Bob Hoskins Mario is a crazy and entertaining, if uneven, film, made by people whose vision exceeded their grasp. I will watch it any day and enjoy it. It is possibly the most misguided *adaptation* of anything I have ever seen.
(that's a "hello I'm a former steward, ask away")
Hello!
[furious googling] WAIT A SEC I just said Ladysmith as the most prominent isicathamiya band people are likely to have come across (via Paul Simon's Graceland) but that's ACTUALLY who you're going to see?? Fuuuuuuuuuuu
OK I don't want to boil the whole of isicathamiya down to "Ladysmith Black Mambazo", but: you are in for a goddamn treat
The photographer is holding up a copy of the book "The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope: 100+ essays on the craft of game writing", collated by Jon Ingold.
Phew, it fit through the letterbox. @inkle.co
Inspired by the top and bottom of this image, new series "Spotty Man Breaks Bad"; after Mother Nature refuses to cure his pre-existing condition (spots), Spotty gets into cooking "cosmic dust", in an unwise partnership with fast food magnate Texas Pete
Attempting to steal in circumstances where you will 100% be a suspect even if nobody sees the actual theft
Realising after four months that this NPC is a tortured pun
Realising a rule hasn't worked that way since at LEAST 3.0
When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.
the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.
trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️
republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️
“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️
naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️
villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️
powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️
list goes on
Do you not remember Magneto attaching you to the machine*?
* Oh god this reference is a quarter of a century old
Hey 😘
🎶 You would not believe your dogs
lol (hollow laughter)
There's no evidence that oestrogen has a feminising effect, but god help you if you suggest puberty blockers! They'll stop the feminising effects of oestrogen!
The excellent Folding Ideas video where he suggests that the narrative structure of Crank is that of a video game, with all the deaths and restarts that didn't "really happen" excised, so in review it's just one unstoppable guy constantly winning
Super Robot vs Real Robot is a known subgenre distinction that OP misses entirely by just having one big bucket labelled "mecha anime". This is one step up from "you see 'western cartoons' like The Simpsons are funny, whereas 'anime' has fighting and power up sequences"
Their fuckin "iiiiit's a living" faces
A woman dressed at a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother from the recent Dune movies holding the Agony box and Gom Jabbar and a man with his hand in the box with a look of surprise on his face.
It was amazing to meet the original Paul Atreides at ECCC yesterday!
He's a cocaine-using man
And no one understands him but his Watson
Gathering Dudes in Cavern
Certainly not given the absolute fuckup they made of The Lone Ranger, the whitest-hat cowboy of all
Patsy, a whiskery tuxedo cat, is looking over her shoulder at the camera and meowing. The carpet is covered in her shed fur.
Understandable! I miss her and I'm just at work
The Tintin "What a week" meme except FFXIV themed. Snowy the dog is still drinking Captain Haddock's beer. Captain Haddock, dressed in the Warrior of Light's paladin armour: "What an expansion, huh?" Tintin, dressed as G'raha Tia: "WoL, it was a level 83 quest-"
Thank you to a friend who dug this out:
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
WAIT FUCK you're going to GDC, I was nearly sending heartfelt messages of sympathy 😓
Honestly impressed, given the comic I expected "Things to do while seated on a unicycle" item 1 to be "fuck"
Rebel engineers analysing the plans: "...Did they give their superweapon a prostate?"
