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Also there's finally someone on staff to tackle all the metroidbrania games I'm too dumb for!
I command you! Kill me!
it’s really sad and confusing to watch the fandom attempt to make The Pitt into something more complicated than what it is and what it, in fact, needs to be: a simple way for Noah Wyle to deliver to me secret messages containing the instructions for my missions
“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.
![“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:guthikarwozoldkzhueivkl6/bafkreihklvhtymho7wpemo5mj2f7xaiq6ulvfvcwnzo6hjstg3wixzgesy)
“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”
Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”
this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...
Welcome to my Hell!
logging on
The fact that "being taxed on a wealth that would take most people dozens of generations to gather" is "the scariest thing she's ever seen" means the world isn't scaring millionaires and billionaires nearly enough yet.
The first three slides.
Hope to see folks in Brooklyn on 4/23!
the crawling sensation of being Too Directly Targeted
episode 047
I have been warned about you.
SUSPIRIA (1977)
episode 059
do we have to do EVERYTHING ourselves??
modern zen
obviously i'm going to keep using tubi but like, the money they invested in this app could have been used to license more depraved 1980s sex movies for me to enjoy so it does impact me quite a bit
famous music video with first mate schee in the corner
That’s Smee in the corner
MELANIA: You want me. Out of nowheres. To remind every one. Of my best friend, and child sex monster. Jeffrey Epstein?? (squints evilly)
NATHAN FIELDER: (voice over) The First Lady loved my idea.
Tubi is the kind of platform where you finish a trashy Italian horror movie and then you let the next trashy Italian horror movie auto play immediately after, this is not rocket science
coffy on tubi
starting my morning opening up LinkedIn so i can let the shareholders know i survived the night and can still generate value. i slept 5 hours so i made sure to tag 12 people in my post to share what i learned about unconventional markets (the world of dreams). i change my job title to PR laureate
Frog ran out of his house. He saw a snail that he knew.
“Snail,” said Frog, “please take this letter to Toad’s house and put it in his mailbox.”
“Sure,” said the snail. “Right away.”
I watched the Mario movie last night. No, not that one. I mean the hour-long YouTube video about how speedrunners just discovered how to pull off arbitrary code execution in Super Mario Bros. Legitimately incredible feat. www.polygon.com/super-mario-...
not to hop on my "michael boss babies the world through the protestant reformation" tricycle again but it's almost as if there's an institution, or set of institutions, forcing us to yield up the intangible capillaries of everyday belief and action to a totalizing affective-behavioral regime!!!
this is in fact the design of the thing: it's all about being able to make choices for which the subject is not ultimately responsible (and also to the same point: why it both reproduces and induces business owner-style brainrot) www.forbes.com/sites/leslie...
When my curiosity about the Creami got the better of me, my beautiful and correct girlfriend said, “if you get this thing you have to sell the other one,” and so with a heavy heart I sold my baby to a chef who lives down the street for exactly what I bought it for. I can see it behind the counter of his restaurant whenever I walk by.
and that's new york city, baby
"Before I had the Creami I owned the Ferrari of consumer ice cream machines: the Lello 4080 Musso Lussino."
This got an "OF COURSE HE DID" out of me aftermath.site/ninja-creami...
i'm sorry but the moon is a complete boondoggle that should never have been put up there in the first place. we still have to send repair missions up there a hundred-plus years later all because taft was trailing in the polls and decided to learn magick. i don't know why he thought it would help him
episode 005
