Chris Franklin
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Maker of Organic, Artisanal Video Essays About Interactive Media | Professional also-ran | Cringe Elemental | (he/him) |
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Still, everyone else is doing it, so if you want to keep in touch off-hellsite I have a link tree:
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It's a trite observation, but it does sort of bum me out how George Lucas took the westerns, samurai movies, and pulp serials he grew up with and made Star Wars where as the people who grew up with Star Wars just went and made More Star Wars.
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*squints*
Is Nintendo trying to do a pride sale while explicitly avoiding mentioning pride by name
Or am I just reading too much into this
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Trying to reconcile that pretty much any way you die in a submersible 13,000 feet underwater is one of the most horrible ways you can go with the idea that a $250,000 vacation to visit the watery graves of others is morbid adventurism for callous, bored billionaires
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I mean, it's more like
as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days
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I think Rick Sanchez and the xenomorph from Alien learned something today, and have been given a lot to reflect on.
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Could not get "The Treachery of Images, but make it a YouTube thumbnail" out of my head.
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I really don't care for reddit as a platform but its users bringing the site to its knees in protest of its management's poor decisions is objectively a good thing.
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Remember, in 2024 you have two options:
1. Literal fascists looking to maximize harm
2. A party willing to put together a committee to draw up a proposal that could lead to means-tested partial solutions to some problems in 2036 (to be overturned by SCOTUS in 2037 w/o a fight)
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If you really want a movie about a sad, downtrodden loser in an uncaring world who is unable to get ahead in life until he takes on the mantle of a comic book character that’s an exaggeration of all his quirks and flaws, have I got a film for you
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Fallout "celebrating Bombs Drop Week" pretty much embodies everything wrong with Bethesda's take on the property.
Starting October 19th, we're celebrating Bombs Drop Week! ⚛️
Join us for our Spooky Scorched event, 50% off the Purveyor, Scrip Surplus, Double Mutations in Daily Ops, and more fun
#Fallout76
surprises!
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Hearing that Bud Lite never even reached back out to Dylan Mulvaney is profoundly fucked up.
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TFW earbuds have to be extremely gendered for some reason
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When people ask me to describe plot structure in the early 2020s I will simply show them that scene in Akira where Tetsuo grows uncontrollably into a stadium sized mix of metal and flesh
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Looking forward to tomorrow, when noted cisgender man Elon Musk has to roll back this policy he thoughtlessly tweeted out
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It is genuinely great to see Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan again, but I could not possibly care less about a story designed to fill in the blanks between a prequel and the original film.
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From the people who killed countless websites by inflating video performance metrics by 900%, described left-of-center politicians as an 'existential threat', and lets politicians openly lie in ads they willingly run, now comes the least trusted name in news.
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And on the other it’s like - you paid a quarter million dollars to be taken thirteen thousand feet under water to one of the most inhospitable places for human life to gawk at where other rich people died a hundred years ago. What did you think would happen?
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It would be absolutely great if the party that currently holds a majority in both houses and the presidency did literally anything other than just telling people to vote harder next time
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I’m starting to think privatizing critical infrastructure may be bad
CEO of TX gas company is giddy on call with shareholders over profits this week from storm. “This week is like hitting the jackpot with some of these incredible prices. We were able to sell at super premium prices for a material amount of production.”
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I don’t know their store’s curation process, for all I know this is some low level employee’s subversive attempt to do something after a more official request was rejected. And if so hey, good on them, I guess?
From the outside it still feels kinda weird tho
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Fun fact: Removing the ugly CGI corpse allows the frame to emphasize Fett's loneliness and isolation in the moment he lost the only family he's ever known
But no, we must demand rigid adherence to continuity from the franchise where the music is named Jizz
Spot the difference… Disney Star Wars is a fucking joke! They really don’t care and neither should you!
#BookofBobaFett
#TheBookOfBobaFett
#BobaFett
#StarWars
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Like on one hand I keep running though the scenarios in my head and they are all the stuff of nightmares. Rapid depressurization. Drowning. Sitting in a dark tin can with no food or drink or bathroom as your four days of O2 slowly get used up as you hope against hope. Terrifying.
