AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Shout out to the Criterion Channel for updating their app with a new layout and unlike every other app getting a face-lift, this one actually made it easier to navigate and faster. Though admittedly this is because the old one wasn't exactly the best but hey, a win is a win. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Beat Sin & Punishment 2. Yeah this is the best action game I've ever played and a new 10 for me. Even without beating the final boss on Hard (and honestly I might never be able to do it cause fucking christ it's demented) this is still a masterpiece in my eyes. 100
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Got all the way through to the final boss in Sin & Punishment 2 on Hard and yeah I have throw in the towel. This shit is fucking impossible. Will have to restart on Medium now to actually finish the game. And yet it's so mindblowingly good that I'm barely irked by this. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Well, the early buzz coming out of Venice Film Festival and now TIFF indicates that Lee Chang Dong's new film, Possible Love, is another home run from him. Hopefully this isn't just festival hype getting to critics heads but considering Lee's output I'd imagine it isn't. The master is back baybee. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Thinking about Pauline Kael's quote on experimental cinema ("a creature of publicity and mutual congratulations on artistry") and how it basically fits the circle jerk that is the arcade gaming community. 010
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Will this new 2D Metroid have actual world design or just some levels duck taped together? We will see in January. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 07/09/2026static.klipy.comFrank Sergio LeoneALT: Frank Sergio Leone 011
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 03/09/2026They opened with a movie trailer! Fucking Playstation is washed. 010
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Cleared Elevator Action's 1st loop. Fun game. Play Spelunky instead. 020
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Well, time to see if this game is actually any good or if it's another "Yeah bro, this game was too cool for America, so I had to import it" game. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 22/08/2026America probably would've been fixed by now if The Boondocks season 5 wasn't cancelled. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Okay I have to hand it to Elevator Action for this. Watching two enemies argue amongst themselves over who gets to control the elevator is some Looney Tunes shit. 000
Reposted by AranPrimepauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026It's much easier to laugh at or feel superior to a caricature than feel with a character. For isn't the essence, the defining quality of a caricature, that it tells us how to react? It's a character with the responses built in. (1962) 071
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 09/08/2026For as much as the missions in Xeno X can lead to memorable moments, I can't say they do a good job of integrating the open world. Too often they just tell you which zone to go to without specific direction & so you just rely on that tracking ball. In this regard, BOTW is/was a major step up. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Having seen how every Skell controls so differently in their vehicule form, it's crazy that its Xenoblade 1 that now has a racing mini-game but not X. 010
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 02/08/2026God damn it Ikuhara, make another show and I'll come out of anime retirement. 010
Reposted by AranPrimeBrandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 28/07/2026He's studied Great Filmmaking and the manner and style of Great filmmakers; and he's tried to boil it down to its essence without making films that make dudes spend a lot of time thinking about their feelings. There is no love in his films, it is only useful as a plot device. 261
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Far along into Xenoblade X to realize that NLA is just the Colony 6 side quest from Xenoblade 1 expanded to a larger scale. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 19/07/2026So I'm like 15 hours into Xenoblade X DE and one of the many things that's struck me is how unnatural the platforming is (in a good way). The geometry doesn't feel handcrafted for you to jump against the side of the larger hills, making it an ambiguous obstacle where you get to test the limits of... 100
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 12/07/2026My mind has been so coked-up on De Palma films recently that I've come to the conclusion that the Hunter X Hunter episode that's entirely in slow-mo is the most De Palma thing not made by De Palma. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Playing Hitman and I can't stop looking at this painting and seeing the Grinch's face. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I think my taste in games can best be describes by this contradiction; I enjoy open world games that use negative space for scale (Wind Waker, SOTC, Xenoblade). I will drop an action game if it makes me traverse empty levels even if the combat is good (DMC, Bayo 1, KH2). Just put me in a room FFS. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 17/06/2026static.klipy.comLadies And Gentleman, We Got Him Press ConferenceALT: Ladies And Gentleman, We Got Him Press Conference 000
Reposted by AranPrimemoodytenure.bsky.social @moodytenure.bsky.social · 13/06/2026I knew this would come in handy sooner or later 0997
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Considering the rumor for Project Legacy was that it started in 2017, this basically confirms that Genesis is the fantasy game. So presumably it will also have action combat. 101
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Xenoblade Genesis looks like its gonna give me what I hoped Halo Infinite would do; ring-shaped open world. 010
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 08/06/2026We're all wondering what the revolutionary open world game that'll come out next to Horizon 3 will be but I think we've already seen it. It's gonna be Gen Atlas. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Reverse-Metroidvania; A Metroidvania where you begin with all the power-ups and then have to lose them to open doors. And then whichever power-ups you give up is absorbed by the enemies. By the end of the game, you have no abilities left and every enemy now has your arsenal. Please hire me. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Ending a Showcase with Call of Duty. Damn, Asha wasn't lying, Xbox is truly back. 010
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 07/06/2026P5 was kind of a dud for me but my dumbass will be interested if P6 actually goes into horror vibes like the teaser suggests. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 05/06/202610 hours into the Marathon. Wish I could join the bandwagon of people who think this is amazing but it just doesn't feel designed for solos whatsoever (maps being too big) and the quests are boring. Not to mention all the gear bloat. After a while, I decided I'm just gonna use the pre-made kits and 100
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 02/06/2026It's always a little melancholic when you unsubscribe from a podcast that you've listened to for years. You just get to that point where you start thinking "man, these people are just so milquetoast". 010
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 01/06/2026To go along with this, a whole lot of the most acclaimed recent films will also be looked back negatively. Specifically the plethora of first-person pity-porn (Past Lives, Aftersun, Nickel Boys, presumably Blue Heron) will just be viewed as academicism disguised as profound art. 100
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Been revisiting my top favorite films over the past few months just to reorganize the ranking. Not gonna put up the whole ranking, just the top 30. And to no one's surprise, Miyazaki and Bresson appear twice. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Kojima being an AI bro is a perfect example of why "themes" matter little in art since even the artist themselves could disagree with whatever their work says. At the end of the day, formalism is the purest way to judge a work. Anyway, Kojima is a hack who accidentally made a masterpiece with MGS3. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Xenoblade DE adding the Bionis Shoulder comes to mind. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 29/04/2026media.tenor.coma cat is crawling on the floor with the words `` you know what time it is '' below it .ALT: a cat is crawling on the floor with the words `` you know what time it is '' below it . 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Get the feeling that the reason he gets along so well with Neil Druckmann is cause they both have the tiniest dicks in the world. 010
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Criterion collaborating with Every Frame a Painting is the rare massive L for them. You don't need them Criterion, you're better than this. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Rewatched. Genuinely don't think I'll ever watch a better film in my lifetime. Not because it's perfect, but because the highs it achieves are just that insurmountable. At best, something might come along and match it but even that is highly unlikely. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I finally got Marathon because of all the incredible wom. This was going to be the first GAAS I jumped into. But then I remembered that I need to pay for PS+ on PS5 and immediately got a refund. I'm honestly willing to bet that Fortnite not requiring PS+ is a major contributor to its success. 000
AranPrime @aranprime.bsky.social · 29/03/2026In my head, I imagine everyone who talks about a work of art in relation to its themes and how "important" they are, must have had a smoking hot lit teacher that they wanted to sleep with, so they bought all the facile essay-like approach to art they spouted without once thinking how bullshit it is. 000