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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 16h

I watched the first season and bailed. After that, I was just sort of a witness to its cruelty. Everyone would shuffle into the office on Monday mornings looking like they'd drank a gallon of year-old milk. It was sad to watch.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

100% thought this was a modern reimagining of xennials' favorite basic-cable teen for a sec.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Exodus might have Matthew McConaughey, but Star Wars: Zero Company has Billy fuckin' Zane.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Give me Sotha Sil or give me death.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We didn't even follow it, though. My son and I went rogue and did the Asian Art section in defiance of our carefully charted course.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My family's crazy map for a one-hour blitz-tour of the Met looks like the beginning of a heist montage.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

S'all good! We're talking about video game elves. No person was insulted in the writing of this post. 👍

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

She was a genuinely benevolent force in Dunmer society for millennia, despite having deep and well-hidden character flaws. Yes, she murdered Seht, but how many lives did she save over the course of her reign? Probably more than Vivec and Sotha Sil combined. By orders of magnitude.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

All three members of the Tribunal are damaged goods. That's what makes them so compelling. Sil is not a good guy, but he's sympathetic. Almalexia is not good, but I believe her plight is no less desperate than Seht's. And unlike Seht, she consistently used her power to guide, protect, and provide.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Sotha Sil was the one who actively studied and used Kagrenac's Tools despite promising never to do so. Everything that followed came from that original sin. Believe me, I love Sil. He's my boy. But he's also guilty as fuck and folks let him off the hook way too easily.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I sat down for dinner at my favorite Brooklyn dumpling joint where they normally blast Super Mario video game soundtracks, but tonight they're playing shitty modern country music. I don't understand. My sorrow is beyond comprehension.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

She was the _definition_ of grace! She deserves much more love.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

She carried Morrowind on her back for multiple eras - curing the sick and providing for the downtrodden while Vivec wrote poetry and Sil played with legos. She fought and defeated a Daedric Prince. She held off an Akaviri invasion. She helped Morrowind weather the Interregnum basically by herself.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

You realize you're speaking batshit fan art into being, right?

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Sil deserves _much_ more blame than Almalexia.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

One of my greatest sorrows is that I never wrote for her. You have the right of it, Memes!

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Little known fact: "Boobella Boob-Boob" is one of Herma Mora's 5000 ineffable names, hidden in the flooded vaults of the "Kohl's women's section" deep within Apocrypha.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I promise I won't drop a novel in this thread about the comparative strengths of waffles and pancakes. 😜

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I guess. Have you watched Eggers' work? His movies cleave to modern story structure, but movies like The VVitch and Northman really feel like invitations to extend the viewer's awareness to foreign times and places in ways that are authentic and thus unsettling/challenging to modern audiences.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I guess I'm differentiating between theme and presentation. People grumbling about costuming and the race/gender of the actors feels like a different and more cynical consideration. And to be clear, I'm not saying making films for modern audiences is bad. It's just not what I wanted personally.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

TFW you black out and write a novel in someone's comments and then remember your opinion is largely irrelevant, and that you have to clean up a banana peel you left out on the counter, and that we're all going to die someday.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

That kind of "accuracy" is thin fucking broth, and obviously a dog whistle sounded by morons.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Of course, people beating their breasts over "historical accuracy" are much more exhausting. As if the shape of a helmet is the most relevant feature of the story.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Anyway, I wish that the movie had met the material on its own terms. And similarly, I wish we could engage with that sort of story without endlessly debating its relevance to _us_, and all our wacky modern problems. Some historical stuff is weird and uncomfortable for us. Just let it be weird.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The Odyssey could have done the same thing and presented an authentically Greek story, full of weirdness and moral ambiguity that puts us off balance and challenges us, but instead opted to fall into our myopic obsession with ourselves and all our various modern anxieties. The enemy is us, guys!!!

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In Eggers' features, our morals simply do not apply, and it creates this crazy vertiginous experience where you're forced to engage with these horrific and brutal settings on their own terms. Nothing in Northman could be seen as some call to modern decency. And that's a big part of its strength.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The whole time I was watching The Odyssey, I couldn't stop thinking of "Northman" - Robert Eggers' superior period piece where the hero is a viking who shrugs as small children are heaved into a burning building. Eggers is _relentless_ in his dedication to time and place.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Greek mythological virtues and obsessions are really hard for us to totally wrap our heads around. So is the weird, interplay between those virtues and the inevitable, horrible consequences. It's disorienting and weird and novel.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Honestly, I'm kind of exhausted by the obsessive focus on this thing's meaning in the context of "2026." One of the appeals of mythology, for me at least, is its fundamental misalignment with modern ways of thinking. Wilson gestures at this a little in her review, but immediately lets it drop.

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Hey, so, I was so angry today that, for once, I blogged it instead of posting about it. Games media, especially mainstream games media, cannot keep abdicating responsibility in how it talks about these things an-evening-at-the-inn.ghost.io/video-game-s...

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Video Game Studios Aren't Monoliths

I'm just going to come right out and say it this time - treating video game studios like some kind of fantasy football draft, in the wake of mass layoffs no less, is sickening. The last three years, ...

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

One of the most eloquent (and most heartbreaking) posts on the ZOS layoff. He nailed it.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Now they're playing truth or dare. As the tension grows, so too do the "bros." Girl 1: "What do you think my greatest weaknesses are?" Guy 1: "Broooo! Don't go there, bro!

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I love how the youth of America is gradually evolving into the Tracksuit Draculas from Matt Fraction's run on Hawkeye. A literal exchange I heard on the train: Guy 1: "Bro, listen, bro. You need to calm down, bro." Guy 2: "Fuck you, bro. I'm hungry as shit, bro." Fucking poetry, bro.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My LinkedIn feed is like the Oscars' "In Memoriam" segment. The list keeps growing, and it's utterly devastating. The cost of entertaining people should not be this high.

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Nuha 🌙 نهى @nuhahaha.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Yup. We’re looking for ANOTHER narrative designer to join our project! Come work on Star Wars!! ✨ www.respawn.com/careers/narr...

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So, a brilliant collaboration between Juli and awesome designer, Janet Priblo ... Also axed by XBOX. Characters like Sharp don't just happen. It takes the combined effort of brilliant creatives to bring them to life. Laying off people like Janet and Juli is a ruinous blunder.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, and chuds gotta harass the people who try to bring them joy.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Created and written by @okcryptid.bsky.social - one of the brilliant writers XBOX cut.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If I see one more post calling this XBOX warcrime a "reset", I'm gonna fucking lose it.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Tfw someone behind you on the train has been humming lullabies for like two and a half hours and you think they're soothing a baby, but then you get up and see there is no baby.

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Zohorna's Dismay

ALT: Zohorna's Dismay

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The live action shit is a cash-in, but they still bust out original properties. It's not all cynical sequels like Despicable Me 14 or Hotel Transylvania: Part 9 or whatever the fuck.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I love Treasure Planet. I guess I just don't see their missteps (on the animation side) as egregious. Like, if I was gonna put an animation studio on blast, I think there are way worse offenders. Illumination is a mess. It just seems like Disney is a victim of its own success.

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Leamon Tuttle @tuttlepower.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

DAS has only put out 4 movies since Encanto. Strange World, which was fine. Wish, which sucked. Moana 2 which was fine, and Zootopia 2 which was good. Of those, only one of them was like _actively_ bad.

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