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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 18m

Or by people thinking about those that don't partake in it. I have to adjust my entire life every 6 months because everything starts an hour earlier/later. East coast friends will be 1 hour closer and west coast 1 hour later and it makes scheduling shit annoying as my time doesn't move.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 52m

In sad news, Marvel Rivals is now my most played game on Steam(though still like 500 hours behind Overwatch...) and P5X is my 3rd most played game. Big sad =(

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 1h

I am at 196 movies watched now and that means 4 left until I reach my goal for the year...a full 2 months earlier than planned. It's been interesting full diving into East Asian cinema like I did in the 00s. Korean and Chinese cinema are so wildly different, but Japanese cinema is still the same.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 1h

It's not like I'm tilted by it. It just made me think what is the point of writing 5 more posts when people don't read the rest of the thread? I could very easily just do the letterboxd single sentence meme post and devalue the fact that I gave 2 hours of my time to the movie. Would save me 15 mins.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 1h

The word count is also very limiting and kinda forces what you are going to say into the same of a 300 character post and not a paragraph. However, I'm not really as ineloquent as I may seem which makes it not entirely bad. Writing unencumbered by the format would make for really long reviews.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 1h

The thing with writing movie "reviews"(if thats what you want to call the ones I do...) on BSky is that it's not a great format for it. Like, just being courteous towards other people and avoiding spoilers, because you never know what someone will see, makes it hard to "review" properly.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 1h

Even if I miss the point of a movie, I at least try and find out what it is before I start writing about it. It's like the entire reason why I watch anything. I want to know what someone wanted to say and why they wanted to say it. BSky posts are also not a great format for writing at length.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 2h

Accusing me of all people of missing the point of a movie is really fucking baffling. Especially, when I explain some of my issue with the movie, and I say flat out what the director wanted to do with it, in her own fucking words, a few posts later in the thread lol. I guess the director is wrong.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 2h

Pointing out that the people who have to make the decisions aren't fit for it nor do they have the information to even make the right decisions also is irrelevant because WE ARE STUCK IN THE SITUATION REGARDLESS. This is just blueballing with a shaky cam.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 2h

I know what the point of the movie is. Pointing out that we are in a situation that we've been in since nuclear proliferation became global isn't really making a new point or a necessary one. Plenty of other movies have done it and have also had the balls to show how bad the fallout could be.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 2h

Overall, I think this is a major screw up from everyone involved, especially Bigelow and the writer, Noah Oppenheim. The discussion after the movie is out and people have seen it is about how bad the ending is and not about the actual "house of dynamite", so I think that's a failure.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 2h

It's also pointless because wondering why we live in a house of dynamite when we can't escape from it is pointless. It's not like something about the dangers of AI where you can go "maybe don't do this". We already are in the situation, so the best thing to do is show how bad it is if we mess it up.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 2h

I think it's so lazy and gutless to do it this way. I read that Bigelow wanted it to open a conversation about the so called "House of Dynamite" we live in, but instead of making a stronger case for that with a strong ending, it instead wants to rely on people to explain it to those who don't know.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 2h

This movie basically exists for the 40% of the population born after the Cold War ended, who don't know how scary nuclear weapons really are. It has an incredible first part, but the instant it ends, it rapidly starts losing steam and the only thing keeping you going is the ending and...yeah.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 2h

I watched the movie A House of Dynamite. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Starring A lot of people. You know how with Boiling Point, I was like "A great ending can elevate an entire movie", this is the opposite. The ending took this from a 4* to a 2*. #filmsky

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 2h

The original, isn't really that great. It's just good for the time. It's strength is entirely how unique it is, but it's also short, requires you to know ahead of time how you want to upgrade your guns and has the final escape where you can instantly game over and have to refight the final boss.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 2h

5.8 million people needing to pay 30 dollars for dlc to play the end game wow.

RPG Site @rpgsite.net · 20h

Pokemon Legends: Z-A sells 5.8 million copies in its first week across Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2: www.rpgsite.net/news/18812-p...

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 3h

I want my 2 hours back.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 3h

House of Dynamite is a new front runner for worst ending of all time lol.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 7h

The actual game budgets were in the leaks and its laughable how little they spend and are going to spend compared to every other major game. If the leaks are true, of course.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 7h

BTW, the ACTUAL reason Trump is pissed isn't the stupid fucking ad, it's because Canada made new deals with Mexico and China that don't involve the US.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 8h

Lmao at Ryu showing up in Ninja Gaiden 4 and beating me in less than 2 seconds.

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 8h

A certain hentai site that I definitely don't use or know how to access, has like 10% of all content be AI stuff, not just new content, but total. The site has been around since like 2008. If they didn't purge most of it every day, I imagine it would outnumber 17 years of content really fast.

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Roger @rogeeroger.bsky.social · 9h

Glad that Jaime Griesemer(Senior Designer who worked on Halo CE) has been so vocal about how bad Campaign Evolved looks

CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 23h

Good fucking luck