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The Joyful Mythology of “Nouvelle Vague” Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s making of “Breathless” embraces the legend of the French New Wave and its enduring influence.

“Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s making of “Breathless,” “both shows the fashioning of the New Wave as a modern myth and confirms the enduring power of that myth,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/BdzrsR

A section of dialogue choices between the player (blue) and Outer Worlds 2 character Ethel Tinsley (red). The full tree of choices for the conversation is shown on the right. The dialogue is written in OEI Tools, a tool made by and for Obsidian Entertainment

the parallax view (alan j. pakula, 1974)

[less than a week after dems sweep elections]

chuck schumer: have we tried my same old bullshit?

The Human Toll of the Suspension of SNAP The food-assistance program serves around forty-two million Americans. In Texas, even people with decent jobs are feeling the pain.

heartbreaking piece about how SNAP suspension is hurting people in Texas www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

99% of memoirs should have been or remained essays. like what do you mean you're a 29-year-old brooklyn transplant and you wrote 70k words about your life. you better have been a war correspondent before you picked up that podcast mic. you better have been raised in a fundamentalist cult

“Lakefront,
more phantom cramps.
Absent waves. Slip

knots, boats lisp against rope
as they sing that old song, the one
that starts with should.”

From “Boon Lake” by Hazelyn Aroian in ISSUE 27!

Forgiving, and Forgetting, Bioshock - Unwinnable If there is one constructive lesson that can be learned from Bioshock Infinite, it’s the crucial, fundamental need for forgiveness.

"So, after all this time… I forgive you, Bioshock Infinite."

@unabridgedgamer.bsky.social explores Bioshock Infinite's strange interpretation of Christianity:

I know there’s been a lot of news lately but uh, has any Transportation Secretary in the history of the US ever had this many airplane disasters and airport shutdowns in nine months..?

Tom and Daisy from the great gatsby literally try to convince Nick of eugenics during dinner

Thank you Lord Almighty for the new Vinegar Syndrome shop that opened in Pittsburgh's South Side, literally a 15 minute walk from my place

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

on the subject of term limits and the constitution, we don't talk enough about how insane it is that FDR was president four times and every time he won like 400+ electoral votes

One time I tried to buy oranges, like, regular ass oranges, and I couldn't. They didn't qualify for SNAP. You know what did? Take and bake pizza

Genuinely wondering if people would be ok with the $80 price point for games if they shared their games with friends -- Me and my bf at least try each other's games so the $80 feels more like a $40 investment if anything

Just started pokemon violet, first actual pokemon game (ik Arceus doesn't count), Will reserve thoughts until I'm a healthy way in

Alamo Trust surrenders, apologizes for "Indigenous Peoples" day post It's the first controversy to surface in 18 months over an Alamo visitor center and museum.

this comes after the Alamo tried to add a bust of an enslaved man named Joe to its new museum and trustees rejected it, relegating it to a smaller part of the museum about the role of slavery in the alamo's history. www.expressnews.com/news/texas/a...

If your job is looking at screen all day, I think it's beneficial to have at least one hobby that is not looking at screen.

Oh, yeah. We forgot.
nobodythoughts.com/issue-5/

No food stamps in PA for November until the government shutdown stops

We're pleased to announce the creation of two new CMUP poetry prizes, made possible by the generosity of @teppercmu.bsky.social professor Sridhar R. Tayur!

Learn more: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

Doing a second playthrough after a few months and I'm just breezing right through the ruins to the flahgra fight, It feels so good knowing not only where to go but what are the capabilities of certain power ups, and the pacing THE PACING, MY GODD

It's illegal how amazing Metroid Prime is, Think I found a new comfort game

Where Do Eels Come From? There is much to be learned from how little we know about them.

In the 1870s, the German biologist Max Schultze, lying on his deathbed, observed that he was leaving a world where “all the important questions . . . had now been settled.” All of them, that is, “except the eel question.”

Hey, hey hey.. Kill yourself

There's 30 other people (digitally) ahead of me waiting to check out Vineland from the local library, but the newest Pynchon is just sitting on the shelf lmao

One battle after another has some pikmin-ass music (complimentary)