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Evan Backlog

@backlogreviewer.bsky.social

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Perpetrator of Youtube video crimes. Still at large https://youtube.com/@BacklogReviewer || Email me at: [email protected] || Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/the_backlog

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Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 22d

Sneak peak of A Generation of Clouds, my next video essay:

Fluffy clouds, angry clouds, clouds saturated by sunset and heavy with rain. Cel shaded stratus clouds, volumetric cumulonimbus. Clouds clinging to the dawn like gossamer, domineering clouds that command violent horizons. Thick, soupy fog that swirls and billows with the slightest disturbance.

Elden Ringman looking at gnarly stormclouds

Aloy Horizon sitting on a dinosaur, watching clouds smeared with sunset crawl the skybox

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Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 54m

Remember Our Promise

The white haired lady from Pixar's monsters versus aliens hugging her knees and looking upset

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 59m

Second one is honestly a really great snack after a heavy night of drinking, really nips a hangover in the bud

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 2h

"It's a humiliation ritual!"

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 3h

Oh it absolutely, one hundred percent is, especially if we get Freedom Cry bundled in

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Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 3h

"The child, who has not always lived in the tool room, and can remember sunlight and its mother's voice, sometimes speaks. "I will be good," it says. "Please let me out. I will be good!" They never answer."

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 3h

"They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why, and some do not,"

Jim Carrey as The Grinch, with soulful, sad yellow eyes

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Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 3h

Had MandaloreGaming's Soma video on in the background while painting last night, and unfortunately heard him draw the parallel between Jim Carrey's Grinch and the Omelas child. I can't stop thinking about it

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 5h

(Hideo Kojima frantically scribbling in his "Metal Gear Solid 6 villain names" notebook)

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 13h

Do the children know that one of the major characters in Fiddler on the Roof is named "Lazar Wolf"

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 15h

A post on R/Gaming: Ubisoft cancelled a
post-Civil War Assassin's
Creed last year due to US political climate

A comment on that post that reads "They need to make one where the Assassins take out JFK for foiling the Cuban Missile Crisis (which was secretly over a piece of Eden)." There are three replies to this comment, all of which have been deleted by the moderators

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lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 18h

HEY FOLKS!

Now I am back from Japan I wanted to do a proper *I'M LOOKING FOR WORK* post.

Reviews, previews, features, podcasts, on-camera stuff, online, in print... I can do it all! And have been doing it all for like six years!

If you have a beat on any opportunities, please let me know.

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Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 18h

It's genuinely just superb, top to tail

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 18h

You know how writers sometimes have one scene in their heads and write a whole book to justify it? This is that

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 18h

The pacing is so tight, and that track is just undeniable. A timeless, flawless 158 seconds

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Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 18h

Man I think about this two and a half minute clip literally all the time, it's perfect. They didn't even need the rest of the film, if they just released this as a short by itself I would have gotten it

youtu.be/LECmyZB-cgM?...

How To Train Your Dragon: Test Drive Scene 4K HD

YouTube video by RokujyuuyonShou

youtu.be

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Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 19h

printing out tweets and prittsticking them directly to the inside of my manila folder because I am 4, and fascism is my first school project

Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 19h

-uncooked instant noodles
-a slice of white bread sprinkled with salt, with a glass of tap water
-a teaspoon of gravy granules, as a treat

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 22h

Like "oh no, if I can't feed children into this wood chipper then my business won't be viable!" Is not a convincing argument for mulching kids into compost

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 22h

Then it's got to die!! These fucking AI people act like they have a god given right to profit of their garbage businesses and toxic products, at the expense of everyone and everything else. They will drink the planet dry using this exact same logic

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 23h

The wickedly talented, adel, nazeem

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 1d

Again, it might be true, maybe he's fucking evil and a dog abuser or whatever, that might be the case. But Ethan Klein has been clipping Hasan to make him look like a murderous antisemite, 5 seconds at a time, for like 18 months solid now, so excuse me if I'm a little cynical about this

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 1d

Excuse me if I don't jump in with Oli London and The Quartering in going all "They're eating the dogs" on the most famous leftist on the planet without getting better than a 10 second clip taken out of context

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Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 1d

Idk man, maybe Hasan does use a shock collar on his dog, that would be evil, but I'm not taking that on faith given that all the worst people in the whole world seem to be the ones saying it. Yeah I've seen the 10 second clip, it looks rough, but it's also like 10 seconds long

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Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 1d

Final Fantasy VII: RE8 Village

Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 1d

Final Fantasy VII - Revengeance

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Evan Backlog @backlogreviewer.bsky.social · 1d

My memories of playing Halo 3 are predominantly set to 'Now That's What I Call Music 65'