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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 12h
What's happening though is, thanks to AI, is that things are moving "fast" relative to before where there was hardly any progress in that area. I think the majority of people "working" on this shit right now will get bored sooner rather than later, but if they don't, it's not gonna be good in a year
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 14h
I think besides Abyss, Flex X Cop season 2 is the worst K-Drama I've ever seen. I have 2 episodes left and every episode is just the biggest drag. I can't believe losing the female lead from season 1 killed a fun drama this badly.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 18h
They had a perfectly great version(at least on PS5 where I played it) and then decided to do this and I knew they'd completely fuck it up...AGAIN. Only an idiot buys Witcher 4 on release at this point.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 20h
Yeah, Cai's route is definitely meant to be played first lol. Dietrich's and Theodora's routes felt additive to what I'm seeing in Cai's so far.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 21h
I played one game with Phoenix and was like "she will be the entire meta this season".
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 22h
Nice try YouTube, but I'm not scrolling down.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 22h
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Jim Carrey's Disgusted Reaction: Ew Gross
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 23h
What if, on Leda's route, I just use the inn and skip the entire thing. Surely, a great idea, right?
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 23h
The thing with Fortune's Weave is that if you only do 1 part 1 and it's Theodora's route, you get like none of the story. Cai's has a lot of it and Dietrich's has some, but Theodora's has like nothing, so if that's all you did, you kinda played yourself. No idea on Leda's route yet.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Now we're talkin
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I mean, it's designed for you to do all 4 part 1s and then just 1 part 2(though you can do 4 and you can guess what I'll do...). Recruitment really punishes you for getting a character late in a route, for example. Most people don't finish like 30% of a game so, I don't know what they'll do lol.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I probably won't even be done all 4 part 1s by the end of the month and I've already put in close to 80 hours lol. Fire Emblem games used to be replayable. This one isn't getting touched ever again. It's not even bad...Just too much game.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I wonder how long until all the AI bandwaggoners just get bored of the current reverse engineering fad and nothing makes actual useful progress.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I still find it funny that they showed Totoro before it when it was originally in theatres in Japan.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The astroturfing campaign for Digger(brought to you by Scientology) is so fucking annoying and it's embarrassing that it's actually working. Of course, it's still bombing in the one area that the studio cares about. Box office.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think that movie prepared me to watch Grave of the Fireflies finally...in the afternoon, with my mom for emotional support and then followed by Totoro.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This could be you!
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Be a man and record it on one yourself!
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I can't remember the last modern HK/Chinese movie I've watched where a kid isn't horribly murdered lol. They just hate kids over there, I guess.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Please watch this on a real format. Thank you.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Overall, this was pleasantly surprising. I did not expect it to just like "go there" all the time, every time, but it does and if the first hour wasn't such a struggle and the voice acting was more cleanly implemented it could have been a classic. Still, it was better than I expected from HK.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My big complaint is the voice acting. I much prefer Cantonese over Mandarin, just from my HK film days of yore where all HK movies that were dubbed over in Mandarin sounded bad, but the Cantonese vocal tracks were very inconsistent in quality and some of the voices were grating.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Aside from showcasing the worst of humanity, the movie does showcase some really beautiful animation, at times, but it also dwells in a lot of apocalypse red and surreal imagery. You can see most of it in the trailer, if you want to see what I mean. It's impressive to see this stuff out of HK.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It does make me wonder why they went with children for the most horrific stuff, but the central theme of the movie is letting go and forgiveness(Buddhist) and I think kids internalize blame and guilt a lot more than adults and have trouble moving past it. It does seem really unfair to them, though.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you do plan on watching this you need to be able to handle kids dying in pretty gruesome ways. It's not extremely gory, but one scene had me going "surely, it won't be so bad and they won't show...oh what the fuck?!". So, yeah, it doesn't pull punches there, or anywhere.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When I say the first hour was a struggle I mean that it's very disjointed. It jumps all over between 3, seemingly unconnected stories, all of which are not exactly pleasant, and around the time I was wondering "ok where is this going?" the big aha moment happens and it all makes sense.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I watched the Hong Kong animated movie Another World. This is like half way between Grave of the Fireflies and Made in Abyss. Despite how young most of the characters are it is absolutely not for kids. For how grim dark it is, it is still a very hopeful movie. First hour was a struggle. #filmsky
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man, Hong Kong animation don't fuck around.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This seems bad.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Uhh which one lol. There's AXZ and XV and GX and GQUUUUUUUUUUX and A V X and there's a fuckin lot.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Aw dude
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Me with literally any anime someone tells me to watch. They never get good.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wonder how much worse it would have been for Control Resonant if Onimusha kept its release date.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I didn't have Gears of War E-Day selling less than Control Resonant on my bingo card lol. Game Pass was such a fucking mistake. We're talking 230k for E-Day vs 300k for Control Resonant, so both flopped, but man E-Day's budget was almost 10x Control's lol. Absolute disaster.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Now I wonder what would happen to The Hulk during 3rd impact.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film Spider-Man: Brand New End of Evangelion #filmsky 📽
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Michael Che: Something's Wrong With You, Man
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Watching certain subreddits frothing at the mouth over the current stuff AI is letting people do to/with the PS5 on PC while not realizing it's going to kill the entire industry within 2 years is morbidly funny. Be careful what you wish for lol.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dang new Madoka movie in January and new Gundam Seed movie in February.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
6 this week. Would have been dire without the 2 rewatches. 4 Hollywood, 2 Japanese. Normally, I'd try and write something stupid, but for all 4 movies it's basically you started off so good and then just completely fucked it." At least in Dangan Runner's case they literally mind fucked it, though.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I rewatched Superman and man, going forward, the aspects in every movie that try to mirror dumb shit from the real world, are just going to get more and more fucking stupid because the real world keeps getting more and more fucking stupid.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wow, it took like 18 years.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That movie did not make enough money for there to be so many logs lmao. Complete astroturfing brought to you by Scientology.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Booked my vaccines appointment for next Thursday. Forced my mom to book one too hahaha.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nah, Square loves easy money too much these days. FF Rebirth and FFXVI flopping changed them. I want them to remake USAGA though, just to upset all 5 people that like the original.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cai's route hits you with the immediate 104 turns aaaaa
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The Apothecary Diaries: Jinshi Tired at Desk
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Surely, it will be the next one after the RS3 remake because they are out of games. Right?!
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How dare you do exactly what I'm doing!
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Someone used the words "Independent artistic freedom" and "Gears of war 1 & 2" in the same sentence and I had a stroke.
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CrossRaven @crossraven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Finally got to watch a movie in 4K Blu-Ray quality(Mad Max: Fury Road) and damn, I've been missing out. Streaming sucks.
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