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Worker-owned media. We make lots of video essays, podcasts and livestreams about video games, movies and TV shows. https://youtube.com/@secondwindgroup From the former team of The Escapist. Support us on Patreon. https://patreon.com/SecondWindGroup

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · Nov 20

Thank you for a wonderful first year of Second Wind!

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Jesse Galena🦖(any/all)🔜 PAX UNplugged! @rexiconjesse.bsky.social · 20h

This was really nice to produce. Marty's take is thoughtful and fun. A great way to understand the use of a proper jump scare and how it can be a tool for good horror, not just cheap gags.

Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 2d

Once specific moment in Silent Hill f highlights the formula for delivering the perfect jump scare.

Let's dig into that moment -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVcY...

Silent Hill F Delivers the Perfect Jump Scare

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Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social · 1d

The best deal in gaming isn't exactly the best deal in gaming anymore.

Xbox Is Killing All the Appeal of Game Pass | Unpacked

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 1d

Xbox just can't stop shooting itself in the foot.

This week's episode of Unpacked from @nickjcal.bsky.social is now available.

Xbox Is Killing All the Appeal of Game Pass | Unpacked

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 1d

There's an eerie emptiness to TRON: Ares that can't be ignored.

@darrenmooney.bsky.social goes deep on why this weekend's blockbuster didn't work for him.

Read now on Patreon -- www.patreon.com/posts/column...

Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 2d

Yooka-Replaylee is the best version of the 3D platformer, and well-worth the time of any collectathon fans.

@sigmagears9.bsky.social goes over everything you need to know in his latest Bytesized review -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8i...

Yooka-Replaylee Review | Bytesized

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 2d

Once specific moment in Silent Hill f highlights the formula for delivering the perfect jump scare.

Let's dig into that moment -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVcY...

Silent Hill F Delivers the Perfect Jump Scare

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Malcolm Rambert (Looking for Work!) @malcmanishere.bsky.social · 3d

Watched this yesterday. Great 34-minute video that analyzes a fav show of mine and shows why you should be watching it yesterday.

Someone I follow said earlier this year that no new mangaka is gonna be “the next Osamu Tezuka” because all these new mangaka are beefing with people on Twitter. 1/2

Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social · 4d

With #Peacemaker wrapping this week, it's a good time to look at what makes James Gunn such a distinctive superhero filmmaker.

How Gunn puts himself in his work, how "Superman" & "Peacemaker" are about the internet, and what Gunn gets about superheroes as a genre.

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How Peacemaker (and Superman) Are About the Internet | The Backdrop

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Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social · 3d

I did not care for #TronAres.

A lot of nothing happening very loud and very quickly, unfolding in a human world that somehow feels more like a digital wasteland than the Grid. A frustrating waste of a pretty great premise.

Pretty good score, though.

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 3d

This week on Fully Ramblomatic, @yahtzeecroshaw.bsky.social reviewed Silent Hill F.

We still don't know what the "F" stands for.

Silent Hill F | Fully Ramblomatic

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Jack Packard @jackpackard.bsky.social · 4d

In about an hour, @janjozone.bsky.social is joining Marty and I on The ReWind.

We'll be talking about Nintendo's very bizarre animated short and "One Battle After Another" which is very good... unsurprisingly very good... but like VERY GOOD.

Watch/Listen Here:

One Battle After Another Is All Kinds of Revolutionary | The Rewind Podcast

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Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social · 4d

With #Peacemaker wrapping this week, it's a good time to look at what makes James Gunn such a distinctive superhero filmmaker.

How Gunn puts himself in his work, how "Superman" & "Peacemaker" are about the internet, and what Gunn gets about superheroes as a genre.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DieY...

How Peacemaker (and Superman) Are About the Internet | The Backdrop

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 4d

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is one of the most creative 3D platformers ever made, and you shouldn't sleep on its Switch 2 remaster.

Marty's latest column is live to read on Patreon -- www.patreon.com/posts/column...

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Jesse Galena🦖(any/all)🔜 PAX UNplugged! @rexiconjesse.bsky.social · 5d

NO KINGS
JUST MEATS
It's time for King of Meat with @prettygrimgames.bsky.social and @sigmagears9.bsky.social on @secondwindgroup.com
's Twitch and YouTube!
(in a few moments as we sort totally normal technical issues)
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Co-op Party Chaos in King of Meat | Hot Monday Energy

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 5d

Strange Antiquities, from developer @badvikinggames.bsky.social, is an excellent follow-up to Strange Horticulture and a quietly charming puzzle game in its own right.

