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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 4d

Mise en Screen: Episode 12: The Smashing Machine

The Smashing Machine is a 2025 film directed, written, produced, and edited by Benny Safdie and starring Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr, Emily Blunt as Dawn Staples, Ryan Bader as Mark Coleman, and Bas R...

To consummate that love would be to destroy it

Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 4d

In our newest episode @benverschoor.bsky.social digs into the homoeroticism of The Smashing Machine.
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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 4d

Also since you mentioned the book Abundance it reminded me the NYRB had a great writeup on it in opposition to Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
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How to Blow Up a Planet | Trevor Jackson

What happened to the future? When did we lose it, and what has taken its place? Political scientists have found a continual decline in visions of a shared

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 4d

The footnotes displayed like this for me lol, very unfortunate. Good argument, always a joy to read someone who loves words and using them. Also enjoyed the opening "I'd've"

The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 5d

New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Abundance Reigns!

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 4d

THE MATRIX

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Endless Mode @endlessmode.bsky.social · 5d

Hades II demeans the mystery and grandeur of myth through its shallow writing and unserious tone, writes @gracemachine.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

Hades II's Ill-Defined, Unserious World Undermines the Depth and Power of Mythology

With its cardboard cutout characters, Hades II flattens the fearful, uneasy mystery of its mythic inspirations.

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Ed "Gein" Smith @edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 4d

"...not a mismatch between how the player acts in gameplay versus the character presented through narrative, but a total absence of the character depicted in the story."

@strida.bsky.social has our last essay on Mafia: The Old Country. Please read and share

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Stuck in the Old Ways

Monthly magazine for long-form articles and podcasts on videogames

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 4d

poggers

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𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖊𝖌𝖆𝖒𝖊 🔮 𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖍𝖆 @dicegameuchiha.bsky.social · 5d

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 5d

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 5d

"Pissed-Off Scottish Badman dutifully ladles out a few moments of who's-the-real-villain-here convolution towards the finish - a critique of the game's oorah patriotism that is basically akin to dusting a tank with pistol fire."

Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 5d

Battlefield 6 review

Battlefield 6 is a tale as old as the FPS genre: a vapid military fable salvaged from total irrelevance by a robust but fundamentally unadventurous multiplayer.

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Battlefield 6 is a tale as old as the FPS genre: a vapid military fable salvaged from total irrelevance by a robust but fundamentally unadventurous multiplayer.

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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 5d

Battlefield 6 review

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 5d

New episode with @benverschoor.bsky.social is now live! We're talking Tooth Fairy, we're talking lip sync music scenes, we're talking about a non Sopranos film with a lot of Sopranos actors, we're talking about Dwayne taking the Oscar challenge 2k25!
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Mise en Screen: Episode 12: The Smashing Machine

The Smashing Machine is a 2025 film directed, written, produced, and edited by Benny Safdie and starring Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr, Emily Blunt as Dawn Staples, Ryan Bader as Mark Coleman, and Bas R...

Mise en Screen: Episode 11: One Battle After Another

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 11d

As more people are seeing One Battle After Another be sure to listen in on @benverschoor.bsky.social and I's conversation about the film as well as two revolutionary themed films, one of which is a very funny one given the content of a specific OBAA scene.
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Leftist guerillas Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) and her lover “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio) leading their revolutionary group the French 75 in storming and liberating a migrant hol...

Mise en Screen: Episode 11: One Battle After Another

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Ben Verschoor @benverschoor.bsky.social · 12d

Is Godzilla 1998 worse than 9/11? Tune in to find out!

Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 12d

Our latest episode covers One Battle After Another with an extended non spoiler and full spoiler section, but first @benverschoor.bsky.social gets to relive one of the worst Roland Emmerich movies.
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Leftist guerillas Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) and her lover “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio) leading their revolutionary group the French 75 in storming and liberating a migrant hol...

Mise en Screen: Episode 11: One Battle After Another

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 11d

As more people are seeing One Battle After Another be sure to listen in on @benverschoor.bsky.social and I's conversation about the film as well as two revolutionary themed films, one of which is a very funny one given the content of a specific OBAA scene.
miseenscreen.libsyn.com/episode-11-o...

Leftist guerillas Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) and her lover “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio) leading their revolutionary group the French 75 in storming and liberating a migrant hol...

Mise en Screen: Episode 11: One Battle After Another

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 12d

Our latest episode covers One Battle After Another with an extended non spoiler and full spoiler section, but first @benverschoor.bsky.social gets to relive one of the worst Roland Emmerich movies.
miseenscreen.libsyn.com/episode-11-o...

Leftist guerillas Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) and her lover “Ghetto” Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio) leading their revolutionary group the French 75 in storming and liberating a migrant hol...

Found Footage 27: Jennifer's Body (2009) | The Safe Room

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The Safe Room @thesaferoom.bsky.social · 15d

THROUGH THE TREEEEEEEEEEEEES www.patreon.com/posts/140052...

Get more from The Safe Room on Patreon

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 14d

Happy birthday!! 🎉

Mise en Screen: Episode 10: HIM

Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 15d

Probably the best part of our latest episode is @benverschoor.bsky.social torturously attempting to remember the name of the film he knows I watched but cannot remember the title of due to Kojima poisoning his mind.
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HIM follows Cameron "Cam" Cade (Tyriq Withers) an up and coming college quarterback star who suffers a serious head injury before the draft combine. Unable to participate, Cam finds himself singled ou...

Cyberpunk 2077 and the Anesthesia of #Dissent - Typebar Magazine

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 17d

HEY HEY, IT'S OUT FROM BEHIND THE PAYWALL DAY!

Typebar Magazine (Issue 7 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 17d

There's more to narratives about dismantling power structures than cheap #dissent, writes @strangelibrary.com

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There are few easy answers to the questions the cyberpunk genre asks.

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Steven Santana @number8axel.bsky.social · 15d