JD's staggering series of huge fuckups would make this a *particularly* funny day for It to Happen

That Cannes lineup, hoo boy. First Nicolas Winding Refn feature since Neon Demon, first Na Hong-jin feature since The Wailing. And that's just for a start.

A couple of the worst lines of dialogue I've ever heard in The Boys premiere.

Another day working the cyberpunk crimes unit. Rookies keep asking me if every case is gonna confront the philosophical and ethical ramifications of a corporate-run society turning machines into humans and humans into machines. Buddy, my programming won't even let me answer that.

In other news, scientists have revived a Jurassic man they've dubbed "Pickle" who was discovered frozen under the earth's crust, and now the world's strongest fighters are converging to challenge him.

Jeremy Renner markets are surging with the news that Jeremy has put the gun down.

This is no way to live.

Is this the first ever @thorazos.bsky.social cake?

I don't want to see Yujiro Hanma beat up Muhammad Ali, but going so far in the other direction to have him *deeply respect* Muhammad Ali feels a little too close to Doctor Doom crying on 9/11

Always tempting to worry the presidential address might be important but I'm gonna judge by the last ten of these and guess it'll just go "the war is just beginning, the war is over, the war never happened, everyone's against me but we don't need them, ballroom's gonna be beautiful."

I love being the exact kind of stupid where I recognize these Mario movies as boring, cynical products while knowing they might actually get me in the door if they quadruple down with a *much* more cynical Smash Bros cartoon.

Probably gonna have to be a Trans Day of Vengeance one of these years.

what da heck

Best part of living in LA is seeing all the cool new trends before they hit the rest of the country!

10 years

Ideal time for Iran to once more send in the Joker to negotiate on their behalf.

This is where they hold the Game Awards. Total Geoff Keighley cultural victory.

I find it hard to believe these people really LOVE Harry Potter as much as they say when all they'd need to do to enjoy it guilt-free is one teeny tiny little murder.

Last time this happened it was a mean girls' sleepover where they were shushing each other on a prank call "Is JD there? No yeah, we, we have something really important to tell him—Stephanie shut UP"

uhhhh is this the ending of Kingdom Hearts 3? Because Sora is fucking DEAD

A new martial arts action movie? Starring Joe Taslim and Yayan Ruhian? Hm....I think I'll watch it! :)

Uncanny. The only way to tell them apart is that Patrick Bateman has killed fewer homeless people

hey "nice" kawasaki haha it fuckin sucks you hipster asshole [he dismounts and reveals he is Jack Reacher from the program Reacher] oh fuck

So you're never gonna believe this

"I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!"

Easy win for a "let 'er rip" populist with near-dictatorial powers facing airport shutdowns over security funding would just be to say "you ever hear about the TSA stopping a terrorist attack? Of course not! It's all nonsense. Stop wasting time and let people fly again like when we weren't AFRAID."

Ah damn.

People are acting like this is about an awful 20-year-old which is very possible but it's just as (if not more) likely this is about a guy whose most recent memory of one of his children is from 12+ years ago.

And now his watch is ended

The little Mina the Hollower game looks so cute and nice and fun. Like someone adapted Secret of NIMH for the Gameboy Advance. And all the discussion about it right now is like "how can we murder the developers for taking a few more months to work on it?"

Interesting time to start reading le Carré's THE SECRET PILGRIM. lt begins as a very "Cold War is finished, we're heading to a new era" book, and now that's over too.

I remember when Last of Us was coming out in 2013 I thought "cordyceps in genre fiction, kinda played out by now?"

Hell yeah

I'd like to see Baki the Grappler wriggle his way out of THIS jam!

Getting there...

THE SECRET AGENT absolutely rules, wow.

At the best place to be when the Oscars are starting: Walking into a movie theater. SECRET AGENT, let's go.

Brooklyn Dad Defiant Brooklyn Dad Darker Brooklyn Dad Freed

A lot of the Timmy backlash is from people in film so scared of the medium's waning dominance that instead of being grateful movies *DO* still have real juice in the culture, they want to pretend art forms that have reached the terminus of their lifecycle are actually thriving.

Ok I started Dragon Quest XI. Will report back in 17 months.

Stray thoughts about art, porn, games, and "pre-deplatforming" after conversation with a friend. Feels like we've entered an age of "Unspoken Horny" in mainstream commercial products. Like, we left the sexless Marvel/Disney era and entered the "don't ask, don't tell" phase of the attention economy.

Ballet and opera aren't very popular compared to film, but film isn't very popular compared to manga where a guy lands a devastating blow and the whole crowd goes "it's over!" and then an evil old man smiles "well well...this just got interesting" and the fight keeps going for 200 more pages.

"ten years ago" [nodding] 2009

Any day now it's going to be time to play those thirty-odd 100-hour long JRPGs I've been meaning to get to.

If they were exclusionary from the start, at least no one would waste their time. What's actually crazy is spending years developing and animating these movies only to be like "oh yeah we just remembered, we're Disney, so the fundamental core of this story? That's not gonna fly. Start again."

Shaping up to be an INSANE year for Capcom, provided the world doesn't end, which I'm trying not to think about, by focusing on the Capcom lineup.

well it's not 2009 and i'm not 16 so no can't say i am