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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

All these Ghost of Yotei clips of people cutting down dozens of enemies with dual katanas… and meanwhile I’m fighting for my life against eldritch horrors with a rusty steel pipe in Silent Hill f

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

There is no such thing as an unsatisfying Timothy Olyphant interview

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

日本でフランス料理のレストランがあったら『飯僕』と名づける

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Because who has a sharper instinct for movies than the video game company that brought us Warcraft (2016)

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Whenever there is a dissolve in Alien Earth

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:

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AI Killed My Job: Translators

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I hope the bubble bursts, but Generative AI has already devastated the translation and localization industry. Most major video game companies have all but stopped using translators altogether and once a company stops spending money on something you can’t make them start again

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My current J-Drama is Fune wo Amu (舟を編む), about a team of lexicographers who have to make a dictionary. Perfect for geeking out for linguists and Japanese learners, plus I think this is the first mainstream Japanese show I've seen with a gay supporting character

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

If you're fresh off seeing Masaki Suda's nuanced performance in Cloud, you'll get a kick out of seeing him hamming it up in Glass Heart

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

ICYMI, the new season of Platonic is out and Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen make a wonderful comedic duo!

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I got a drop of tomato sauce on my Cate Blanchett shirt -the whitest shirt ever woven- and if it doesn’t go away I swear I’m going back to London for another one

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I went to the vaccination clinic because I’m traveling in the fall and turns out I’m already up to date on all my shots, what a rush

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

A recommendation: Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, about the Congolese independence. Incredible that a documentary made entirely of archival footage could become so passionate through music and editing

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Merritt Wever came into The Gilded Age to stir pots, kick hornet’s nests, wake sleeping dogs, rattle cages, and just generally be a menace and I am here for it

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Spoilers for Superman, but while I like the “concept” of the twist about his parents, it feels thematically muddled. Its two main messages are about helping people and valuing his real parents who raised him, but neither of those things is something this character needs to learn

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David Opie @davidopie.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

#TheSummerHikaruDied is incredible. One episode in, it’s already my favourite anime of the year so far. Queerness and horror are perfect bedfellows yet I’ve never seen them combine like they do here. It’s eerie and unsettling and beautiful too. Don’t overlook this one please

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I’m not on board with this new abridged style Lonely Planet guides are using now. Dropping hotels I get because there’s TripAdvisor but I really miss the restaurant and shop listings

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

86 fucking years old.

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

One of the things I appreciate about Kojima is that starting with MGS2 every game of his places more and more emphasis on pacifist gameplay, until in Death Stranding you straight up cannot kill enemies

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

What exercise do I need to do to stop tote bags from sliding right off my shoulder?

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I have 9 meetings then work drinks today it would be kinder to shoot me

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This was torture to make but I think I’m sticking to this, in no particular order:

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Ballerina is fun John Wick action and you can’t tell there were reshoots until you can REALLY tell there were reshoots

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Excellent, thoroughly researched article

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I don’t know if Dying for Sex flew under the radar or I just got to it late, but what Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate do in it is unlike anything else on television. Please seek it out!

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Just two scenes into Nine Perfect Strangers and they acknowledge in dialogue that Nicole Kidman’s accent is all over the place 💀

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

My top tip for a killer chili con carne is: choose any chili con carne recipe you like, then double the amount of cumin. Taste test, add more as needed

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Halfway through Frieren and I love this show, and the characters, and the world!

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Two things I couldn’t stop noticing in Final Reckoning: 1) Whenever someone talks to Grace they have to start with “Grace” (holdover from the previous one, where the script was 25% “Grace”) 2) In the exposition scenes people only speak when they’re the only one in the shot

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Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

When AI does something for us we don't get to be proud of it. We know that intuitively. They keep trying to convince us we don't want to do the things that make us feel good.

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I’m generally opposed to filmmakers redoing parts of their movie w/tech that didn’t exist at the time. But what about the reverse? Just remove the grotesque CGI “mask” from Tarkin & Leia to reveal the actors beneath, who looked like the original castmembers anyway!

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Spent too much time on this

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

A Nice Indian Boy was such a blast I would have watched for four more hours 😭

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I love following people from different countries but a side effect is sometimes I will see a tweet that sounds incredibly racist or xenophobic only to realize it’s someone complaining about their own country

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The new Wedding Banquet is lovely, but in updating the premise I think they never make a convincing enough case for why Chris won't marry Min and it really hurts the urgency and the stakes of the whole thing

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Tom Hilton @tvhilton.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

My late dad was a copy editor back in the day, and was notorious for the terrible puns in his headlines. The only one I remember off the top was "Spain Referendum: All Basques in One Exit?"

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Let me hear your silliest joke.

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The number of American heads of state has doubled today, this has to stop

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I found out there’s a new pope because of the ringing of the church’s bells, I feel like a medieval peasant right now

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The Palladinos say “For this episode I need 400 extras, 150 trained dancers, 30 day players with 1 line each, 5 exterior sequences, 3 palaces in Paris, and 1 actual live bull just for a gag” and the poor Étoile producers really make it happen

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I don’t think you can learn more about movies from a shorter book. I read it as a teenager and to this day Lumet’s stories help me understand what a movie is trying to do.

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Once a year I look for manga to practice Japanese that is 1) interesting to me 2) within my level 3) set in the real world (for vocabulary) 4) aesthetically pleasing 5) available for international shipping 6) not just for kids… …and usually I can hope for three of those things

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Étoile feels like Amy Sherman Palladino finally got an editor. Very much her style but way less overwritten than Mrs Maisel

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I discovered that they sell melon pan at a bakery near my house. My self-control may never have faced a test of this magnitude before

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Martin Towers @martintowers.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Hour eight of the blackout. At least 5G is back in my phone. It’s starting to grow dark and I don’t think I have any candles so that will be interesting

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