McGarnical

McGarnical

@mcgarnical.bsky.social

I use the bird site to talk about films and TV shows and video games. I may end up doing that here. Lawyer by trade.

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In which I enjoy big feelings: the movie, find another western that’s even better than good bad and ugly, witness again the birth of bwaaam and watch that cool movie about killing aliens and saying nothing else

Letterboxd@letterboxd.social

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 👀🩸

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AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

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I've yet to play the full game (which is out TODAY), but finally got around to trying the Moadra demo and GODDAMN, this feels like the PC's answer to Metroid Dread. Funny thing is, this was unveiled three days before Dread released, so I think it might just be parallel evolution. Feels SO good.

pre-order a video game

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?

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Here is the imdb profile shot of Richard Summers-Calvert, the Biddy Blas voice actor

it’s ben@yotsuben.bsky.social

you know, the voice actor for Biddy Blas has gotta be having the time of their life lmao

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friends, I'm on the lookout for content creators who would be interested in a review key for our lovingly hand-drawn 2D horse riding and stable management game! Please help me spread the word and/or tag creators/streamers/reviewers who might be interested!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Attention Content Creators! With the Release of Horses of Hoofprint Bay just four weeks away, we'll soon reach out to offer review keys to people 😱 If you post about games (streams, reviews, lets plays), please sign up to the TMQ Content Creator list! www.themanequest.com/content-crea...

I have never wishlisted faster. Machinarium is wonderful and I revisit it constantly

Amanita Design 🔧@amanita-design.net

Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

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Replying to @dominictarason.com

They are also melodramatic, extremely anime games set in an alternate-earth where there's a lot more sci-fi tech and most debates seem to be settled by dozens of jets fighting each other. Expect orbital strikes, laser cannons and tanks with railguns accompanied by poetic musings on the folly of war

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if you order ace combat 8 in the next day or two, you will get ace combat 0 as a preorder bonus. YOU SHOULD. IT IS PHENOMENAL AS A GAME

doctober@docseuss.bsky.social

this series has been consistent in how it plays from the ps2 days onward, and if you get 8 before full release in a couple days, you also get one of the best, 0, for free with it. I will quote this post with a meme about its greatness so everyone knows to get it.

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Why do the avatars on the Meta Pervert Pendant look like characters from a 2011 Dutch children’s TV show whose title translates to “Happy Penis Man Friends and Mister BumBum”

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When the defence department buys a game

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

Resident Evil Requiem Deluxe Edition (Xbox Digital) is $9,999,999 at Dell buff.ly/4wxOD08 (Steam) Resident Evil Requiem $41.29 Fanatical buff.ly/9HgMRsF #ad $48.99 US eShop buff.ly/GKUjlJG

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Alien: Isolation fans might like to know that its xeno-goo is splattered all over Silent Hill: Townfall. Using lo-fi gadgets to track enemies in atmospheric, convincingly lived-in, beautifully art directed environments. Using phones to save. Hiding in lockers. Reading emails on chunky old computers.

This is why QT got into films

Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social

It's called film "footage" because camera operators initially held the cameras with their feet. That changed after a film shoot in 1931, when an operator got a foot cramp and was forced to hold the camera in his hands. The "footage" he got that day was extraordinary. That man's name? Hans Cameraman.

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We are aware that Steam has classified Nighthawks as an adult game and has excluded it from searches (and delisted it entirely in certain countries). We are working on it. Valve is under the impression that this game is way sexier than it actually is.

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The lighting, the architecture, the painterly textures, the oppressive atmosphere... still an absolutely incredible looking thing. 14 years old!

Andy Kelly@ultrabrilliant.xyz

It's cold, it's grey, it's time to replay DISHONORED.

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Replying to @roryblank.bsky.social

Nobody can complain about thinking anything in the trailer looks weird, this is exactly what you nerds wanted and wouldn't shut up about for 30 years

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referring to metroidvanias as "hollowslop" to simultaneously piss off people who like metroidvanias, people who like hollow knight, people who want a better genre name for "metroidvania", people who are sick of the word slop being misused, and gradius fans who want to see more checkpoint recoveries