I watched this at the Tivoli in the St. Louis Loop, then imediately afterward walked down the street to Vintage Vinyl and bought the soundtrack.

I was introduced to the film when I was in high school, taking german class, and it was a mind-blowing introduction to modern European cinema and way more interesting than the stupid TV show designed for learners we also had to watch. A couple of years later in University it was one of the first movies I acquired in a…

All I needed was Oscar Isaac is sexy vampire.  Apparently I’m the horndog mentioned in the headline.

I’ve decided I'm too old for Taylor Swift and she just doesn't speak to me and my experience of the world as a late 30s millennial filled with climate anxiety and vague sadness. And these weird gimmicks for the fans and against the critics don't exactly draw me in (which is fine I guess?). What are my fellow non…

I realize you’re a troll because you had the same toxic “cancer is karma” take regarding Olivia Munn’s recent health disclosure. Congratulations, it was so fucking stupid and cruel that I remembered you.

I’d read somewhere that the rumors were that she’d had a hysterectomy, and now the cancer diagnosis. It hits close to home for me. My wife had one earlier this year. No cancer was found, thankfully, but we’re not done — she’s due for a mastectomy later this year as well. All preventative.

lol letters of support are not protected or included in any sort of laws or rules about our courts. they are emotional appeals, that’s all. A lawyer is just doing their job. A person writing letters on behalf of a diddler is a choice they made. 

Like, how hard is it to just not say transphobic things at your workplace? When your whole job is speaking words other people write for you... maybe you don’t need to say anything else? How does it even come up on the set of the Mandalorian?

*Cracks knuckle*

Yeah I remember that being really the biggest part of all of it. She was super anti-trans and I think Pascal even tried to talk her rationally about it at first, but after repeatedly going down that hole, he definitely went to the Disney powers and said to tell her to get the fuck out

I get the criticism but this is very much to me - and I hate to use a now very overused term - a game that’s all about the vibes. It’s nothing groundbreaking but it’s fun enough and the elements just gel together in such a way to make it a very relaxing, enjoyable experience to me.

His monster work in Dragon Quest is particularly noteworthy, IMO. He drew some wacky stuff for Dragonball and its spinoffs, but to me it was Dragon Quest’s monsters where you could see his creativity soar.

Finnish and Norse mythology are quite separate beasts, though Alan Wake draws from both. And Saga’s family history happens to draw from Scandinavia and she’s closely related to Tor and Odin (the characters, not the gods for any third parties wondering). 

Yes, God of War is set explicitly in the realms of Norse mythology, but Alan Wake and Alan Wake 2 draw heavily from it as well (as does Control to a much lesser extent). Remedy is a Finnish studio and they heavily incorporate that into their games, particularly in their modern shared universe.

Why are you asking “why is this person gay” in a videogame? It doesn’t need to have anything to do with the fucking plot; there are gay people in real life, sometimes that’s just a person.

“At the end of the day it seems like both sides are talking about the same thing. SBI’s right wing critics insist that SBI is intentionally putting DEI elements into their story and SBI pretty much admits to it”

Did we read the same article because they didn’t admit to that at all? They said that the DEI elements…

Let’s face it: the main reason these mouthbreathers are bent out of shape about Saga Anderson being Black is because of the use of Norse mythology in Alan Wake and in her character’s story arc particularly. It’s barely veiled white supremacist nonsense.

I just can’t believe we’re still in this ‘gamer-gate’ era of bullshit because of these sad pathetic boys with their chauvanistic, racist ideals that ANGERY because they aren’t 100% being catered to. And their usage of the term ‘woke’ is just as pathetic.

Like...it’s ironic that they’ve co-opted a black term in the…

One image showed several pictures of the protagonist Eve from Korean developer ShiftUp’s upcoming action game Stellar Blade, juxtaposed against female characters from Overwatch, Forspoken, and Life is Strange. “Embrace tradition. Reject modernity” is emblazoned on the collage.

I don’t know, I am of a somewhat mixed opinion on that point. By the time I finished my hard mode run, I was max level, with all maxed materia, 99 of almost every item, and hundreds of thousands of gil, and that would’ve been a crazy starting place because then what level are we in part 3? And does that mean all the…