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Way to go, Willow!

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Pineapple, Sauerkraut and Tomato

The Left Page: Let's Prattle #1 - AI in Video Games A new kind of episode! Lighter and more current, as we talk about what we've been playing, some things we've been thinking about, and the new Left Page Book Club! Time stamps 00:00:00 - 00:40:40 Intro...

New thing! Various smaller ideas, what we’re playing/reading/watching, and the start of The Left Page Book Club!

Let’s Prattle!

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Once again I am playing the role of
kitty bed 😼

“Damn the broccoli, damn you and damn the Wright Brothers!”

I was very captivated by the idea of this game, because while a lot of "what if children's thing, BUT EDGY!" felt cynical and low effort cash grab (you know the kind I mean), Mouse is the rare example that sincerely feels like it really commits to the bit, tying the artstyle into the setting.

Bojack Horseman

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Here I go, watching another one of Ant’s videos making me aware of yet another reactionary YouTube dweeb 😁😬😁

Good morning! I’m continuing with Ken Liu’s excellent series😁

Terriers

Immortality

📚 Upcoming book - a graphic novel prologue to Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Final Architecture series.

– reader questions about the series below 😊

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Rewatched some good stuff this week😁

#LastFourWatched

Made this public for the gamers ⬇️

The Left Page: What Escapism Has Sown We deploy Critical Harvest Theory in this episode, when we ask: What happens when we don't look critically at escapist fantasies? We then try to answer this question by looking at two video games: Sta...

New Episode!

What Escapism has Sown

What happens when we don't look critically at escapist fantasies?

To answer, we paired games that go for a “daily life”, but couldn’t be more different, Stardew Valley (2016) & Citizen Sleeper (2022, 2025)

Enjoy!

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Tom Waits and Massive Attack announce collaboration The two artists (seldom releasing new material) have revealed themselves a pairing, with “Boots On the Ground" arriving April 16th.

I’m sorry WHAT

Silhouette of Batman from Batman: The Animated Series

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

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Voltron

The Great Silence (1968)

First trailer for ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’

In theaters November 6

If you don’t know this series it’s some of the best (and weirdest) big picture SF around.

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Honestly Arnold’s best film as well❤️

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

With all the high-concept ideas in his Revelation Space world Alastair Reynolds still had time to think up a solution to the booger-wall 👍

i can smell this picture

As you age, you realize that many many people prefer to be lied to than told the truth and that this applies across cultures.

“As socialists we specialize in ruining (everyone’s) fun”

-China Mieville

I was so much happier before I knew who any of these people were….😔