jai

jai

@lowercasejai.bsky.social

vidya essayist https://youtube.com/@lowercasejai | masc they/them | https://www.patreon.com/lowercasejai | enquiries to lowercasejai@proton.me

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My goal going in was make this the longest Labyrinth of Cinema ep yet...turns out I didn't even have to try, Kamikaze Taxi is just the easiest thing in the world to talk about forever Still buzzing from this tbh! Left thinking I'd been underrating one of my fav movies this whole time!

Colin@moxbagel.bsky.social

This week Labyrinth of Cinema jumps into possibly the greatest film in the "Yakuza Revenge Tale Becomes Chill Road Movie" micro-genre. Joining @lowercasejai.bsky.social and I once again is the absolute legend @cosmicspooks.bsky.social. Links in the reply!

INCREDIBLE MOVIE. none of the plot summaries online really capture what it's like to watch it. even these screenshots don't. this was the first episode where we talked about every scene, chronologically, unplanned, just because we all liked the movie so much lol

Colin@moxbagel.bsky.social

This week Labyrinth of Cinema jumps into possibly the greatest film in the "Yakuza Revenge Tale Becomes Chill Road Movie" micro-genre. Joining @lowercasejai.bsky.social and I once again is the absolute legend @cosmicspooks.bsky.social. Links in the reply!

every clip i see of the H3 Podcast makes me think they should make a second Too Many Cooks but have it constantly keep cutting to new people talking at different angles

this is an absolutely stunning article. it goes into incredible detail about one of my favourite things i've seen in any game ever. definitely recommend it!

Design Room@designroom.site

We're making our Sam & Max War Song oral history free this week to celebrate the game's 20th anniversary. Available now!

i saw a trailer for a new mario fangame and it looks freaking sick. however, they gave mario a double jump, and i was not prepared for how unnerving it would be to see that plumber gain a sudden burst of momentum in the air out of nowhere

imagine a version of supersize me told in a non-linear order but it pops up with what spurlock’s blood alcohol content was at the time in each scene. it would be like that episode of venture bros told through the value of the comic dropping

holy shit. i just heard the news. i can't fucking believe it. the try guys are actually over after this, you don't do that to your wife

I remember someone people doubted and called crazy. They questioned his message and purpose on this earth. But he forgave them in the end and then died for their sins. That’s right. Morgan Spurlock

you would expect a guy called The Cinema Snob to review things like Jean-Pierre Melville or Bresson but instead all the videos are about like Gremlins 2

for as much as people love tony soprano these days, that type of character has completely disappeared. guy in his 40s and 50s, fat, lost his hair. can’t even really think of a modern actor who has that appearance let alone would be offered a leading man role today

i don’t even really get people who think southland tales is bad. like what’s the complaint? the rock is TOO good in it??

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how did silent hill, a game series built on interpreting surrealistic, lynchian and kurosawa-inspired imagery, develop one of the least curious, most averse to unique readings, audience for any media property ever? it was dead for like fifteen years!

most people think documentaries are a nonfiction attempt at preserving a historical record, which utilises the language of film to infer subjectivity on to the history being told. this is not true. a documentary is a youtube video about some guy on the internet

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Guy whose favorite videogame character is The Great Squashini: We've lost the culture. They don't even put pumpkin wizards into videogames anymore

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BEWARE THE PIPELINE

Colin@moxbagel.bsky.social

This week on Labyrinth of Cinema @lowercasejai.bsky.social @biglou.bsky.social and I discuss the legendary Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, a film much misunderstood and also rad. Links in the reply!

this is not a joke, i have thought about this movie every single day since i saw it

Colin@moxbagel.bsky.social

This week on Labyrinth of Cinema @lowercasejai.bsky.social @biglou.bsky.social and I discuss the legendary Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, a film much misunderstood and also rad. Links in the reply!

i hate all this cockwatching that happens for art now. this movie is a giant flop at the box office, this game only has this many players!! are you a stock broker or a human with a pulse and a heart?? DID YOU LIKE IT OR NOT??? GOD DAMN

"if Marx was alive today he'd be a Leftcom!" "No Marx would be Maoist!" Marx: "wwhy shrek is piss. why shrek is piss #italiano"

good news! WBTV released their claim! also check out this insane screenshot I got of the news while fumbling my phone cause I was cooking. also MASSIVE THANK U to @used-books.bsky.social!! i would not have attempted this without them suggesting it. please check their videos out, they're so good

jai@lowercasejai.bsky.social

after over two years of my two and a half men video being up on youtube, warner bros TV has issued a claim to it. i don't know what to do. they rejected my dispute in a single day. what are video essayists meant to do here? does anyone know anybody who had to deal with this in the past?

things geller has done: - hide his patreon income amount - update his personal website to provide a new place to buy his book - private his reddit account things geller hasn’t done: - tell people to stop harassing others in his defence - inform his patrons and youtube audience

jai@lowercasejai.bsky.social

the conversation has already moved on to if Geller has rehabilitated. in December of the same year of his assault, 2016, he was posting on HIS PUBLIC REDDIT ACCOUNT, that not only was he using tinder to talk to women, he was posting screenshots of his convos to the tinder subreddit.