Reposted by Darren RidgleyWaverly @waverlysm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026courtesy pictures for sad children 239289
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Time for my annual "imagine a better world where Satoshi Kon never got sick and kept making great stuff to keep the bar high" lamentation. 000
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anime no longer has to impress foreign audiences by looking extremely cool or being a showcase for art. They have those audiences. Why spend ten times as much to make something like Ghost in the Shell when you can slop out another isekai adaptation and have the crowd eating out of your hand anyway? 110
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The general quality of anime has dropped off a cliff since the turn of the millennium, and I think for sure it's because studios no longer have the money they did. But I also wonder if anime is so globally mainstream now that studios no longer feel the need to make this kind of effort. 100
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In Act 3 of Silksong and my suffering is endless. I am too old for this. 000
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Looking over the different Winnipeg mayoral candidates and this much is clear: between generative AI and social media, it's never been easier to run an annoying, crappy campaign which pisses me off. 020
Reposted by Darren RidgleyPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026new wolfenstein looks like shit 299125352471
Reposted by Darren Ridgleytinybaby @tiny.baby · 02/10/2026honey did you hear. the pope has aligned himself with humanity against the machines. 112011
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It was already kind of silly when they kept doing the "It's not a superhero movie, it's a political thriller!" pitches, and that was when people were giving them a modicum of credit. I don't know why they do this. 010
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sakamoto Days did this as well, decent first season and then in the second for some godforsaken reason it’s OFF TO SCHOOL. 000
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026For years I have had a growing beef with anime because it can’t seem to tell a story now without resorting to the school/exam structure. Finally let Frieren get its hooks in me and then like 20 eps in, they make the 1,000-year-old legendary mage take a certification exam. WHY? 100
Reposted by Darren RidgleySarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 01/10/2026Man this is gooddefector.comAccept The Expanding Ball Of Infected Corpses You Cannot Change | Defector“Here are the main things you need to know about the Resident Evil games,” I explained to my friend Liz over the nonsense of the Digger trailer. “There’s a big outbreak of some kind of mutagenic virus... 03610
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Could really use a sequel to The Beekeeper where Statham is just tearing through the people who swamp every app with interminable AI-gen ads for scam mobile games. 011
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Stranger Things ranked higher than Shogun, Community, Justified, It's Always Sunny, give me a break. 000
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Report from the D&D table: I love the Bag of Beans, just an S-tier item for screwing around. 000
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I can't fathom how long it would take for something like this to actually play out but that won't stop me from developing an unreasonable fear of our galaxy colliding with another one. 021
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's hoping this current draft is the one I can make shine 🤞 010
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In a similar place with my own project ... current draft is the eighth, ninth version of the story? Ten years later? But one day it will amount to a book I can submit. Happy writing! 110
Reposted by Darren RidgleyKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is my new favorite thing. 74165015294
Reposted by Darren Ridgleydon't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 14/08/2025first principles, clarice. simplicity. read marcus aurelius. of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? what is its nature? what does he do, this man you seek? 343409667
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026To say nothing of all the decent shows they end on cliffhangers in season 1 and then just forget about forever. 012
Reposted by Darren RidgleyBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Captain Janeway: hailing frequencies open ensign Kim Harry Kim: right away Captain Janeway: send a message to the Ocampa, ask them if thou dost desire to live deliciously Harry Kim: I, I, yes sir Captain Janeway: I see hesitation in your eyes ensign, luckily where we’re going we won’t need eyes 3651
Reposted by Darren RidgleyInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The Lord's judgment! 0313
Reposted by Darren RidgleyWillow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026We are not making enough noise about how that is the sound of KING GHIDORAH THE THREE HEADED DRAGON GOD WHO SPEWS THUNDER AND THE LIGHTNING at the end of the trailer for the new Godzilla movie. 413429
Reposted by Darren RidgleyJ.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“I need the biggest visual metaphor you have. No, that’s too big.” 9945189
Reposted by Darren Ridgley🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry. 9699573085
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Plan a horrorfest using only your first name. Demon As Above, So Below Red Rooms Resurrection the Empty Man Noroi: the Curse 000
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Even the damn voice actors I like are going before The People I Want to Go. 010
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Sat down at work, looked at the Optimus I’ve been carrying around since like 1991, and learned Peter Cullen is dead. Brutal. 010
Reposted by Darren Ridgleykate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Peter Cullen was the sole voice that was responsible for generating hype for anime coming to the west. RIP Legend 5551251880
Reposted by Darren RidgleyToss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing 2295268012867
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The only whiff of Doom in these movies we've had so far is a few seconds at the end of Fantastic Four where he says nothing and does practically nothing. There's nothing to know going in! 000
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Everyone is going to be lost *anyway* because Doom is just a pivot to a whole new Big Bad after Marvel had to abruptly turf Jonathan Majors' Kang. An extra four minutes on a re-released, already overlong movie isn't going to wrap it all up with a bow. 100
Reposted by Darren RidgleyBoner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Rest in peace to one of the best to ever do it. 2162581959
Reposted by Darren RidgleyDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I think it's nice that the president's most trusted aide is the It's All For You Damien nurse from The Omen. She's qualified and she's doing an amazing job. 593970519
Reposted by Darren RidgleyDoctorTheopolis @drzaiusbaltar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026渡辺美奈代とゴジラ 1987年 3767341
Reposted by Darren Ridgleydissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 13/08/2026millennials: we partied a lot gen z: we partied a little less gen alpha: (piloting a giant mech) war is hell 14874150
Darren Ridgley @dridgley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The club was also one of two times I can recall said youth pastor using us youth group kids as free manual labour. First helping to clear out the disused restaurant which became the club, and later renovating his basement, "to create a space for us kids." 000
