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@yesnosuremaybe Reminds me of when my date didn’t know what “guffaw” meant :(

Had to teach a man what the word “placate” means on a date recently

this is very good for your literacy btw don't be ashamed to frequently google words you don't know, it's better to learn now instead of giving up especially in an age where literacy rates are at an all time low

@The41stPrecinct “Getting good” is just patience. You won’t get it on the first attempt, you might not get it on the 20th attempt—but you’ll get it eventually, and that perseverance will help you with every subsequent challenge.

People who are avid Fromsoft fans, what would you say qualifies someone who has managed to “git gud” at them? What is the entry level requirement to gain respect of fellow players? It’s for a…top secret new project of mine.

film criticism isn’t customer service. it’s not here to “objectively” tell you what to expect, that’s marketing. it’s perspective, interpretation, feeling. reducing it to a guide for audiences completely misses the point of engaging with art at all lmao

@BIGMODEgames @vgdunkey Holy shit, maybe the greatest bundle ever?

ANIMAL WELL. FEZ. TUNIC. Outer Wilds. Blue Prince. Honored to be part of the new Hidden Depths bundle on Steam!! store.steampowered.com/bundle/70688/H…

I think I’m gonna look good with grey hair

do NOT show this to Northernlion

“Stop thinking about art works as objects and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. What makes a work of art good for you is not something that s already inside it but something that happens inside you.” ― Brian Eno

He nails it. Wrote about this re “A Complete Unknown.”

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this is exactly what i mean by people forgetting that reading books is supposed to widen our perspectives and introduce different experiences and thoughts, not to reaffirm existing biases and project only our own beliefs into what we read/consume. very narrow way of reading imo.

@Stretchedwiener THANK YOU. I saw that original tweet and got unnecessarily frustrated

The comparison to "unfilmable" House of Leaves is understandable. But keep in mind the key aspect of HoL isn't the environment - it's the frame in a frame in a frame mutability of the act of reading. The intention being to zen koan shock the reader into feeling that we're in just another frame and at risk. To present a movie like the novel is presented - the HoL movie would have the audience wandering the theater, seeing part of it in a broom closet, part of it on the side of the building in the alley, part of it projected onto the audience. Then some of the movie is a camera aimed at the audience. The novel is far more than "oooh spooky house of uncanny dimensions".

Dudes be like "I'm mixed." Like okay, upcoming album.😂 Let me know when you're mastered too

I feel like in the last week we’ve moved from “everybody is using AI in their writing, just get over it” to “using AI to write is a gross violation of trust and an affront to the very idea of writing and thinking” and frankly I am glad we’re all finally coming to our senses

@Loccdawggg red rolls, white ceiling

Wanna see him post the responses to see how many times that shot went in

@HighSierraMan @franklinleonard A more personal American film masterpiece? Off the top of my head, A Woman Under the Influence maybe? Written and directed by Cassavetes.

It helps explain why I'm so critical of most contemporary US "auteurs." Two examples: John Huston and Alfred Hitchcock made incredibly personal films usually based on existing literature and penned by others or with co-writers. Is there a more personal American film masterpiece than "Vertigo?" Hitchie didn't write it. Sam Fuller once mentioned Anthony Veiller to me as "the guy who really wrote all of John Huston's films."

Can’t stop thinking about this information and what it says about the industry.

oh I see the "I only watch movies made for children and resent anyone who calls my taste bad" people have now discovered jazz

@yesnosuremaybe Agnes 😍😍

No one asked but the photos above my closet are from this sequence in Le Bonheur

Becca Rothfeld, over on substack, perfectly articulating my antipathy for AI. 🔗👇