Thomas Wilde

I'm back on the Daydreamcast for my annual Halloween episode with @edgarallanbro.bsky.social, to talk FEAR, MORTAL KOMBAT, and NINJA GAIDEN 4.

That would make sense.

Personally, I appreciate how Craven is both satirizing and playing the genre conventions straight. Ghostface kinda sucks most of the time, and that's part of the point.

I don't know. I can appreciate the Western-comics camp of the overall storyline, especially once they hit MK9 and they're visibly leaning into it, but I prefer the grindhouse aspects of MKII. The more they resort to generic explosions, the less I care.

The first 4 are mostly about one of horror's great directors flexing his mastery of the genre. After that, yeah, it's about the warm embrace of a familiar brand.

I had forgotten how irritated I was as a kid with all the MK3 fatalities that render your opponent into several discrete chunks with their hands floating next to their torsos.

I used to play MK3 at the convenience store by my high school and all the fatalities in that game were *disappointing*.

Hope, Zombies, and Resident Evil A look at the Resident Evil series as a source of rare optimism within zombie media.

Hope, Zombies, and Resident Evil by @stolisomancer.bsky.social

"In Resident Evil, almost uniquely, victories are possible. They’re always difficult and often costly, but the characters can win. The world can be saved, and is in fact worth saving in the first place."

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Trending: From stress relief to self-discovery: UW researchers reveal the deeper impact of video games https://www.geekwire.com/2025/from-stress-relief-to-self-discovery-uw-researchers-reveal-the-deeper-impact-of-video-games/

I was thinking of that, but I can never find it when I need it. Thanks.

I do find myself wondering if many of these dopes understand on any level that their wealth does not exist independently of civilization. Without a functioning society to hold it up, a billion dollars barely exists at all.

It wasn't that. Depending on who you ask, it was either because SA's anime board had bad moderation or because the people who left for 4chan wouldn't stop posting dubiously legal art in ADTRW.

I wouldn't call it generational so much as I'd argue it's specifically Western comic book nerds. There's absolutely a school of regressive thought where some people in that fan community get forehead-veiningly angry over manga or the idea that it poses some kind of threat to their hobby.

Reactionary content creators and “thought leaders” truly believe they’re the other side of a coin. They think that a decades-old market research firm whose value is entirely dependent upon its veracity is cooking its numbers to push an agenda because that is what they do.

New report about crazy Xbox profit expectations helps shed light on Microsoft’s broader gaming changes https://www.geekwire.com/2025/new-report-about-crazy-xbox-profit-expectations-helps-shed-light-on-microsofts-broader-gaming-changes/

I've often joked that the Trump presidencies feel like a rejected parody script from 1985, but no individual element bothers me as much as this.

The CDC head during COVID being named "Redfield," and now this shitbird having the same name as the evil corporation from "The Boys," is too on the nose.

Gallagher.

My first thought was Armie Hammer due to that cannibal flap from a few years ago, but honestly it'd be some Pureflix or Hallmark Original Movie guy.

I genuinely wonder when people are gonna start voting with their wallets and stop rewarding companies for using AI, Arc Raiders using it for genAI voices is frankly disgusting and it blows my mind that some people will defend it, and now Arc Raiders is sitting at 3rd top selling on Steam

“My life was a series of battles. And I kept on winning.”: Skybox remembers Tomonobu Itagaki A tribute to Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive director Tomonobu Itagaki from multiple Skybox contributors.

“My life was a series of battles. And I kept on winning.”: Skybox remembers Tomonobu Itagaki by @edgarallanbro.bsky.social feat. several Skybox contributors

"Tomonobu Itagaki was a rock star. Maybe our last one."

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A sign that says THEY BLAME IMMIGRANTS AO YOU DON'T BLAME BILLIONAIRES Also behind them to the left is a sign that says NO TROOPS IN OUR STREETS

That's right

Itagaki's farewell post, which I will not be translating in full because I don't want to do it an injustice. It says it was posted by someone close to him.

Itagaki's final photo of himself, sitting in a restaurant, looking off into the distance.

Former Team Ninja boss Tomonobu Itagaki has passed away, as confirmed by his Facebook and personal friends. "Words of departure - my life's light is about to run out." www.facebook.com/tomonobu.ita...

Life of a guide writer: I am now cursed to forever spin 180 at the start of any new level of every game and check to see if there's a secret behind me.

This is exclusively because of that one DOOM level where the chainsaw is hidden right behind you at the start.

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

You know, in retrospect, BLOODLINES 2 being set in a Seattle that's been paralyzed by a snowstorm is hilarious, because it only takes about 3 inches of snow to paralyze Seattle. In Chicago, we'd have said the storm missed us.

(Seriously, I'd been wondering about that for decades.)

Today did remind me to look up the link, if any, between Hershey's Mr. Goodbar and Diane Keaton's LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR. Apparently there isn't any and the candy's over 50 years older.

I might've renamed the candy after the movie came out, were it me.

Every time I see the word "capex," I think it's something to do with superheroes before I realize I'm reading financial news. Always interesting to see how my brain poison has manifested today.

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

I don't remember which episode was my actual first, but POD PEOPLE was the first one that really clicked for me.

POD PEOPLE, GODZILLA VS. MEGALON, CAVE DWELLERS, SPACE MUTINY, FINAL SACRIFICE.

Honorable mention to AVALANCHE, which is Jonah's best episode.