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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater

Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

RE7 already introduced a normal guy protagonist so that’s not unprecedented, but it’s clever of the movie to do that as well. it’s hard to feel the same controller-fumbling tension if the movie was just following a badass operator. without gameplay, they’re just a badass.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

as for RE movie doing an amalgam of later games’ zombies, well… RE1 game is mostly just shamblers. you’d have to do some updating to keep things fresh for movie fans, so why not draw from later games? you might not have enough runway for later on, but who knows if there will even be a ‘later on’?

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don’t think Resident Evil games ever set out specifically to be period pieces, excluding remakes and prequels of course. so spiritually, I don’t have much of a problem with them updating the year or season.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’d maybe have some mixed feelings if my precious darling franchise got a gumbo adaptation, but idunno. MGS games are already plenty cinematic, and the real challenge is adapting the feeling of gameplay and strategy.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my first instinct is to scoff at gamers who are too hung up on lore and canon. but if someone made a movie titled “Metal Gear Solid” in which some dude happened upon Shadow Moses in 2026 and had to evade anachronistic Gekko mechs and Skulls Parasite Unit soldiers… wait that’d be kinda sick actually.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve only taken turns playing REmake 1 all the way through, played some early RE4, and watched a playthrough of RE2 and RE7. so I have a fairly decent working knowledge of the games, but little actual attachment to the exact details. which makes me the ideal audience for RE movie lmao

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

most references come by way of game mechanics, camerawork, or level progression. it’s really slick and unobtrusive. between RE, the Fallout show, and arguably D&D, it feels like filmmakers are finally figuring out how to adapt games. or maybe it’s that gamers have grown up and are taking the helm

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I saw the Resident Evil movie yesterday! it’s a lot of fun. and it’s pretty messed up from time to time. I heard the final edit removed a lot of jokes they had initially. which is hard to imagine since the finished movie is really funny throughout.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

you can do it!!! coal today is just gem tomorrow! some of the most famous creators don’t even know what dog, much less shit, even is!

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

if they wanted a crazy out-there interpretation visually, I say go big or go home. either everything’s different, or nothing is. but either way, Link’s new tunic doesn’t give the eye much opportunity to rest.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

broadly speaking, I actually have no problems with the Nintendo-hired-this-man direction. I’m guessing someone who grew up with N64 old graphics might’ve fantasized how it’d look if realistic, so this one’s for them. but the character design doesn’t feel like it meets the same goal

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

okay now I’m watching the gameplay. the environments look good, no problems there. the updating tapestry is fun. Link’s leaf tunic isn’t as bad from the back since his shield blocks his body. what is distracting though is his hat flourish. it looks like a vein to me. what kind of vein? well

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Let’s make a new Kirby game! Maybe we’ll make it open world this time!” “Hmmm but no open world is truly open, is it?” “Hey say that again”

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Deltarune light spoilers . . . . . . . Susie is a real one. she's the MVP, and there's a curious melancholy in standing away from that. In Metal Gear Solid 2, Kojima tried to convey a protagonist beyond your reach. I've never felt that more than here.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

finally got through Deltarune Chapter 5 light spoilers . . . . . . . . . Flowery's fight was a pain in the ass. died a lot of times, retreated to max out on GreenTea, specc'd Ralsei to have more magic at expense of health. spent a lot of time just reviving Susie so that she could have her idea.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hmmmm Nintendo stuff. I'm loving the looks of Metroid Ravenous. people already made the Kirby joke, so I'll just say she's really reminding me of Metal Gear Rising's cut-and-take style gameplay. to think that Samus' niche in the Nintendo pantheon is being the biggest aura farmer there ever was

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

okay so I halfway caved and got Peace Walker for PC so that I could play co-op with my brother. no crossplay functionality unfortunately

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

now that I'm getting into the swing of Splatoon Raiders, I'm really digging the new wrinkles on the gameplay. it feels partly like Ratchet Deadlocked with the arena swarms and the AI buddy, and partly like Destiny with the abilities on cooldown timer and the high jumping and slow floating.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

we are so back… immediately??

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I haven’t seen the Zelda Direct yet, but what I’ve seen of OoT Remake Link so far looks uhhhh over-designed. the textures are a bit much, and the lighting seems intent on accentuating the noise.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I do genuinely like the bit where Grogu goes off Ellie-Last-of-Us-style to try and take care of business on his own. and on Pedro Pascal’s behalf no less. it’s a new, quieter mood than just having Mando fight more dudes over and over again

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

oh right and the soundtrack goes hard. waaaay way harder than Mando and Grogu deserves most of the time.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Rotta the Hutt really does say “I’m not my father, I’m my own man” on like two or three separate occasions. not in the exact same words, but with enough of the same key words in the same order that it’s really noticeable.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I didn’t understand a certain tweet about this before, but now I do. the movie loosely implies that the Yoda species has beaver-like instincts to build a small hut if they come across a swamp. maybe that’s their natural habitat. or maybe it’s just a coincidence! who can say

