MJ Weise
@mjweise.bsky.social
IGF-nominated narrative designer / writer. Worked at MIT, Harmonix, Eko, and others. Lifelong cinephile. Horror influencer.
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The problem with stormtroopers isn't "training". The problem with stormtroopers is that they are stormtroopers.
The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
The problem with stormtroopers isn't "training". The problem with stormtroopers is that they are stormtroopers.
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It's more than a little disconcerting that invading another country to steal its resources is now less controversial and more acceptable to my government and much of this country than me using the bathroom
January 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM
It's more than a little disconcerting that invading another country to steal its resources is now less controversial and more acceptable to my government and much of this country than me using the bathroom
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The new transfer of Eyes Wide Shut is completely stunning, and in the service of a deeply rich text. I tried to organize some thoughts about the movie. boxd.it/coS1wR
A ★★★★★ review of Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.
boxd.it
January 3, 2026 at 4:20 PM
The new transfer of Eyes Wide Shut is completely stunning, and in the service of a deeply rich text. I tried to organize some thoughts about the movie. boxd.it/coS1wR
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agree with this thread, but: i wouldn't assume people have seen some challenging piece of art. so many gamers don't engage with any media outside 'nerd' spaces. likely a big reason why we're sleepwalking into reliving 20th century censorship battles is these people don't know the history at all
i cannot believe video games are having a massive controversy in 2025 for a horror work like ten times less explicit and extreme than antichrist. everyone's seen that fuckin movie.
December 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
agree with this thread, but: i wouldn't assume people have seen some challenging piece of art. so many gamers don't engage with any media outside 'nerd' spaces. likely a big reason why we're sleepwalking into reliving 20th century censorship battles is these people don't know the history at all
#WakeUpDeadMan convinced me The Last Jedi is about Rian Johnson's relationship with Christianity. Faith, pacificsm, the distance between reality and myth... the way the two films' thematic obsessions echo each other is hard to ignore.
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
#WakeUpDeadMan convinced me The Last Jedi is about Rian Johnson's relationship with Christianity. Faith, pacificsm, the distance between reality and myth... the way the two films' thematic obsessions echo each other is hard to ignore.
This is the movie everyone thinks Casablanca is.
Noël Coward’s 🇬🇧British romantic drama “BRIEF ENCOUNTER” directed by David Lean was theatrically released #OTD in 1945 to widespread critical acclaim. It received three nominations at the 19th Academy Awards, Best Director, Best Actress (for Johnson), and Best Adapted Screenplay
🎬 Eagle-Lion Films
🎬 Eagle-Lion Films
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
This is the movie everyone thinks Casablanca is.
An incredible actor often hamstrung by type casting but rose above it all the same. Would have been the *perfect* actor (right age, leading man vibes, *actually* Mexican) for the Heston role in Touch of Evil.
Remembering today #RicardoMontalbán born #OnThisDay in 1920, seen here as the villainous bullfighter Luis Montoya in the #Columbo episode "A MATTER OF HONOR" (1976) with co-stars Peter Falk, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. and Maria Grimm
dir. Ted Post
📺 Universal Television
dir. Ted Post
📺 Universal Television
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
An incredible actor often hamstrung by type casting but rose above it all the same. Would have been the *perfect* actor (right age, leading man vibes, *actually* Mexican) for the Heston role in Touch of Evil.
#SilentHillf is a fucking knife to the gut, the best the series has been in over 20 years, and further evidence that Silent Hill is at its most compelling when giving voice to female rage.
October 31, 2025 at 11:16 PM
#SilentHillf is a fucking knife to the gut, the best the series has been in over 20 years, and further evidence that Silent Hill is at its most compelling when giving voice to female rage.
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Day 301: "You were almost a Jill sandwich!!1!"
October 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Day 301: "You were almost a Jill sandwich!!1!"
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Thanks to Signalis I can no longer look at any scifi horror game without thinking:
"Okay why not but the important thing is — are there lesbians and if so what level of yearning are we talking about here?"
"Okay why not but the important thing is — are there lesbians and if so what level of yearning are we talking about here?"
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Thanks to Signalis I can no longer look at any scifi horror game without thinking:
"Okay why not but the important thing is — are there lesbians and if so what level of yearning are we talking about here?"
"Okay why not but the important thing is — are there lesbians and if so what level of yearning are we talking about here?"
Caught @realgdt.bsky.social presenting his majestic, mythic, and timely adaptation of Frankenstein at the Paris in NYC yesterday, about an angel sent to Earth that none of us deserve.
