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M.H. Williams

@mhwilliams.bsky.social

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I write about things for a living. Currently for a game dev and my personal newsletter, Stuff Worth Knowing (https://stuffworthknowing.substack.com/).

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hello, new Bluesky faces and followers!

If you did not know me from elsewhere, I'm Mike! This feed will not be coherent, as I'll be jumping between topics: movies, television, video games, tokusatsu, anime/manga/webtoons, and comics. Apologies in advance.

The blog should be up... eventually.

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 6h

A second film the bottom of the list:

Followers (2021)

An influencer moves into a haunted dorm room, bringing his roommates along for the ride.

Sadly, I felt every minute of this one. I pegged the twist because there was one character who otherwise had no reason to be involved. Not good.

M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 6h

I have! Did it back in 2019, the first year we did 31 Days. Enjoyed it!

M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 9h

a man is standing in front of a row of stormtroopers

ALT: a man is standing in front of a row of stormtroopers

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 10h

Well, that wasn't good...

But it was oddly entertaining. The Serbian side of the cast were giving it their all and the creature work was fun in B-grade Corman horror way.

M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 11h

So far, you can tell these folks love their creature work!

M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 11h

This film began with a real slow, sombre scene of soldiers in 1814 (?) about to... kill a horse? And then the horse *explodes* into a parasite puppet, rock music begins, and the badly-CGed parasite burrows into a dude's back or butt?

The tone shift was WILD.

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 11h

One benefit of prepping for #31DaysofHorror is collecting errant films all year and then finding them again when they're randomly chosen.

Anyways, tonight's choice is: Hell Hole (2024)

People. Parasites? Serbia? Let's go I guess.

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 16h

There's also this single video from EndVertex:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4md...

For-Profit (Creative) Software

YouTube video by EndVertex

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 16h

Writing on Games: www.youtube.com/@WritingOnGa...
NeverKnowsBest (some errant opinions bother me): www.youtube.com/@NeverKnowsB...
Sarah Davis Baker (pretty new): www.youtube.com/@sarahdavisb...
Implicitly Pretentious: www.youtube.com/@ImplicitlyP...
Accented Cinema: www.youtube.com/@AccentedCin...

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 17h

Feels a bit rude to the art to be honest.

A YouTube thumbnail with the title: How to Edge Your Art 🧐

Now this is clearly about the edges of various shapes in your art, however...

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 19h

Damn. Entirely too young.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 19h

"Don't do anything personal on your government equipment" has been locked in since I worked for the government wayyyyyyy back in the day.

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 19h

From his official socials:

www.instagram.com/p/DPy0ZUEEVnt/

Instagram

Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 20h

RIP to the greatest film poster artist.

Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 20h

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

There's a game about this.

store.steampowered.com/app/2413950/...

M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight's film is You'll Never Find Me (2023).

A reclusive man is confronted with a young woman taking shelter in his trailer from a storm.

For the first two-thirds, this is a tense banger. Unfortunately, the ending was entirely expected and not really worth it.

A miss in story execution.

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

And then pretty good ones.

M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

The ones that were just plain mean for me in the past few years.

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

He's still rolling strong in Foundation.

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

I call it "the TCW special".

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 1d

A lot of writers seem to think the more mannered and self-conscious their prose, the better. They add SO much fluff. But the real power of any book comes from the precision of its observations, not the purpleness of its prose. David Foster Wallace wrote like an 8th grade boy taking an English test.

M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

It was brave of you to post this on the timeline.

M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

On the last one, I actually *did* say the Switch 2 was too expensive and yet:

bsky.app/profile/matp...

Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 6d

Hardware - Nintendo Switch 2 unit sales are trending 77% ahead the time-aligned sales of the original Nintendo Switch.

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M.H. Williams @mhwilliams.bsky.social · 1d

A few things:

One, they gotta plan these consoles *way* in advance, so they probably didn't have *gestures at 2025* on the radar.

Two, holding back leads to a Switch 2, where the hardware is slightly out of date.

Three, I would've said the Switch 2 is too expensive, but y'all proved me wrong.