I wasn't sure this one was going to be as special to me as most Obayashis but it really snuck up on me, especially after this clarifying conversation, which really deepened my appreciation. I'm so glad I have this podcast to help me figure this stuff out lol

The northern lights are visible in Minnesota on Tuesday night. We spotted the aurora borealis from Watertown and St. Paul. Can you see it near you?

Tatsuya Nakadai was a true legend and one of the last of his kind. Obviously a standout among Kurosawa and Kobayashi's casts, but he also really tore up the screen as the lead, the villain, and occasionally both — like in Kihachi Okamoto's SWORD OF DOOM (1966). Rest easy, king

I got to write about one of my favorite movies of all time for Perisphere! www.perisphere.org/2025/11/09/m...

I got to write about one of my favorite movies of all time for Perisphere! www.perisphere.org/2025/11/09/m...

i’m a dedicated student of great communists like Marx, Stalin, and Mao, but get this: i’m also obsessed with Japanese cartoons

lmao

Ok, here's the situation: now that your rose is in bloom, a light hits the gloom on the grey

Leftovers going QUICK! Still have *most* sizes available tho ❤️🔪❤️ www.snipershirts.com Packing up orders all workday, but anything after 5pm or so will have to wait until I’m back from travel!

Them: Thin Mitchum isn't real and he can't hurt you Thin Mitchum:

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

Votey Narveson

Zen Box has an mfin WORLD OF NANAKO poster

Local friends! First of all, please consider donating $ or food to food shelves & hunger organizations right now if you can. But another good cause is The Bond Between which has a pet food shelf, which means a lot to pet owners in hard times. They do a ton of other things too.

Something disturbing thinking about a man who chooses to keep that many balls in the air all at once... like he thrives on chaos... almost like he's.... having a juggle?

GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY TO THE KING

i think people who play the Yakuza games with English voice acting are dangerous criminals

I have never related to a game article this hard

Prometheus good. Alien: Covenant good.

BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct. Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Do you want to play a horror videogame? 😱 Happy Halloween! We're discussing horror games, our preferences, and what mechanics make a game spooky. #gamedev #indiegamedev #podcast

The Ninth Configuration prob has the hardest movie poster of all time

lmao david byrne showed the video of the ice agents tripping over themselves while trying to run after a biker on wacker drive during the “life during wartime” segment of his chicago show tonight

this is the best movie i've ever seen

Very happy with this ep, talking about what I'm increasingly convinced is one of the best movies ever made

I can't believe there are people who think there's anything better than baseball

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

It was around the second day in a row when an unemployed Josh O' Connor said goodbye to his wife and kids, grabbed the newspaper while in his boxers, then grabbed a beer from the fridge (still in his boxers) that THE MASTERMIND began to resonate harder than I might have liked it to

I'm really proud of this ep, and it has some of the best Dan's Detour and Cody's Noteys segments of the year. Ch-ch-ch-ch-check it out!

This is the primary reason conservative policymakers advocate for ICE. The racism and evil is serendipity for them.

for reference: Wick Man 1, 2, 3, 4

Every time I read one of Charlie and Dennis's blogs, I come away with a new, deeper understanding of game mechanics that will transform how I approach playing from then on. Often - as with this blog - it even applies to games I've played dozens of times. Can't recommend the workshop highly enough

I made my (digital) debut at Perisphere to write about why I think THE EXORCIST is probably the most persuasive movie ever made about faith www.perisphere.org/2025/10/17/f...

Like most of the movies from the Nixonland series, The Wicker Man was a rich text and I'm glad I was able to join the gang to talk about it! I've come to appreciate it more with time and came away from this conversation liking it more than I already did. Also, the Cody's Noteys is an all-time best

I made my (digital) debut at Perisphere to write about why I think THE EXORCIST is probably the most persuasive movie ever made about faith www.perisphere.org/2025/10/17/f...

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

What you know about this

Jia Zhangke's MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART is leaving the Criterion Collection at the end of the month and I can't recommend it highly enough. Don't miss out!

We've been working on our game "Top Words"! Last time it was only a demo in Google Slides, but now we have two working Betas to test! We're playtesting, discussing pros and cons, and planning our next steps. #gamedev #indiegamedev #podcast

Man, after such a protracted early access period, the Hades II ending feels like an unmitigated disaster. I really wonder what happened there

What a line-up we're blessed with this spooky season! This is another movie I could talk about forever (I JUST noticed how much the captain's gesture in this clip looks like a Nazi salute), so it was a real treat to talk about with Louis and co. Oh, and Polanski should be extradited and imprisoned

Texted this to Charlie and she goes "this is what I say to mom when she gets mad at me for taking in more stray cats"

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Well

Watched ROGUE ONE for the second time this year because a friend hadn't seen it and damn it's wild how, despite everything, it's still pretty much a lot of fun to go see a Star War

Hello Bluesky I am a little drunk and TONY SOPRANO IS HAMLET

It has been upsetting watching the establishment hurl itself at Mamdani but I think the other way to read that is that there really is a *better* politics possible and he shows that it is REAL. We could have this. They wouldn't fight it so hard if it wasn't achievable.