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Will Borger

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Pushcart Prize-nominated fiction writer/essayist. Co-founder/Editor-in-Chief @skyboxcritics.com. Words: MLR, Purple Wall, ASP, The Rupture, YourTango, Vet. Life. Games: IGN, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, Shacknews, Unwinnable, Restart, TechRadar, Spine+

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · Feb 6

I interviewed several members of the VF community about why VF5: R.E.V.O. matters for @pcgamer.com. VF is so important, and it's so good to see that community get their moment and help them tell that story.

Big thanks to @wes.readonlymemo.com for the opportunity.

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Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. isn't just a PC port of a 19-year-old game: it's the reason a diehard fighting game community can 'finally reach out and play with each other across the world'

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O's arrival on PC marks the start a new era for the series that pioneered 3D fighting games.

www.pcgamer.com

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 11h

14. The Conjuring 2 (2016)

Not as interesting as the original (and the climax isn't nearly as strong), but a good sequel. The Warrens were frauds, but these events make for some good stories.

Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 12h

13. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

A solid if unspectacular adaptation of the best chapter of the definitive vampire novel with an ending that doesn't really fit into the text. It’s not a great film, but I like it a lot.

Poster for The Last Voyage of the Demeter

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 14h

12. It Comes at Night (2017)

You know, I expected a lot more from this one. Turns out the real horror is the bad decisions you make after some random dude breaks into your house.

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 15h

This angle is incredible because it somehow makes him look even more bald

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 15h

GODDAMMIT NICK NOW I'M HEARING THE SONG IN MY HEAD

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 19h

I reviewed Mamoru Hosoda's Scarlet for Endless Mode!

What if Hamlet was an anime girl whose dad didn't suck? What if Claudius built a wall around heaven? What if this Said Something? I have some answers the movie doesn't:

Scarlet Offers Complicated Answers To Simple Questions

While Scarlet is another visual stunner from Mamoru Hosoda, its attempts at answering big questions about modern conflict fall short.

www.endlessmode.com

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 21h

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 21h

11. Alien 3: The Assembly Cut (2003)

My wife hated this one, but agreed to give it another shot because I'm pretty high on it. She liked it much better the second time. Some absolutely incredible visuals, great performances from Weaver, Dance, Dutton... really everyone. Better than its reception.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22h

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 4d

Windows 10 support ends on October 14 and there's a link floating around with instructions to enroll for an additional year of security updates, but I'm not linking to that chatgpt article so here's what you do.

Settings
Update & Security
Windows Update
Initiate Enrollment

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 1d

At first I didn't see who posted this but somehow I knew it was you

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 1d

10. The Descent (2005)

Not Neil Marshall's best horror joint, I don't think (we'll get there), but a stone cold classic that hits every single time. Crazy to think that this is only the second film he directed.

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 1d

Just play the original, imo. I think the added stuff in Royal (especially the new ending) actually makes it worse. It feels stapled on, not like a natural addition.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

He's an old man and he knows he's going to die soon. This absolutely motivates what he's doing daily.

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 1d

9. You're Next (2011)

One of my favorite home invasion flicks. Tense, funny, gore-y, inventive, extremely well-plotted, tight. Sharni Vinson plays one of the all-time Final Girls. Wingard directs the hell out of this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 2d

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 2d

Man I hope I’m wrong and hell is real

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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merritt @merrittk.com · 2d

s/o to everyone from working class backgrounds in the arts and entertainment who clawed their way to where they are without the benefit of family wealth, career experience, or connections

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Murph O'Gore @murph04.bsky.social · 2d

Finishing the Fight Finishes.

@broganchattin.bsky.social, @edgarallanbro.bsky.social, @abrambuehner.bsky.social, and I squeeze the last bits of maximum effort we have to rescue Cortana, stop the Flood, and give a trench run for the ages

Halo 3 with a Full Squad---Final Part

YouTube video by The Daydreamcast

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Abram Buehner @abrambuehner.bsky.social · 2d

When Skybox was looking for people to write about games that are absolutely singular, totally unassailable by AI, there was simply nothing that sprang to mind quite like Excitebots. WHAT A GAME!

Skybox @skyboxcritics.com · 3d

Excitebots: Trick Racing is tremendously odd by @abrambuehner.bsky.social

"The only thing that makes sense about Excitebots is that nothing makes any goddamn sense at all."

Read on:

Excitebots: Trick Racing is tremendously odd

A look back at Excitebots: Trick Racing, one of the weirdest racing games Nintendo ever published.

skyboxcritics.com

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 2d

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 2d

Not gonna surprise anybody, but my view has always been "I write criticism for me, not some hypothetical person" and saying things like "it's not for me" is cowardly.

It is your job, as a critic, to have a fucking opinion, not try to guess what other people will like.

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 4d

the latest CRITICAL ERROR podcast is about what video game reviews are/aren't

but tbh this week's episode is not for me: youtu.be/u8ysh5lKZOg?...

Critical Error Is Not For Me

YouTube video by Critical Error

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