Thought this looked pretty interesting, but the gameplay trailer looks pretty rough. Reminds me of a 2010-era mid-budget action adventure. I’ll keep an eye on it though, I’m not terribly picky about entertaining single-player games.

My patience with Cult of the Lamb finally pays off.

It’s worth mentioning that article is from 2020, around the time she had started pivoting from TERF-lite to TERF-MAX. It was…reasonably possible to assume at the time, for someone who wasn’t paying close attention, that her opinions were still rooted in misguided concern rather than open bigotry.

She had only just posted her manifesto a few months earlier, according to Vox’s helpful timeline, which reads reasonably if you’re unaware of the multitude of false and misleading claims she parrots.

Personally, I am excited about Ender Lilies, it was on my wishlist, but don’t care about other games.

100%. I vaguely remember hearing about Ender Lilies a while back but it fell of my radar. I watched some videos after this announcement yesterday and it looks really great. I’m excited to try it out.

As for the other two, I think I am permanently Lego-gamed-out, and I don’t really understand what FNAF…is, and I haven’t the motivation to bother. What little I do know doesn’t seem up my alley.

Deadline is a film industry trade paper, so success metrics like Box Office are of interest to it, especially insofar as those metrics guide the trajectory of industry trends.

I view the first in a vacuum because the others actually harm it

Lol I do the same thing! If I watch any of the sequels I view them essentially as fanfic. Your point about emotional payoff in the first is really good too. It’s easy to forget watching the sequels that the dramatic core of the first movie was John’s grief for his wife. The dramatic core of the sequels is little more, as I remember, than the convoluted bureaucracy and politics of John trying and failing to be left alone.

The best moment in the entire franchise is after the assassination squad is sent to his house in the first movie. I saw it in theaters and fully, unconsciously anticipated that when the police strobe lights started flashing through the windows, that we would get a tense scene of John Wick attempting to distract the cop and send him away without the bodies being discovered.

When instead he opens the door wide, and the cop casually peers past his shoulder, and just asks, “you working again?”, it’s such a delightful, comical, surprising reveal. The concept worked best when we as the audience expected the world to function familiarly, and it could playfully subvert those expectations in small ways. They dove so deep into the capital-L lore beginning in the second movie, that we no longer expected the world to function familiarly, and thereafter stopped being surprised.

The first flick is a bonified good movie. The rest are, varyingly, titillating scenes of artfully choreographed and executed action set pieces loosely strung together by indulgently juvenile nonsense.

forecasts ad revenue to hit $1 trillion

I didn’t go to the theater for a few years due to both the pandemic and a new baby. When I did return for the first time last year, I was truly shocked at how many ads there are now at the major chains before curtain draw. It used to be ads before showtime, then trailers when the lights dimmed at showtime. Now it seems like there are just as many trailers as there were before, but intercut by an equal number of ads, so the time between showtime and actual movie start is ridiculous.

Best theater experience I’ve had by far was seeing The Descent on release. In that crucial mid-movie moment, the whole theater freaked out, and after things settled down I saw someone climbing back over the seat they’d apparently jumped over when it happened.

Honestly super satisfied this month. Remnant 2 and Pathfinder are huge gets, really looking forward to them. Deadcraft seems really interesting too, but I already bought it on sale (after trying the demo).

My incredulity is as boundless as it is impotent.

This is Snail again 😄

I’ve never played one except a PSP game way back that I dont think I understood at the time. I can’t even remember why I had it tbh. But I’ve been eyeing the series for the past few years. They look fun, but I’m not typically a Capcom fan and I’m pretty sure it’s not for me. Glad to be able to finally give one a proper try.

Eh…seems sweet but contrived.

In searching for the video, (already provided in this thread) I amazingly found that this appears to be the same school where a selection of boys from the class of 2018 posed for a gleeful photo of them throwing up the nazi salute.

You can’t be too broke to break As a woman always something left to take So you shouldn’t try to stay too late or talk to strangers Look too long, go too far out of range cause Angels can’t watch everybody all the time Stay close, hems low, safe inside That formula works if you can live it But it works by putting half the world off limits

• Dessa, Fire Drills

It’s been a few years since I watched it and none of this made sense to me. Just read the Wikipedia summary for a refresher and it’s one of the most incomprehensible summaries I’ve ever read. All I can say is that I remember taking the movie at its word more or less. Interesting idea though.

The desperation is palpable.

Well deserved. My kids fucking love Astro’s Playroom.

If I thought she had a conscience I’d believe this was meant to be a punishment.