The movie was far better than its obnoxious marketing suggested.

Gonna watch the movie about Table Tennis(?) today.

The movie enjoyer has logged on.

Feels relevant again.

while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now. happy new year everyone!

I was like 20 minutes away from being in here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampoon...

This is such a half-formed thought, but one way I like to read PCW is to compare him to Wes Andersen and Tarantino. All three have become more technical and ambitious with time. But only PCW evolved his humanist side too and doesn't let his technical ambitions take away from feeling raw emotion.

I think I have like 2 hours left of both SH2 Remake and SHf so I guess I’ll just try to knock them both out this week.

Thanks to Diego for giving me a place to write about one of my big cultural blind spots I finally fixed: Mad Men. A show about progress and regression.

I will not miss 2025 all that much.

They should let unemployed people watch No Other Choice for free.

RIP to a goddamn legend

Here's one thing I loved from each category this year! Happy Holidays! Game: Death Stranding 2 Movie: Black Bag Album: Ninjirachi, "I Love My Computer" Book: Hirayasumi (published in English in 2024, but I first read it this year) TV: Culinary Class War Season 2

I genuinely love that there’s going to be another season of Hijack where after being on a hijacked plane, Idris Elba finds himself of another hijacked vehicle. This is some Speed shit.

Rewatching Lord of the Rings and my favorite thing about it is just how much Gandalf prefers Merry over Pippin. “This is Merry. He is smart and brave. And this is Pippin. He has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.”

Find myself once again being drawn to the siren calls from the "Octopath 0 is my GOTY" crowd. The same crowd that convinced me to get Octopath 2 and I still haven't played it.

Missed this while traveling but looks like I made my GameSpot debut yesterday! Glad to have you back, episodic games. www.gamespot.com/articles/gam...

“And you have my fucking axe!”

I’ll take a Villa title win if it means Arsenal finishes 2nd again.

Met a cool cactus yesterday.

For Christmas I got exactly what I wanted: a camping table that weighs 1.9lbs.

Oh so everyone hated the Netflix spoiler ad, huh?

Get standalone music players! Plenty of options across price ranges!

Merry Christmas!

Okay Chicagoans. I see you.

Traveling for the holidays with a PS Vita. It’s 2011 all over again.

As I get towards the end of Metroid Prime Fusion, I think what's evident is Metroid can become a sort of blockbuster shooter in the Halo mold, which to me says the Metroid IP is way more flexible than people give it credit for. But what it can't do is be both Metroid and Halo at the same time.

My condolences. I met Vince once briefly and he was a very nice man. This is tragic.

Maddy and Momo continue to go through it, and vet bills are, frankly, vicious. Please spread the word and help however you can. I love them and just want them to be okay.

Akane Banashi is single-handedly the reason I'm subbed to the Shonen Jump app. Check it out if you haven't already, great manga about the pursuit of art, with a great cast of characters.

Here's one thing I loved from each category this year! Happy Holidays! Game: Death Stranding 2 Movie: Black Bag Album: Ninjirachi, "I Love My Computer" Book: Hirayasumi (published in English in 2024, but I first read it this year) TV: Culinary Class War Season 2

I regularly get to tell my girlfriend about the new gamer drama of the day. For example today was, "War crime game boy."

The best cooking competition show is back on air, if anyone is curious.

We're so back, baby.

Every metric shows that X is not just unpopular but largely considered lame by anyone younger than 30. X tries to counter this by saying it’s still the best megaphone for outlets but anyone who tracks clickthrough traffic also knows this isn’t true.

Been kinda unplugged from American football so weekend after weekend my reaction to seeing scores is like “Huh, when did X team get good/bad?”

The Fallout show did ungodly numbers for them, huh?

Folks I emphasize as always, if you don't actually show up for the things you want, they stop getting made. Sometimes you gotta be okay with taking a chance on that 7/10 game knowing it's the only way those creators get to keep making the stuff you wanna see

Wake Up Dead Man made it very clear that I don’t live in a “select” city so very glad I can finally watch it. Even if it’s not on the big screen. Good movie.

2025 was a helluva year. Published some of the best work I’ve ever done, but still going into 2026 on the job market. So check out my website and keep me in mind if you find yourself needing a writer/producer/editorial multi-hyphenate. Happy Holidays!!! www.mattkimwrites.com

Ralph Finnes in The Menu came to mind.

I wonder if people who regularly watch other awards shows are more primed for a sweep. And I also wonder if The Game Awards frankly confusing categories mean that when a sweep does happen, it's viewed more controversially?

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.

Oh wow would you look at that

I'm seeing double here. Four Tomb Raider games!

MA DONG SEOK!?!?

The Vigilante spinoff is way more my speed.

I should re-read Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow. Amazing book. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdA...

SKATE STORYYYYYYYYY

Finally watched Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. The Feel Bad movie of the year, some say.