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I present to you: Perhaps the most embarrassing death in this game.
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Hi my name is Videogames Videogames
Your Cyberpunk name is:
Something you don't like + something you do like.
Hey, I'm Jello Dog.
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What I love about this is that it is quintessential Musk: a bad/childish/spiteful idea was complicated by regulation so a worse, half-assed version was done in the laziest, tackiest way possible to deeply embarrassing results he is pathetically proud of.
if you thought the sink joke was the height of cringe no my friend it was not
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Ambiguity is not a plot hole. Using dream logic or setting up metaphors that don’t make sense in a causal, physical world is not bad storytelling. Universe building/lore is always less important than the story at hand.
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This game is not out yet and I am already utterly exhausted by it.
Marvel's Avengers has a set of skins for Virgin Media and Verizon customers
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Feeling’ real upbeat about the future of AI making ethical choices
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They've spent years sanding all the interesting rough edges away from the gameplay so I suppose it was only a matter of time before they did the same to the characters themselves.
Overwatch 1 🆚 Overwatch 2 Some 2D Portrait Concept Art Comparisons.
#Overwatch2
※Credits:
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This used to be a cute meme that would show up in my feed once a week but now it's legitimately providing me with a useful service as concepts like time become increasingly meaningless
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Moderation is gone; the site is now a bastion of hatespeech. Bots run wild now. The site breaks every time they change anything. They're kowtowing to regimes asking for censorship. Blue accounts are posting whole-ass movies illegally. It's a shitshow.
Yes, they need people.
Is anyone still convinced Twitter needed 8,000 employees to keep the lights on?
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I mean, this is the loading screen I got when I quit out of the March Through Time instance.
"Aim for the head" is a helluva thing to tag on the loading screen for a tribute to MLK. And granted, it's random, and it's unrelated to the event but... that's my whole point.
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I think two things can simultaneously be true:
1. Twitter is a hellsite that has been mismanaged for years by people who don't understand their own platform to society's great detriment
2. A billionaire rich enough to just buy the damn thing for his own purposes is a bad thing.
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The games industry has never meaningfully reconciled with the events of 2014 onward. It left writers and developers (mostly women) out to dry, and while publications could have handled it better the silence from the actual development/publishing side was deafening.
What's the most unpopular gaming opinion you're willing to stand by?
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You can't just place a somber reflection on race and history in America in the middle of your party time Battle Royale any more than you can comfortably hold a wake in a Chuck E. Cheese.
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The internet in 2023 is a series of dying platforms everyone hates but are bound to by a combination of compulsion loops and the fact that they've choked the life out of less centralized spaces.
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I feel like we need a term to describe the way in which corporations take whatever art they manage to create and actively decontextualize and undercut it in the name of profit. See also: All the places WB have turned The Iron Giant into a badass fighting machine.
Do you want to play a game? Enter to join Squid Game: The Challenge at
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@FriendlyNetMan
Oh it’s definitely cool. But seeing the top of Mt Everest is also cool, and people die trying to get there every year. Some places are simply dangerous regardless of how much money you have.
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My wife is rewatching all of Star Wars chronologically. She’s reached Phantom Menace. I remember one big complaint at the time (of many) being “how can things go from this to Empire bad in just 30 years?!” That complaint has not aged well.
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I'm shocked that an R-rated film that's polarizing audiences and is available to stream on HBO Max from the comfort of one's home during a pandemic is losing to the in-theaters-only family film as both are trounced by Spider-Man by a literal order of magnitude
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You know, "over-produced" is a term in the music industry that we should probably start incorporating into our criticisms of the MCU.
Sam Raimi has revealed that Kevin Feige originally wanted to remove Doctor Strange & Mordo's "corny" stare-off scene from
#MultiverseOfMadness
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"I said, 'Please, Kevin, let me have that.' He went, 'Okay, fine. Have your corny stuff...'" Full quotes:
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It sucks that this went super viral and attracted the attention of a lot of bad actors because I'm increasingly convinced that it's the work of a curation team that gives a shit working under a company that does not.
