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Holding objects and looking at them is really fun. Despite the fact that it’s a GameCube game running on mobile hardware I can’t stop just looking at stuff in RE4. I like offering an egg to the zombies in this trying time. I ordered a fancy usb cable so I can try out Alyx. I feel like if RE is already blowing my mind Alyx really will.

I've only seen through the sixth episode, but I really enjoy how this season feels like an inverted crime thriller. There could easily be a show about Molly investigating this small town disappearance and the twist is that this guy in the background is the killer.

I definitely want to hop on RE4 VR but what other VR games should I make sure not to miss? I have never tried VR in any capacity, so there’s probably a lot of ground to cover.

I haven't read the books and have only seen the first episode of season 2, which I liked quite a bit, but I feel like the universal thread between the games, the show, and presumably the books is not the unified canonical plot, but the essential charm and likeability of the universe and characters. Season 1 of the show was often ridiculous and not great, but it also won me over by just being charming and fun.

It really was excruciating to watch. There was a lot of unpleasantness in it, but I don't think that is what make it feel so monotonous. In high school English they talk about the rule of threes, the loose rule that if a subject or theme recurs three times, it must be important to the overall message of the work. This movie follows the rule of fours or fives. We see Phil be cruel or George be weak over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. Each time it happens we expect some variation or development, but instead the movie is relentlessly consistent. I admire the movie's willingness to be provocatively tedious. Another uncommon feat the movie pulls off is to be subtle but unambiguous in how it presents the plot. I finished the movie not really understanding what actually happened in it because it doesn't shine a spotlight on critical details and moments. However, after doing a little confused research it's clear what happened and how. Usually when I leave a movie befuddled it is because it is being coy and leaving things "open," but this movie is very much closed despite making the audience work and pay attention to get answers. I think what I ultimately liked most about the movie is how the brothers were an allegory for American western individualism, and the failings and vulnerabilities therein. The brothers live in a mansion playing at the outmoded lifestyle of an era the world is leaving behind. They sleep together in small beds in a small room in a large house where the servants probably have more privacy than themselves. They use their families wealth to insulate themselves from progress, except when it is inconvenient, and they live wholly within their own fantasies. I think it is this self delusion, and particularly Phil's need to defend against every encroachment of the modern age, that makes the brothers seem so fragile, childlike, and ultimately sympathetic. Seeing the way Phil needs things to conform to his ways, the lengths he will go to to maintain his fantasy, and how easily threatened his "rugged individualism" is, is heartbreaking. His self image is built upon needing very little, but he also needs very little and cannot tolerate having more. There's a lot more to be said about this allegory, and how well just about every aspect of the movie supports it, but at a certain point I'd just be summarizing the plot and pointing out the obvious, so I'll end it here.

This movie really was something. It has really grown on me in the week or so since I watched it.

This looks awesome. I never know how much credit/blame to give A24 for their movies. They definitely tend towards a certain type of movie, but I've never gone into a movie that happened to be from A24 but didn't look like an "A24" movie and had it be an "A24" movie, if you catch my meaning.

Given all the shit coming out on all these studios and the longstanding history of people dunking on Valve's weird corporate structure/culture, I'm surprised nothing horrifying (that I know of) has come out about them.

Your honor @Commissar SFLUFAN, I rest my case.

I didn't realize Lake was out. It looked like a pleasant game.

The Patruck is the greatest car in the game. Fear it.

The game was already installed and wouldn't launch, but unchecking the HD textures installation and then trying to launch it did work.

Fucking Micropenis, can't launch the game with gamepass on PC. Apparently a lot of people are having a similar problem.

Is GB having their annual bareknuckle brawl or are they moving on to a new format? Listening to their nonsense has become a favorite holiday tradition of mine.

The city environment makes me worry we're going to be leaving the Douglas Firs.

This is a very good Spiderman game.

I'm not 100% sure, but I tried to order some last night and they were "updating inventory" and the store was down, so I suspect it was literally today.

These fuckers raised their prices!

I'll bite, what's the greatest superhero movie ever made.

I like the co-op events because everyone has collectively decided that the best way to win is to crash the shit out of the AI cars.

I'm upset at how much I'm enjoying this. They did a great job with the Miami pastel vibe in the original series, and they're doing just as well with the northwoods aesthetic.

So I'm partway through the second episode, and I'm impressed at how good the show has been. One trope I absolutely hate is having every teen dude just be a complete dickbag. It's tired and should've stayed dead after The Breakfast Club killed it 36 years ago. It would honestly be so unexpected and refreshing to see some kids in letterman jackets just not be awful.

Full spoilers below, I'm ultimately pretty disappointed in the narrative.