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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 1h

Ironic that this tweet about using an (actually not) artificial intelligence to do your dad duties for you Came out the same year as a game showing how great it is to be a dad by having you parent an (actually, in-universe) artificially intelligent robot child.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 1h

Definitely glad I'm taking my time to collect the Primes, since I think I really prefer that blue Onyx the Deceiver to the standard brown one.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly more disappointed in Henry Thomas for apparently being in Daily Wire's ICE propaganda movie than Keitel or Trejo. They at least have the excuse of being old and doing anything for money. Henry, you've got a guaranteed role in every Flanagan gig, what happened?

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 9h

Happy birthday, Sci-fi Queen. 🥳 Sigourney Weaver has also voiced a spaceship two times (the Female Planet Express Ship in Futurama, 2002, and the Axiom from Wall-E, 2008).

Sigourney Weaver in The Mandalorian & Grogu (2026)

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, I know. I hate it :( Gotta feel for those Japanese physical media collectors, who are just used to paying insane prices. But then again, perhaps anime streaming is more viable over there because a) faster internet and b) it's more mainstream and probably available on more services?

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 20h

Dunno why I expected that a change to MediaOCD/AnimeEigo's storefront would result in a price cut for an Aniplex show, but I'm still disappointed. Still, not as bad as Madoka, which IIRC was just as expensive for half as many episodes.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 20h

They could have DEFINITELY cut the price of the TV set down by a chunk if they'd chosen to exclude packing in old, now outdated and incomplete material and make it just the high-res show. But also...the new 4K set of the movies is $135 on its own. For two movies. That's ridiculous.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 20h

Do not like that the Gurren Lagann Blu-ray set includes the movies, but it's the old subbed-only discs for the movies. I own those subbed movie Blus already; I'd be buying identical copies of them if I upgraded my TV set from DVD to Blu. Only way to get the dubbed films is to buy the 4K separately.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I mean, minor spoilers, but we have to assume that the second chapter starting with an extended horror sequence in a police station is an intentional nod, right? As is portraying the very first appearance of a Locust Drone like he's Mr. X.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

GEARS OF WAR: E-DAY is pretty good so far from the first couple chapters, as expected from the folks at The Coalition. They've finally succeeded in the goal of making the Locust scary again, and it feels like they've been watching Capcom's Resident Evil revival era for pointers.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Star-Lord works because Gunn's Peter Quill is kind of a douche with gold underneath, and Chris Pratt fits that energy. But Pratt, his agents, and the rest of Hollywood seem convinced he's the next Stallone or Keanu or Cruise, and he simply isn't.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It helps that Gunn is basically the only person in Hollywood who knows how to use Chris Pratt correctly as a performer. I still think about Miyamoto announcing him as Mario, "he's so cool!". No, no he's not! He's kinda pathetic! That's what makes him endearing!

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And either they're wrong, and they waste millions of dollars on more diminishing returns... ...or they're right, the new one does better, Bay is the secret sauce for Transformers' theatrical appeal. In which case...I'd rather have nothing.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And so now? Even putting Paramount's politics aside...they're making the straightforward but likely misguided conclusion that "they haven't made as much money since Bay? Then bring Bay back!".

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maybe people who aren't TF diehards (or parents taking their kids to animated kids movies) just won't see a film with an all-robot cast and need human characters to project onto. I dunno. Either way, it flopped, despite being great.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Maybe it was a mismatch, where Bayformers fans thought "Animated? That's for babies", and parents saw "theatrical Transformers movie? That's Michael Bay and Megan Fox, that's not appropriate for my child".

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why? I dunno. Maybe it was the marketing, which had an overemphasis on goofy kids movie humor, alienating both the action-junkie normies in the Bayformers audience and the TF lore diehards who wanted Optimus and Megatron's origins taken seriously.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And so then we try one last hard pivot, which is to do a fully animated movie with no humans, but a bunch of celebrity voice actors, and try to restart this whole thing from scratch (or have two concurrent theatrical TF series). And it more or less flops.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And it does better than Bumblebee, probably because people actually see TF in the title and that Optimus Prime is in the trailers. But it still doesn't do as well as The Last Knight, because people are still likely burned out on Bay even though he's been gone for years.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

...that it's Transformers, go "oh, those shitty noisy Michael Bay movies with mean, bigoted characters? Pass". So Bumblebee underperforms. So they do Transformers: Rise of the Beasts instead, which has the name in the title, and strikes much closer to what Bay's movies did, but, y'know, good.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Then, after Bayformers 5 underperforms, they finally ditch Bay, sand off connects to his film, and use the Bumblebee spinoff to do a reboot. Except normie audiences a) don't go see it because they initially can't tell it's Transformers because it's not in the title, and b) recognize...

