lot of real bad news this week

me, after finishing MGS Delta: “i’m done with all this remake shit, just play the original, this is the end of the world, man.”

me, after watching the Assassin’s Creed 4 remake: “…shit.”

social media was a wonderful brain toilet for every random half thought you didn't want to bother real people with before they decided to move all of society and infrastructure and government inside of the toilet

feels like an especially irresponsible moment to ignore BDS when Game Pass is the easiest, level one way to participate in the boycott and BDS just called for renewed pressure after Israel passed a law on executing Palestinian and Arab in prisons that use Microsoft cloud services

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

imagine living in a country that cared about something important

i see the vibecoding proudly power this website is working out well

soooooo is the website dead? my timeline hasn't loaded in like 2 hours

the twist is going to be that this is a CLOSE ENCOUNTERS sequel, right?

if he doesn't make it, can i say the kind of jokes i wanted to say the last time a dangerous rightwing influencer bit the dust? or will this be another fascist martyr situation?

(the irony is that’s where i first heard of Cameron Winter. call’s coming from inside the house, guys)

the smug vindication of r/indieheads subreddit over the revelation that Geese had a PR team should be studied for future generations to understand why just kinda let a bunch of bad things happen

a Black Cat game would actually rip. a Black Cat movie would also rip. basically one of the most under realized Marvel characters because most of her characterization and story lines in the comics are "Spider-Man's hot girlfriend. no the other one." not much to adapt so you have to, like, create.

if it weren’t for the new Godzilla movie coming out, this would be my most anticipated movie if the year

“Okay, so”: filler words before making a statement
“Oh, queso”: waxing over the virtues of cheese sauce

KNOW THE DIFFERENCE

I Can't Fucking Stand Science

he should’ve gone to jail that

“somehow, palpatine return” i hate jj abrams so much, dude

BLOODLINES was fantastic, but 1) no way an MGS movie is good, 2) no Kojima, no sale, 3) on top of being a Zionist, Avi Arad has probably the worst filmography in the industry. he's been riding the Raimi Spider-Man trilogy (that he torpedoed himself) coattails for decades.

it's very funny how the entire industry tried to get out ahead of whatever the "next big trend" was going to be in the most inorganic, manufactured and expensive way possible and while trying and failing to get those games out the door, friendslop happened.

how in the Year of Our Lord 2026 are people out here saying the MCU movies have "subtext?"

the Avengers Initiative is literally a government program.

also, crucially: there's a actual financial partnership between Disney and the US military. they literally get to edit the scripts. whatever criticism you think or perceive is in the work is something you are bringing to it.

the US has never been depicted as the bad guy in an MCU movie. even in WINTER SOLDIER, the whole twist is Hydra infiltrated the gov. CIVIL WAR is so incomprehensible that you can’t label anyone as “the bad guy,” but not in a cool 70’s counter culture way, it’s just a disaster of a film.

Kingdom Hearts 4 really is the actualization of Final Fantasy Versus XIII, which is to say: it is a not a real video game that will ever come out.

This is the line of division / Terminus Est

Severian and Thecla from The Book of the New Sun

TRUMP: I WANT TO MAKE TRANSGENDER ILLEGAL SO KIDS ARE EASIER TO MOLEST! I WANT TO KILL EVERY ARAB. MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR WOMEN TO READ! BRING BACK SLAVERY! LETS HELP BILLY GRAHAM TURN THE EARTH INTO A NUCLEAR CINDER!

NEWS MAGAZINE: omg college students are like, so annoying

okay, NOW we're talking

2 counterpoints then i'll stop talking about Mara Jade:

1) this is why they *should* bring her back. they'd have to shake up her story. blank canvas *and* name recognition. win win. nerds will be angry but they'll still buy the toys. new people will just have fun.

2) they should recast Luke.

it's also pretty obvious that that redheaded hottie in the Kylo Ren comic is basically Jade, which is much more boring, but fine. kill two birds with one stone by finally making a Knights of Ren movie with Mara Jade as the leader.

sure, but Mara Jade shouldn't be one of those things. just money on the table. besides, the easy fix here is to just transplant the whole story forward and replace Luke with Rey. people have been asking "how do you fix Star Wars post TROS?" and the answer is: toxic yuri.