Andy Best

Hard Drive was saddened to her about the passing of Molag Bal. We may not have always agreed with his methods, but he worked to enslave all of humanity and harvest their souls with the grace and poise the position demanded. Our thoughts go out to all his Daedric brethren in this difficult time.

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

I remember when the word 'content' in that sense first appeared in the ad/PR biz during web 2.0, and how quickly the general pop started using it.

I think we are years and years into the process of 'content' becoming normalized, to the point that only the most egregious 'slop' films stand out, even to comparatively aware viewers.

PARENTS BE VIGILANT! CHECK YOUR KIDS' HALLOWEEN CANDY! I hear there's some real bangers in there you can probably snag without them noticing.

The Witcher feels like the producers handed the franchise over to Canon Films after season 1.

It's always a good day to abolish the monarchy.

entitled, belligerent, mediocre dickheads will always be anti-intellectual because people like Soyinka are a living 24/7 refutation of their nonsense.

A graphic showing the book cover of The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker and the movie poster for 1987's Hellraiser, with a "vs" in between

I thought I'd gone to the limits. I hadn't. The Cenobites gave me an experience beyond limits. Pain and pleasure, indivisible. It’s Hellraiser 🎁, and This Film is Lit. 📚 🎞️ Listen here: https://bit.ly/4of5Pbh

yup, I was 13 when the book came out and my brain was done for weeks just at the scene of the old photos of the parade coming to life

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Then: We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Now: [sees audio message in chat]

Too many people falling for and sharing clickbait, which is what the creators of such things want you to do.
Ignoring is often the best option.
You don’t need those takes, and you don’t need to help proliferate them.

Thinking back to when the most obnoxious thing under a post would be 'first.' Except for all the abuse that was there from day one. Never mind.

It feels like Capitalism playing chicken with itself. Like it has come to believe its own propaganda, or perhaps it has a death urge.

They backed PUBG when they were only Bluehole and it paid for their whole empire - their cynical mobile-games operation was transformed by a single human auteur with vision, who put years into modding, gameplay and his aesthetic, until it was ready to change FPS games forever.

It's so depressing how easily people were taken in by the misinformation PR campaigns. I'm Gen X, and Depp was iconic, but his addiction and domestic abuse were well documented from very early on, it's nuts how anyone could be like, Johnny, surely not.

I wonder if they keep GPT alive partly as a desperate reaction to workers taking power back during lockdowns, using digital tools to work remotely, and with more flexibility. If they can't control us, they'' replace us. They hope.

If you came from below the middle class to become erudite and creatively skilled, in spite of the barriers, then don't replicate their cultural modes. Your superpower is being able to shrug off that which seems immutable to them. Be direct, unironic and present.

the real issues that drive liberals to action are suspending Jimmy Kimmel and demolishing a part of a house built by enslaved people.

It's also full of detailed street-level life in late-30s London. It has one of the funniest end paragraphs of any book I've read, which is remarkable considering the subject manner.

Finished Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton. Written during and set at the start of WW2, it's darkly comic but bleak as characters who are dangerously ill, alcoholic, and even sympathetic to fascism enact a nihilistic faux-bohemian life, as the world collapses.

re: post below this about watching things directly, another problem is that a lot of people have brain rot from the tropes site and extreme online fandoms, so that they start books on audio at 1.5 speed, check about 5-10 pages and say, nah, this is not my trope/MC combination - DNF. It's so bad.

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

A hoot of a movie!

What the fuck, Emilia Jones is Aled Jones's kid? I'm so old aaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Task, like Inglesby's previous show Mare of Eastown, is brilliant.

With a name like Archer Rhodes you would have been a celebrated writer of airport spy thrillers.

He can't engage with the truth so he denies fact and re-asserts his statement like a religious belief, to justify his actions, which basically describes a huge swathe of 'economics.'

Gary immediately replies, "the 2008 crash." Levy smiles and says ah yes, Neville stares and waits, ready to drop more, having shot him down completely, and Levy says, "let me put it this way, I BELIEVE that government regulation never works."