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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 6h

if they figure out how to make the character walk at a consistent speed and explain some mechanics better in the full thing i think there really could be something there! big wait and see

autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 6h

beyond tech performance though it's editing and pacing of line delivery that just kills the writing and vocal performances. sounds like they got some good VAs and direction going into this so that would really be a let down!

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 6h

Played the Opus Prism Peak demo. Feels like it could be one of Thee photography video games but it is in such a rough state that I wouldn't want to actually play more than these 20 minutes of it. Idk how this could run on S2 with how loud my fans were for a very choppy experience.

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 8h

i couldn’t even finish Clair or Dread I do not have this in me

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 11h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 12h

he's so bad at this

Cuomo ended his response to all that questioning by saying, "Nobody believes anyone, Dan."

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 14h

anxious to see how this one will feel looking back from the wide release next year

autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 1d

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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Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 15h

While one of Battlefield 6's calling cards is environmental destruction, it's hard not to connect its toppled buildings to current events. @platanoranger.bsky.social on Battlefield 6:

I’ve Turned on Battlefield 6’s Senseless Destruction

While one of Battlefield 6's calling cards is environmental destruction, it's hard not to connect its toppled buildings to current events.

www.endlessmode.com

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 16h

all timer: www.youtube.com/@WhatsSoGrea...
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What's So Great About That?

Video essays examining the connections between media, philosophy and art - and how ideas and images reoccur in fiction and culture. I hope you like cartoons and zombies!

www.youtube.com

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 16h

like

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 16h

real ghost in the shell 2 hours

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 17h

y'all had how many days including one of our three day weekends to review that billion dollar company's game??

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 20h

Today is the official book birthday of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, my latest book from Word Horde!

wordhorde.com/books/notes-...

The sell sheet for NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND.

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Matt Leone @mattleone.bsky.social · 21h

Big day! Here's the thing I've been working on for the past few months.

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 21h

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 1d

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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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 1d

it is vital, vital, for the health of our society, that peter thiel not be allowed to read berserk

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

a fake quote being attributed to zohran mamdani is igniting the pro-palestine left.

he never said arresting netanyahu would make him a trumpian fascist. that phrase was posted by an account known for using extreme rhetoric to accuse mamdani of effectively saying that as a result of him softening.

image circulating claiming to attribute a fake quote to mamdani. text reads:
dec. 2024: “as mayor of nyc i would arrest benjamin netanyahu”
sept. 2025: “arresting netanyahu would make me a trumpian fascist.” - this second quote has in big letters over it the words “fake quote.”

post from the originator of the phrase. text reads:

@zei squirrel
here you have it side by side. Zohran in December 2024, when he was running in the primary, pledging that he will definitely arrest Netanyahu. Then fast forward to Zohran in September 2025, after he won the primary, and suddenly arresting Netanyahu makes you a Trumpian fascist:

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 1d

Screening was on the 7th and it was…weird…to see this film’s bold statement for world peace be "children shouldn't die,” which can be controversial if you're Ms Rachel but this movie's only real agent of evil is Gertrude and she has like 2 lines in the whole film. here’s what this review is about:

by portraying conflict as inherently cyclical, as fundamentally rooted in an interpersonal and emotional desire for revenge, Hosoda abandons any materiality to oppression in our world. Let’s not pretend 20,000 children have been killed because of a desire for revenge after October 7. Sure, maybe revenge motivates some conscripted teenage soldiers. Are they the ones who aim for babies? Or is it just the emotions of the aristocracy that matter? Even then, who is owed forgiveness and who has been wronged are contested among our literati of pundits, comedians, and staff writers whose private high schools you can find boastfully listed under their Wikipedia bios

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 1d

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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Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 1d

While Scarlet is another visual stunner from Mamoru Hosoda, its attempts at answering big questions about modern conflict fall short. Read @theautumnwright.bsky.social's review here:

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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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 2d

Also really appreciate the costuming, especially stoics cape making his sillouhette, compared to how the one piece adaptation approached making animated outfits real (poorly)

autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 2d

Gorgeous film with some stand out bad CG but I would love to see them do 2 and 3 with the major script revisions those movies need

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 2d

I think this movie has a lot of good lessons as is but you could also make an abolitionist reading of it if it didn’t do the “actually there is ONE bad Other that you just have to kill to make world peace happen”

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 2d

Still trying to figure out what they’re doing making Astrid’s parents white with her casting

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 2d

I know lighting outdoors at night can be tricky but surely some of the cg budget could’ve gone to solving that in this one

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autumn wright 🍂 @theautumnwright.bsky.social · 2d

Why’d they replace most of the bagpipes with strings

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