Reposted by CherryPhosphate
Football is human sacrifice/body horror. Critics hated this movie because it was up front about all that in a maximalist way. There is no subtlety when discussing a sport where the announcers straight up say "you can do sexual assault if you score enough touchdowns"
![A clipping from an official interview with the lead team behind Mr. Driller, originally published in Arcadia vol. 3 (April 30th, 2000) and translated into English by @itsfantasticac.bsky.social.
"– Some of the blocks in-game look like food, but what do they taste like?
(Kaori) Shinzozaki: Please see this table.
[Blue - Mousse with sauce
Red - Blueberry
Yellow - Strawberry
Green - Lemon
X blocks - Chocolate
Blocks with holes on two-color stages - Cheese
Yellow hole blocks - Lemon Cheese
Green hole blocks - Melon Cheese
Bubbly blocks - Candy Drops
Spiral blocks - Whipped Cream
Cake Bocks - Sponge Cake Topped with Fresh Cream]
– Can Susumu-kun eat them?
Shinozaki: He cannot.
(Yasuhito) Nagaoka: If people could eat them, I think world hunger would be solved (laughs)."
(http://itsfantastic.moe/mr-driller-developer-roundtable/)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ukv22ggwhnnhvlsgmew6zi7p/bafkreibkn5q256iyzrzkfosgxqinx3d6uecivwhb5is2l7ogbbrd3cxtke)
![Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin savaged J.K. Rowling in a 2004 Guardian interview?
“I have no great opinion of [JK Rowling’s writing style]. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a ‘school novel’, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aq5ehloxmqczfgco7s24ffy3/bafkreibykzxxk3i7tnxamgyvwsevx644uivhhsn4dujlzg2ybealjaimf4)
