It took me months, about 495 rides, recovering from a shattered right foot and hacking a folding scooter, but I finally own a Nintendo Switch 2 using points obtained from Citi Bike. Afterwards, it left me questioning the very nature of work. For @aftermath.site. aftermath.site/switch-2-cit...

"But I do think culturally we are back to brunch." This month in Dialogue, @austinwalker.bsky.social goes long on craft, industry, and doing the work.

Do you think Bad Bunny will announce Pikmin 5 during the Super Bowl Halftime Show later today?

Seeded within this incredibly bleak piece is the nefarious implication that romance novels are not books, but content. An indictment of the entire genre, really. The fact that this author is just overwhelmingly pleased with plagiarism content is another topic entirely.

In 1929, Rouben Mamoulian, man of the theatre, made the great theatre-centric Applause, with an effort at a distinctively cinematic aesthetic—and was recognized for it in @newyorker.com at the time; at 1pm at Film Forum in 35mm.: www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab... www.newyorker.com/magazine/192...

“Nicholas Ray's JOHNNY GUITAR is so rigorously, comprehensively excessive, its excesses eclipse any baseline against which excess is typically judged.”

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

it must be annoying to be a 90 year old Republican congressman and have to pretend like you know what's going on anymore. you got into politics to pass laws giving out tax breaks for every horse you own but your groyper staffers are like "you need to condemn a new YA novel about bottom surgery"

Folks can watch The Man Who Stole the Sun, with English subtitles, here: ok.ru/video/171135... 📽️ RIP Kazuhiko Hasegawa.

Very sad news about the passing of Kazuhiko Hasegawa, especially as he never got to make another Film after his masterpiece The Man who Stole the Sun. cinemadailyus.com/news/the-you...

they shot tear gas at people protesting the ICE facility where they're keeping a 5-year-old outside San Antonio news4sanantonio.com/news/local/p...

It's annoying how audience members treat musical theatre like opera instead of a fun vaudeville show

José R. Ralat, the Taco Editor of @texasmonthly.bsky.social, details being stopped 3x in one day: by a county cop, by ICE, and by DPS. "We were shaken, and angry at and afraid of what seemed like a coordinated effort between federal and state officials." www.texasmonthly.com/food/taco-ed...

Gamers should play the occasional awful game. It keeps your gamer opinions in check on what actual bad games are like

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

The idea that the British Raj respected the rule of law is legitimately one of the funniest things I've ever read in my entire life

“It is not as if the world has not long been one in which vast numbers live in dystopian depredation. The horizon is more visible now to many who had thought themselves insulated, if they thought about it at all. And dystopia for some is utopia for others. We live in a utopia: it just isn’t ours.”

something i've been thinking about with all the ICE activity in the Twin Cities is how Texas cities, where tons of immigrants live, have been spared from the shock and awe campaigns. i think part of it is that we already live under an insane immigration regime

I did some cultural criticism and wrote about Connor Storrie and Club Chalamet. It feels like because of social media and online stan culture, people get way too famous, way too fast. Waiting to devour them are creators like Club Chalamet, who buy in like stocks: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

I think this place is up for sale if anyone wants it. It's the size of a small town. Foma 400 Nikon n80 #filmphotography

this is genuinely incredible

this piece brought to you by imagining a guy reading a book full of disparate characters and stories and being mad when they don't come together like Avengers Endgame style

been thinking about this post all fuckin day

The developers of PEAK explain pricing

Submissions are OPEN for issue no. 8, Reverse Evaluation, from MIDLVLMAG. Send us your on-theme poetry, fiction, and CNF. The submission window is open January 4th thru March 7th. The reading/acceptance period is January 5th thru April 30th. Paying $25 USD per accepted piece.

there's a resetera thread about death of the author and everyone is just agreeing with each other that creators always know their work best and it's impossible to disagree with anything they say. what happened to everybody

My story graph info for stuff I was able to complete, with the books actually read quoted below. Lots of dnf or half-reads because I'm trying to not feel guilty about not finishing books lol

Word from a while back on Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise and its classical modernity (tonight at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social at 6): www.newyorker.com/culture/rich...

this isn’t even a political statement btw it’s a craft one. A plotless novel is fine. A choiceless one is bad.

After years of wrestling with video game pr, I've been requesting some advance copies of books and it's laughably simple. No embargo dates, no details on what plot you can't discuss, no interrogations about your coverage plans. Just "hey can I have this book?" "Yeah!"

So much effort goes into finding elaborate subtexts for films of anonymous realism that, when a film of great style comes along, its style dominates discussion and its substance, being overlooked, is declared nonexistent.

Does the new Bi Gan movie have a plot, I get that it's orgasmic/transcendent/magniforious but does it actually have a plot????

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

UNLOCKED: The best thing I've written all year. On Horses, Salò, and Pasolini's "indigestible art."

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

Ha ha

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Visited home for Thanksgiving and my DS Lite still works, Might buy some GBA or DS games when I get back if I can get them cheap

There should be more games inspired by avant-garde stage design.

finished Joyce's Dubliners for the first time, got halfway through The Dead before giving up after slogging my way through the book (don't worry I read the final passages), Best way I can describe my dislike is that his work is Ibsen (fine on stage but a slog to get through in a 200 page book)

Hey photography folks drop 4 fav still photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher (they count as 1 ok) Felix Thiollier Fan Ho Olga Karlovac

Kingdoms of the Dump is one of the year's most charming RPGs, an Earthbound-inspired game set in a world made of trash, where you fight in landfills and heal with moldy sandwiches. Which is fitting — it was made by two janitors. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Parallax View's 4-minute montage sequence is magnetic and invasive, I haven't stopped thinking about it since watching the movie three weeks ago, I think it works more with a Jungian mindset than the Freudian one Paluka seemed to suggest in the commentary

It's incredible that the new Running Man movie spells out literally 3 better endings than the one that's shown

"Is it smart for the democrats to keep pushing the Epstein issue as we go into the midterms??? Should the party downplay the international child trafficking ring reaching to the top of government? How well is not feeding kids to rich pedos polling in Iowa this week? Can we triangulate this somehow

ITS REAL

“Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s making of “Breathless,” “both shows the fashioning of the New Wave as a modern myth and confirms the enduring power of that myth,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/BdzrsR

A section of dialogue choices between the player (blue) and Outer Worlds 2 character Ethel Tinsley (red). The full tree of choices for the conversation is shown on the right. The dialogue is written in OEI Tools, a tool made by and for Obsidian Entertainment