I just reached the Marauder boss in Doom Eternal. Instead of clearing my mind, achieving the Dark Souls Zen State, and prevailing over time, I yawned and turned it off. A tricky boss at least needs some fucking charm, you know.

I subscribe to it. The library changes from month to month as the curated collections rotate through (lately they have a pile of film noir, a massive tribute to Toshiro Mifune, and other series devoted to directors and stars), but there is always more than I can get through, with a pretty diverse range of material.…

It has been six weeks since I had a non-digital conversation with a human being who wasn’t selling me food. Perhaps for that reason, the leisurely pacing of the FFVII Remake is really working for me. If it weren’t for social distancing, I have a creeping suspicion that the game’s goofball crowd patter and…

The story here reminded me of Rebuild of Evangelion, another remake that lets its characters struggle against the original plot. Both FFVII and Evangelion belong to roughly the same formative moment in nerd culture, and the creators have chosen to recreate that experience in a way that makes nostalgia and anticipation…

I was thinking about this film while I was reading through this (excellent) list. Lead or not, Josephine Siao walks away with that movie. 

Now this is the kind of videogame coverage I didn’t know I needed, that doesn’t shy away from the personal experience of playing games but also gives the rest of us a way into that feeling. It makes me want to fire up the game to see what it makes me feel.

All these poor bastards watching Rise of the Skywalker when Uncut Gems and Little Women are right there. That said, I would totally watch an adaptation where Jo gets a lightsaber, but mostly because Amy would be super jealous.

The moral of Little Women is to vaccinate your children.

Idk, it just reminds me of when my AP Lit teacher told the class that we couldn’t do our research papers on Harry Potter because it wasn’t a book of literary merit? Like, cool, one just because it’s a children’s book doesn’t mean it doesn’t have merit? Also, I think I could infer on my own that the book I pick for an…

WOW. I’m shocked by all this in part because I am a huge fan of Sarah Dessen... so I know that statement is absolutely true.

I really liked the style of Diablo III. But I understand I might be the only person on earth who feels that way.

Does it have Monkey Target? That is all I need to know.

This is and always has been a shallow and classist way to talk about art.

Popular art is still art.

...at the same time these are the same people who don’t want to embrace alternative media (i.e., Netflix, Amazon Films, etc.) and have objected to their eligibility for awards.

Yeah! I mean, had the fight choreographer for Crouching Tiger ever even seen a Yuen Woo-Ping film?

I’ll be honest, my favorite is post-boom. Stephen Chow. Kung Fu Hustle is wuxia turned up to 11 then force fed through a Tex Avery cartoon.

Crouching Tiger (for me) gets away with the breaks from reality that the wuxia style demands because that style is the water the film swims in. The entire thing is a product of that particular era and directorial decision. This seems to have some amount of that, but not enough to ground the entire thing in the…

Well, if Ye was step one, then Jesus is King is step two. First admit you have a problem, then discover a higher power. I just hope he gets to twelve in time to release some music that doesn’t feel like he’s reacting and reacting.

Kind of surprised to see so many positive reactions to this storyline. Retcons are the absolute laziest way of telling a story.