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Sharing things I think matter. Writer and Cultural Critic with words in various places (The A.V. Club, Inverse, Unwinnable, etc.). Game Dev at Play Underground Games working on a secret unannounced project.

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Everyone else’s Pokopia island is hard mogging mine. I am so ashamed. How are y’all doing that

08.03.2026 01:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hmmm, today I feel like sharing something completely random, somewhat mean-spirited but is my earnest opinion, and is largely subjective and vibes-based. I sure hope it doesn't become the subject of everyone's disdain on social media for the next 3 days

07.03.2026 22:20 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Magikarp in Pokemon Pokopia with a text bubble above it that says “Yo, where am I?!”

A Magikarp in Pokemon Pokopia with a text bubble above it that says “Yo, where am I?!”

A Bulbasaur in Pokemon Pokopia with a text bubble above it that says “This is no good!”

A Bulbasaur in Pokemon Pokopia with a text bubble above it that says “This is no good!”

07.03.2026 19:16 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
9 games in a 3x3 grid: 1000xRESIST, Mega Man Starforce Dragon, Abzu, Inscryption, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Norco, Hollow Knight Silksong, Fossil Fighters, Super Mario Galaxy

9 games in a 3x3 grid: 1000xRESIST, Mega Man Starforce Dragon, Abzu, Inscryption, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, Norco, Hollow Knight Silksong, Fossil Fighters, Super Mario Galaxy

joining in the trend and sharing my 9 personal brainworms with you all

07.03.2026 08:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it is, I have spent countless hours tending to dozens of orphaned animal children

07.03.2026 04:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This game is ruining my life.

07.03.2026 01:09 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

banger episode of The Pitt this week (naked yoga furry edition)

06.03.2026 06:01 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pokémon Pokopia

05.03.2026 18:39 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Here’s how The Secret Agent can still win Best Picture

05.03.2026 18:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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i love the witch hat atelier mangaka more and more every day yall dont know what this means to me

04.03.2026 16:27 👍 5598 🔁 2079 💬 23 📌 48

How to win in November

04.03.2026 19:53 👍 10961 🔁 3048 💬 37 📌 39

This is one of my favorite movies I got to see last year. There’s a scene involving something a flower does that made me gasp out loud, and that’s when I knew the film had true power

04.03.2026 17:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm starting a new trend called "an apple a day challenge" where you eat an apple a day to keep the doctor away

03.03.2026 21:46 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I'm quite biased but I would love if you gave it a 2nd chance and would be curious to hear your overall thoughts regardless. To me this is like, one of the truly great films of the 2020s

03.03.2026 20:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

a friend just asked me "what's that movie with the explosion and Cillian Murphy" and the answer wasn't Oppenheimer

03.03.2026 18:15 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

has anyone figured out how to not feel guilty when you aren’t constantly productive

03.03.2026 02:36 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just finished listening to Matt Johnson's interview on The Big Picture about Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. Genuinely up there as one of the smartest guys I've ever heard talk about his own art literally ever

02.03.2026 21:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m available for work

I’m available for work

02.03.2026 20:04 👍 67 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
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The history of VistaVision — from WHITE CHRISTMAS to STAR WARS to ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER — and why it’s “coming back from the dead”.

A great listen from NPR:
www.npr.org/2026/02/22/n... #FilmSky

01.03.2026 23:22 👍 111 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 3

yup!!!

01.03.2026 22:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12."

Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.

28.02.2026 20:40 👍 2997 🔁 888 💬 22 📌 20
Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent saying "I'd kill him with a hammer."

Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent saying "I'd kill him with a hammer."

28.02.2026 15:28 👍 212 🔁 37 💬 0 📌 2

It is so demoralizing that this is incentivized in this country. That the systems we live under not only condone, but implore people to be the most heinously evil examples of our species, and they profit from it. They keep getting away with it. I really just can’t accept that version of our world.

28.02.2026 18:57 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It never gets any less infuriating or despairing to witness such horrific acts of cruelty, and to know that you live on the same planet as the vile people who make it all happen. No matter how many “unprecedented events” you live through, no matter how much history you read, it always stings.

28.02.2026 18:44 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

28.02.2026 17:50 👍 9981 🔁 1429 💬 53 📌 84

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

28.02.2026 17:50 👍 17235 🔁 3596 💬 183 📌 218

We are living in the most evil, bloodthirsty country imaginable. I can't fathom having anything other than complete scorn for this place.

28.02.2026 07:41 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I need him shot out of a cannon as a 4th of July celebration at this point

27.02.2026 05:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

guys I only wept really hard like 5 separate times 😅

27.02.2026 05:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0