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

the movie works best if you remember season 3 as a hazy memory imo. if I think too hard about Mando S3, I remember how they really undermined a lot of the dramatic stakes and character development in favor of this comfortable, marketable status quo.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

despite having upped his game with new John Wick skills, Mando is still very humanized by his seat-of-his-pants planning, his pain, and his exhaustion. and by extension, Mandalorians as a whole are humanized by this point. which means the movie has to bring in Embo from The Clone Wars to aura farm

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

despite being one big coherent arc, the movie is structured and paced like 3 or 4 episodes back to back. I wonder if the movie began life as season 4, only to get boosted with a movie budget. to my amateur eyes, it’s a pretty good looking movie. spiffy effects, solid camera work.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

so I watched Mandalorian and Grogu as an inflight movie. it’s pretty pulpy, which is true to Star Wars’ roots. the big monster arena fight was pretty tasteful as far as key jangling goes. some of the later action was a bit much even for me, tho that might be bcuz I was watching on a red-eye flight

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ohhh okay gotcha. I heard that Hades 2’s ending was contentious and got changed, but I know literally no details one way or the other. but cool! good to know I’m set for whenever a decent sale rolls around

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ohh I see. I think I dawdled long enough on the way to credits I saw most of that. iirc I haven’t fully bonded with the gods, I haven’t reunited Achilles and Patroclus yet, and I think I’m missing a romance with Thanatos. Skelly introduced the pillars but I’m prob not good enough to see all that

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

LOL I have it on PC, but apparently the Switch 2 version looks or runs better than on Steam Deck. and for one shining afternoon, it was much cheaper too

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

what, it’s not enough to Hades 1 spoilers . . . . . . get Persephone back to the underworld? I’m trying to find a clean break point to start up Hades 2 if and when it goes on sale. technically there’s other social links I guess. unless there’s some major story thing I don’t know about?

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

oh that’s right I heard about this. Hades 1 Spoilers though I’m sure you already know . . . . . . . . Zagreus finds employment as a penetration tester! which is literally the same job I have. and here I thought this’d be a nice peaceful break from thinking about my 9 to 5

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this time the satyr tunnels didn’t yield the sack until the second to last one, so I guess that was like the real gauntlet

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

oh shit I just reached credits on Hades 1. ngl I wasn’t expecting this to be my next backlog game I’d check off the list, but hey I’ll take it. it’s kind of ironic in a classic Greek way. this run I played wise and made a reasonable build, only to SPOILERS? . . . . . . not need it in the end.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I still regret not nabbing Cyberpunk for Switch 2 digital when it got discounted significantly thru an error

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

but it’s 60 FPS 4K with language options… that sweet sweet 60 FPS MGS4….

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

am I seriously considering getting the Metal Gear Solid 4 / Peace Walker PS5 port at launch for no good reason? why? David don’t do it. please see reason

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

maybe it’s because I spent way more time with RDR2 than with GTAV, but I’m getting major RDR2 vibes from the interact prompts. I like it

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the GTA6 preview is a pretty damn good preview. though idk why Netflix bothered getting exclusivity to it for like, a single digit amount of hours during the work week.

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

speaking of which, isn’t Spider-Man in violation of the Sokovia Accords? or does that only relate to heroes operating on foreign soil? maybe I’m thinking of comic book Civil War, which was more about all supers in general

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

in Homecoming, Tony Stark recognizes Peter’s efforts and offers to make him an Avenger. but in context of the MCU at the time, the Avengers lineup rn is really just Iron Man and Vision. maybe War Machine if rehab is done. everyone else is either off-world, under arrest, or in the wind as a fugitive

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

you know what’s fun for power scaling? MCU Spidey never comes close to beating MCU Vulture in a straight fight. you could say it’s because Spidey’s still a rookie in Homecoming, or because the plot gives Vulture terrain advantage everytime. but I like to think Vulture is an Avengers-level threat

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I am morbidly curious. I’ve seen the previous movies and as far as I’m concerned, they might as well be fighting Satoru Gojo for all the setup they’ve done (read: none)

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I saw Toy Story 5! I have thoughts on it, but I am currently tired from a long day. I will say for now that I would watch a full movie of the Buzz army. they are like the Minions. they have the speech and inspiration of cavemen, yet have the hypercompetence of Seal Team 6

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I think the reason Spidey’s nerfed in Homecoming is cuz his natural strengths and instincts make him good at cutting loose, like in Civil War. but fighting normal humans is ironically trickier. Peter needs to pull punches and corner foes into easy wall web opportunities, and both require experience

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Dave @snowcipher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

between Odyssey and Brand New Day, I'm sensing that there's something about the cast combo of Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jon Bernthal that holds the key to unlocking Hollywood success

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