Narrative Arcade

New video essay I produced. Title says it all. My theory is that Halo invented its own genre (by accident). A screenwriting analysis with clips from @Nerdrotics, @TheActMan_YT, @HiddenXperia, @o_sneedy youtu.be/aQi6UWmBM94 #HaloTheSeries #HaloInfinite #HaloSeason2 #halo

@ThatChrisGore Not true. The chess computer has a female voice but she's quickly shut up.

John Carpenter’s The Thing is 1 hour 49 minutes and has zero female speaking roles.

@TheCriticalDri2 Just like Homer intended!

Chris, no!

@animalfarmfilm Please, just do us all a favor and never adapt Robin Hood.

Animal Farm is an intellectual, sophisticated, and distinguished film. See it in theaters now!

Culture is everything. You want more families? More children in a society? Tell stories why that's a worthwhile goal. Rest will follow.

@LudwigNverMises I'm reading Illiberal Reformers by Leonard. The progressives back in the late 19th century literally believed the administrative state is a gift from God to create heaven on earth. It's a complete inversion of what the founding fathers believed.

The founding fathers were not Calvinists, the Massachusetts bay colony was. Specifically High Calvinists That cultural group wasn’t able to stamp a singular vision on America until the progressive era This is another way the left uses half truths to undermine your foundations Instead of recognizing how the progressive era was colored by a specific sect of puritanical Protestantism so we can reverse those errors, they want to confuse it into tainting the revolution The revolution was about federalism and liberty The Massachusetts bay colonists were theocrats. They tried and failed to take over the Church of England and so started their own. But they had no intention of dominating the US, they specifically wanted state independence so they could maintain their highly exclusionary society. They later became influential in the bureaucracy cause they founded the university system and rode the wave of Yankee dominance. But not all Calvanists are bad and the founders weren’t the High Calvanists associated with modern progressivism. I’ll include more on the history of the Massachusetts bay colony below

I gotta admit this is some quality bait.

@TheTrekCentral Hahaha as if real writers worked on Starfleet Academy. Funny...

🔥 NEW - Author Don Winslow Hits Back at #ProjectHailMary's Andy Weir! After Weir made comments about Paramount's handling of #StarTrek, Winslow said: "Congrats on the success of Project Hail Mary and The Martian. I’m a real fan. But when you have your moment, don’t use it to crap on other writers’ work."

@disparutoo High chance this was tax payer funded too.

Woke has a new god

@PlatoonPod It's all "vibe." Your first mistake was to think thought went into this article at all.

One of the reasons AI is going to sweep through the information economy is that a large number of people employed in those sectors - especially in journalism - add no human value. The reasons given in this article are nominally in reverse order but are in reality interchangeable: 8) The movies aren't one-to-one adaptations of a 1200 page trilogy that takes about 60 hours to read. 7) Return of the King used more CGI than Fellowship and looks dated. 6) Not Enough Women. 5) Cultural stereotypes (Tolkien had a "borderline-colonial gaze" that wasn't corrected until Rings of Power). 4) Streaming services usually play the theatrical cuts. Ie the extended versions are "difficult to watch" — practically. 3) It suffers from "cultural saturation", even though... 2) Game of Thrones "stole its crown" because LotR has "too much moral clarity [...] To feel authentic and relatable 1) Some incomprehensible point about rebooting it being both a good and likely thing and a bad and unlikely thing at the same time. I'm probably one of 5 people who actually read it, and I have learned absolutely nothing. There is no analysis, there is no through-line. It is a series of random and vague assertions. It is unironically worse than a think-piece about how Tolkien was some sort of hetero-patriarchal smurfophobic racist, because at least those attempt something. If you prompted ChatGPT to write an article for this headline, it would have done a much better job. Since the entire purpose of the article is in the clickbait headline, and since the (presumably) human author did not think it necessary to include anything worth reading, there is no point maintaining the human in this job.

I'm watching The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension for the first time... What the fuck is this screenplay...?!

@Variety And he's correct.

Ryan Gosling Tells Hollywood It's Not Moviegoers' Job to Keep Theaters Open: 'It’s Our Job to Make Things' That Are 'Worth' Viewers Coming Out variety.com/2026/film/news…

this is art

So long Mr. Norris. You had a great run and an even greater impact. Roundhouse in Peace.

The Tachyon Pulse Podcast is reporting Paramount/Skydance is "close to a deal" With Alex Kurtzman, which would include Starfleet Academy Season 3. Would Star Trek survive this if it happens?

@Extrazero08 Nice! I'll give that a try.

@NarrativeArcade I’ve made buns with 3 eggs, 1 and a half cups of powdered milk and a tbsp of baking powder. The results were actually very good. I’ll be trying another recipe as soon as I get cream of tartar

While my wife has been on maternity leave, I’ve been getting up early to make her breakfast sandwiches I wish I could eat. I need to find time to make more Carnivore bread today

@MasteroftheTDS It's the rise of the techno spinster 😭

Mental illness is real people.

Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year "We will continue to bring it to more services that players are playing"

@heelvsbabyface @1348ExVoto In detail? This youtu.be/dB0aGaVwZKI?is…

Erm... So what went wrong @1348ExVoto?

@1inspired_rvwer Bro, without a doubt! I'm still impressed like watching it for the first time. Love how Cuaron frames his scenes.

@NarrativeArcade Prizoner of Azkaban is easily the best of the entire franchise by a mile. Incredibly well made & mature, a lot of people sleep on it and prefer 1,2 & 4 for some reason.

Rewatching all the Harry Potter movies with my wife and we got to Prisoner of Azkaban. This one aged like fine wine. Can we get Cuaron to direct high concept movies again? Well, at least one with a good script. This man's directing talent is needed in the age of slop.