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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 1h

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 1h

And here is the finished product. Pretty happy with it, the eyes are maybe a little too cartoony but I sort of dig it

Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 4h

really and truly, I believe that the entire mouse functionality of the Switch 2 Joy-Cons was implemented just so we could finally get an official North American release of MARIO & WARIO

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 4h

Super NES - Nintendo Classics NSO titles added:

-Mario & Wario
-BUBSY in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
-FATAL FURY SPECIAL

www.youtube.com/watch?v=13ie...

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 4h

feel like someone on my timeline would need to know about this

preternia @preternia.com · 4h

Hasbro Star Wars Black Series 6" Dirtbag Cal & Friends are down to $36.15 on Amazon Big Deal Days - buff.ly/yNW6x8L #ad

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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 5h

Y'know, when people have asked me about my dream game, I've always said a runaway slave + Underground Railroad project or something set in or around the Haitian Revolution.

Someone somewhere is already taking this on and infusing the work with all the courage that the subject matter deserves.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 9h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 9h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 7h

Detroit. Tigers. Buddies. I’m proud of you.

You realize you can score this many runs EVERY game, right? Not just when you’re facing elimination?

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

I am a man of my word

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

(I would also submit the novel was not as good as the original novel so it's not like they botched great source material necessarily)

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

okay see now I'm listening

Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · 10h

I should pitch an unhinged panel sometime about how Kpop Demon Hunters is the 21st Century successor to Revolution X

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

I watched it not that long ago. It's still kind of bad but there are moments that are still good.

(Everything from when the T-Rex hits the mainland on sucks though and it's pretty clear why Crichton didn't go that way with it)

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

I think at the very least it fares better as a franchise based on a Spielberg classic than, say, JAWS did

Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

that being said I am never not going to laugh at D'Onfrio's villain monologue being cut off mid sentence when he sees a velociraptor

Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

Okay, I put it together really quick because I hadn't already, this is my JURASSIC sicko list letterboxd.com/learnonaut/l...

Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah a lot of World's issues come from the fact they really had some great ideas but focused more on the Pratt of it all

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

but I'll still watch it, it's still watchable, it's just not good. It's the worst of the lot but I won't skip it when I inevitably revisit the whole franchise again

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

also I really, REALLY loved the idea of dinosaurs coming into the "human" world that the last couple movies have worked with, and the opening to REBIRTH was absolutely heartbreaking because of course that's how it's gonna go down

Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

Exactly. It's never hitting the heights of the original again but they are reliable experiences, you're gonna have a good time most likely

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

TBH that one I watched mostly because I liked the cast and less because it was a Ghostbusters, I was there for McCarthy and McKinnon, not proton traps or whatever

Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

listen I am not going to say "I appreciate the Jurassic franchise on a deeper level than you" but it is clear who actually read the books and thought through the point they were making and who hasn't

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

Hell I liked DOMINION and REBIRTH because the plots *were* so petty and plausible. Of course they're going to create a genetically engineered locust that will destroy all competitor's crops! Of COURSE some pharma bro would finance an expendable expedition to corner the market on heart medication!

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

Even GB2016, the one I liked most of the follow-ups, was too reverential even though it was conceptually much closer to the original by also being a bunch of SNL folks goofing around with special effects

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

We're going to make the first AI-powered dinosaur park

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

Also I should note that when I say "bad" I mean "unwatchable", obviously LOST WORLD is a bad movie but I still like it and watch it every so often

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 10h

"It's not realistic that people would go back to the park/someone would try to make the park again"

*gestures at capitalism*

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