JB Kalf

JB Kalf

@enchilada89.bsky.social

previously @enchilada89 on twitter, looking forward to the new frontier

177 Followers 341 Following 187 Posts Joined Nov 2024
3 days ago

Pokopia is crack

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Saw on the train today, Fukushima prefecture is doing a tourism campaign in partnership with Square-Enix, promoting Final Fantasy-like landscapes & touristic spots.

Cute stuff, I only found the 1st one in good quality.

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1 week ago

You'd think a movie like Zootopia 2, the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time, would have a huge blu-ray release day just based on the volume of interest this movie has. If this was 15 years ago you'd see ads "own it today" but no. They don't want you to own anything anymore.

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2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection of the Spirit of 1789 (and of 1776, of course). The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.

ofc, Eco called it.

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that one reviewer who said Pokopia was basically viva pinata singlehandedly convinced me to get the game, you don't know the chokehold viva pinata has on my conception of video games

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It’s actually FEWER Misérables

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shigesato itoi and shigeru miyamoto interview https://shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/
Itoi: Speaking of that mindset… this is a slightly different topic, but take game mechanics, for example. Let's say you have an item in the game that makes you so strong it practically breaks the game. When you look at game magazines, they talk about those items as if it's some bargain for the player. They think it's a good thing, in other words. They don't stop to think, "If you put something like this in, it's not even a game anymore." The idea that anything that gives you an advantage must be "good"—it's starting to feel a bit warped to me.

Miyamoto: That's because their goal isn't to inhabit the character and enjoy the experience, it's just to beat the game.

Itoi: I guess they just want to be able to say, "I won!"

Miyamoto: "I finished it in three days," and all that.

Itoi: Boasting about speed in games is a sickness, really.

they would hate backloggd reviews for games released before 2004 </3

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Jetlag is real and evil

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gamers love to write "now that the dust is settling" four days after a video game has released

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Americans are a fearful, claustrophobic people because every food choice is a variation on "sandwich"

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Pardon my obsession, but "auteur" doesn't go with "theory"; it's a "politique" that reflects an experience; here, a couple of words about what Truffaut and his critical cohort derived from the practice and the concept:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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3 weeks ago

every single article about a national writer visiting texas:

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Insane, redditors find videos & audio hiding in plain sight in the DOJ’s online Epstein files due to .pdf files - congressional reps should check for the same ASAP before the DOJ scrubs them @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @reptedlieu.bsky.social

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1 month ago

I’m kinda glad to see big companies finally getting more comfortable with handing the keys to their big franchises to cool indie devs with a proven track record. Castlevania by Motion Twin, God of War by Mega Cat. Smart! The New Hollywood games moment is perhaps here, baby!

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1 month ago

It took me months, about 495 rides, recovering from a shattered right foot and hacking a folding scooter, but I finally own a Nintendo Switch 2 using points obtained from Citi Bike. Afterwards, it left me questioning the very nature of work. For @aftermath.site.

aftermath.site/switch-2-cit...

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1 month ago
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A Dialogue with Austin Walker - Unwinnable Austin Walker is a writer, game developer, and a prolific podcast host.

"But I do think culturally we are back to brunch."

This month in Dialogue, @austinwalker.bsky.social goes long on craft, industry, and doing the work.

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Do you think Bad Bunny will announce Pikmin 5 during the Super Bowl Halftime Show later today?

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1 month ago

Seeded within this incredibly bleak piece is the nefarious implication that romance novels are not books, but content. An indictment of the entire genre, really.

The fact that this author is just overwhelmingly pleased with plagiarism content is another topic entirely.

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Applause

In 1929, Rouben Mamoulian, man of the theatre, made the great theatre-centric Applause, with an effort at a distinctively cinematic aesthetic—and was recognized for it in @newyorker.com at the time; at 1pm at Film Forum in 35mm.:
www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab...
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The Elemental Pleasures of Johnny Guitar - Bright Wall/Dark Room 'Johnny Guitar' is so rigorously, comprehensively excessive, its excesses eclipse any baseline against which excess is typically judged.

“Nicholas Ray's JOHNNY GUITAR is so rigorously, comprehensively excessive, its excesses eclipse any baseline against which excess is typically judged.”

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1 month ago

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

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it must be annoying to be a 90 year old Republican congressman and have to pretend like you know what's going on anymore. you got into politics to pass laws giving out tax breaks for every horse you own but your groyper staffers are like "you need to condemn a new YA novel about bottom surgery"

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1 month ago
A still image from The Man Who Stole the Sun shows a Japanese man on the ground pointing a gun in what looks like a dire situation.

Folks can watch The Man Who Stole the Sun, with English subtitles, here: ok.ru/video/171135... 📽️ RIP Kazuhiko Hasegawa.

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“The Youth Killer”, “The Man Who Stole the Sun," Director Kazuhiko Hasegawa Passed Away Film director Kazuhiko Hasegawa, known for works such as “The Youth Killer” and “The Man Who Stole the Sun,” died yesterday, January 31, at a hospital in Tokyo due to multiple organ failure caused by ...

Very sad news about the passing of Kazuhiko Hasegawa, especially as he never got to make another Film after his masterpiece The Man who Stole the Sun. cinemadailyus.com/news/the-you...

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Protestors outside Texas ICE detention facility met with tear gas in clash SAN ANTONIO - Attendees gathered outside the Immigration and Custom's Enforcement facility in Dilley, Texas, were met with chemical irritants during clashes wi

they shot tear gas at people protesting the ICE facility where they're keeping a 5-year-old outside San Antonio news4sanantonio.com/news/local/p...

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It's annoying how audience members treat musical theatre like opera instead of a fun vaudeville show

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What It Feels Like Getting Stopped by ICE My work for Texas Monthly demands hundreds of hours on the road each year. Being pulled over by immigration enforcement officers has felt like an inevitability for months.

José R. Ralat, the Taco Editor of @texasmonthly.bsky.social, details being stopped 3x in one day: by a county cop, by ICE, and by DPS.

"We were shaken, and angry at and afraid of what seemed like a coordinated effort between federal and state officials."

www.texasmonthly.com/food/taco-ed...

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1 month ago

Gamers should play the occasional awful game. It keeps your gamer opinions in check on what actual bad games are like

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This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.

Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

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1 month ago

The idea that the British Raj respected the rule of law is legitimately one of the funniest things I've ever read in my entire life

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