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People liked the first one because it WAS halfway good. People saw the second one because they liked the first one, and the effects of that movie sucking weren't fully felt until movie 4 or 5, as is usually the case for these franchises; forward momentum carries a lot.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The fact is, Bay poisoned the well on these movies, and we'll probably never recover in terms of theatrical TF movies unless we let the franchise rest for at least another decade, maybe more.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To be clear, bad headline aside I hate everything about this. I love Spielberg, but he clearly doesn't give a shit about TF other than for the money it can make him, as shown by the fact that he puts his name on it and then lets Bay of all people wipe his ass with it.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also, "fanboys of vehicles?" Nobody's been into Transformers for the cars since 1984, dude. Nobody has cared what specific type of car any of them turn into since the original Diaclone designs. It's about the robots, the turning into cars is just the gimmick.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Okay, straight up, whoever wrote this headline is either a fool or a nonhuman. "Cult"? You mean the blockbuster franchise only cumulatively outsold by superhero/Star Wars franchises with way more installments? And why does it subtly imply Bay is new to these films?

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm a big fan of THE WRAITH, mostly because I was introduced to it at an anime convention's dumb/bad movie screening, and was blown away with how much of a perfect slice of 80s nonsense it is. Plus, Audrey from Twin Peaks is there!

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Daniel Radcliffe and Robert Pattinson should do a movie together, where they absolutely and intentionally ignore all potential to make HP references, and just be weird little guys at each other for two hours.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So I was not aware that my wife hasn't seen CABIN IN THE WOODS. So hopefully we'll correct that later tonight.

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Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you read Dracula as an allegory of the rise of the petit bourgeoisie (a doctor, an estate agent, an American with money, a modern woman) versus Marx's "dead generations" which weigh like a nightmare on the minds of the living, the cowboy is more vital to the story than Van Helsing.

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Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's ludicrous that Quincey's only ever been done right once but at least that one time, he was unequivocally a cowboy, and played by the gaddang Rocketeer

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cannot friggin' believe the unrealibility of our insurance, which seems to refuse to believe that my wife is on my plan every time she goes to the dentist

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Alternatively, SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE, but the only human actor is Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck, a vampire pretending to be human.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can you throw more theory at adults because they can stay more focused, write and review notes, etc? Or can you go faster with kids because they sponge up info faster, as long as you work in simple enough terms?

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But yeah, how many weeks of doing thirty minutes at a time did it take my piano teacher to tell me about the staff? Or the treble and bass clef? Or Middle C? Or Every Good Boy Does Fine (the mnemonic for remembering the pitches of the lines on the treble clef staff)?

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Big difference is that I'm doing pitches BEFORE rhythms, which I'm certain is backwards.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm teaching to adults and not children, so obviously it's a different process. But I do wonder how far each 30-minute lesson my childhood piano teacher taught me covered, early on.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm in a class ABOUT instructing, and we get to pick our topics, so I chose to whip out the ol' piano lessons. 15 and 20 minute presentations just covered pitches on the staff, 40 minute will cover note lengths and time signatures. 60 will do tempos and dynamics, hopefully.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Prepping the 40 minute music reading lesson I'm gonna teach tomorrow. I think I've got my pacing more or less down.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is so true. She's the only one giving a truly naturalistic performance even BEFORE you add in the weirdness of everyone else speaking Italian, German, etc on set and being dubbed over.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just had the awful idea of "Hellraiser, but everyone but Larry (Andrew Robinson) is a Muppet)" And when Frank wears Larry's skin at the end, instead of Kirsty scratching him and revealing gore, it's felt underneath.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Absolutely hysterical that no, the copyright claim wasn't from any of the cruise lines for dumping on them, but from Andrew Lloyd Webber over karaoke.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pretty good! Now we've moved on to a random Amazon recommendation, THE MISTRESS.

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wife picked out found footage film EXHIBIT A to watch tonight. She started watching a video about it, felt it was something we'd both be interested in. I've never heard of it, so I'm excited!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent."

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

God this shit was cool as fuck

Still from the movie Jurassic Park showing a raptor with genetic code projected onto it

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Skorge-art McReady @stuartmwilke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

HADES is basically the perfect game name, in that it's both the name of the setting and the name of the final boss (who's also constantly present). And being in Hades and trying to get out is basically every myth about both the place and the god, so you know exactly what you'll be doing.

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