationship with Christianity. Faith, pacificsm, the distance between reality and myth... the way the two films' thematic obsessions echo each other is hard to ignore.

This is the movie everyone thinks Casablanca is.

An incredible actor often hamstrung by type casting but rose above it all the same. Would have been the *perfect* actor (right age, leading man vibes, *actually* Mexican) for the Heston role in Touch of Evil.

#SilentHillf is a fucking knife to the gut, the best the series has been in over 20 years, and further evidence that Silent Hill is at its most compelling when giving voice to female rage.

Day 301: "You were almost a Jill sandwich!!1!"

Thanks to Signalis I can no longer look at any scifi horror game without thinking: "Okay why not but the important thing is — are there lesbians and if so what level of yearning are we talking about here?"

Caught @realgdt.bsky.social presenting his majestic, mythic, and timely adaptation of Frankenstein at the Paris in NYC yesterday, about an angel sent to Earth that none of us deserve.

When I saw Network for the first time it was *this* scene that knocked me on my ass. People have no idea what this movie's really about, because we are living in its predicted dystopia.

Your reminder that difficulty for difficulty's sake in video games is a form of capitalist oppression.

Still the best Silent Hill game.

"It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins 'Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.'"

I see a lot of people calling this Mario’s 40th birthday and I’m here to say that this is Donkey Kong and OG Mario Bros. erasure. 🤓

Seeing myself as a "parent" or "god" to people I write feels utterly wrong and disturbing to me. Writing is more like discovering parts of yourself you weren't fully aware of. Characters *reveal"* themselves to you, like the statue already inside the marble. You discover them. You don't "make" them.

Kojima Bros are the Nolan Bros of video games. This is why queer Metal Gear fans are the only ones I can stand.

Let's not take video games down the path of the Live Action Disney Remakes, please.

Good riddance to JAMES DOBSON, a sexual pervert and fetishistic spanking advocate who cloaked his mass-enabling of child abuse in the language of psychology and faith.

I reviewed SUPERMAN, a movie as fun as it is earnest, a sincere and heartfelt invocation of everything we know to be right, and a righteous fist to the jaw of all the craven evil running unchecked through our world. I loved it. www.patreon.com/posts/136561...

Sure, The Incredibles is still technically a better Fantastic Four movie, but First Steps is a better Tomorrowland movie, so Brad Bird and Matt Shakman can call it even.

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked SHODAN and she asked me to pant and sweat as I ran through her corridors.

Should be obvious, folks.

I totally get why the right is melting down about SUPERMAN. It's explicitly about how they're genocidal weirdos interested in extra-legal rendition camps & ethnic cleansing areas they want to build resorts on because they have deep-rooted inferiority complexes based on what pathetic dorks they are.

Teaching children that they are inherently bad so need cleansing & saving is inherently abusive. Teaching children that one sex is inherently inferior and/or designed to be submissive to the other is inherently abusive. #excangelical

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

"What is THIS?" "It's taco night, dear." "I want spaghetti! Tacos are WOKE!"

Kinda horrified by how surprised by this people are. It was obvious at the time, as it was with literally *anything* Matsuno wrote. People didn't notice for the same reason people don't notice the politics of RoboCop when they are 11. :P

What is wrong with us that we feel *this* is an appropriate reaction to *civilian* unrest? Military responses are for *military* threats, not undocumented cooks. In the infamous words of Alan Moore: Americans fundamentally hate the idea of a fair fight.

Like saying Picasso can't draw eyes.

Had the pleasure of watching Tony Gilroy's grumpy ass spill the beans on Andor here in NYC, with Diego Luna crashing the party.

Finally saw "Sinners." GotDAMN that was good. It's so beautiful to see a Black creative, in the fullness of his power, ignore all the "shoulds" and conventions and just COOK. That movie was so good it made me come home and write.

Was at a conference dinner a while back and one guy said "The future is AI. It doesn't replace senior developers, but no more need for juniors." To which i replied: "Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?" He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.

"The Bechdel Test", "Bury Your Gays", these are concepts meant to point out patterns in popular culture, not to evaluate individual works of art. People who can't grasp this cling to shit like TVTropes because it saves them having to think.

Bill Maher just graduated from being a piece of shit to an entire shit.

We've gone from living in RoboCop to RoboCop 2, where the future is bleak AND poorly written.

Technologists telling you their technology achieves something they have zero expertise or ability to judge is and always will be peak Dunning-Kruger bullshit.

No one wants this. Tech isn't even driven by market capitalism at this point. If it were, they would know and care that this isn't a market. Tech is driven by ideology. It seeks to colonize, erase, and subsume all modes of art and culture its cult leaders feel they can't understand or control.

A perennial problem I experience with raising alarms about the ways that abusers are being given power by the state to perpetrate abuse is people saying "the victims should report it to the police". The police have a 1% case clearance rate for abuse even where the victim was an adult.

Rattled this off in another thread. Worth reposting, I think.

None of the obits will mention his best movie

Important reminder: suffering abuse and trauma isn't an excuse to shut your brain off and think you can do no wrong.

Having grown up in a religious environment which used coercion, social manipulation, and cruel bigotry in an attempt to keep people sexually frightened and isolated, seeing corporations penalize pornography, use of sexual language, etc makes me just fucking wild with rage.

Jesus.

Now a documentary.

Anyone who thinks this is an exaggeration has not played this absolutely devastating nightmare of a game. Groundhog Day meets Lars Von Trier's Melancholia. Yes, really. Play it and see. Will haunt you until you die.

History has vindicated this masterpiece. Maligned for being "too kiddy", it is in fact an extremely sober statement about moving on and accepting change. There have been great Zelda games since, but nothing approaching its thematic or emotional clarity. Stunning. Ageless. Moving. Essential.

ARM. (Always Repost Mifune)

Thanks to @robzacny.bsky.social for finally giving me the opportunity to voice this long held opinion, that Half-Life, while a great game, had a net-negative impact on video game storytelling in a lot of ways. Enjoy!

This kind of tacit normalization of bigotry masquerading as common sense sympathy is what we would have seen 50 years ago if the segregationists had won.