[PERSONAL BEST] This is a very smart and super-subtle movie, in which the authenticity of the details draws us in (as it does in Melville); Towne cares enough to get them right, and he cares about the physical world in a reverent, fanatic way. (1982)

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there are like 300 videos exactly like this on youtube for a game that debuted with about 80% on review aggregators. What are these freaks smoking? Why are they so weirdly obsessed with the strangely powerful cabal of "game journalists"?

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

review: game good, i like it comment: then explain these player numbers??? We have to take SteamDB away from people who don't know what having taste is.

Today officially marks Walter Chaw's (@mangiotto.bsky.social) 25th anniversary at Film Freak Central. I'm shocked we're both still doing this, but I couldn't ask for a better partner for whatever "this" is. Here's a brief 'best of Walter' thread; would love to know what some of your favourites are.

If you're gonna share brain-breaking news like this, WIRED, at least do so in language that doesn't break my brain even further. "From female fruit being fart-shamed or even sexually assaulted" to what? Or swap it for something like "With imagery of.../stories about..."/anything that actually works.

My god there are other g.d. books on this planet.

The new Harry Potter series looks polished, earnest, and overwhelmingly unneeded. I wish the children in it an easy and early escape and every adult involved a reckoning with the choice they made.

movie about all the world's nations working together to stave off an environmental apocalypse succeeds by completely avoiding politics

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Reminder that Epic's last mass layoff was to ensure the business was sustainable, so no further layoffs would be necessary. www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/n...

Raul Rivera yelling outside Mamdani presser. Mamdani: “I want that man to be able to afford to keep living in NYC, because the day that I don't hear him yelling at me, it means he got priced out of this place.” “We need to make this a city where it's affordable enough to yell at your politicians.”

Sometimes I think I could never be friends with somebody who didn’t like a movie I loved. Then I think, what the hell, it’s only a movie. Still, it’s hard for me to like somebody who hates MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER or THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... (1998)

There's a lot going on but a constitutional amendment to reinstate Missouri's abortion ban this fall is polling at 47-40 because Republicans cynically slapped on a gender-affirming care ban. me in @autonomynews.co

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I gotta put this in the perspective of like, "hey at least he isn't running for office or starting a social media website". He has money and people to make a thing he loves, and if I had his money, you'd all be seeing news on Final Fantasy Tactics 2: Isekai in the Three Kingdoms

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

I fucking hate seeing these losers in my city.

this goes for so much of the right wing ecosystem. the same guys who scream “DEI hire” would sink to the ocean if they weren’t kept afloat by their far right sugar daddies

My favorite games of 2026 so far: 1. Perfect Tides: Station to Station (sorry, nothing else I've played this year comes close yet!)

I don’t think this is the flex he thinks it is when other companies don’t have any slots left for hiring after he’s fired a thousand people trying to chase Steam. They were your best developers and you still fired them. In this economy.

When your president is the cornfield boy from that episode of The Twilight Zone

He inspired one of the great meme accounts.

People keep comparing this to a lot of 1. dead creators who can't harm anyone anymore 2. leaving out the fact that she is a billionaire who is currently harming trans people, directly, by funding orgs & initiatives. Separating art from artist is not more important than actual lives.

I've basically made revenge bedtime procrastination a way of life (and it's slowly destroying me). www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-hygien...

if you “There’s No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism” the new HP thing I’m throwing rocks at you until you stop talking

Just so many things to enjoy about the (actual Linda McMahon) tweet. The weird quotes around “PlayStation Portable,” the fact that the AI image doesn’t even have a fucking PSP in it, the idea of the PSP being when “gaming [went] portable,” the grand cosmic mystery of why she’s posting this at all.

Marathon is the textbook example of a first-party franchise you nurture until it blossoms. If Sony's not willing to do that then what's the point?

Ghorayshi is running the same playbook that NYT’s health reporter Jane Brody ran in the 1970s. Brody’s deference to that generation’s anti-trans “experts” also led to clinic closures and to our healthcare being deemed “experimental.” Generational harm ensued. www.transgendermap.com/issues/topic...

lmaoooooooooooooooo

Still need to read this book (have a copy, just haven't gotten to it yet) but I really value Schulman's writing and thinking on these topics.

I...may have bought every game available in this thing.

I get real mad about this one. My parents are working class, this writing thing is not something we do or have ever done. I clawed my way into this space the way they had to claw their way into everything. Do not take me for a bootstrapper but do mark me as saying pride in the work is what matters

this shit is so expired pay someone else thousands of dollars to write something else please god

putting as much thought into a generation-defining war in the middle east as i do into using bowser in mario kart

*taps the "profit losses are the fault of executive leadership, who are conveniently never affected by profit loss" sign*

i know this makes me sound like an insufferable snob but i rarely find myself in mainstream chain theaters anymore (i'm lucky to live in nyc!) so when i go to, say, a regal to see project hail mary and have to sit through 17 pre-movie trailers including this one i take massive psychic damage.

What will do Newsom in is that he kinda just agrees with whomever he's talking to in the moment, which means he'll eventually take positions that are anathema to every single voter individually.

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

As someone who sat through way too many soul-crushing meetings with Jim Spanfeller, this is just...so satisfying to read

So basically Epic purchased Aquiris, which was iirc the biggest Brazilian game studio at the time, just to let it and its history be vanished from existence, cool

yep

Poor Epic. Fortnite only brought in $6 billion in revenue last year. Hard times.

Tim Sweeney’s net worth is 9.6 billion

"The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we’re spending significantly more than we’re making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded." Sorry y'all, this is my fault and the fault of every other lapsed Fortnite player who has stopped buying battle passes.

These guys should be walking across campus to Mr. Benson's 11th-grade history class.

kids today will never know what it is to get a sequel to a game they loved that boasts a "larger view window" and "improved creature graphics."

Even a very good newish book I read recently clearly hadn’t been properly copy edited. I worry that publishers have decided that that part just isn’t worth investing in anymore, that readers won’t notice or won’t care.