Rewatching No Country For Old Men and sort of reminded of how similar the outcome is with the Coen bros other crime thriller Fargo. In Fargo the lead happens upon the crime scene almost by accident, and in NCFOM Tommy Lee Jones ultimately solves nothing. Great movies with unusual endings.

Youtube really does take the piss doesn’t it? Watch two full length commercials prior to watching 30 seconds of my desired video before it cuts to ANOTHER commercial. I’m old enough to remember when TV made you watch a couple minutes of CMs in order to watch 10 minutes of TV. Utter BS.

WaPo can’t even bear to spell out ‘Operation Super Bigly Fury’ or whatever stupidity this operation is called.

Sad news for Bruce Campbell. The upside is it’s treatable. Hope he bounces back. He’s one of the good ones.

Say what now? #RERequiem

Amano literally painting *that EGM FFX cover back in 2001. Photography: me.

#SplitEnz were so nice nice I had to see them twice twice. Going to be legendary.

Two days after I saw them at Electric Avenue, I saw #Leftfield (on a Monday night) in Wellington, and they absolutely crushed it at Shed 6.

Hey retro kids: We don’t need these headphones to make a comeback. Full stop.

Picked up this custom Tower Records km5 CD player two days before the limited drop ended. CDs rule, man.

Omg. cottonbureau.com/p/ES32CP/shi...

I don’t mind replaying everything over for the 20th time. Diablo II Resurrected is a classic after all. What I do mind, Infernal Edition, is this basic ass game crashing and taking two hours of progress in offline with it. I mind that very much.

Love that transparencies in Diablo II Resurrected are now so effective that I don’t know where walls are anymore and just get stuck on everything while trying to avoid bosses or navigate my way past convoluted architecture and level design.

I wasted all this time playing a Warlock in Diablo II Resurrected only to discover that it’s an ‘online’ character and if I want to play offline I have to create an offline-specific character? I’m old enough to remember when it was the same thing. That’s time wasted.

How’s Operation Distract From The Epstein Files going?

Dom Dolla closed out Electric Avenue, and while most people kept their dancing compact and civil, there’s always gotta be some ****s doing capoeira that just don’t know how to keep their elbows to themselves. I swear this ***** was on MDMA or something because *** was all elbows AND grinding on me.

hey fellas, THIS IS NOT A GOOD LOOK. Douchemullets and wannabe pornstaches are OUT. They never came back IN. You look BAD.

Ladies: Free festival ProTip — Don’t wear heels to a festival, especially one with a grass/dirt floor. I mean… ?

Ladies: Free festival ProTip — Don’t wear heels to a festival, especially one with a grass/dirt floor. I mean… ?

Why are mullets so popular again? It’s like every dude at this festival is in a rush to look like every other mulleted dude. Shop off a different rack, fellas.

I asked and Leftfield delivered. Got my shirt ahead of tonight’s show at #electricavenue and the their show in Wellington at Shed 6. #Leftfield twice in one week? I have never had it so good.

REVIEW: Electric Avenue promised a party bigger and better than Australasia had ever seen before, and boy, did it deliver.

Review: Split Enz makes history at Christchurch’s Electric Avenue

Totally vibes-enhancing glasses. It’s easy to see when I put them on but watch for the moment I take them off. #SplitEnz #ElectricAvenue

Before and after #Ravewear glasses. Will post a video next.

The world’s sickest spoon solo courtesy of the legendary Split Enz, during their 1,000th show (they were stuck on 999 forever) for their 50th anniversary. Amazing band to see live, actually. Neil Finn (Crowded House) and older bro Tim Finn were in great form. Neil shreds on guitar too.

I can’t wait til the Logan Paul/Jake Paul douche-mullet dies the horrible death it deserves. So many young dudes at this festival rocking it not realizing how bad they look.

I got glasses that make everything trippy. It changes this into this. In lieu of medicinal enhancements, this’ll have to do. #ElectricAvenue

Eternia is in peril! ⚔️🏰 Skeletor has uncovered the Dragon Pearl of Destruction, and only you can stop him. Take control of He-Man, Teela, and more in this high-octane magic brawler! Available digitally on PC and Consoles on MOTU Day, April 28! Wishlist now! bit.ly/4tUlSPx

Marvel Super Heroes, assemble! Presenting, MARVEL MaXimum Collection! Featuring 13 illustrious games, preserved across all their console and handheld counterparts. Including X-Men: The Arcade Game, Maximum Carnage, and more! Take to the streets, and welcome to MARVEL MaXimum Collection!

Hands down the best cold cure. Have sneezed approximately 15,000 times over the past few days so it was time to take the nuclear option.

The links are starting to pile up so I made a Beacons thing to organize everything. Preorder my #NobuoUematsu biography ‘Nobuo Uematsu: On The Record’ here, or read up on my latest articles, features and stories. ✍️ beacons.ai/jamesmielke

Thanks @wario64.bsky.social!

Amazing how an entire Kotaku article spawned out of a Bluesky (or was it X?) conversation. Kudos for mentioning my upcoming Uematsu biography though! @danshoehsu.bsky.social kotaku.com/final-fantas...

Thanks to my local pal we were able to determine what befell my gaming rig, and it turned out to be RAM gone bad, which is like Girls Gone Bad, but way lamer. Perfect timing too, since memory prices are spiking due to stupid AI. Could have been worse tho. At least it's not my 3D card.

I hope Sony doesn't lay off the entire Bungie staff 23 minutes after Marathon ships. That seems to be how things go these days.

Watching videos of New York’s snowfall with severe envy, and saw the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.

Got the best toy. Tokyo enjoyers will appreciate this.

The Rick Astley of our times? Budapest by George Ezra www.shazam.com/track/968741...

Nice write-up about Nobuo Uematsu: On The Record. I’m in no rush to watch my life go whizzing by any faster than it needs to, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want September to get here in a hurry so you all can read this thing.

Narita Airport or the 4th Ring of Hell? You decide.

Well this is fun. #Tokyo

Tokyo’s Airport Limousine bus ticketing site is some kind of next-level nonsense. Couldn’t set a password for my life, the whole ‘half-width’ requirement always borks everything, it accepts AMEX but didn’t accept my AMEX, the confirmation code went to email and not text. Japan is so bad at websites.

Big news. I wrote a biography on Nobuo Uematsu and it drops this Fall, published by @viz.com. It is jam-packed with amazing revelations about the Final Fantasy composer that the public has never heard about, as shared by himself and those closest to him. This is the definitive chronicle on Uematsu.

CD player. #TowerRecords

Is there an official term for old guys acting like hot shit around a 9 year-old and camping on the Initial D machine and —despite people standing there waiting to get a turn— just keeps pumping ¥100 coins in the machine, like he fucking lives there?

Who should narrate a ‘Nobuo Uematsu: On The Record’ audiobook? To be clear, there isn’t an audiobook planned, but I’m just taking an informal poll as to who you’d love to hear read his biography out loud. Wrong answers only.

They finally made #Metroid merch, and they went hard.

Here is a handful of pics of Nobuo Uematsu from the actual dinner where we were vibing so hard that we decided to work on a biography together. A few days later I had a deal with @viz.com to publish it and the rest is history. I hope you enjoy this intimate deep dive into his life.

Official statement from @viz.com. "Announcement: The legendary Final Fantasy composer goes on the record in this intimate biography! Featuring a foreword by Hironobu Sakaguchi and written by James Mielke, Nobuo Uematsu: On the Record releases Fall 2026."