Look, if you want to fuck the dodo, that’s great. But don’t try and glow him up to some bland, socially acceptable hunk. Just be comfortable wanting to fuck that little round dodo.

Yeah, I’m not too concerned about the logistics of it, but the last act dip into magical realism was kind of an abrupt tonal change for the movie.

This is a great examination of what made Becky work, but I don’t think the movie was as unequivocally anti-”normcore” as you put it. Buscemi essentially lays out out the thesis in the middle of the film when he talks about there being no purity or virtue to being an insular nerd. I think the film does demonstrate that…

This is a stunning first-hand account of something most of us can barely conceive of, an insightful examination of the necessity and limitations of escapism, and on top of it expertly and poetically written. One of the best essays I’ve read in a long while. 

All the memos keep referring to the weaker versions of objects of power, altered objects, I believe? How come I’m not fighting off a swarm of possessed rubber duckies, or a malignant file cabinet? The incredibly rote enemies are for sure the biggest letdown.

That’s astonishing. Again, criminally underrated game.

I messed around with the Ashtray Maze a bit, but lacked the necessary abilities/ knowledge to continue. But the little I experienced was very cool. Very black lodge.

I’m for sure sticking with it. I still very much like the game.

Yeah, for sure. Like I say, I’m enjoying it for what it is, but I can’t help but think about what it could be.

I think about that astonishing level in Dishonored 2 where you infiltrate the mad scientist’s house, and the whole thing is a constantly shifting clockwork maze. It was wildly ambitious level design (and a reminder what a bummer how underwhelming the response to that game was). I can only imagine how difficult it was…

I finally picked up Control and was super enthusiastic to start it after all the positive reaction it received. The brutalist architecture aesthetic and Twin Peaks-y discomfiting but clinical supernaturalism really spoke my language.

There’s no shortage of earnest stupidity on the internet. It’s not always easy to tell who’s just being hilarious.

Well, the absence of that ever being the principle by which commercial creative endeavors were made had the effect of shutting out a majority of female, minority, and female minority voices, so a little bit of conscious course direction in the pursuit of presenting new voices is an almost negligible concern in light…

Thrawn’s day, what a concept!

I recently bought Control on sale and was super enthusiastic to start it. The brutalist architecture aesthetic and Twin Peaks-y discomfiting, but clinical supernaturalism really spoke my language.

Nope! We watched it last weekend and it was very good.

There’s a lot of people who disliked the Last Jedi because of the meta aspect, but I responded to that so strongly because it’s as interesting as anything being done with the movies. More whiz-bang space operatics didn’t seem like a sufficient reason to introduce a whole new trilogy onto a completed story. Especially…

I really liked how the Lynch stillsuits began shiny, only to become matte and discolored from constant sandblasting. When House Atreides first show up in their sparkling new suits, it’s as effective as any visual shorthand to demonstrate their naivety to the planet.

That’s an interesting point. I’m not wholly enamored of Marvel’s hermetically sealed next step to next step style of Movie production, and you are correct that even the ot was often done on the fly. But with the sequel trilogy, there’s kinda a strong question of why? Why do we make more (other than money) The ot and…

It is a bummer that the cast had to be buffeted around by such stupefying circumstances. Even when I was disappointed by how much TFA was a retread of ANH, the new generation of characters were so good, I remained enthusiastic for the rest of the trilogy. For myself, TLJ actually took advantage of that cast and did…