I played some of the Resident Evil remakes recently (spooky season) and gameplay-wise it basically reminds me of 2, which is the one I liked the most by far anyway. But then you have much richer storytelling, really confident deep worldbuillding, and just an amazing presentation all layered on top. It's definitely a game and story that's well honed to my vibes though (meta Stephen King stuff, Twin Peaks, XFiles, folk horror etc)
I didn't mean to imply you did so apologies if that's how it came off. I just thought it was worth saying for other non-anime people that I was exactly not the target audience and yet I didn't find it alienating at all.
I'm really really enjoying it. Somehow it manages to be both a good game and better at being kind of a prestige TV show than most actual prestige TV shows.
They are a good deal of fun if you like anime high school tropes.
That's fair but for the record I'm old and very much not an anime watcher of any kind, and playing Persona 5 for the first time absolutely hooked me despite it's occasional anime-ness. I've played 3 & 4 now and I think they're a bit more tropey maybe (I'm not expert, going on vibes)? I felt like the classic good-hearted teenage rebellion in an uptight country that dismisses it's young people themes in 5 were enough for it to break out of what I expected it to be a bit more and get it's hooks in me narratively.
I'm not an expert, I've just seen them live quite a few years ago and have liked bits and pieces over the years. They're not a go to band for me (I like my punk more hardcore basically - Bad Breeding would be my main suggestion of actual ideological leftist contemporary UK punk) and they vary quite a bit.
The first couple of records are a bit different from their early EPs and two of the band quit a few years ago and the newer stuff from the duo is slightly different again. I'd just listen to a smattering of stuff on YouTube or whatever and see what and how much of it you like.
Exactly. And neither should anybody daft enough to have not thought it would be an issue or to try this 'well actually' change the subject nonsense that the mainstream Dems do but better and with more clout and (lack of) conviction.
Kid Kapichi are pretty good live and have some other decent tunes in a similar vein. Zombie Nation is good and treads a lot of the same territory, but with a more upbeat two-tone musical influence and a pretty great guest appearance by Suggs of Madness fame.
They also did a horrifically cringey pro-EU tune (Can EU hear me?) and can be very lib, so... swings and roundabouts.
I dunno, I was often thought of as kind of a weird nerd in no small part thanks to doing community theatre / AmDram. But then I grew up at a time and in a place where the major pastime for young men was football violence.
If you're an old here in the UK like I am, 'Razzle' was a particularly cheap porno mag almost exclusively sold in petrol (gas) stations and found in the woods by teenagers. So the idea that she's courting that (now probably 60+) readership is quite funny.
Even if you take them at their word (I don't and people shouldn't) then it's a spectacular failure that the supposed great white hope of the American left is a guy (and electoral team, and media boosters, and surrounding organisers) who are such dipshits / so totally out of touch that they though having an explicitly Nazi tattoo wouldn't be an issue with anyone on the left, never mind wouldn't provide an amazing attack line for everyone else.
You're right on the money. His service in Americas war machine and as a Merc, and his iffy (at best) stance on that which seems to mostly basically just be 'we shouldn't do Iraq again' is the biggest issue and never gets addressed.
But even if you want to focus on the tattoo, even ignoring his lie about not knowing what it meant (he posted about knowing what it meant on Reddit before running), it shows that A) he's a dipshit who thought it wouldn't come up or be used against him and B) despite talking about socialism he doesn't give a shit about solidarity or public service because keeping his edgy souvenir from his killing tours was more important than the fact that very obviously the people he claims to represent would be (rightly) concerned, offended, or threatened by the fact this guy sports Nazi ink.
As for Jacobin...
Basically all these radlib rags or news orgs go that way. I've even contributed to one or two in the past. There's a fundamental tension between trying to build a business - call it profit or call it circulation / market share / visibility - if you want to work in the same media circles and ecosystem as mainstream media. There are too many stances and arguments and uncomfortable facts that are just verboten. So if you want grow a subscriber base with libs or get your contributers on television news shows you have to moderate your content.
Even if you don't sell out your ideals completely, you're now in a situation where readers/viewers who you may have even helped radicalise move past you quickly and they don't need to moderate their views to get on television or whatever because they're just ordinary people. So the readers/viewers that are arguably your own success story are quickly to the left of you or at least more ideologically commited than you appear to be. And so they leave and you push harder for that liberal exposure and the process repeats and intensifies.
And that's even assuming you're actually moving people left successfully in the first place, rather than just failing and running towards the money.
Fortnite is an absurdly big platform now. I have it installed for playing with younger family members sometimes and it's now multiple full games (a huge Rock Band clone with hundreds of songs, a full racing game, the original wave-based game, the main battle royale), over dozen game modes just by the developers a lot of which have their own maps weapons and more, thousands and thousands of skins and accessories and live service / shop shit, and then on top of all that there's maybe tens of thousands of other games built in their engine as it's become a huge garbage pile of user generated content games to rival Roblox. Throw in localisation, sound for all that, and stuff that doesn't even get used all the time like locations and designs for live events and concerts and it's an absurd amount of stuff. I'd argue a lot of it is junk, but it's kind of crazy how much stuff Fortnite 'is' now.
This is what happens when woke DEI starts pushing modern 'beauty' agendas in video games.
They're afraid of portraying the male ideal of a square jaw.
And a square head.
And a square haircut.
And square eyebrows.
And square hands.
And bad jewelery.