Last day to pile in! I'm beyond stoked that all the Fables have been funded. The news just keeps getting better. What an incredible effort and result from y'all.

Art folks, what kind of daily / weekly exercises do you perform to keep your edge? I'm looking into adding dedicated practice time to my schedule and need inspiration.

Today's reminder that Reddit is full of awful people, a thread about whether Good Time's Connie is "pure evil" has far too many defenders of his behavior. They think Connie's "love for his brother" means all the evil shit he did isn't actually very evil or something?

Also, my peeps, if you're skeeting a fucking wall of text, you should copy that wall, and PASTE IT INTO ALT TEXT! Go to SETTINGS>ACCESSABILITY > REQUIRE ALT TEXT and slide the slide to on.

Anonymous shout out to all the folks running my polling place. Smooth, hassle free, nothing but smiles inside. 5/5 stars. Would vote again.

Whew, I've caught up on my "quick review every feature I watch in 2025" goal. letterboxd.com/mrhen/tag/20... 144 reviews so far. I've stopped trying to cross post them here because it was frustrating squishing thoughts down into a single post. But hey, still got them done!

I can understand people not knowing the annoyingly philosophical definitions of terms like "objective" and "subjective". But at some point you'd expect them to realize they aren't understanding the question being asked. But it's not at all a surprise that /r/letterboxd is smugly incorrect about it.

/r/letterboxd yet again got distracted by debating "objective quality"

I've said it before, but when you think it's fine for "some people" to suffer, you find more ways to justify others' suffering. Often, you decide anyone who's suffering falls into the "deserves it" category. And that category grows. And maybe you lie about someone being in that category.

One bizarre side-effect of demolishing a third of the White House is that it made filming anachronisms a whole lot more likely. Productions now have to worry about whether their political drama/thriller happened before or after 2025.

Sometimes I return to smaller online communities that I've drifted away from and discover them still talking about the same parasocial celebrities covering the same drama and the same topics and the same everything. I guess I'm glad they're happy? But something about it feels stagnant and dead.

I haven't read the story you're referencing, but the concept of feeling fundamentally misunderstood is a classic symptom of autistic expression. You say something to be interpreted literally (I sometimes like french toast) and somehow it's interpreted to mean the opposite (you hate french toast).

Here snippets between a writer and myself where we use making a BLT as a way to discuss why focusing on intent is often not helpful when responding to feedback. You might be trying for a BLT. But if your audience is happy with a BL, they aren't going to understand why you're talking about Tomatoes.

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

UPDATE #3 IS NOW LIVE gamefound.com/en/projects/... #AmbitionTTRPG #TTRPG #TTRPGs #TTRPGSky #Tabletop #Crowdfunding

Well, we were WAITING for 69%, but we forgive you… why? Because we’re at 75%! ! ! Ambition is ~$5k away from being a reality. Thank you for climbing with us, and stretch goals are right around the corner! 💜💜💜

Moments like these are when I briefly ponder how disastrous it is that a single website houses such a large percentage of the videos humanity has created.

Locked in. @thepressbetwixt.itch.io

WE'VE REACHED LAUNCH FROM UNDERNEATH It has been 4 sleepless nights getting the page ready for today. There's still work to be done but we made it. I'm nervous, exhausted, and unfathomably excited. Come get your copy of Ambition, lets see how far these wax wings can fly. #AmbitionTTRPG

💜 AND WE’RE LIIIIIIIVE 💜 gamefound.com/en/projects/... #AmbitionTTRPG #TTRPG #TTRPGs #TTRPGSky #Crowdfunding

I wish corporate training resources would enable the speed controls for the sake of accessibility. The videos go too slow for me to pay attention to them. I want it at 1.25x or 1.5x. I'm sure others would prefer it at 0.75x. Please let us control how we best consume training materials.

We’re officially ONE WEEK AWAY from the Ambition Gamefound Campaign! 💜💜💜 Don’t forget to follow at ttrpg.link/Ambition ! #AmbittionTTRPG #TTRPG #TTRPGs #TTRPGSky #Tabletop #Crowdfunding

Ambition launches on Gamefound on October 14th! Join us as over the next month we reveal more and more about what it means to be Ambitious. ttrpg.link/Ambition REACH FOR HEAVEN FROM UNDERNEATH #ambitionttrpg #ttrpg #indiedev #rpg #tarot

It's amusing when people struggle to grasp that "film bro" is, in fact, a totally sensical way to classify movies. It's a term that shifts between positive, negative and ironic connotations depending on what films are catching hype this year (or whatever video essay most recently went viral.)

Freelance work hasn't come through and this month has been expensive so I'm offering creative consulting on your ttrpg for 25 bucks flat. I'll read it, provide detailed notes and we can do a 30 min discord call to go over them. DM me.

Need an aspiring, unrepped writer for a new youtube experiment, which I think will be pretty special. Unlike Spot the Pro, skill-level is less important here, but you should have written at least two scripts (features or pilots), be comfortable on camera, and available to film... (continued)

Today someone asked which stop is for the Blue Line. I told him I'm going right there, just follow me. Then he explained he had a court date but his phone died and his charger broke and he just had an argument with his partner and it's been bad news all day. Sometimes life kicks you in the shins.

