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Steven Santana
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“Hey man I noticed you picked yoshi. Do you mind letting me have him or else.” -@pjayevans
https://breakingarrows.substack.com/
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number8axel.bsky.social
On this week's episode @benverschoor.bsky.social and I disagree on Hikari's latest feature film: Rental Family. It is a cute film (complimentary) that I view as an empty man becoming more full by participating in life rather than observing.
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Mise en Screen: Episode 21: Rental Family
Rental Family is the latest feature film by Hikari, cowritten by herself and Stephen Blahut, starring Brendan Fraser as a struggling American actor living in Japan who stumbles into a job working for ...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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benverschoor.bsky.social
Ay, cute film (derogatory). Feels like a movie 'about Japan' made by Americans for Americans, baffling for a writer-director who spent the first 17 years of her life in Japan.
December 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
number8axel.bsky.social
On this week's episode @benverschoor.bsky.social and I disagree on Hikari's latest feature film: Rental Family. It is a cute film (complimentary) that I view as an empty man becoming more full by participating in life rather than observing.
miseenscreen.libsyn.com/episode-21-r...
Mise en Screen: Episode 21: Rental Family
Rental Family is the latest feature film by Hikari, cowritten by herself and Stephen Blahut, starring Brendan Fraser as a struggling American actor living in Japan who stumbles into a job working for ...
miseenscreen.libsyn.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social
Love Bullet Points? Want to be part of the magic that happens here on the Bullet Points disused offshore oil rig?

@number8axel.bsky.social has created the Bullet Points 2025 tier list!

Rank all 19 games we covered this year from best to worst and share your rating!

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Create a Bullet Points Coverage 2025 Tier List
Ranking every game covered by Bullet Points Monthly in 2025
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December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
number8axel.bsky.social
Why is he so damn good at this [halfway through]
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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dicegameuchiha.bsky.social
ANNOUNCING: GOBLIN BUNKER PUBLIC ACCESS V
LIVE 🔴 DEC 14 @ twitch.tv/goblinbunker
an all out audio-visual charity music event raising funds for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, featuring the members of the goblin bunker community.
December 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
number8axel.bsky.social
Every two years I make an off the cuff list of my favorite games and then will go down the list stacking them up against each other: 1 or 2? 1 or 3? tallying each choice until every entry has been matched against another and order the list by tallies. This was the result:
November 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
number8axel.bsky.social
Discussed within is Mamoru
Oshii's other big anime OVA and I finally got off my butt and watched the finale to a remake series 14 years in the making.
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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benverschoor.bsky.social
Turkeys are basically angels, so there is no better movie for me and @number8axel.bsky.social and I to dig into on Thanksgiving than Angel's Egg
Mise en Screen: Episode 20: Angel's Egg
Angel’s Egg is a 1985 Japanese animated OVA film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii, best known for his work directing the animated film Ghost in the Shell in 1995. This film follows two nameless ch...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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number8axel.bsky.social
Black Friday ads five years from each consoles respective launch. I am still fascinated at how cheap we used to be able to get the consoles.
PlayStation 3 Uncharted 3 bundle for $299.99 in 2011 PlayStation 5 beginning at $399.99 in 2025 Xbox Series X for $649.99 in 2025 Xbox 360 (with choice of one game) for $199.99 in 2010
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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number8axel.bsky.social
Additionally re-upping the video version I also published alongside it at the time.
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Replaying Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
YouTube video by Illustrious Magic
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November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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number8axel.bsky.social
Republished writing I did in 2019 on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in an effort to better centralize stuff I have done.
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Replaying Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
A text worthy of exploration
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November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
number8axel.bsky.social
Republished writing I did in 2019 on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in an effort to better centralize stuff I have done.
open.substack.com/pub/breaking...
Replaying Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
A text worthy of exploration
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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number8axel.bsky.social
"I dont get easily bothered by what I watch, but there are some things, the really dark subjects, that if Im engaged long enough...you stare into the abyss and the abyss stares into you. So I mean it as the highest praise when I say this movie made me want to die a little" @benverschoor.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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morrowind-txt.bsky.social
We're watching you. Scum.
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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noescapevg.com
Stop Caring is, to be frank, one of the best websites covering video games right now. Artemis created something incredible and it - and she - deserves support. So you know what you gotta do, right?
stopcar.ing Artemis Octavio @stopcar.ing · 20d
Last week, my former housemate punched me multiple times in the eye, forcing me to break the lease for the beautiful apartment we shared and move in with a trusted friend

