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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

ah it's that time of year for me to yell at everyone to watch Brand New Cherry Flavor

Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

there is considerably less integrity in AI than the absolute crummiest 2010s DTV movie that can only afford Cage for 40-60% of the runtime

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

my favorite part of Exorcist: The Beginning is that there was clearly a studio note saying something to the effect of, "Needs more STAIRS"

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

3 is an actually great movie. the others are at least amusing!

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sebulba declined to comment through a representative when asked where he was on January 6

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Niv M. Sultan @nivmsultan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Steven remains among the best doing it. check out his review of Hellraiser: Revival

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

folks, you would not believe the end credits song for this game if I told you

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Cicada Games @cicadagames.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🌊🌴Isles of Sea and Sky🌴🐢 is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch!!! Wow!! A fantastic, oceanic, open world puzzle adventure. www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... If you haven’t played yet, now is the time!

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i don't love that my last three assignments have been Resident Evil: Lovecraft, Resident Evil: Twin Peaks, and Resident Evil: Hellraiser

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"The Cenobites of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser series weren’t always mutilated torture mavens. As humans, they sought out terrible new experiences in their dissatisfaction with earthly pleasures. Essentially, they were bored. Playing Hellraiser: Revival, it’s easy to envision how they must have felt."

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

drives me nuts every time there's some streaming service sequel, remake, or re-adaptation

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

would it have killed Netflix to also license the 1955 East of Eden for a few months or something

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i should probably start doing a media diary again huh

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Langston in Control is the only person I will listen to about whether a computer has feelings

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Skydance is loitering outside the convenience store asking you to be cool and buy it a six-pack

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

today we draw upon the storied history of Skydance, a company that is younger than I am

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ah yes the widespread brand recognition of Skydance

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

first watches of September: -Coyote vs. Acme -The Furious -I Am Frankelda -Primetime -Resident Evil (2026) -Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"gee, I wonder what happens if I mess up at karaoke"

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

nobody talks about just how much of Faust (1926) is spent on Faust and Mephisto doing Pepe Le Pew antics

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i am largely positive on Control Resonant so far, but you better believe i quit out of a sequence immediately once i saw it was just a combat challenge

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i have been investigating the comics, and it makes a lot of sense in retrospect that the Irish skull man with a top hat and a snake body was a Garth Ennis creation

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ah but will it replicate the actual scariest part of working in a library, when patrons just shove books in some random spot and they get lost forever???

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if there hasn't been an altercation with 4 then it doesn't count

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

as always, the only reasonable "best of" lists are made by either a single person or by 2-3 people in close enough proximity to get physical if need be

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm hearing that Minus Zero's R rating is due to Godzilla's graphic drug use

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

you can immediately tell an X-Files episode is going to be A Problem when the music score gets... let's say "culturally adventurous"

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

imagining a world where you try to turn page 230, get stuck, and need to restart back on page 188 but it's a known issue that the publisher says will be fixed once it's on shelves

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

gotta get a fake "close" button in there to really complete the picture

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the solution to enjoying a 6/10 more than a 7/10 is not to give it an 8/10 instead, it is to throw out the system

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every argument for a broader, more subjective range of review scores is way more persuasive as an argument against review scores in general you can dream bigger, folks!

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

tbh that's why a lot of game stories lack human interest. they are about simulating hyper-competence through your ability to adapt to the rules. when games actually allow for failure, people complain

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

new Resident Evil is good, but why do I keep seeing people say it adapts "the feeling of playing the games"? the protagonist here being kind of a bumbling moron is what makes the film distinct!

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Threshold Kids mascot platformer or bust

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

but are the Threshold Kids back in Control Resonant

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it is okay and perhaps even healthy to not just regurgitate the aggregator sites!

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i understand that "actually the last four Resident Evil movies were good" is a less grabby headline but

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

anyone doing a "finally a good Resident Evil movie" article should hire me to write something instead tbh

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i was just a regular freelancer but had an incredible amount of trust and support to dig into all kinds of weird stuff

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the extensive indie game coverage I was able to do for Fanbyte remains some of the most important work I've done

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

getting paid for my Lost in Cult project only to immediately spend that money on this, RIP

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

playing the game with knowledge of the story isn't exactly ruinous since you'll pick up on symbolism better, but it will be a slightly different experience because of that

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the game has you discover the story over time, with most of it clarified toward the end. the movie is much more straightforward, from what I remember

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Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

was also disappointed that it fully sets aside the previous game's (admittedly unsuccessful) attempts to reconcile the more, uh, Troubling aspects of Lovecraft

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