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Rewatched Past Tense this evening, the first time in nearly thirty years. And it’s held up very well - and it’s impressively prescient...

Erasure got made into a film - American Fiction - which did pretty well at the Oscars a year or two ago. It’s a great film but not as...

Just read the 2025 Pulitzer winning James by Percival Everett. It's a (sort of) re-telling of Huckleberry Finn, from the perspective of...

Those all sound great. I really loved Erasure so I’ll definitely be looking up James. Bee Speaker sounds a bit more depressing than...

Yeah, EpiPens are easy to use but under stress you can do anything simple wrong. During training we were particularly told to avoid the...

It’s quite interesting that of course, the film is very Korean-American (rather than Korean), rather in the way that Black Panther (for...

Yes, I preferred GW7e to 4E generally because of that. Another game I think (from reading, not playing) has 4E ancestry is Valor, a...

Interesting - even the smallest bundle has quite a few games I wouldn’t have considered buying otherwise, like Symbaroum, Sentai &...

Yeah, tiger magpie (kkachi horangi) paintings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minhwa The demons are mostly based on Korean masks...

Two cute magical pets, even. The crow is a samjoko, a three-eyed crow associated with the sun in Korean mythology.

Watched it now, it’s excellent and great fun. The music is pretty catchy - in fact I think the Saja Boys’ songs are more so. Damn that...

I watched it last night, and had a good time doing so. The animation style is quirky, as you'd expect from the folks who did Into the...

From the same team that brought us the Spider-verse films, an incredible-looking blend of Korean mythology and KPOP musical...

I’ve now read Strange Tales of Songling, which is the third in the wuxia RPG trilogy by Bedrock Games (the other two are Wandering...

Yes. It’s not the only part that is actively destructive - arguably having any publicly traded companies controlling any major sector...