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Brendan Hesse

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Deals Editor at GameSpot | DRPG Sicko at The Crawl: http://youtube.com/thecrawl | Other bylines: Lost In Cult, Lifehacker, PopSci, EGM, IGN, Digital Trends | My games: http://the-crawl.itch.io | He/Him (PFP: @alzandah.bsky.social)

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 11h

NEW VIDEO: The 1991 Wizardry Anime Is Awesome.

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The Best Video Game Adaptation You've (Probably) Never Seen

YouTube video by The Crawl

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 35m

One Piece

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 1h

just learning about the united states democratic party

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 1h

as a long-time identifying anarcho-socialist, I didn’t realize Dems could make me even MORE cynical and disillusioned with electoral politics. AND YET

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1h

Guys just thought of this: what if we wrest power away from the capitalist ruling class and create a society not based on the exploitation of a laboring class

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 11h

NEW VIDEO: The 1991 Wizardry Anime Is Awesome.

youtu.be/77ffG1Ukaug?...

The Best Video Game Adaptation You've (Probably) Never Seen

YouTube video by The Crawl

youtu.be

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 7h

(The OVA is 51 minutes, that is)

Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 7h

I get into some of the production and historical context in the video—and good news, it’s 51 minutes long and free on YouTube/Internet Archive

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 9h

Yooo! That is a wild coincidence—especially bc the idea came to me when rewatching your Planet of the Apes video last month, so we’re at multiple levels of synchronicity.

Did he watch the movie? I wanna know his thoughts lol

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 10h

Btw, this isn’t just a plot recap—It touches on the cast, production crew, and historical context of the movie, the ways it adapts Wizardry’s gameplay and story, and its place in the lineages of the Wizardry games and fantasy anime. (There are some mild spoilers)

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 11h

NEW VIDEO: The 1991 Wizardry Anime Is Awesome.

youtu.be/77ffG1Ukaug?...

The Best Video Game Adaptation You've (Probably) Never Seen

YouTube video by The Crawl

youtu.be

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 21h

Tomorrow morning on The Crawl.

Bold white text reading "Brutal Game. Brutal Anime." over a still of an anime scene showing a blond-haired warrior kneeling on his sword

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台羽正 @tadashidaiba.bsky.social · 2d

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 2d

This is the biggest video game news of 2025, I am not joking

christa lee @ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 2d

NEW ZONES!!!!!! I’M GONNA THROW UP

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 2d

WHAT

Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 3d

The chances are actually very high I will be attending this year!

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 3d

eerrr, sorry, meant Arctic, not Transylvanian

Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of it is closer to Transylvanian Hunger, stylistically, but even more crusty/punky at times. I was suuuper into The Underground Resistance the year it came out. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Underground Resistance - Album by Darkthrone

The Underground Resistance is the 15th studio album by Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone. It was released 25 February 2013 by Peaceville Records.

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. One of the (many) reasons I basically stick with y'all's site for finding new stuff these days.

Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 3d

When I posted "I can count the number of Black Metal bands I still fw on one hand" a few minutes ago, this is why.

New Millenium Skyanide Kep @theoriginalkep.bsky.social · 3d

vetting Ukrainian death metal band
guitarist played live for Hate Forest
former drummer is in a white nationalist RAC/NS band
🤦‍♂️

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 3d

That's a perfect mix. I often think of Darkthrone with OSR since so many of their 2010s album covers evoke the OSR art style

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 3d

you just reminded me I need to listen to it

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 3d

Because, as I have often said, you have sicko blood running through your veins.

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 3d

Oh hot damn. This makes me even more stoked to get to it (should be wrapping up 1 pretty quick tonight)

Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 3d

I can count the number of black metal* bands I still fw on one hand (WittR, Panopticon, Darkthrone, Final Dose, Rotting Christ), but WittR will always be an all-timer band for me from any genre.

*(ig Alcest, Deafheaven, and Asunojokei count if we're including blackgaze/post-black metal)

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Brendan Hesse @brendanlh.bsky.social · 3d

so @elmore.zone and I were talking about Wolves in the Throne Room the other day, so I went back a listened to Diadem and Two Hunters since it's been ages since I spun their older stuff and hey, guess what? Both albums still rule.

Album cover for Wolves in the Throne Room's "Diadem of 12 Stars." Album art is a photo of a foggy Pacific Northwest scene looking up a steep mountainside with pine trees and a waterfall.

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