Brent Sacks

@Lol8ball If you read his post mortem on Medium about why he discontinued his channel, it contains a fascinating behind the scenes of how he and his partner edited and refined the arguments in each video. It’s very impressive.

Thinking about Every Frame a Painting again. How every episode feels like it was written and edited to have a laser-like focus on its subject. It feels like it's the most information rich yet concise versions of every idea he wanted to explore.

No city in the world had the aura of old school NYC

You can ride a bicycle across six Japanese islands. 43 miles of ocean below you. Six giant suspension bridges built specifically for cyclists. You start in Hiroshima. You finish in Ehime. Along the way: sleepy fishing villages, lemon farms, soft-serve ice cream stands at every port, the sea breeze in every direction. Not a race. Not a tour. Just you, a bike, and an entire chain of islands the country built a road over so anyone could see them. It might be the best ride on Earth.

Seeing all the stories and clips of bowieknife99 being a menace on forza horizon is like watching an urban legend develop in real time I don’t have the clip but I did watch them push another car into traffic so if you tell me they’re sentient and crave chaos I will believe you

“Highly Skilled”

My #FH6 photography series.

We got to see Maverick from across the Bay at the Rady Shell with a live orchestra performing the score. Sunset over NASNI while watching Top Gun—absolute bliss.

After seeing the footage of the October 7 atrocities and watching American leftists celebrate with paraglider memes, I can’t overstate how important it is to me for every single Hamas paraglider guy to be killed. I want the activists to know that Israel killed every single one of them.

何度も通りたくなる道が多くて好き #ForzaHorizon6 #FH6

The craziest statistic you will hear all year: more Europeans die from summer heat than Americans die from guns

He’s typing in a search bar, quick show him the search option he’s looking for. Perfect. He typed the next letter that is also the next letter in the option we just showed him so take that option away and show him an option that doesn’t match at all

マスコットたちの壊される前と後 一回壊しちゃうと見れないから記念がてらに #ForzaHorizon6

Woke message fiction may be slowly dying, but stories won't magically get better when it's dead. Because there's a deeper problem. I found it in a book I'll call "MillenialQuest". That wasn't its real name, of course. I'm not trying to dunk on some poor soul just for writing a bad book. If I did that, I'd never be stopping. It was some medieval fantasy thing with a rather likely premise involving a fallen paladin and an army of steampunk centaurs. But when I opened it up, I quickly realized that every single character, despite living in a world where "horse" was the peak of transportation technology, was a Joss Whedon character wearing a Tolkien skinsuit. Complete with sarcasm, cutesy little quips, and no emotional self-control whatsoever. Didn't matter if the character was a professional assassin or a cloistered scholar, he talked, acted, and thought as if he were auditioning for a episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My first impulse was to be annoyed with the author for disappointing me. But I quickly realized that the problem ran deeper, and the author, annoying as her habits were, was both symptom and victim of a deeper malaise. The primary skill of an author is empathy. Now, I don't mean the "empathy" that socialist twats are constantly talking up, in lectures about how we must all immediately dismantle Western civilization to create infinity third world biomass. I mean the actual skill of figuring out what other people are thinking and feeling. To excel at his craft, an author must empathize in two directions at once. Not alternately, but simultaneously. He must empathize with the audience to understand how they will experience what he writes, and he must empathize with characters, to understand how they see the world, and what they would do and say. Empathy must be learned. And it can be learned in two ways, either by having lots of conversations with people who are as different from you as possible, or by reading books with characters who are also totally unlike you. Well, we've now raised several entire generations who cannot withstand the stress of a real conversation with someone from their own nation who happened to vote for the other idiot on a two-option menu. And what have those people been watching, listening to, and reading? Well, Whedonized stories wherein every character is a reskinned version of a white, middle class, left-leaning liberal arts student in a small East Coast private college. The author of MillenialQuest didn't set out to write The Message™. Nobody was a purple-haired mixed-race fat wheelchair lesbian, and there weren't any thinly veiled rants about capitalism or diversity. Sure, the word "misogynist" was used a bunch, without any apparent awareness of the confused look of incomprehension that your standard medieval knight would respond with. But so was the word "allergies". And "expense account". And "psychology". And "self-medication". No, the core pathology here wasn't the irrepressible urge to preach the author's values at all. It was a complete lack of ability to put her head into someone else's world view. To the new breed of author, the 21st century liberal zeitgeist isn't just the only moral viewpoint, it's the only imaginable viewpoint. This is why they think you are evil and crazy if you voted for the other guy. Because they literally have no idea what might have motivated you to do that. The author of MillenialQuest couldn't imagine a world where differing responsibilities for men and women are a necessity for survival, rather than a cause for complaint. She couldn't imagine how the concept of an expense account would be expressed in a world where peak financial technology is pounding your shiny metal into discs with faces on them. Emily Wilson can't understand a woman who would be ashamed of cheating on her husband, or men who would start a war over an insult. Yes, often it's deliberate. Often it's preaching, or venting their own desire to debate with someone whose response they cannot hear. But the point is, even if and when they are forced, by threat of major film studio bankruptcy, to stop deliberately trying to preach and propagandize, they won't magically gain the ability to write characters different from themselves. Empathy is a skill. It has to be learned and then practiced. And most people in the writing game today simply haven't had the opportunity. We may be exiting the age of DEI slop, but we are entering the age of just plain slop.

> be Forza Horizon > starts as a spin-off nobody asked for > new country every 2-3 years > FH3, FH4, FH5 - 91, 92, 92 Metacritic in a row > FH5 - 10 million players week one > biggest Xbox launch ever. a racing game. > Japan requested since 2012. 14 years of silence > Microsoft accidentally leaks the full game on Steam > modder streams it without blurring his name > banned until December 31, 9999 > launch day - 273,000 Steam players > record for any racing game in history > 6 million players in 72 hours Forza went from unwanted spin-off to the most consistent franchise in gaming and nobody talks about it.

Who are Pedro Pascal and Zendaya going to play?

If we’re all sharing our favorite Miles Teller stories please do not forget the time he thought he was finally going to be cool in front of Tom Cruise only for Cruise to big dog him

Forza Horizon 6? More like Forza Horizon 6-Million! 🤯 Thank you all for joining us at Horizon Japan ❤️

Forza Horizon 6

Life came to a halt when that Halo 3 2006 announcement trailer dropped.