As I try to rebuild my life and find more permanent housing, I would greatly appreciate any support you could offer Stop Caring
Stop Caring
A publication about video games focused on the ways they evoke unique cultural conversations as well as the personal lessons we can learn from them as artistic media.
www.stopcar.ing
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
number8axel.bsky.social
"I dont get easily bothered by what I watch, but there are some things, the really dark subjects, that if Im engaged long enough...you stare into the abyss and the abyss stares into you. So I mean it as the highest praise when I say this movie made me want to die a little" @benverschoor.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
number8axel.bsky.social
Black Friday ads five years from each consoles respective launch. I am still fascinated at how cheap we used to be able to get the consoles.
PlayStation 3 Uncharted 3 bundle for $299.99 in 2011 PlayStation 5 beginning at $399.99 in 2025 Xbox Series X for $649.99 in 2025 Xbox 360 (with choice of one game) for $199.99 in 2010
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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number8axel.bsky.social
Not a thought in this man's brain
My dog staring blankly into space
April 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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number8axel.bsky.social
Glee meme template of Sue Sylvester with text framing her as Honore de Balzac writing Felix Grandet and the subtitle "I am going to create a character that is so hateable"
May 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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zweiteturm.bsky.social
exciting news!! I got to write about hermeneutics, translation, and gender (all my favourite guys) in silent hill f!
bpmonthly.bsky.social Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 18d
Our current issue comes to a close with a new article on Silent Hill f, by @zweiteturm.bsky.social bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/11/19/p...
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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helmetgirl.bsky.social
I offered some words for "Jack the Modernist," the book I wanted to be when I grew up:
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on owning your favorite book
some brief words for Robert Glück's "Jack the Modernist"
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November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
number8axel.bsky.social
On our latest episode @benverschoor.bsky.social and I talk at length about Die My Love, but first two similar films about troubled women from vastly different times and with various success.
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Mise en Screen: Episode 19: Die My Love
Die My Love is the fifth feature film directed by Lynne Ramsay, who, alongside Enda Walsh and Alice Birch, wrote the screenplay which is adapted from the 2012 Argentinian novel written by Ariana Harwi...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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benverschoor.bsky.social
Would hate to have to work with Wa-Luigi Coates on a group project
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19d
Imagine looking around America in 2025 and thinking, "What we need less of is morality."
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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nickcapozzoli.bsky.social
I have a larger piece on this sitting in drafts, but I included a bit of my take in a footnote in my last blog post. Essentially, it's that if we have any problem, it's being *too* "willing to meet a game on its own terms."
Somewhat aside, I've previously argued, and long maintained the exact opposite stance on "discussing games on their own terms"—I think we as critics tend to be far too deferential to the fairly limited bounds developers and publishers set for their games. Consider how at pains many are to argue that games that are plainly political are anything but as just one very obvious example. But I also think that many reviewers are very happy to take their foot off the gas whenever a game makes a big show of signposting its genre bonafides. I could argue that's in fact what Martin has done with his review—or I would, if I wasn't happy that he actually instead used it as an opportunity to write about criticism itself, thus giving me a chance to do the same. Somewhat aside, I've previously argued, and long maintained the exact opposite stance on "discussing games on their own terms"—I think we as critics tend to be far too deferential to the fairly limited bounds developers and publishers set for their games. Consider how at pains many are to argue that games that are plainly political are anything but as just one very obvious example. But I also think that many reviewers are very happy to take their foot off the gas whenever a game makes a big show of signposting its genre bonafides. I could argue that's in fact what Martin has done with his review—or I would, if I wasn't happy that he actually instead used it as an opportunity to write about criticism itself, thus giving me a chance to do the same.
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM