Small Gray Games

"When an apple is bad, you simply need to relocate it within the bunch."

ME 50 YEARS FROM NOW: "I just thought of something. Walter White seems so cool. But he's the bad guy? What??"
MY NURSE, UNPLUGGING MY BREATHING MACHINE: "Okay."

I think a lot of people imagine that anything earlier than maybe the 80s is laborious arthouse fare. It's too bad, because so much of that Hays Code era stuff (Casablanca included) is so efficient and goes-down-easy watchable, even relative to today.

It's okay, from what I hear, everybody on this app is minimum 60. Everyone younger than that is doing child labor on Roblox.

One could argue that a proper authoritarian strongman government is actually the smallest possible government. It's just one guy, really. Can't get tread on if it's just one guy.

There's semi-validated reboot talk going on

A frame from Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II (1993). About 3/4 of a dozen young school girls are in front of a barred fence, smiling. They are looking at the small dinosaur-esque Baby Godzilla in the foreground, facing away from the camera. The caption reads, "Isn't he lovely?" They are, of course, 110% correct. Not pictured: Godzilla; Mechagodzilla; Baby's lovely face (because he's turned away)

A frame from Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II (1993). A close up of Baby's beautiful mug. No caption.

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II (1993)

Won Bin and Kim Sae-ron on the poster for The Man from Nowhere

I rewatched this for the first time since around when it came out. The whole thing feels so different and exponentially sadder having seen real-life Won Bin at Kim Sae-ron's funeral.

Yeah for sure. Someday somewhere there will probably be an ascii purist who gets very mad that it’s not pure ascii standards, but there’s always gonna be somebody.

I have no insight into what a specifically ascii-fan opinion would be (so grain of salt on what I think), but I'd guess that the overall ascii *vibe* is probably significantly more important than actual adherence to the technical standard.

I love the assertion here that "politicians running for office" and "random shit poster" are apparently the same thing and demand the same level of scrutiny.

Do you have a top pick from your mid century werewolf studies? Preferably something free online?

Finally somebody using javascript for something actually useful!

It's "Monsters in the Night" by Clark Ashton Smith. Please forgive my 70-year spoilers!

ME WITH 15 CIGARETTES IN MY MOUTH AT ONCE: "Yeah this one's about a Dracula. Flying saucer comes down, it's got a Dracula in it. Crazy stuff."
MY PUBLISHER: "Boy howdy, I'll give you $5 for it."
[this is worth $85,000 in today's dollars]

I've been reading tons of mid-century horror and fantasy short stories lately. Just read one about a werewolf who tries to kill a guy, but then the guy turns out to be a robot. Being a fiction writer in the '50s must have been so cool.

god I hope this works

Trump resigning in shame after I declare that he's doing things he accused others of doing (and is therefore a hypocrite).

So it's a boots on the ground thing. Jesus.

I've never been an optimist, but yknow, there was a time when I thought it wasn't going to be like this forever.

wow amazing that america has already collected almost enough 9/11 Points to earn another 9/11

Poster for Triangle of Sadness. The rich people are on a yacht and it's on fire. Damn I bet that really means something huh.

Important update: I did not like this movie.

A snippet from Lovecraft's "The Beast in the Cave." It reads "...The creature I had killed, the strange beast of the unfathomed cave, was, or had at one time been a MAN!!!"

This is the ending of The Beast in the Cave. I laughed out loud when I first read it, which I don't think I was supposed to do. I'm sorry, but that's a good experience.

The problem with literary fiction-focused education is it makes you start to think that something like Lovecraft's The Beast in the Cave sucks, which is a bad thing. It subsequently takes years to unlearn that impulse and let yourself realize that actually it sucks, which is a good thing.

I will support any movie that includes putting Joe Taslim on screen and letting him hit people.

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Fresh out of @ign.com FanFest, developer Paper Cult is excited to announce that Tears of Metal will be coming to Early Access on Steam in Spring 2026!

Also, the game has 400k wishlists, thanks for that! 🤯

Check out this fresh new trailer showcasing a new character.

Elm Street reboot where the parents burned Freddy because he wouldn't stop gentrifying their local restaurants.

Was he into leaded gas and smoking?

Robert Englund in the 1976 movie Eaten Alive!

I'm watching Eaten Alive from 1976 and this is the youngest I've ever seen Robert Englund. He's ~29 here. I love actors who are born old and then stay roughly the same amount of old for their entire lives.