October 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Caught @realgdt.bsky.social presenting his majestic, mythic, and timely adaptation of Frankenstein at the Paris in NYC yesterday, about an angel sent to Earth that none of us deserve.
When I saw Network for the first time it was *this* scene that knocked me on my ass. People have no idea what this movie's really about, because we are living in its predicted dystopia.
you have meddled with the primal force of nature mr. beale www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DS...
September 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
When I saw Network for the first time it was *this* scene that knocked me on my ass. People have no idea what this movie's really about, because we are living in its predicted dystopia.
Your reminder that difficulty for difficulty's sake in video games is a form of capitalist oppression.
September 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Your reminder that difficulty for difficulty's sake in video games is a form of capitalist oppression.
Still the best Silent Hill game.
September 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Still the best Silent Hill game.
"It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins 'Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.'"
I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division
www.thenation.com
September 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
"It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins 'Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.'"
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I see a lot of people calling this Mario’s 40th birthday and I’m here to say that this is Donkey Kong and OG Mario Bros. erasure. 🤓
September 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I see a lot of people calling this Mario’s 40th birthday and I’m here to say that this is Donkey Kong and OG Mario Bros. erasure. 🤓
Opening titles of 25th HOUR (2002)
YouTube video by Ambrose Heron
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September 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Seeing myself as a "parent" or "god" to people I write feels utterly wrong and disturbing to me. Writing is more like discovering parts of yourself you weren't fully aware of. Characters *reveal"* themselves to you, like the statue already inside the marble. You discover them. You don't "make" them.
philosophical talk with my gf while we're on a road trip, so i wanna ask a question to all of you.
how do you define your relationship as a creator to your characters? is it a parental bond? is it a god + creation bond? is it something else? is it too complex to explain?
i wanna know.
how do you define your relationship as a creator to your characters? is it a parental bond? is it a god + creation bond? is it something else? is it too complex to explain?
i wanna know.
August 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Seeing myself as a "parent" or "god" to people I write feels utterly wrong and disturbing to me. Writing is more like discovering parts of yourself you weren't fully aware of. Characters *reveal"* themselves to you, like the statue already inside the marble. You discover them. You don't "make" them.
Kojima Bros are the Nolan Bros of video games. This is why queer Metal Gear fans are the only ones I can stand.
August 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Kojima Bros are the Nolan Bros of video games. This is why queer Metal Gear fans are the only ones I can stand.
Let's not take video games down the path of the Live Action Disney Remakes, please.
I reviewed Metal Gear Solid Delta - and I feel the same about it that I do about Persona 3 Reload - I don’t really know why it exists. I think this remake doesn’t quite get how the limitations of the PS2 were important to the game’s identity (1/2) www.inverse.com/gaming/metal...
'Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater' Made Me Question Why Video Games Get Remakes
'Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater' is a competent remake of an all-time classic, but it does lose a bit of the original's vibrant personality in the process.
www.inverse.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Let's not take video games down the path of the Live Action Disney Remakes, please.
Good riddance to JAMES DOBSON, a sexual pervert and fetishistic spanking advocate who cloaked his mass-enabling of child abuse in the language of psychology and faith.
August 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Good riddance to JAMES DOBSON, a sexual pervert and fetishistic spanking advocate who cloaked his mass-enabling of child abuse in the language of psychology and faith.
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I reviewed SUPERMAN, a movie as fun as it is earnest, a sincere and heartfelt invocation of everything we know to be right, and a righteous fist to the jaw of all the craven evil running unchecked through our world.
I loved it.
www.patreon.com/posts/136561...
I loved it.
www.patreon.com/posts/136561...
August 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I reviewed SUPERMAN, a movie as fun as it is earnest, a sincere and heartfelt invocation of everything we know to be right, and a righteous fist to the jaw of all the craven evil running unchecked through our world.
I loved it.
www.patreon.com/posts/136561...
I loved it.
www.patreon.com/posts/136561...
Sure, The Incredibles is still technically a better Fantastic Four movie, but First Steps is a better Tomorrowland movie, so Brad Bird and Matt Shakman can call it even.
July 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Sure, The Incredibles is still technically a better Fantastic Four movie, but First Steps is a better Tomorrowland movie, so Brad Bird and Matt Shakman can call it even.
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"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked SHODAN and she asked me to pant and sweat as I ran through her corridors.
July 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked SHODAN and she asked me to pant and sweat as I ran through her corridors.
Should be obvious, folks.
If supporting human rights, equity, and justice and liberation for all risks costing you elections, you should support those things anyway because if you sacrifice human beings to win a election you don't deserve the office anyway and can't be trusted with that power.
July 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Should be obvious, folks.