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Congrats to my pals @midlifebook on the new volume https://t.co/OqzDYxhcmI. I would now invite all the authors, starting w/ @jpabillano @ethorkel @IvaCheung @dkaszor, to ID their analogue from this book's music video equivalent, "'74-'75" by The Connells:

I have not really been on Twitter much since old-tweetdeck was finally put down. I would love to say it's some sort of solidary thing, but really the site is just largely unusable to me in its current form.

And with that, it looks like Legacy Tweetdeck is finally dead-dead, including with the Better Tweetdeck extension. RIP Twitter 2006-2023

The "rollback to legacy tweetdeck" button in "better tweetdeck" = still working

Legacy tweetdeck STILL seems to work (using the "better tweetdeck" chrome extension)

So ... legacy tweetdeck still works. That's weird right? It's weird.

Everyone should mentally prepare themselves for having the entertainment thing they like most cancelled. Mark it in your calendars, circa late September/early October the studios are going to start cancelling stuff as a way to break the unions.

GameSpot reviews now include how many hours the reviewer played before filing the review? Dang. On the one hand, for a good faith reader, that's good info to have. On the other hand, the discourse around games writing has, for its entire history, been defined by bad-faith readers

Finished the most recent Survivor season (one of the best!). Now watching a Survivor season from ten years ago and it's absolute whiplash how EVERYTHING is presented. Feels significantly more skuzzy.

I've had this song stuck in my head for at least a week: https://t.co/ToenaHnb4R Oppenheimer built the bomb But now he's dead (dead) Einstein was very very smart But not enough not to be dead (dead)

Legitimately a large number of people stick around here because the the effort of moving that one big group DM off Twitter is too much and involves herding of cats. Lots of people will leave because of this.

I also sort of love how Strange New Worlds has 41-year-old Paul Wesley playing 26-year-old James T Kirk and 50-year-old Anson Mount is playing 60-year-old Christopher Pike.

It's wild to me that pre-1963 or so all dudes just wore brimmed hats. And, now basically only one in a hundred dudes can pull that off if they tried.

I love how much Branagh still has prestige despite solidly only directing pretty mid franchise films for the past 20 years. This is the guy who directed Thor 1, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, and Murder on the Nile.

You can tell how games criticism churns through people, and how little institutional knowledge and mentorship there is, by how the phrases "a mixed bag" and "fans of the genre" have stuck around regularly in reviews despite being "bad games writing" clichés for literal decades.

I know this is taking a jokey oversimplification too seriously, but my experience for this was that the people who handled pandemic lockdowns best were early-to-mid 30s, no kids, with a robust pre-existing network of online friends they already talked to regularly via audio chat.

Heck, it also feels like a rejection of the Japanese games that have been breakthrough hits in the past 10-15 years too! (Breath of the Wild, Elden Ring, ect)

While it's clearly a rejection of the turn-based console RPG style pioneered in part by Final Fantasy, and is in turn inspired by Western-style games, it also, feels totally removed from the actual Western games that have been breakthrough hits in the past 10-15 years.

I think I liked FFXVI more than most, but it absolutely still feels like a Square-Enix executive's 17-year-old American nephew told them in 2009 what Western Gamers™ like and its been purple-monkey-dishwashered into an entire design philosophy at the company.

There was one plot development in the new Mission Impossible that was intensely annoying, and I was surprised more reviews didn't talk about it ... but then I realized that the reviewers (like me,) probably just assume it will be revealed as a misdirect in the next movie.