They definitely know how to smash, from the sound of it, so it would make sense.

Nintendo bought the rights to the films to halt their distribution.

Did we need another reason to hate Nintendo? Ah fuck it, throw it on the pile.

How did I not know about this, that’s amazing.

That’s just the MOBA experience. There is a lot of DOTA DNA in Deadlock and unfortunately you just have to power through that initial period of suffering. Is it worth it? I don’t know that I would condone picking up a MOBA in this day and age since I care about others’ mental wellbeing, but it is a good game.

One of my favourite episodes, both for the outcome and for how into it Jamie got.

I mean, it’s unfortunately both. That was his intention yes, but he’s feeding into the whole thing as he does so, becoming part of the reinforcement of the MAGA cult.

I remember videos of The Internet Is For Porn and Everyone Is A Little Bit Racist doing the rounds online, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually watched the whole thing start to finish. Which I guess I really should sometime, as I do enjoy the album Avenue Qanon that references it.

Darkwood is the most unsettling game I’ve ever played.

Weird West was kind of charming to be honest. It didn’t fully get there compared to the heights of Dishonored, but I had a good time with it.

The STALKER games do this for me, STALKER Anomaly does as well (although you gotta mod that). The Metro games too, if you want something tighter and more cinematic.

Her own children found out about her trip because a newspaper clipping had made its way to her hometown in Ohio.

This is my favourite part of the whole thing. What a boss.

Yes well, we all knew this was coming right?

I don’t feel it in games as much, but I still haven’t found any film critic whose tastes match mine since Roger Ebert passed, so I kind of know what you’re feeling. Having that one person you trust completely is so good.

It’s a broad generalisation, and you also have to remember Chekhov was a playwright. It makes a lot more sense if you think about the framework of a stage play. If there is a gun prop on the set, Chekhov’s Gun states that it should be used in the play in some manner.

In general, it is a different way of stating the adage “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ^(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)^ It’s a narrative principle of succinctness: every element of the narrative should be essential to the whole.

Also, the whole thing came from letters Chekhov wrote giving advice to young playwrights. It was never meant to be an unbreakable rule governing all of narrative fiction.

The Prestige remains the best Nolan movie, in my opinion. It’s so good.

You could argue that going so far as actively forbidding games signals a certain level of attachment, and someone truly enlightened should be able to exist around and participate in games without getting affected by them or actively seeking them out. But then again I was always more for the Bankei school of buddhism.

I really hope they find a second specimen to confirm it’s not an artifact. Really cool discovery.

There are a lot of downsides to being born into these times, but getting to see Sagrada Familia finished is pretty cool I guess.

It really is a beautiful poem. “Rage against the dying of the light” is one of my favourite lines ever written I think, as basic as that might make me.

Obligatory Whose Line Is It Anyway clip