Is the season 2 finale defenestration of Dr. Alana Bloom onto rain-soaked concrete a reference to the mid-series cathedral fight in Cowboy Bebop? In this essay I will
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#8 The Snorkel (1958)
The thing I'm realizing about watching Hammer films is that it's a lot of three things: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Vampires. Which are all well enough, but I like a little variety, so today I watched this older thriller instead. It's a bit like Nancy Drew as Columbo, but also from the very start Nancy Drew keeps telling everyone who will listen who the murderer is and they just ignore her, which gives it a slightly surreal air.
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IMDB has really gone overboard catering to the ancient Roman audience, if you ask me.
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"...game creation has historically been limited to a select group of people who have technical experience and knowledge of complex game engines."
Yeah, how did they join that select group, I wonder? What process might have given them entry? I was making Joust clones in QBASIC and Duke3D maps of my house, maybe we shouldn't be casting this in terms of an unreachable elite.
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In many ways, "you can just prompt your way to a game" is an encapsulation of what's wrong with LLM thinking.
Making bad games that never went anywhere is what got me to learn trigonometry, to get comfortable with LERPing and easing, to think about how I organize code. It put me in contact with open source communities when I was way too young to be there. It gave me an actual career and made me a better person.
At the end of the day the game is not the point.
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I love seeing Google announce that they're going to open up game development and welcome in a new wave of fresh, creative ideas, with the examples in the post being A) a shitty breakout clone with Ghibli art and B) a clone of Canabalt that looks very bad to play.
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#7 Let the Right One In (2008)
Not a Hammer film, but the remake is, funnily enough.
I haven't seen this in 15 years, and I had forgotten how much of the first half is about a deeply incompetent Renfield. It holds up, though. Little kids are horrible even if they aren't vampires.
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#6 Slanted (2025)
I think one of the things that we've learned from the decade since Get Out is that "woke horror" only works if it's either very subtle or very unsubtle. When this leans into Mean Girls meets The Substance, it's pretty good. But a lot of its runtime is a different movie about immigration and growing up, and that part feels a bit rote, despite strong performances by Fang Du and Vivian Wu as the parents.