*watches a 10 minute set of cutscenes interspersed with 30 seconds of tutorial combat* video games!!!!!!!!!
James WhitbrookCounterattack was always the best hype theme 😤😤😤
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*watches a 10 minute set of cutscenes interspersed with 30 seconds of tutorial combat* video games!!!!!!!!!
James WhitbrookCounterattack was always the best hype theme 😤😤😤
Immediately seeing this look so clean and running at 60fps is making my head spin Xenoblade Chronicles 2 supremacy for one thousand years
James WhitbrookBunch of stuff got in the way from me starting sooner, but at last 😭
the concept of an australian doing a british accent to mask being from boston
Today's newsletter blog is about the big D&D Universes Beyond announcements, and why as someone who's largely enjoyed them in Magic, I'm a bit warier about how they'll work in D&D form—even if they're starting with a one-two punch designed to kill me, specifically
Not been able to get the last 60 seconds or so of this out of my head
also not to criticize something for not being what it isn't, but man, sometimes I wish you could talk about this show like "Oh, that was the La'an episode, that was the M'Benga episode, that was the Chapel episode" instead of "that was the musical episode, that was the ghost ship episode, etc"
James WhitbrookI'm not a big horror person so I don't think this one was ever going to really work for me, but SNW leans into the horror bucket a lot more than it should, and I think doing that means it has to escalate to an episode like today's, which is just off-putting to me
in today's newsletter: sometimes you just rewatch a couple of episodes of Deep Space Nine and go "holy shit, those couple of episodes of Deep Space Nine"
the collective amazing spider-man erasure 😭 but you'll all cheer when my man jumps through a portal
Justin Carter“This’ll be our fourth Spider-Man movie that’s ‘the best live-action one since Spider-Man 2’”
Mike Flanagan is a fun get for the Amazon 40K project
Wrote about the Aang movie and the approximately one billion controversies that swirled around Avatar in general with its release this weekend—just the latest slings and arrows in a long barrage of them this franchise has somehow managed to be cursed with over tghe years.