Writing on Games
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bad lieutenant becoming a franchise only helmed by weirdo auteurs is so funny
IndieWire@indiewire.com · 2d agoTakashi Miike's latest film will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival before Neon releases it stateside.
Despite my scepticism of streaming services generally, got curious and did the free trial of Tidal. They pay artists slightly more than other services, and I was reasonably impressed at the jump in audio quality. Before the trial was up, got a message saying "your fee is going up." Fuck that.
two of my favorite games ever. two of the best games of the last 11~ years. what an absolute steal of a deal.
Brendon Chung@blendogames.bsky.social · 2d agoQuadrilateral Cowboy & Invisible Inc are in a cyberpunk bundle together! store.steampowered.com/bundle/82990... I'm a big fan of Invisible Inc, what a joy to be bundled together🙏
I know it's Edinburgh Fringe season because every other advert I get is for the worst one-person show you could possibly think of
Struggling to pinpoint the moment when the YouTube thumbnail meta became "make it look indistinguishable from a Tim and Eric still"
"Dark Souls II is actually really-" Your car needs an oil change. You should probably do something about that.
Struggling to pinpoint the moment when the YouTube thumbnail meta became "make it look indistinguishable from a Tim and Eric still"
literally the easiest company in the world to boycott. you don't even get to see their video games on the store any more
NESbot@nesbot.bsky.social · 4d agoJez Corden - Microsoft could “potentially pull out of Steam” releases www.resetera.com/threads/15...
They said it was impossible that the boycott could get any easier. They had no fucking idea
NESbot@nesbot.bsky.social · 4d agoMicrosoft raises price of Xbox Series in Europe by up to 200 euros, in UK by up to 170 GBP www.resetera.com/threads/15...
Just posted a couple of sections from my upcoming video on the whole-ass Ace Combat series on my Patreon. As tiring as it's been to work on This Much Video this month, it's been ridiculously satisfying seeing it come together after having it swirling around my head for like, three years now.
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The replies to this reasonable take are people arguing "personal vs impersonal" in the same way "subjective vs objective criticism" is argued by wankers
Big Joel@bigjoel.bsky.social · 5d agoLook I believe in Emily Wilson but it’s so funny to write this when your review includes the sentence “I would be ashamed to have written this movie”
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Played a bunch more Balatro lately because my mental health has been bad, lol. Uninstalled it after beating it once, because despite this being one of my most disliked videos, I watch it now and stand by basically every word I said
Balatro Has Cost You Thousands of Years
YouTube video by Writing on Games
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Feeling v v tired and stressed and overwhelmed but we simply move. I will make things. I will always make things
Not sure why this is news, it's called a lunch break
Played a bunch more Balatro lately because my mental health has been bad, lol. Uninstalled it after beating it once, because despite this being one of my most disliked videos, I watch it now and stand by basically every word I said
Balatro Has Cost You Thousands of Years
YouTube video by Writing on Games
youtu.be
Feeling v v tired and stressed and overwhelmed but we simply move. I will make things. I will always make things
Leadership at major publishers are in boardrooms as we speak frantically discussing how they need to get the license to the Odyssey IP/make an "Odyssey killer"/start working on their own Odyssey-like and in 5 years we're going to get trailers for 10 of these and maybe two will release.
GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 6d agoFollowing the release of Christopher Nolan's Odyssey film on July 17, daily active users of Assassin's Creed Odyssey increased significantly across all platforms www.gamesindustry.biz/analyst-data...
Thankful to be Relatively Offline enough to not really see the extent of this stuff and part of me asks why I'm inviting this into my life, but are people really that incensed about the Emily Wilson Odyssey review? I feel like whether you agree w her or not, she has some authority on the subject lol
Wild how novel it feels to have a mobile game you can actually finish but I completed Poinpy and had a blast doing it. Pure joy
Obviously all layoffs are bad but the Double Fine stuff hits particularly hard. Psychonauts 2, man. Psychonauts fuckin 2.
emotional news. mike leigh and ken loach's titanic careers both coming to an end is the end of an era for british cinema, an era of possibility that the uk arts industry has spent decades ensuring will never ever occur again
Josh Slater-Williams@jslaterwilliams.bsky.social · last wk.Mike Leigh Says ‘Tender Loving Care’ Is Most Likely His Final Film Due to Illness www.indiewire.com/features/int...
I think about this scene shockingly often. Potentially the coolest intro to a film ever and also John Leguizamo ... omg ...
Logan Dean@logandean.games · last wk.No one has ever looked cooler than this
I'll say I've posted a lot of doom'n'gloom around the whole Getting Paid to Make Stuff thing lately, but I feel kinda calm about it. I panicked about sustainability and how long things would last in like... year two of this. It's now been over a decade, I'm nearing 36 years old, and I'm still here