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I am feeling kind of weird that my Tweets oscillate violently back and forth between "The world's on fire, lives are being ruined, and it's only gonna get worse" and "Hey check out this videogame it has colors and dinosaurs and a fart button"
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It is unbelievable that Florida's descent into petty, corrupt, and if we're being honest, fascist autocracy has been taken 100% in stride by the media, like it's just another wacky Florida Man Does Bath Salts And Eats Friend's Face story.
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But this is one of the (many, many) problems with the platform-as-a-metaverse idea. You can't sell licensed skins for your social Battle Royale Party one minute, then expect it to be a serious place to learn about history the next. Fortnite by its nature can't be everything.
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@neiltyson
For a guy known for pedantic corrections you're sure willing to ignore a lot of meaningful history and context for this take, huh
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Remember when his whole "poindexter corrects movies" schtick was meant to be a fun way to get people interested in science, and not a pedantic way to feel better than the arts?
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This is pathetic, and they need to get dragged for it.
Not for the banning, but the fact that the banning is happening now instead of in 2014. They crafted exceptions, insisted upon free speech, waxed philosophical abt the import of the words of leaders... all for engagement.
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The toxicity of Boogie is that he presents himself as a friendly apolitical centrist who is Above It All and Just Cares About Games while effectively espousing (or at least empathizing with) some truly grotesque ideas.
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Ninja going full-on "rich, successful content creators deserve special treatment from developers" is gonna get a yikes from me.
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@TheSmarmyBum
I think you're wasting a tremendous amount of money and effort to promote a nihilistic, ecologically disastrous reinvention of Beanie Babies because one of your execs read an article about NFTs once and insisted the company should "do something" with them and this is the result.
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Sure I do
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I feel like CNN thinks this is an own on Trump and not a scathing condemnation of the entire last 4 years of media coverage, and that's part of the problem.
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Look, enjoy Forspoken's dialog, cringe at Forspoken's dialog, do whatever you want
Just know you're going to miss this irreverent discourse in two weeks when the Harry Potter game discourse hits its full stride.
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"Its combat mechanics border on the dysfunctional. Its first third is misguided, its second third offensive, and its final third masturbatory self-aggrandizement. Despite the tremendous craft on display, it bears the scars of its troubled development too plainly."-out-of-ten
It's the 10th anniversary of BioShock Infinite this month. Back in 2013, we gave it a 91% review—what would you give it today?
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Welcome to Game Theory, I have problems with the concept of fictional constructs, metaphors, and abstract representation
Let’s do some math to prove this
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Reminder that while it's much nicer right now, the longterm prospects for BlueSky are also terrible because it is *also* led by a rich moron with brainworms
And I do hope they consider building on truly censorship-resistant open protocols like bitcoin and nostr to help ease that burden. Good for all, and critical to preserve the open internet.
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That HD texture pack for The Lion King looks technically impressive but I worry it ignored a lot of the artistic decisions of the lower resolution assets it’s replacing.
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I am still processing "Actually It Was About Economic Anxiety In Videogames" as a take because it is so breathtakingly stupid and revisionist.
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“We laid off 250 people with no severance but don’t worry we’re absolutely dedicated to making sure we finish our zombie game with other developers instead” belies the mindset of studio management: product delivery at any human cost.
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I saw a major platform holder who'd buy up every dev they met until the FTC threatened intervention, whereupon they would go
"heyheyheyyy c'maahn I'm a little guy, I'm just a little guyy, noo, i'm also in third place, I'm a little third place boyy"
& it somehow always worked
Microsoft says Xbox has "lost the console wars." Ahead of the FTC case today, Microsoft is keen to show Xbox is in third place. Microsoft reveals Xbox had 16 percent share of console sales in 2021 and 21 percent of the console install base
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Arena (1994) to Skyrim (2011): 17 years
Skyrim (2011) to TES6 (2028?): 17 years
‘THE ELDER SCROLLS VI’ is still at least 5+ years away from release.
(Source:
@stephentotilo
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Love being asked whether to trust the company with a clear financial incentive for there to be a third shot or the political organizations that have clear political incentives to pretend like things are fine now
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It's frustrating, because I *don't* want to be snarky and dismissive. The intent here is good, and the little ludic metaphors about collaboration and teamwork and togetherness are perhaps corny and condescending and shallow but they manage to make it more than a digital museum.