Been a bit since something pushed me to post over there. I am not obligated to mourn anyone's death. And no, I will not mourn the death of evil people. mrhen.substack.com/p/i-will-not...

We're in the home stretch for 2025's watchlist... 51 movies to go! With 110 days left, shouldn't be a problem. But some of these might be harder to hunt down than others...

I just tried to use a Discord spoiler tag in a Slack thread. One day I'm sure everyone will agree on what Markdown implementation should be used.

Today is definitely a day I should think twice before reacting to something on social media...

I've updated my Letterboxd Stats Page list. Have you ever been curious about how many movies you'd need to watch to 100% the Letterboxd Stats? The answer is 2,757! I've only watched 849 of them... boxd.it/fLNHo

I prefer when people use the whole rating system on sites like Letterboxd. If someone only uses 4 stars or higher it makes it harder for me to tell what their tastes are. To be clear, if you really do like everything the same amount, that's fine, be happy. But for reason I don't trust it.

📽️ Gummo (1997) 🎬 Character Positive: Hunting cats is a good way to make sure we know your characters are trash. Character Negative: It's a very 90s "everything is shit" experience. It serves its purpose but the characters don't progress beyond that. boxd.it/adGQAL

Maybe people dying unnecessarily SHOULD be a political topic.

📽️ The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 🎬 Character Positive: Dobbs's arc is incredible. Top tier example slowly stewing over the course of the film. Structure Negative: The ending works with the story but something about it that lets the air out of the movie a titch. boxd.it/ad3zPV

"I am not mourning this change just for me, but [...] for those who may never get a chance..." A wonderfully timely (and terrifying) piece by @danielcruse.bsky.social about the crisis in cultural and film journalism. danielcruse.substack.com/p/the-things...

🎬 Isle of Dogs (2018) 📽️ Character Positive: The gimmick with the language confusion is not without problems, but it's an intriguing way to approach the storytelling. Structure Negative: Obviously, the worst issue is that cats didn't succeed in their rightful banishment of all dogs. boxd.it/aar9Zr

I wrote an Intro to Puzzle Design article🧩 This covers the usual points I discuss with people who are working on their first puzzle game. Given how some concepts can be quite abstract, I think a written piece allows everyone to digest it at their own pace. www.ludipe.com/2025/08/18/i...

I'm surprised by how many people seek out places to vent but explicitly despise any attempt to interact with them during the venting. It's like they want people to pay attention to them but that it. They don't want validation, or empathy, or advice. They just want to scream while you sit there.

Whew, back from a three week vacation (to Sweden!) It's amusing what movies are showing on planes these days. And shout out to my aunt who thought it would be hilarious to show me Triangle of Sadness... (she was right!) 🛸 + 🦔 + 🤮 + 🐾 + 💥 + ❄️

📽️ The Crow (1994) 🎬 Structure Positive: As far as supernatural revenge flicks go, can't go wrong with The Crow's structure. Character Positive: The various henchmen are fantastic. Structure Negative: 90s era flashbacks still aren't cool. Sorry. boxd.it/9ONSpz

📽️ The Wild Robot (2024) 🎬 Character Positive: Nyong’o is apparently a hell of a voice actor. She brought an incredible emotional range to Roz. Structure Negative: The core emotional arc ended. Then Act 3 started. They made the best out of it but still a strange bump. boxd.it/9NLxlD

Four favorites from different languages! I also excluded English, French and Japanese to make it more interesting. About Endlessness (Swedish) The Wolf House (Spanish) Kill It and Leave This Town (Polish) Gett (Hebrew)

📽️ Wizards (1977) 🎬 Character Positive: Blackwolf looks friggin' awesome. Character Negative: I don't know if it was deliberate, but Avatar and Blackwolf fit into stereotypical animation caricatures of good and evil. It's disappointing that it implies character from one's looks. boxd.it/9Nkpfj

📽️ Ultraman: Rising (2024) 🎬 Character Positive: They really sold the exhaustion and frustration of having to reassess your formally well compartmentalized life once a new responsibility shows up -- especially one that was unexpected. boxd.it/9NcCE1

📽️ The African Queen (1951) 🎬 Structure Negative: Nothing about the plot is believable. Act 1 is straight cringe. Act 2 is repetitive and annoying. Act 3 is absurd and broken. Character Negative: Mostly, this is two people grumping at each other on a slowly drifting boat. Very dull. boxd.it/9Ltvb3

📽️ Baby Assassins 2 (2023) 🎬 Character Positive: Chisato and Mahiro are hilarious and the chemistry between them is unique. Structure Negative: The pacing and tone is all over the place. The fights are great but they don't really belong in this movie. boxd.it/9KnFZV

📽️ Man Up (2015) 🎬 Structure Positive: Follows standard meet-cute rom-com beats but feels fresh due each turn works with the characters. Character Negative: Sean is pure cringe. No hate toward Rory Kinnear who did fine job of it. But it's easily the worst part of this movie. boxd.it/9IrbNv

📽️ Winter Sleep (2014) 🎬 Structure Positive: The opening sequence is incredibly efficient at setting up the characters, the setting and the conflict. Masterclass. Character Negative: Much of the conflict remains (deliberately?) unresolved by the ending. That always frustrates me. boxd.it/9Hplm7