burke

starting up two new ps1 adventures

its proximity to the manga’s release and kore-eda’s quotes on it seem like it is an adaptation of passion into his chosen medium rather than part of an obligatory media-mix to generate more revenue

i feel i get frustrated by this sort of thing if it’s years after the fact or it jumps straight to live action.

+ look back is a very “manga” work even if it’s not naruto, very invested in its own subculture and it seems impossible to scrub it of that vs other works which manage to seem ashamed

…did manage to sneak in the conclusion to this trilogy though. i love what i’ve read from hobb so far, but this felt distinctly less focused and more circular. still a solid conclusion

june turned out to be a lighter reading month, but spent it with some good short stories

what reason could you have for talking about something that recent

i didn’t finish any non fiction this month, but this is where i’d stick that if i had

final entry for May. THE revenge story?

…and also last night finished this. brutal, clinical, dissociative. enjoyed it much more than high-rise

coming to the conclusion that Mishima’s prose is like having waves washing over you, totally subsuming you

reading Dazai always has the power to make me feel as though i’m climbing into his hole with him

brutal, disorienting and unrelenting.

i can definitely see the parallels to kafka people highlight, but to me lacks some of the emergent black comedy in those stories

finally can start may reading thread…

there’s too much to say about this short book. a powerful kaleidoscopic journey. suffice it to say my first bolaño has left an impression

maybe i will share what i read each month. didn’t finish reading that much in april, i must redouble my efforts

"This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship."

👃

watching friend and brother realize tiktok’s ban went into effect and the are a limited number of scrolls until their final tok…

can’t believe they’re cancelling my boy orlok…

i used to wonder why there were so many annoying bloodborne guys

then i played bloodborne

now i’m an annoying bloodborne guy

“who came up with this” as a first reaction to a faithful retelling of a 102 year old film, itself adapting a 127 year old book is mind numbing

nosferatu screening was full of people laughing.

ironic detachment really has sapped people’s ability to engage with something earnest or “serious” or remotely “challenging”

a film on those terms feels threatening compared to winks and nods indicating that nothing on screen matters

what are other examples of games with ‘forbidden’ zones in their hub areas only fully explorable later?

thinking about Majula hole

lots of ‘takes’ about why regular season NBA ratings are falling and i feel like i’m on crazy pills

NBA has long had the reputation of poorer play outside of ‘important’ games.

expand the playoffs & less ‘good’ play is required to make the cut, why overextend

crushing corporate reality once again has me daydreaming about streaming and making videos about media

gridman sweep

poe2 has the worst spiders. spindly, hateful things. entirely too big.

fantastic

i generally don’t like “tourist” accusations

but

witcher 4 discourse is dominated by people who did not play witcher 3

many such cases

naughty dog really pulled up with the most “this was greenlit when stranger things popped off” looking game i’ve ever seen

having a lot of fun with PoE2. slower and dripping with atmosphere.

I saw IGN echo that this is *still* a spreadsheet game & i wish this descriptor would die, it’s a big part of why i bounced off PoE1.

going node by node, thinking up a build yourself is way more engaging than ripping one

This stuck out mainly because I think there is lately a scourge of over-explanation often owed to corporate-driven fear of being misconstrued. Of audiences (customers) not ‘getting it.’

But so often what drives someone to explore art is that initial jolt of being not quite sure what they just saw.