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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1h

was not about you’re reply, you are completely correct (not that you need me to verify it)

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1h

Maaaaaaaybe.

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1h

okay i need to log off before i get in an argument.

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1h

(this is just me having watched a few too many YouTube critics who talk about books like they're analyzing court cases. there _is_ a line that fiction can cross that makes its moral reprehensible, but that line's a lot more obvious than "this does mental health poorly.")

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1h

i want to be careful here, because i'm _not_ yelling about "wokeness" or anything like that--if a work makes you uncomfortable, that's a valid, authentic response. but fiction _isn't real_, and doesn't have to be morally correct to be engaging and powerful.

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1h

criticism of fiction that leans more into the specific critic's view of morality (and how such and such book fails that morality) and less into the actual construction and intent of the work bums me out.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 10h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1h

the number of comedians "posting through" the Riyadh thing is truly inspiring. yes, please, keep yelling at us about how _we're_ the real monsters, that will definitely change minds.

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 3h

hm? sorry, i was just thinking about how the latest adaptation of PET SEMATARY managed to fuck up one of King's best, most straightforward stories in the stupidest way possible, and how i wish the first PET SEMATARY movie was better, and also, this can't be an Arby's because that place burned down

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 6h

A great moment from Oliver:

“While I would love to keep splitting hairs on whether a country’s starving kids is better or worse if those kids are already sick, let’s just table that discussion for when I see you in hell.”

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1d

I started with the Book of the New Sun (I think?), and have enjoyed the whole Solar Cycle so far, but he can be very hit or miss with me—there are novels where he leans so hard into the puzzle stuff that I can’t connect with the story at all (hated Castleview, for example)

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1d

I like Wolfe a lot, but I really have to be in the right mood for him—i like authors that use obfuscation, and it’s fun to listen to podcasts that break down the details, but I need to be willing to just not “get” a lot and be okay with that.

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1d

This game rules btw.

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d

Crow Country is $11.99 on US eShop buff.ly/MMz3zeU

also on PS+ Extra

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1d

oh it’s happening

The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1d

The temptation to take an edible and just zonk out for the bulk of the day is pretty strong, I must admit.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1d

Can I have one more battlefield? Pleeeeeease

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1d

The temptation to take an edible and just zonk out for the bulk of the day is pretty strong, I must admit.

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1d

finished Silent Hill f, which has some cool stuff but apparently it wants me to replay the whole game to figure out what the fuck happened. dunno if I’m up for that.

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 1d

finished rereading ‘Salem’s Lot today; i love how, with some scenes, you can actually feel King thinking “oh yeah, this is the shit right here, this is how I -rock-“ (not in a bragging way, just that creative joy that hits when a story pops off)

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I really loved Urth by the time I finished it. Good book!

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 2d

decided to put on DRESSED TO KILL, and Prime recommended BLAME IT ON RIO, a movie about Michael Caine having sex with a teenager, I think.

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 3d

of course the new Tron movie is bad, all Tron movies are bad, the original is incredibly stupid, and the concept is dumb. it _looks_ neat, and Jeff Bridges is charismatic as fuck, and that's basically it.

(i will, of course, watch the new Tron movie as God intended: at home, stoned out of my mind)

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 3d

[email protected] makes a very appropriate Trek reference in this. It pleased me, as did the rest of the content. Also, there were no "Avalanche?" "I'll take two!" jokes, which is probably for the best.

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 3d

The most recent Hallmark pod is about a dead earnest educational film on avalanche safety with a romance plot grafted onto it that's somehow both hornier and more inert than average. What a studio!
Apple: bit.ly/42v4vsG
Spotify: bit.ly/42zqYVo
Amazon: bit.ly/4q3QoV0
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139 - Snow Crashing the Joe Morgan Moneyball Universe

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William Hughes @plumberduck.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about Mario Galaxy and a slightly unwelcome reminder of the "Screw it, toss in some motion controls" era

The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 3d

The Switch and Switch 2 re-releases of the classic Wii games have us asking ourselves: Did we really used to live like this?

Nintendo's Mario Galaxy remasters are a return to the tyranny of motion controls

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 3d

Dying Light 2 is -weird-. So much story, but I also just got an in-game option to rate a mission I just finished. Also, it opened with a video actor thanking me for how much I apparently love the “characters” and “world” of the franchise. Fucking -relax-, game.

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The Zack(s) of the Killer Handlen @zhandlen.bsky.social · 4d

spoilers: Embrace the mystery.

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