Danny Sullivan
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Reposting this to tag @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. River of Shadows is so incredible and so generative and I'm grateful to you for inspiring what I think is the best thing I've ever written
I wrote about Blood Meridian and River of Shadows, and I wrote about genocide and technological progress and the act of bearing witness and the trauma of time itself. I put everything I had into this one
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Enough death to bind a nation
Witnesses to the dawn of modernity in Blood Meridian and River of Shadows
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November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Reposting this to tag @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. River of Shadows is so incredible and so generative and I'm grateful to you for inspiring what I think is the best thing I've ever written
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Wrote about Metal Gear Solid 2, which I genuinely think is one of the most important works of art of the 21st century. It dramatizes the imposition of simulation onto the world and presages with startling clarity our current age of hyperreality.
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A virtual grunt for the digital age
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
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November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The drinking water fandom is dying. Like and share if you're still sipping that clear stuff in 2025
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The drinking water fandom is dying. Like and share if you're still sipping that clear stuff in 2025
blogged a couple books
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Book Report 11/13/25
Isak Dinesen, Margaret Doody
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November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
blogged a couple books
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I have to catch two fucking trains to get to my gate? I am never going to Seattle again for the rest of my life
October 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I have to catch two fucking trains to get to my gate? I am never going to Seattle again for the rest of my life
Wrote about Metal Gear Solid 2, which I genuinely think is one of the most important works of art of the 21st century. It dramatizes the imposition of simulation onto the world and presages with startling clarity our current age of hyperreality.
theunderline.substack.com/p/a-virtual-...
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A virtual grunt for the digital age
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
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October 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Wrote about Metal Gear Solid 2, which I genuinely think is one of the most important works of art of the 21st century. It dramatizes the imposition of simulation onto the world and presages with startling clarity our current age of hyperreality.
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what if we based the entire economy on robbing Peter to pay Paul
WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.”
@wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL
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@wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL
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October 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
what if we based the entire economy on robbing Peter to pay Paul
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[STAR WARS] The excitement of those who call it the film of the year goes way past nostalgia to the feeling that now is the time to return to childhood. (1977)
October 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
[STAR WARS] The excitement of those who call it the film of the year goes way past nostalgia to the feeling that now is the time to return to childhood. (1977)
blogged the most anticipated game of the decade, which is about bugs
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Assorted thoughts after 50+ hours of Hollow Knight: Silksong
This is a video game blog now sorry
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October 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
blogged the most anticipated game of the decade, which is about bugs
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Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant.
Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.
Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.
September 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant.
Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.
Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.
I wrote about Blood Meridian and River of Shadows, and I wrote about genocide and technological progress and the act of bearing witness and the trauma of time itself. I put everything I had into this one
theunderline.substack.com/p/enough-dea...
theunderline.substack.com/p/enough-dea...
Enough death to bind a nation
Witnesses to the dawn of modernity in Blood Meridian and River of Shadows
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September 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I wrote about Blood Meridian and River of Shadows, and I wrote about genocide and technological progress and the act of bearing witness and the trauma of time itself. I put everything I had into this one
theunderline.substack.com/p/enough-dea...
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and another thing: im not scared. please dont put in the new yorker that i got scared.
ALIEN, with its horrible mutating creature (you never knew what form it would take), made you dread the scenes to come; it tied your innards in a knot. ALIENS isn't that scary...This movie has clumping feet. (1986)
September 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
and another thing: im not scared. please dont put in the new yorker that i got scared.
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i constantly think about this post
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
i constantly think about this post
Wrote about the uses and misuses of language in Fargo. People really like this one, check it out!
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This was supposed to be a no rough stuff type deal
Fargo (1996)
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September 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Wrote about the uses and misuses of language in Fargo. People really like this one, check it out!
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I jotted down some serious and not so serious observations about Dostoevsky
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Assorted thoughts after reading Crime and Punishment
A quick list
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August 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I jotted down some serious and not so serious observations about Dostoevsky
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blogged a couple books
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Book Report 8/6/25
Pamela Dean, Ursula K. Le Guin
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August 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
blogged a couple books
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I played Metal Gear Solid
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Too many strange things are happening
Metal Gear Solid (Hideo Kojima, 1998)
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July 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I played Metal Gear Solid
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I wrote about The Witness and how video games capture the experience of thinking, with reference to C Thi Nguyen's book Games: Agency as Art
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The Witness builds a scale model of the inquiring mind
Line puzzles and the aesthetic experience of thought
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July 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I wrote about The Witness and how video games capture the experience of thinking, with reference to C Thi Nguyen's book Games: Agency as Art
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I reviewed Metallic Realms by @thelincoln.bsky.social, which is both an insightful look at the Millennial experience and a hilarious romp through nerd culture via homages to some of the sci-fi greats. Definitely recommended!
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The Charles Kinbote of Millennial Losers
Metallic Realms (Lincoln Michel, 2025)
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June 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I reviewed Metallic Realms by @thelincoln.bsky.social, which is both an insightful look at the Millennial experience and a hilarious romp through nerd culture via homages to some of the sci-fi greats. Definitely recommended!
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Incredible how Pauline Kael could look at a single movie and predict the filmmaker’s entire filmmaking identity and future career arc. This is basically exactly my opinion of Spielberg: an undeniable savant of the cinematic art possessing the moral and intellectual sophistication of an eighth grader
June 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Incredible how Pauline Kael could look at a single movie and predict the filmmaker’s entire filmmaking identity and future career arc. This is basically exactly my opinion of Spielberg: an undeniable savant of the cinematic art possessing the moral and intellectual sophistication of an eighth grader
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Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.
June 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.
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For those who are infatuated with what they loathe, the battle within themselves never stops. (1977)
June 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
For those who are infatuated with what they loathe, the battle within themselves never stops. (1977)
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Every article about the inevitability of AGI
June 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Every article about the inevitability of AGI
My Coen Brothers retrospective takes a detour to dig into the critical and commercial response to their first five films and to take the temperature of their career at the ten-year mark theunderline.substack.com/p/the-pressu...
The pressures are very visible and very legitimate
Vibe checking the Coen brothers’ career at the 10-year mark
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June 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My Coen Brothers retrospective takes a detour to dig into the critical and commercial response to their first five films and to take the temperature of their career at the ten-year mark theunderline.substack.com/p/the-pressu...