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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 3d

"Unlike Chekhov’s kid,
Doctor Doom’s vicious truth bombs
go off right away."

#poetry #MarvelComics #NoPaywall

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Captain America: The “All Is Lost” Issue!

Comic Book Haiku — Captain America Volume 12 #3

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 2h

"The mission is fairly straightforward — drink all of Hitler’s blood."

#gaming #TTRPG #horror

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Eat the Reich: Nazis are Bad

This TTRPG is mechanically elegant, visually glorious, and thematically apropos

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blark @blarkblarkblark.bsky.social · 12h

4 tier glaxy brain meme
first tier reads: 2d6 vs target number is a
PBtA feature

second tier reads: 2d6 vs target number stems from Traveller

third tier reads: 2d6 vs target number comes from Chainmail

fourth tier reads: 2d6 vs target number is Craps

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 20h

"As one might expect
this story’s straight man turns out
to be The Joker."

#comics #poetry

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Batman x Deadpool: More Nineties Than the Nineties!

Comic Book Haiku: Marvel DC/Deadpool Batman #1

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 20h

"While there are some truly chilling sequences late in The Conversation, even the movie’s dream sequence is bland and uninspired..."

#spy #movie #NoPaywall

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50 Year Retrospective: ‘The Conversation’ Is a Surprising Let-down

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 mystery thriller fails to sustain its intrigue

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 1d

"The core of the game is a cycle of managing hand grips, what items best serve the current problem, climbing well, and outrunning the horrors that chase you."

#gaming

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‘White Knuckle’ — Survival Horror meets Climbing Sim

You’re being chased in this roguelike horror climbing game. The only way to go is up.

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck that.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 3d

Let us tease DIE from @imagecomics.com, and talk about the dangers of an Amoral God Who Exists Outside Time And Space and/or me being given access to video editing tools.

DIE: Loaded. Out November 12th. Orders by Monday, October 20th.

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 1d

"When I decided to change my approach, I counted my daily games in progress. I was expecting to see 20, not 51!"

#chess #gaming

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Playing Daily (Correspondence Chess) Games the Right Way

I increased my rating by 120+ points

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 1d

"...populist art isn’t so much a material reality of what surrounds the art, but rather an essence of the art itself."

#music #LifeOfAShowGirl #philosophy

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In Defense of Populist Art: Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift is the quintessential example of populist art

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 1d

"If The Long Walk doesn’t win Best Picture, I am going to riot."

#StephenKing #culture

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Brutally Beautiful: Brotherhood and ‘The Long Walk’

2025’s Most Important Film and a Must-See for Young Men

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 1d

"The director of ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Jim Jarmusch said that the film was funded by Mubi before the Israeli deal, and that he was disgusted when he found out."

#FilmFestival

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Palestine, Aliens, The Rock, and Neoliberal Cowardice: My time at the 82nd Venice Film Festival

In the city bathed in the bright light of the Adriatic sea, I glimpsed a shadow

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 1d

"If photography is meant to preserve reality, then Gen-AI imagery is to distort it. This is why grief is such a great target for it to exploit."

#artificial_intelligence #DCU

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What ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Has in Common with AI Photos

Are there spectres in the shutter or just synthetic doubles?

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 1d

"[Yamai] has a brilliant boss fight mechanic that keeps the multiple fights against him continually interesting, using the structure of the turn-based RPG system to his advantage."

#YakuzaLikeADragon #NoPaywall

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Yutaka Yamai: Gaming’s Newest Great Anti-Hero

Yamai grows from a character we dislike to one we love seeing, even if we don’t fully trust him

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 2d

"...the Frog in its context is powerful."

#protest #politics

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 7d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 2d

"Of all the things my neurons cooked up leading up to the film, a coming-of-age story was not one of them, yet Boyle and Garland make it work."

#horror #GiftArticle

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28 Years Later — A Positive Subversion of Expectations

The long-awaited sequel is bold, ambitious, and surprisingly emotional, but it also leaves you wanting more

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 2d

"Though each of these performers are invigorating, [Mia] Goth is a marvel at conveying her emotions wordlessly."

#indiefilm

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The Survivalist — grim attempts at survival in a post-apocalyptic world

Worldbuilding is eschewed for an intimate and gritty — if not wholly absorbing — assessment of humanity’s post-apocalyptic regression

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 3d

"With sprinkles of well placed humor and bloody, visceral action throughout its 55 minutes run time, Werewolf By Night entertains in spades."

#Halloweentime #NoPaywall

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‘Werewolf By Night’ is a Bloody Marvelous Halloween Special

WEIRDO Reviews: Werewolf By Night

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Chad Parenteau @chadpoetforhire.bsky.social · 3d

My Comic Book Haiku on Captain America #3 (the twelfth volume) is up at @theuglymonster.bsky.social. Thanks to Oscar. More work coming soon. #comics #captainamerica #marvelcomics

Captain America: The “All Is Lost” Issue!

Comic Book Haiku — Captain America Volume 12 #3

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 3d

"Clover Pit is a descent into chaos, letting it take over, and fighting against our demons. It is an exploration of the horrors of addiction."

#horror #indiegames

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‘Clover Pit’ Explores Addiction and Breaking Out of a Cycle

A rogue-lite slot machine game in an endless hellscape loop. Break it or be stuck here forever.

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 3d

"...these athletes are keen to impose their will and dominate, but in MMA it’s a total gamble as to what that could look like."

#TheSmashingMachine #movies

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‘The Smashing Machine’ is a Beautiful Tribute to Mixed Martial Arts

But as a feature film, continually resisting traditional storytelling beats garners mixed results

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 3d

"Unlike Chekhov’s kid,
Doctor Doom’s vicious truth bombs
go off right away."

#poetry #MarvelComics #NoPaywall

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Captain America: The “All Is Lost” Issue!

Comic Book Haiku — Captain America Volume 12 #3

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 3d

"The suburb is the location within which the threat is found, but rarely is the suburb itself the threat. And this is where ‘Vivarium’ comes in: the suburb is a place of life, and the threat itself."

#horror

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‘Vivarium’: The Horror of the Suburb

The suburb is a ‘place of life’, and the threat itself

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 3d

"I simply wanted the heart and spirit of the franchise and the main characters...to be recreated sincerely in a decent enough story with kickass action sequences reminiscent of the stylish, sleek, over-the-top, crazy and epic cut-scenes from the games..."

#DevilMayCry

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‘Devil May Cry’ is a Complete Misfire from Netflix

Adi Shankar’s clouded vision made the animated adaptation of the beloved video game franchise a joke, and I’m not laughing

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 4d

"Now they need to bring
Cyclops and Wolverine back
for Yaoi style book."

#Marvel #poetry

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Did the X-Men Turn Into Shōjo Manga?

Comic Book Haiku — Ultimate X-Men #1

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The Ugly Monster (Oscar) @theuglymonster.bsky.social · 4d

"What is most impressive about Casino is how it uses this impersonal, detached story, where business trumps love in almost every respect, to inform its stylisation."

#gangster #movies

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‘Casino’ Sees Scorsese Riffing on Old Material: 30-Year Retrospective

The legendary director’s return to the mob genre is a sleek yet uncharacteristically impersonal approach to familiar territory

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