Nicker on 7/2/2026 at 07:43

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If you need a good laugh, here it is.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GXTuRPBW6t4[/video]

Tocky on 12/2/2026 at 19:20

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The only series currently adding episodes worth watching now is "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms". It's an addendum to the Game of Thrones family but don't let that deter you. At least four episodes in and no characters you have invested emotion in have been killed yet which is somewhat unusual for Martin. It is my hope that he has finally come to the realization that one does not have to kill those off who embody the best of humanity to make a winning series.

DuatDweller on 13/2/2026 at 22:10

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Oh you mean kind of with Arx Fatalis, where the sun flare out and it off it goes, everybody going underground to escape the cold of the surface.

Sulphur on 27/2/2026 at 15:13

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Fallout showing some cognisance of New Vegas is interesting, but it feels like a season in search of a plot still in the first few episodes. Experiments leading to exploded heads and corporate jiggery-pokery are things for HBO shows. This is Fallout, and it was inspired by both 50s paranoia and Mad Max. Use it, for fuck's sake.

Meanwhile, perhaps there's a calcification of sorts that comes for all of us. The sensation gained from waking up mornings enough and wondering if gravity's wobbled you around a host star so many times that time itself now feels both longer and shorter than it used to, leading you to wonder aloud if today's popular anime is just too much teenage kid angst.

It's not true, of course. Anime has always had too mucb teenage kid angst. But the two popular shonen ones these days, Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer, hit so many similar beats that the stories are bleeding together when I see one or the other. The craft is undeniable, but there's mostly blood, action sequences, people dying, a lot of shouting and heartfelt exchanges, and at least one ponderous segue into an incredibly contrived set of magical rules or plot blockers that need tens of minutes of exposition. The artistry is present in each frame, but it presents things that tend to hew to heavy and artless, a dichotomy that leaves me bored despite how lovingly the play of light is depicted on characters as they walk under a swinging fluorescent.

I wish they'd spend more time on the basics - grounding characters in good storytelling, hiding the exposition skilfully, and fuelling the plot with believable motivations and actions, so that the inevitable bust-ups carry far more weight instead of wasting time on a cavalcade of expository monologues and explanations of combat techniques, all in the middle of said bust-ups.

Harvester on 12/3/2026 at 21:00

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I've taken up collecting Blu-ray physical media as a hobby and I bought some Blu-rays of cult classics that you can't stream anywhere (either for free or for money), like Lake Mungo, a 4K restoration of Dario Argento's Deep Red, Justin Kurzel's shocking debut Snowtown and tonight I watched the legendary 1984 BBC TV post-apocalyptic made for TV movie Threads. It's highly researched by experts to be as true to life as it could be about what should happen when a country like the UK is hit by nuclear bombs. It's a tough watch for sure, there's no Hollywood gloss whatsoever, it has a documentarian feel to it complete with narrator. It's a very bleak feel-bad movie devoid of hope, and a warning to anyone who thinks a nuclear war can be "won". It says on the back of the Blu-ray that it's rumored to have caused a change in president Reagan's nuclear policies after he watched it. Also a bit wry to watch during these times, in that the conflict is between the US and the Soviet Union after tensions rise in Iran of all places.

[video=youtube;vgT4Y30DkaA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgT4Y30DkaA[/video]