Skybrush Threepwood

I'm glossing over the darker/sadder undertones in some of Lindgren's other work a bit, but The Brothers Lionheart still feels like a standout.

I've felt *baffled* by a certain kind of bad movie, coming out of the theater, just trying to work out how it went so wrong in such particular ways, and thinking about it for days and weeks and years. The David Harbour Hellboy is one. Just a series of inexplicable choices.

Look, I would've noped out on a game that knowingly and insistently hired an actor guilty of sexual assault, no matter how excited I otherwise was about it, but it is nice of RGG Studios to wait until a remake to go mask off. Yakuza Kiwami 3 is no great sacrifice.

Astrid Lindgren: Here's a super-strong mischievous girl. Here's a troublemaking boy. Here's a quirky guy with a propeller on his back.

And here are 2 brothers who die, go on to another realm where a lot of horrible shit happens, and then they kill themselves again to maybe get to a better afterlife

YouTube video by The Morbid Zoo Sound of Freedom and the Shape of Modern Propaganda

Finally got around to watching this by @themorbidzoo.bsky.social, and it's great and incisive. Unfortunately I also made the mistake of switching comments to "Newest" out of morbid (no pun intended) curiosity, and, oh boy, so many conspiracy theorists going "EPSTEIN FILES! I AM VINDICATED!"

A picture of an older Jack Nicholson in sunglasses, smiling with a cigarette in his mouth. The photo looks very similar to the one that dril uses for his PFP, but it's not the same. Ceci n'est pas une dril pfp.

THIS IS NOT A DRIL

When I was 11, my friend wanted to rent a movie. The cover looked scary to me - I was a sensitive kid - but he reassured me that it wasn't really scary, it was more funny and adventure-y.

That movie wasn't Army of Darkness. It was Evil Dead 2. He'd gotten it mixed up. I was borderline traumatized.

The dark (darker?) side of Rule 34.

He should be cursed to never shit again for the rest of his life, which won't last terribly long before the constipation becomes fatal.

The thing that gets me - besides... every single thing about it - is that it HAS to be a hostile, spiteful act. Like, even monstrous laziness and insensitivity and lack of hygiene isn't a workable explanation; it's objectively a lot more work than just shitting in the toilet.

In terms of sheer laughs, the third series will always be my favorite, but Goes Forth is probably peak achievement of the show.

That is, if it's not all a dying fever dream.

Fun stuff! Also that dragon fucked me up as a kid.

Took a philosophy elective in my senior year, and our teacher showed us Life of Brian, saying it was relevant material as an examination of religion and dogma. Otherwise, I think mainly Scandinavian children's movies. I've been traumatized by The Brothers Lionheart more times than I can count.

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

Great job, Internet!: Hollywood uncooked as viral Cruise vs. Pitt video looks like another AI con-job Great job, Internet!: Hollywood uncooked as viral Cruise vs. Pitt video looks like another AI con-job

The lesson from the "Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt AI Video" reveal is twofold, old, and evergreen:

1) Slow Down
and 2) always start from the ground position that any claims made by an "AI" corporation— any for-profit corporation, really— is them lying to you to hype their product.

OpenAI Unveil “Final Slogan”

An ‘astonishingly’ large new dinosaur species has been discovered in the Sahara | BBC Science Focus Magazine This school-bus-sized predator was so unusual that scientists didn't recognise it at first

WAKE UP EVERYONE UNICORN SPINOSAURUS JUST SPAWNED
www.sciencefocus.com/news/new-din...

A pixel art rendition of the great A'Tuin, a planet-sized turtle carrying the Discworld atop its back.

A cabal of sitting grey-robed figures conducting a mystical ceremony

The title screen for Discworld released on PC and consoles showing Rincewind swooping away on the Luggage with Death clinging onto it

a 2D rendition of Rincewind's room where he's just woken up and looking wistfully at his bed. "I really must do some heavy research into this bed."

"In a distant and secondhand set of dimensions..."

For game-playing Discworld fans in 1995, this was a dream come true.

A point-and-click adventure voiced expertly by BBC comedy and radio stalwarts. Plenty of moon logic but also all the charm and humour you could shake a sausage-inna-bun at.

My jack-of-all-digital-trades wife has been struggling to find a job after she quit her last one because of toxic work environment, and she's finally resorted to lying on her CV.

She retched as she wrote in "Proficient in AI tools"

I mean, she *would* be proficient, bc it takes no brains.

Name a film you would call PERFECT. Any genre. 🎬

#filmsky 📽

YouTube video by Xbox Aphelion | Reveal Trailer | Xbox Games Showcase 2025

[Ongoing thread] Aphelion (PC/Xbox, 2026) by @dontnod.bsky.social (Remember Me, Life is Strange, Jusant)

It's a narrative-driven sci-fi adventure game, it reminds me of Deliver Us the Moon/Mars, so it's a game for me 👌

An aphelion is the furthest point of an orbit around the Sun. ☝️

Maaaan, I love Deliver Us the Moon so much. I wished I liked Deliver Us Mars more.

Army of Darkness rips, though

When I was 11, my friend wanted to rent a movie. The cover looked scary to me - I was a sensitive kid - but he reassured me that it wasn't really scary, it was more funny and adventure-y.

That movie wasn't Army of Darkness. It was Evil Dead 2. He'd gotten it mixed up. I was borderline traumatized.

Sam Raimi’s ARMY OF DARKNESS was released on this day in 1993 #filmsky

Well, that was an instant block... How dare people enjoy and talk about things this enlightened being doesn't deem worthy?

I was literally stuck in a game of Actorle.com once because I was relatively sure about who it was, but there was one credit I couldn't find. Why? Because I just couldn't believe the world at large would rate Mask of Zorro, one of the best adventure movies of the last 50 yrs, a paltry 6.8 on IMDB.

Name a film you would call PERFECT. Any genre. 🎬

#filmsky 📽

I genuinely don't think I've ever been MAD going out of a movie theater. If a movie was just a real trash fire, I just feel kind of down and bleugh.

That said, I've only watched BvS once, at home, through questionable means, and I might have felt even worse about it if I'd paid for the experience.

Remembering when Amanda Palmer was like "Trump's going to be great for art because creativity thrives under suffering"

I'm paraphrasing; I'm not searching out and exposing my brain to that shit again