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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11d

I have to catch two fucking trains to get to my gate? I am never going to Seattle again for the rest of my life

Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · 11d

Wrote about Metal Gear Solid 2, which I genuinely think is one of the most important works of art of the 21st century. It dramatizes the imposition of simulation onto the world and presages with startling clarity our current age of hyperreality.
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A virtual grunt for the digital age

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · 12d

what if we based the entire economy on robbing Peter to pay Paul

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12d

WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.”

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 18d

[STAR WARS] The excitement of those who call it the film of the year goes way past nostalgia to the feeling that now is the time to return to childhood. (1977)

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · 24d

blogged the most anticipated game of the decade, which is about bugs
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Assorted thoughts after 50+ hours of Hollow Knight: Silksong

This is a video game blog now sorry

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Miss Anemia 1997 @bitegavemepowers.bsky.social · Sep 7

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant.

Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Sep 24

I wrote about Blood Meridian and River of Shadows, and I wrote about genocide and technological progress and the act of bearing witness and the trauma of time itself. I put everything I had into this one
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Enough death to bind a nation

Witnesses to the dawn of modernity in Blood Meridian and River of Shadows

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Sep 3

and another thing: im not scared. please dont put in the new yorker that i got scared.

pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · Sep 3

ALIEN, with its horrible mutating creature (you never knew what form it would take), made you dread the scenes to come; it tied your innards in a knot. ALIENS isn't that scary...This movie has clumping feet. (1986)

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · Sep 3

i constantly think about this post

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Sep 3

Wrote about the uses and misuses of language in Fargo. People really like this one, check it out!
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This was supposed to be a no rough stuff type deal

Fargo (1996)

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Aug 17

I jotted down some serious and not so serious observations about Dostoevsky
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Assorted thoughts after reading Crime and Punishment

A quick list

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Aug 6

blogged a couple books
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Book Report 8/6/25

Pamela Dean, Ursula K. Le Guin

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Jul 16

I played Metal Gear Solid
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Too many strange things are happening

Metal Gear Solid (Hideo Kojima, 1998)

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Jul 6

I wrote about The Witness and how video games capture the experience of thinking, with reference to C Thi Nguyen's book Games: Agency as Art
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The Witness builds a scale model of the inquiring mind

Line puzzles and the aesthetic experience of thought

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Jun 25

incredible work in the alt-text here

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Jun 24

I reviewed Metallic Realms by @thelincoln.bsky.social, which is both an insightful look at the Millennial experience and a hilarious romp through nerd culture via homages to some of the sci-fi greats. Definitely recommended!
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The Charles Kinbote of Millennial Losers

Metallic Realms (Lincoln Michel, 2025)

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Jun 15

Incredible how Pauline Kael could look at a single movie and predict the filmmaker’s entire filmmaking identity and future career arc. This is basically exactly my opinion of Spielberg: an undeniable savant of the cinematic art possessing the moral and intellectual sophistication of an eighth grader

first paragraph of Pauline Kael's review of the Spielberg film Sugarland Express.

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Dan McQuade @dhm.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.

Selfie of Dan. He has a White Jesus look. Ooh, isn’t he handsome! He’s wearing a black and white trucker hat with his son’s handprints in red on the top and “DAD” on the brim.

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · Jun 9

For those who are infatuated with what they loathe, the battle within themselves never stops. (1977)

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · Jun 9

Every article about the inevitability of AGI

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Jun 6

My Coen Brothers retrospective takes a detour to dig into the critical and commercial response to their first five films and to take the temperature of their career at the ten-year mark theunderline.substack.com/p/the-pressu...

The pressures are very visible and very legitimate

Vibe checking the Coen brothers’ career at the 10-year mark

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thanks again!

Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Jun 3

SANTA FE!! Next Tuesday, June 10, I will be presenting Fargo at CCA for our monthly Closer Looks series. I'll be giving a short talk, followed by the film. Please come see it!!
Info and tickets here: ccasantafe.org
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iconic Fargo knit poster. "a homespun murder story"

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Jun 3

Amazing, thank you! My post promoting my Fargo screening was just upthread above my question. So so appreciate a share!

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Danny Sullivan @theunderline.bsky.social · Jun 3

@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social is your "will always retweet rep screenings" rule still in effect?

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