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Seriously, fuck any developer who invokes powerful iconography with clear subtext and then claims no responsibility for anything their work says.
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I got bored while waiting for the next ES to upload so I decided to make a hot take meme to pass the time
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Gonna echo sentiments that say
A) This isn’t an apology
B) Framing trans rights as a ‘debate’ shows they learned nothing/don’t care
C) Despite this happening every few months they remain committed to zero real corrective action.
Yesterday, we posted a tweet containing a trending hashtag as a pun. The tweet was neither intended as a malicious attack, nor as a comment to the ongoing social debate.
GOG should focus only on games. We acknowledge that and we commit to it.
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Everyone's poking fun but I'm just sitting here, somberly mulling over how you can live for 96 years, see the second world war and man land on the moon, but die just one day short of getting to play Splatoon 3.
Really makes you think
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@Jakeandbake336
I'd love to see this with expenses broken down in any realistic scenario, especially in a big city. Because it literally can't be done.
Plus, hey, you'd also have to cut healthcare, you're assuming no kids/dependents, you're surely cutting needed utilities, etc.
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I think a lot about how Notch went from being a patron of mine to blocking me on Twitter and declaring his support of GamerGate over the course of just a year and a half or so, and then subsequently falling to just utterly repugnant shitheel soon after that.
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The idea of NFT people espousing the powers of a decentralized blockchain one minute and then complaining that no one respects a centralized verification authority to make sure the "right" tokens are respected is hilarious to me.
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It's so still sad to me how Fallout went from black comedy to power fantasy with one transfer of ownership.
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@JonErlichman
It's positively amazing what you can when you have rich parents willing to invest in your startup, have no scruples to speak of, and are utterly unfazed by exploiting the labor of others
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"We've never made more money in our history as a company, which is why it's time for mass layoffs and restructuring" sure lays bare the moral bankruptcy inherent to capitalism
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LRT: video essays are fun to make and watch
They cannot be the backbone of academic games crit. They’re difficult to cite, time consuming to absorb vs text, as prone to platform death/link rot as any online source, and are held to zero editorial standards.
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Twitter has become a place I log into to see which beloved person, company, or media has been befouled by NFTs, then screaming into the void as they ignore the mountain of negative criticism to double down on a fad that will be over by 2023 b/c gold rush mentality has taken hold
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YouTube's decision to do nothing about Crowder doesn't surprise me, but does reaffirm the terrifying reality that I'm in a business that's totally beholden to an amoral monolith.
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Reminder that in 2018 words mean nothing, irony is dead, and that naive rich who equate wealth with expertise are dooming us all.
By the way, I am actually a socialist. Just not the kind that shifts resources from most productive to least productive, pretending to do good, while actually causing harm. True socialism seeks greatest good for all.
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TIL that Wookieepedia is written in past tense because Star Wars takes place "a long time ago" and I have never been more upset about anything Star Wars related.
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Turning everything into a closed platform and locked down app that treats accessibility as an afterthought and moderation as a minor concern is bad, actually
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@joinhitpiece
I would love a detailed breakdown of how, exactly and in great detail, money ends up in the hands of artists you don't even have the basic contact information of from the minting and exchange of NFTs of their songs they never agreed to allow use of.
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“What if your 90 minute Marvel movie was a six hour miniseries that had no real climax or character arc and stuff just kind of happened, all wrapped around mystery boxes whose payoff was “Ralph Boehner” or “it was the guy from that other show we got the rights back to””
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I know everyone is dunking on Elon Musk for liking Bioshock, but honestly it’s more a condemnation of how little and how poorly BioShock manages to condemn Objectivism/free markets than Musk’s taste in deep sea shooters.
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This is a legally sound position to take.
It's also a profound misreading of the streaming ecosystem, and the fact such a bad take about streaming games comes from someone at Stadia is just *chef's kiss*
The real truth is the streamers should be paying the developers and publishers of the games they stream. They should be buying a license like any real business and paying for the content they use.
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