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Does your setup go through revisions? Here's mine through the years -- still chasing that Perfect Space X Perfect Setup.
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New Ratchet & Clank Game Officially Cancelled by Sony polygon.com/ratchet-and-clan…
ALT New Ratchet & Clank Game Officially Cancelled by Sony
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IGN China scored Phantom Blade 0 a perfect 10/10 and provided a scathing commentary on the Western game industry
"In the foreseeable future, when Western game creators are stuck in a creative rut, held hostage by political correctness, and bound by highly industrialized commercial logic, producing one mass-produced, industrial garbage game after another , then let Chinese game creators teach them a lesson and make them relearn what a high-quality, content-rich AAA game should look like."
It's kinda hard to argue when you look at the state of the games industry. Asian games and developers look to be thriving whilst Western studios are either facing layoffs or being shut down.
#PhantomBladeZero #PS5 #PS5Pro
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The Vitriol, hatred & campaign against anything Zack does has now reached fever pitch.
From the discussions saying they did not like his work, vision or style to now blatant targeted buzz words to discredit and malign him as mysognist, sexist, homophobe it's clear - agenda – at Southall, London
One thing I’ve noticed at festivals, and especially with #TheLastPhotograph, is that a lot of "critics" seem less interested in actually watching and enjoying movies than they are in being seen watching them.
I was at the premiere and saw people on their phones, scrolling Instagram and Twitter, texting etc for a good portion of the movie. Then the movie ends and within a minute some of them have a full page review posted. A review that would take most people at least 10 minutes to even type.
At a certain point you have to wonder how much of it is actually about watching and engaging with cinema and how much is about being able to say “I saw this before you did” or “I spoke to this director” or “I was at this premiere.” The festival becomes as much of a social status and low level posturing thing as it is about movies.
And I think that has created a weird culture where certain critics seem to think they should be the ones dictating what movies get made, what kind of movies are acceptable and what direction cinema should go in.
You see it constantly in reviews. They’ll talk about the director, the writers, the producers, the actors, the studio, the cinematography, the editing etc. They’ll actually engage with the people involved in making the movie.
But when it comes to Zack Snyder, it very often just becomes “Zack Snyder is a fascist,” “Zack Snyder is a misogynist,” “Zack Snyder is a homophobe” and increasingly just outright personal hatred toward the man.
Snyder literally just talked about people telling him they want to kill him. He talked about people calling him a fascist and a homophobe and even people saying these things about a movie they haven’t actually seen.
That isn’t normal criticism anymore. You can hate The Last Photograph. You can think the violence is excessive. You can think the movie is misogynistic or transphobic or whatever. Make the argument. That’s what criticism is for.
But when you’re wishing death on a filmmaker, attacking his family and deciding a movie is terrible before you’ve even watched it, it’s hard to pretend this is just normal film criticism.
And something else I find really strange is how Deborah Snyder is basically ignored in all of this.
She is his producing partner. She has produced his movies for years and is obviously involved in the filmmaking process and the decisions surrounding these movies.
Yet somehow when people accuse Zack of making misogynistic or homophobic movies, Deborah is never treated as though she has any agency in the process.
If Zack is personally responsible for every supposed moral failing in these movies, then what exactly do you think Deborah is doing as the producer?
It’s funny how people suddenly stop treating a woman like an autonomous adult when acknowledging her agency would complicate the narrative they’ve built around Zack Snyder.
You don’t have to like the guy. You don’t have to like his movies. You can think his entire approach to filmmaking is terrible.
But there’s a pretty big difference between criticizing a movie and becoming obsessed with hating the person who made it.
At some point, when you’re attacking someone personally, dragging his deceased daughter into it and wishing him dead over a fucking movie, maybe the problem isn’t Zack Snyder. Maybe it’s the "critic" culture that has formed around hating him.
They’ll accuse Snyder fans of being delusional, of making his movies their entire personality and of being incapable of handling criticism, while completely ignoring the irony that they’ve done the exact same thing in reverse. At some point, if you’re still talking about Zack Snyder years later, obsessively posting about everything he & his fans do and making hating the guy part of your identity, you’re just as invested in him as the fans you’re mocking.
Talking about something you’re passionate about for years is completely normal. Talking about something you supposedly fucking hate for years is a different story.
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Issues 9&10 of Retro PlayStation Magazine Kickstarter is live. Get yours now
#RPM – at Southall, London
The Kickstarter for RPM issues 9&10 is almost funded!
If you miss physical gaming magazines and you’re a fan of PlayStation, please check out the Kickstarter.
Retweets and spreading the word would be really appreciated too!
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Massive respect and kudos to this initiative and endeavor – at Sri Lanka
We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/…
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I'm late for sharing this but I'm pretty happy to be on this list! I directed 3 and storyboarded on 2 for a total of 5 of my projects that made the 10 best list! 😁
slashfilm.com/2199850/best-b…
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Congrats @ZubairAbdu31256
Absolutely dominant performance and nerves of steel! What a story! – at Southall, London
M. Zubair road to winning EWC:
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Not a Holland Spidey fan, but Brand New Day won me over.
Feels less like a superhero movie and more like a dark psychological character study on loss, mutating under trauma, and the brutal cost of zero human connection. Mature, tight, and heavy. 🧵 [1/2] #SpidermanABrandNewDay – at Southall, London
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The film tries to preach "you're never truly alone," but Peter’s reality proves otherwise. When you’re the one saving everyone, nobody is coming to save you.
Dark, grounded, and eloquently handled.
8/10 [2/2] #Spiderman – at Southall, London
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