Quinn Rau

@quinnrau.bsky.social

I like to write and talk about video games, horror, action cinema, tokusatsu, anime, and mecha. Lover of earnestly dumb, over the top nonsense. 34, He/They, No AI Youtube - www.youtube.com/@TheBloodyDetails Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/vBpv

Spider on my desk scared the shit out of me and crawled under my computer monitor, as I was looking for it I accidentally bumped into and broke my monitor, that thing was like $800. Never even found the spider! Bad morning.

Playing Sinking City 2 (which is great) and I come across a room with many x-rays you can inspect. I naturally thought it was for a puzzle to solve, however I noticed the detailed descriptions had date ranges in the 2020's, but the game is set in 1920. So I was a little puzzled by that. (1/2)

Screenshot from the game Sinking City 2 showing my player character standing in a room looking at a wall of 10 x-rays that are able to be individually inspected.

"Man, I loved this new movie, it was so dense and rich with things to gush about, I should write a passionate review on it on Letterboxd" *Opens Letterboxd and realizes I'm too exhausted to think* "Actually, I think I'll just make a dumb joke." Sorry y'all, I'm part of the problem.

Tom Savini is a fucking legend. And he lost everything. His home. His beloved pets. His life's work - work that served as the foundation of the horror we hold most dear. There isn't the character count to list his legacy here. If you can, please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...

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Me and my group of friends finished Big Walk, and, without an ounce of hyperbole, the end of that game is maybe the most artful, beautiful things I've seen come out of a video game in a long long time. It's genuinely something I'll never forget.

There's a lot to love about the new Ghost in the Shell, but it's the little things like the infrequent "blink and you'll miss it" imperfections they add that mimic dust, hair, and particles you'd find in old cel animation that bring this just an extra step up for me.

Screenshot from the new Ghost in the Shell anime from 2026 where I've circled in red what appears to be a mimicking of an imperfection like you'd see on older cel animation.

Just caught up on the currently airing donghua "False Memory". Every single frame of this thing is brimming with intent while it confidently bounces back and forth between the visual sensibilities of film and the hyper kinetic stylized works you see from someone like Imaishi.

Screenshot from the donghua "False Memory" showing a man draped in harsh lighting pointing a gun towards the camera.Screenshot from the donghua "False Memory" showing a very orange tinted outdoor shot from the outside of a convenience store.Screenshot from the donghua "False Memory" showing a stylized white haired woman holding and looking at a revolver.Screenshot from the donghua "False Memory" showing four children sitting by a lakeside, they are all obscured in shadow.

I've had a pretty rough year while (unsuccessfully) looking for a job. But something I'm proud of is that I've used that time to work on myself, I've been exercising, I've lost 50 pounds and I'm at a healthy weight again, and my back, neck, and arm pain I had consistently have mostly gone away.

I swear, up to my late 20's I had never ever heard a soul talk about Columbo. I was pretty tapped into popular/well regarded TV and it never crossed my radar even once. The second I hit my 30's, I couldn't escape people referencing it. It's like I entered a new universe where it suddenly existed.

Just learned a Ghost Rider variant exists that is a T-Rex with robot arms that rides a fighter jet. Frankly, I don't think you can get much cooler than that.

A comic book panel of a Ghost Rider variant that is a T-Rex with robotic arms who is on fire and standing on a fighter jet. He is blowing fire and shooting missiles while roaring.

I indulged in a coffee for the first time in a year after cutting caffeine and I feel like I can see the grand design of the universe. Turns out caffeine is considered a drug for a reason, damn.

Re-visited Backrooms since it hit digital today and, man, I really am just a massive sucker for this mixture of liminal and analog horror. It tickles a part of my brain in a way nothing else seems to, I'm grateful for it's popularity. Recently, Routine and Skinamarink also hit just as strongly.

I'm grateful for boutique Blu-ray publishers, not only for their passionate efforts in preservation, but because their output is one of the few ways I can -actually- find legitimately obscure titles I've never heard of, instead of the same ad nauseam "hidden gem" recommendations people tend to give.