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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · 2h

They’re all great but I think DQ5 is the best one so far, though DQ6 (the game I’m playing now) is giving it a serious run for its money)

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · 6h

Been playing through the dragon quest series. Some of the best rpg design of all time.

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · 19h

Awesome movie

Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · 21h

oh man. the like two second audio clip they play of a pig oinking as the first guy convulses on the floor after being killed by leatherface... gets me every time

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · 21h

rewatching the texas chainsaw massacre. somehow it gets better and better every time. struck by the really sad moment of Franklin sitting and frowning as he hears his friends goofing off in the house. he just has the fucking worst day of all time.

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t really have a lot going on today. Saw the mastermind on Monday and really enjoyed it. Check that one out if you’re a fan of crime comedies that really go hard on realism. There’s a ten minute scene of a character fumbling around with a ladder that’s so funny.

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · 1d

let me know if we're mutuals from twitter and I haven't followed you back, I'm pretty bad about these things!

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 1d

Can everyone do me a favor and follow me if I know you from Twitter and also recreate my exact same community of comics and politics people from over there

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · 1d

I'm watching the newest season of the morning show with my mom. This is the most unhinged show ever

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · 1d

guess i should start being more active on here.

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · 16d

I liked, but didn't love One Battle After Another. To sort out my feelings, I took to the substack and wrote a slightly skeptical piece about the film, its style, its politics surrounding race, and how it also contains my fave sequence of the year:
open.substack.com/pub/closeupl...

Taking A Skeptical Look At A Film I Enjoyed

Close Up: One Battle After Another

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Aug 21

This week on the substack, I went a little crazy writing about Godard's King Lear, his optimistic attitude about the potential of art, its relationship to real world injustice, Godard's opinion on Woody Allen, and the stakes of embarking on a creative project. open.substack.com/pub/closeupl...

The Life or Death Stakes of Making Anything

Close Up: Godard's King Lear

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Aug 12

This week on the Substack, I wrote about one of my favorite book series, Mark Z Danielewski’s The Familiar. This series is so strange that it defies most of my casual/critical instincts as a reader; at its best, it’s like if Mulholland Drive was a book series:
open.substack.com/pub/closeupl...

A Television Pilot, Rendered Unfamiliar

Close Up: Mark Z Danielewski's The Familiar

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Aug 7

I think it’s definitely up to interpretation but I see the conspiracy stuff as so intentionally murky that it’s hard to parse what it is other than a sort of monkey’s paw type wish fulfillment for Joe, who blamed antifa for his own behavior.

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Aug 5

Howdy gang, just dropping back in to say that I wrote another article on the substack. This time I wrote about Ari Aster's latest film Eddington, a movie that I think captures the spirit of 2025 more than the spirit of 2020. open.substack.com/pub/closeupl...

Three Blind Men and an Eddington

Long Shot: Eddington, Anti-Oculus, May 2020

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Aug 1

With Watkins the politics are right there on the surface, he’s making the film to work through them and in a sense live them out irl. One of very few filmmakers who can claim to have developed a truly democratic cinema.

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Aug 1

Been going through the films of Peter Watkins lately. What a filmmaker. Something I like about him is that he’s a filmmaker with left wing politics you can actually sort into a political tendency other than liberalism. Most of the time you kind of have to vaguely intuit a filmmaker’s politics

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Jul 29

Howdy folks, it’s been a while. Just dropping in to say that I started a Substack! It’s totally free, and the first post is about the game design of Death Stranding 2! There are no story spoilers at all, if you’re worried about that. You can read it here: open.substack.com/pub/closeupl...

A Game That Accumulates And Delivers

Close Up: Death Stranding 2

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Nov 19

100%. I was appalled in the theater. I remember seeing an ad for it where Sean Baker did a free screening for sex workers and that has to be one of the most psychotic things I can imagine doing w/ this movie

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Nov 19

I’ve been getting so many new follow notifs that I feel a little guilty for not posting on here

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Nov 14

Going to be interviewed for a guy’s podcast he’s doing for a final project. It’s about the planet of the apes movies. Should be simple

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Nov 14

hard to figure out what to post on here. do i just do the same posts again here? but i already got that thought out of my brain, i'm not putting it back in so i can take it out again...

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Nov 7

Howdy gang. Guessing the vibes here are pretty bad on account of, uh….

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Oct 18

His name’s Happy. He’s a big goofball

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Lego Kingo @legokingo.bsky.social · Oct 18

Some recent photos of my dog

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