Jesse V
Jesse V
@jessev.bsky.social
Writer, Game Designer, sometimes authority figure. I’ve been a journalist, a publisher, a producer, a designer, and more. Attractions, alt controllers, audio games, films, etc. These days I teach at USC Games. Cohost @everydamnframe
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The books of John Bellairs with art by Edward Gorey. Just unbelievable terror when you least expect it. Where Goosebumps went big and obvious these books went subtle and full of dread in deeply fucked up ways.
In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
You are so right to point that out. That’s on me. Making note of that right now and it’s locked in. Would you like me to start a comprehensive sweep for Sarah Connor or should we get to work on the blueprints for the Arch Weapons Platform?
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
I’m seeing it again Saturday. Someone asked me how gross it is, should we eat before or after and I said “it’s not disgusting but let me put it like this: I don’t think very many people went home to fuck after seeing Barbarian”
Our episode about the new film drops TUESDAY. So excited to talk about this.
I wish my students knew how good they had it. My dudes, your only job today is to put care and attention and craftsmanship into your art, which by the way, does not need to succeed or satisfy shareholders. You have the rest of your lives to be miserable amd sleepless making 6/10 action games, TRUST.
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When we talked about doing a new show I died inside knowing I’d have to learn about “clipping” and be good about it this time. I thought it would be a chore but NOPE, it’s my reward. I love the clips. The hard part is choosing! check out @everydamnframe.com there’s lots more #ResidentEvil ahead
The Raccoon Squad is back and so are some bisexual awakenings, but first we gotta talk about priests in zombie movies. We’re talking about #ResidentEvil Apocalypse today, and it’s getting good on the show even if the movies just got worse. Full Episode here: pod.link/6794981355/e... #FilmSky
I’m so pissed because I liked the tool but the hosting is NOT worth the money and hassle and what it cost us in terms of launch. Both @everydamnframe.com episodes should sound loads better now.
I did my 3 miles this morning with hills! I got stuff done promoting my show! My talk that I’m giving at @indiecade.bsky.social’s climate jam soon is a good and useful one about QA and Polishing which I care about so much that I have bullied my program into making it curriculum. Good morning!
So a fun fact here is that I deliberately cropped the visuals here for this clip because when taping the show we never went back to look at the graveyard sweater, so it became slowly an object of myth in our oral tradition. Really am loving this show. Please subscribe. It’s free and ad-free!
When discussing Alice’s Worst Outfit in 2002’s Resident Evil, our show makes its own accidental first stab at our OWN bit of franchise nonsense: the graveyard sweater. Apologies to Anthropologie. Full episode here: pod.link/6794981355/e...
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New show! Really excited to launch this labor of love from three friends and industry professionals who seek to understand precisely how single films transform into engines that drive decade-spanning franchises. And right at the jump I damage my “gamer cred” so enjoy that as well!
It begins! @jessev.bsky.social @lizshannonmiller.com and @asatait.bsky.social watch every damn frame of Paul W. S. Anderson’s “Resident Evil” and gain insight into names of all kinds, 3D maps, and graveyard sweaters. Plus the business of franchises! Ostensibly the premise of the show!
It was a really stressful summer producing this and mentoring students. I got to bring on my best bud from the QA trenches on our first AAA game to teach the team how to get through cert and on the store. Passed first try, 0 issues. Knowing what I know now, I’d do a few things different. But…
I was saying earlier to someone that the MCU has entered the phase of storytelling the comics did but greed stopped them from training their audience the way comics do: to not feel like following every character and reading every story was crucial to enjoying an event story.
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Geez I dunno fellas; MAYBE these days the genre may not have the same white-hot box-office appeal as "A Series Of Vaguely Unsettling Rooms" and I may just be a simple country media critic speaking? But I reckon a couple folks DO show up and watch a movie with all those Avengers and X-Mens in it 🤷♂️
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Every few months, I ask folks to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Why? Because we live in a world (partially) controlled by mysterious algorithms and rankings. It's not fair, and it's not ideal. But! Your review can get the show in front of more people and help me reach algorithm escape velocity
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Hey, so, I was so angry today that, for once, I blogged it instead of posting about it. Games media, especially mainstream games media, cannot keep abdicating responsibility in how it talks about these things an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/video-game-s...