Look how cool! A person I'm acquainted with on Instagram does photography with antique equipment and he did a portrait of his cat using a camera made in 1926. www.instagram.com/glass_negati...
Philby Bear
@philbybear.bsky.social
A game master, voracious bookworm and cinephile, a tired socialist and a manic depressive chocolate salesperson from Montreal. They/them. 34.
Dear God, we need a greener future, yesterday.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 1h agoItaly to place all 27 of its major cities on highest heat alert
At this point hell must be 50% advocates by volume
You know, as I get older, one thing I do have to make peace with: Sometimes, your disability will get in the way of your fun, and sometimes game design–even in the best circumstances–can't really accommodate for it. It's a bummer, but it happens.
Philby Bear@philbybear.bsky.social · 3h agoAnd the map will not differentiate or inform you of your distance relative to any of them. It's a pain in the ass.
Last night I went to see Speed Racer on IMAX with my kid. A word of advice: Should the opportunity ever present itself again, *see Speed Racer on IMAX with your kid.* I will treasure them visibly loving something I love that much forever.
... one other mechanic I'm not quite vibing with, and that's the map. The map shifts position relative to your current perspective (i.e. if you're upside down, sideways, etc). It's, uh, hell on ADHD and astigmatism, gang.
Philby Bear@philbybear.bsky.social · 3h agoThe traversal's pretty fun. Once you get the hang of it, you can zip across stages with high velocity freedom. ... Not a fan of your only attack mechanic, though. A painfully slow, short range, wind-up energy DBZ hand blast.
... hmm... Last night, I started a new indie game, "Dandara," a Metroidvania that... sort of plays like a 2D Gravity Rush? Its big mechanical hook, you see, is that you can't run or jump. Rather, you fling yourself bodily at any surface that'll support you, like Spider-Man.
BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.
extremely hilarious connection i just made: the song that plays in Schrader's Mishima: A Life in 4 Chapters as Yukio Mishima disembowels himself is the exact same song used for the end of The Truman Show. it could not be used in any more different a context in both films
Not to toot my own horn but I wrote about a lot of zombie media that goes against the popular take that the genre is inherently right wing www.patreon.com/posts/158711...
Deconstructing the Dead: An essay about Zombies | Dorian Dawes
For a lot of millennials who experienced the cultural drought that was the aughts, the concept of the zombie feels like something that belon
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Philby Bear@philbybear.bsky.social · 4h agoI have been shown maybe one of the most ignorant takes on the zombie genre I've ever seen and I'm... I'm not mad. I'm disappointed. Some people, I swear, their knowledge of zombie fiction begins and ends at The Walking Dead.
Sidebar, we need to have a serious conversation about how the Bush Administration years tainted the zombie genre if we keep having takes like this pop up, from casual horror fans to outright non-horror people, every few months.
Philby Bear@philbybear.bsky.social · 4h agoI have been shown maybe one of the most ignorant takes on the zombie genre I've ever seen and I'm... I'm not mad. I'm disappointed. Some people, I swear, their knowledge of zombie fiction begins and ends at The Walking Dead.
I have been shown maybe one of the most ignorant takes on the zombie genre I've ever seen and I'm... I'm not mad. I'm disappointed. Some people, I swear, their knowledge of zombie fiction begins and ends at The Walking Dead.
Ooh, alright, let's go- 90: Jacob's Ladder 91: The animated horror short film "Sandman." 92: Ghostwatch. 93: Cronos. 94: Wes Craven's New Nightmare. 95: Lord of Illusions. 96: Scream. 97: Perfect Blue. 98: Ringu. 99: Ravenous.
Justin McElroy@thoughtographic.bsky.social · 16h agoFavourite horror movie for every year of the 1990s: 1990: The Reflecting Skin 1991: The People Under the Stairs 1992: Candyman 1993: Bloodstone: Subspecies II 1994: In the Mouth of Madness 1995: The Day of the Beast 1996: The Frighteners 1997: Cure 1998: The Faculty 1999: Ravenous
Also, pet tax because Katie is adorable (as is Edgar), and I love her post-radiation white snoot
Kara Jorgensen@authorkaraj.bsky.social · yesterdayIt's been a bit since I posted Katie's GoFundMe, but I finally scheduled her 6 month post op follow-up, which involves at least a check up and x-rays (not sure about bloodwork), but last time, the visit was close to $1000 with all three. Shares are always appreciated 💜🐾
"I need to save, I need to save for Bowie's neutering later this month-" Local bookstore: "Hey, we're selling a whole slate of books at 90% off! You could get a dozen books for $48!" Me: "..."
this is the problem with a moral critique of art. it does not understand art as something which sates desire. just because something agrees with you doesn't make it good.
Philby Bear@philbybear.bsky.social · 7h ago… but does that necessarily make them, uh, watchable? Does a socialist interpretation make Attack of the Clones any less of a slog, the ”MARTHAAAAAA!” exchange any less dumb?
And I say this knowing, in my own circle of friends, by virtue of being the most extraverted person, that tends to be *me.* You always need to be aware of the dynamics in any social group and they can be easily abused under the right conditions:
Philby Bear@philbybear.bsky.social · 6h agoEven your own friend group! If you unconsciously allow the most charismatic person in that group to take charge, you might be more vulnerable to cult bullshit than you think!
… now, additional caveat: while I do sympathize with the impulse to find something of value in art that‘s overwhelmingly despised… … it’s much stranger to run defence for multimillion dollar franchise entries than, say, if you were championing true schlock.
Philby Bear@philbybear.bsky.social · 7h ago… but does that necessarily make them, uh, watchable? Does a socialist interpretation make Attack of the Clones any less of a slog, the ”MARTHAAAAAA!” exchange any less dumb?
or maybe even low budget genre cinema, I don't know. I don't see the point in looking at a movie made to sell action figures (which Attack of the Clones 100% is) and saying, "Well, when I make THIS action figure quote The Conquest of Bread..."
An excellent point! Bit of a losing proposition to approach any Hollywood film from a socialist lens from the jump.
Screw Tape Letters@muleskinnerpress.net · 7h agoI don't even know if I should get started on the uselessness of reading any of this dogshit through an "anarcho-socialist lens" especially when white anglo nerds are terrified of world cinema, which actually happens to have real anarcho-socialist films made if you look
Heh, found this old thread from two years ago. I can’t think of a more innocuous illustration of the plasticity of intelligence and the arbitrariness of our blindspots.
Philby Bear@philbybear.bsky.social · 2y agoI wil grant, I *can* kinda see why. There's a funny bit in his Bloodborne video where he complains Zelda and Devil May Cry aren't as exciting or strategic because they aren't as punishing as a Soulsborne. And I'm sitting here thinking...
"cannibalism as a metaphor for love" what if im just really hungry. then what
The youth claim to hate capitalism yet they purchase goods and services in order to survive ahaha and I am very Fortune Magazine
More people need to see Orca. Full stop. The only film with a prosthetic whale abortion!
Laird Barron@lairdbarron.bsky.social · 8h agoJust to say, I'm Team: Moby Dick Orca The Gray White Buffalo Bambi
I am banning SFF writers from writing panic attack scenes. None of you write them well and all of you are writing them the same way. Stop it. I am sick to death of seeing the same scene over and over again in so much literature.
It is worth noting that the writer of that HWA newsletter telling people to embrace AI, has an AI based coaching app they are selling
