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Crash (1996), 6/10 This is David Cronenberg's drama about a bunch of depraved perverts who get their rocks off to car crashes, both watching them and being involved in them. I don't really know if I liked it that much, I found it rather cold and repetitive. The coldness is intentional on the...

Tried a brief stint of Fear and Hunger 2: Termina after getting the impression that it would improve on the first game. In some ways it does, but nope, not in the critical ones. Mainly that the save system still sucks absolute donkey dick and as a result the game is just an exercise in incessant...

Shit, kinda forgot about that. But I also had Killing Season on DVD, and wanted a reason to justify owning it I suppose.

Another one of my bad movie nights, this time themed around John Travolta. Battlefield Earth, 2/10 This is the infamous sci-fi bomb from 2000 based on the works of L Ron Hubbard. In a post-apocalyptic earth aliens from the planet Psychlos are mining earth for its resources and humanity has...

Finished season 5 of Bojack. Out of all the seasons it feels the most like the show spinning its wheels. The only real shakeup to the status quo that happens is Diane and Mr PB divorcing, otherwise pretty much nothing changes. Todd is on wacky hijinks, Bojack is misery-spiraling, Princess...

Superman (1978), 6/10 This is something of a topical movie, seeing as the James Gunn one is bound to hit theaters in a few months, and it feels like we're approaching a watershed moment in superhero cinema, so this movie being a watershed moment in itself fits right in. Despite not being the...

I've been hankering for another big story-based RPG to sink my teeth into, and have been finding that there aren't really that many mainstream ones left that I haven't played outside of either JRPGs or really old stuff. I suppose there's lots of indie stuff, but I kinda wanted something with big...

Okay, I'd seen talk of Duskbloods being "Bloodborne 2" and just assumed that it was some similar-ish styled game from a different developer. Well imagine my shock when I find out that it's an actual Fromsoft game and basically is Bloodborne 2 run through the find and replace text function. And...

I also started a new playthrough in Elden Ring after not having touched it for like 10 months. And man, I don't know if I can muster the interest to play it again. Shadow of the Erdtree really burned me out on it, and having played it like 4 times through I just feel zero drive for it. Perhaps...

I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077 again recently, mostly clearing out side stuff and dicking around in the open world. The level of immersion in the game still blows my fucking mind. Merely traversing the streets of Night City feels like a reward in its own right. It's not just the amount of...

Finished Bojack's fourth season. It shakes the format and dynamics up a fair bit, which is great to make the show not feel predictable or repetitive. Bojack hardly interacts with either Todd or Mr PB in the season where in the previous ones they did it on a regular basis. Princess Carolyn has...

Finished Bojack's third season. It has some of the most emotionally heavy stuff of the entire series, like the episode that's basically one long argument between him and Princess Carolyn, or the notoriously rough That's too much, man! It's so emotionally complex that watching it while mildly ill...

For me Bloodborne hits the right sweet spot of Fromsoft gameplay in all the most important areas: it's fast-paced and mobile, but still deliberate and weighty. DS1 was clunky in many ways, DS2 was very floaty, and games from DS3 onwards turned into anime-style rolling contests. In BB I still...

Finished up a playthrough of Bloodborne. Yep, still my favorite game of all time. This time I ran the Stake Driver and Beast Claw, which are both really fun weapons. The Stake Driver in particular feels incredibly powerful with fast attacks, wide range and high damage, and it's got that really...

I've been rewatching Bojack Horseman, on Season 3 episode 4 right now. Goddamn, this is probably still the best thing Netflix ever put out. I've only watched it in parts after it finished, so not having to wait for new seasons allows me to really appreciate the commitment to continuity and...