Check out @prettygrimgames.bsky.social's latest Bytesized here -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRfB...

Strange Antiquities Review | Bytesized

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Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social · 5d

I hated "House of Guinness." I hated it. Hated it. Hated. Hate. Hate. Hated it. So much.

Less a television show than a concussion. All of the pain of "Guinness", none of the pleasure.

I talked about how much I hated it for @secondwindgroup.com.

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Around midway through the first season of House of Guinness, the new Netflix stream show from Steven Knight that offers a “fiction inspired by true stories” about the famous Irish brewing dynasty, young stout heir Edward Guinness (Louis Partridge) decides to impart a lesson on politics to his lover and young Fenian rebel Ellen Cochrane (Niamh McCormack). Naturally, he offers this lecture on political theory through a strained metaphor involving two bottles of the black stuff.

“There is a particular technique when it comes to pouring Guinness,” Edward explains, with the care that one expects from a modern “buy-o-pic.” The key, Edward says, is not to pour the bottle all at once. The glass should settle for a moment. “I call it the Guinness minute,” he offers. He elaborates, “These two half-poured glasses of Guinness represent the state of Ireland.” Edward sees his nation as a country “in need of time to reflect”, where progress is to be made “slowly, carefully, evenly.”

This moment reveals a lot about House of Guinness. On the surface, the show owes a lot to Knight’s other period series, Peaky Blinders. This is evident from its opening moments, which find the family’s resident ruffian, Sean Rafferty (James Norton), strolling through the brewery lit by flames as he amasses a mob to accompany the hearse carrying the deceased Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness. “Each of you grab a means of persuasion,” he orders. “Remove all obstacles with a firm hand.”

This influence makes sense. Peaky Blinders was a massive success on Netflix, to the point that the streaming service is co-producing the upcoming movie. House of Guinness has very clearly been brewed as Netflix’s own homegrown answer to Peaky Blinders, a sordid and sexy period soap opera with enough violence and sex to hold the attention of a younger audience alienated from more traditional period fare like Downton Abbey. It’s a crude calculation, but a pragmatic one.

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KC Nwosu @sigmagears9.bsky.social · 6d

Super Smash Sunday starts now! let's get to it.
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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 7d

We had a very busy week on Second Wind.

Catch up with all the video essays, streams and podcasts before you head out on this fine Saturday evening.

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 9d

This week Second Wind is brought to you by Once Upon a Galaxy, the collectible card battler of cosmic proportions, available now on Steam.

Check it out for free here: galaxy.fun/d/300

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 8d

EA has made a deal this week to be acquired for $55 billion by PIF (Saudi Arabia's public investment fund), Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners and private equity firm, Silver Lake.

Nothing about this sounds good.

EA Just Made a Deal with the Devil | Unpacked

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 8d

EA has made a deal this week to be acquired for $55 billion by PIF (Saudi Arabia's public investment fund), Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners and private equity firm, Silver Lake.

Nothing about this sounds good.

EA Just Made a Deal with the Devil | Unpacked

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 8d

In his latest column, @darrenmooney.bsky.social breaks down Marvel Zombies, and why the series feels like it's haunted by the MCU's undead continuity.

Live now on Patreon -- www.patreon.com/posts/column...

Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 9d

This week Second Wind is brought to you by Once Upon a Galaxy, the collectible card battler of cosmic proportions, available now on Steam.

Check it out for free here: galaxy.fun/d/300

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Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social · 9d

Reminder that we're currently signing sponsors for @secondwindgroup.com for October - December.

Our audience loves horror games, so if you've got one you wanna get some extra promotion for get in touch!

Also a good time to run promos for games that slipped under the radar!

Contact info in my bio!

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Jack Packard @jackpackard.bsky.social · 9d

In about an hour, @prettygrimgames.bsky.social and I will be Ghosting all over Yotei!!!

Wacth Here:

Ghost of Yotei Launch Day Stream w/ Jack and Jess

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Second Wind @secondwindgroup.com · 9d

It's a love / hate relationship for @yahtzeecroshaw.bsky.social and Hollow Knight: Silksong.

Here's this week's episode of Semi-Ramblomatic!

I Love Silksong, and I Also Hate Silksong | Semi-Ramblomatic

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