It’s inarguably one of the most distressing films I’ve ever watched. Emotionally difficult, visually brutal. Getting through it was genuinely challenging for me.
It’s brilliant. I think Ari Aster might be a genius.
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Just saw the new Secret Lair cards for Magic: The Gathering based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail and I simply have to hand it to ‘em: putting Birds of Paradise to print twice so it can be both African Swallow and European Swallow is incredibly funny
Crash Bandicoot was one of the first video games I ever owned. I have only just now actually managed 100% completion.
It’s an interesting game. It’s packed with fun and inventive level designs, and it also manages to pack most of those levels with what can only be described as Pranks. The Pranks themselves aren’t actually of much consequence thanks to the game being generous with checkpoints and even more generous with lives, but that generosity is meaningless when you need a deathless run of a level to get the gem. It puts so much pressure on you that the greatest obstacle often ends up being you just psyching yourself out.
The second biggest obstacle is usually the Literally Fucking Invisible Platforms They Put At The End Of The Level! Hope you’re intimately familiar with your jump arc, chucklenuts!
Anyway game is alright. I think I’ll have a much better time with Crash 2, though.
jan Misali made another video about Super Mario and specifically the question of what constitutes the “mainline” Super Mario series.
The whole video is an exercise in linguistic and mathematical pedantry (I do not say this as a criticism; as a former student linguist, I can pretty confidently say that the pedantry is the point), and part of that pedantry is picking apart people’s definitions of “mainline Super Mario game,” and how one seemingly sensible definition happens to include some Famicom Disk System software called I am a teacher: Super Mario Sweater. jan Misali relied upon a particular definition of the term “video game” in order to facilitate that inclusion, and I had some thoughts about that definition, which I posted to my Tumblr because I know jan Misali is active on that site and I sure as hell wasn’t about to post an essay in the youtube comments.
Anyway, I’m reposting those thoughts here because I want to know what you all think of them. Did I fall for an elaborate trick by responding to this proposition in seriousness? Maybe. But as we established earlier, the pedantry is the point, and I quite enjoyed being pedantic over this silly little question.