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Hi! I was keen to get this game on Switch 2 but I can't see it in the NZ Nintendo eshop - is that intentional? Will it ever be available to NZ players? Cheers

man the speed at which people churn out new pokemon art within like two hours of the trailer dropping is exhausting

"Everyone should be able to make art" means no one should be prohibited from picking up a pencil. It doesn't mean everyone should be entitled to output without effort. Output without effort isn't art.

I forgot to post this here
First Nanu drawing in what, over 3 years??

Diabolical luck getting two 3-star cards in one pack but having them be dupes

rewatched Knives Out a few weeks ago only to notice that Blanc gets called Benny. why have we stopped calling him Benny. why does even PHILLIP not call him Benny??? @rianjohnson.bsky.social please #bringbackbenny

This is such a perfect mix of recognisable but still subtle enough to be worn casually, I love it! I don't suppose you ship to new zealand......

NOT GOING LEFT
NOT GO-- oh lawd
#knivesout

happy birthday to myself

study (but it's JV)

Ha-ha-ha, ho-ho-ho. (He grabs his stomach in mirthless laughter.) Tequila Sunset -- not Sunrise, because you're almost dead. So funny, Harry. Thank you for fucking me.

i rewatched glass onion
#knivesout

Lrt trying not to laugh at the table as I discover this image

Kafka’s metamorphosis but with Pokémon

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed into an enormous Bug-type.

Rough digital painting of a little guy up a green and orange hill freeing some birds toward a huge cloud.

The Bird Keeper (2025)

Il Diavolo
this began as a simplified face drawing exercise then it got out of hand
#knivesout #wakeupdeadman

Yearly reminder that just because it's a new gregorian year doesnt mean we all start posting "happy year of the horse!!!" stuff immediately (unless you live in Japan which has its own thing going on) because the lunar new year isnt till 17 February 2026

anyway end of rambling, I just think the movie is such good writing. @rianjohnson.bsky.social please tell me whether I am going crazy i wont hold it against you

Anyone can go astray by falling prey to their own ego, whatever the religion, lack of belief, political alignment, whether it's a Wicks or a Blanc. Wicks was too far gone to listen to Jud, but Blanc did when it mattered. (19/19)

Someone else mentioned how Blanc isn't in any way converted at the end, and that brings home that the movie isn't ultimately about religion, it's about ideas bigger than religion: letting go of one's own ego and self-righteousness and actually, genuinely serving the ideals we claim to follow (18/19)

Blanc's Damascus is about overcoming the egotism in the idea that "I'm fighting evil", overcoming what Wicks was poisoned with, and seeing the humans in justice again, because justice doesn't always come in shaming and exposing the guilty (17/19)

...until he sees Martha's lips and has his own Damascus moment, in the same way Louise triggered Jud's Damascus moment. The dialogue that follows hangs on the idea of grace, "grace for my enemy" etc, but to me it's more than that - (16/19)

And Blanc revels in it:

"Yes. Yes. It is time to break this tawdry facade of miracles and resurrections and reveal what really happened. It is time for Benoit Blanc’s final checkmate over the mysteries of faith!"

In that moment it's as much about Blanc's ego as it is about truth or justice (15/19)

Again, obviously this is mostly just him playing into the religious stuff and getting everyone to shut up and listen, but there's a lot of symbolism in him standing in the place Wicks stood, before launching into his speech revealing the guilty, the flock hanging onto his every word (14/19)

The parallel culminates when Blanc himself ascends the pulpit and bellows:

"You shall not silence the voice of the Lord! But sit now and behold the wickedness and shame of the guilty laid bare before you all!" (13/19)

The implication being that what Blanc is doing is about himself too. Obviously the difference is that Blanc's job is to find murderers, but it raises the question to what extent Blanc is doing his job for truth and justice's sake, as opposed to his own ego, looking for the checkmate moment (12/19)

... but to serve them and bring them to Christ. Otherwise, I’m just as bad as Wicks. Making it about me and not Jesus.
...
when Wicks was talking about fighting the world for Christ’s sake, he wasn’t talking about Christ, he was talking about his own ego." (11/19)

Jud has this realisation first in his Damascus moment:

"It is a game! Solving it, winning it. Getting your big checkmate moment. And by using me in it, you’re setting me against my real and only purpose in life, which is not to fight the wicked and bring them to justice, ... (10/19)

And the movie ingeniously says this is the wrong way to look at it by not really treating the "suspects" as suspects at all (something I've seen the movie be criticised for) - we shouldn't be thinking about them as the enemy, even if Blanc does for most of the movie. (9/19)

best illustrated by Lee Ross when he accuses Jud of "Helping Benoit Blanc crack the mystery of the evil, evil church". Jud and Blanc on one side, the churchgoers on the other. (8/19)