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Experiencing a middle school flex learning day as a parent for the first time and... WTF!? Kiddo has been going for more than six hours cumulatively, and every class has a different system for turning in the work.

What a wild era when Crazy Castle could be a half dozen different licensed games, while the SNES and Genesis would take one IP licence and make two games of completely different genres.

The Futurama x Disenchantment crossover feels like when Millennium got cancelled and they wrapped it up inside of an X-Files episode.

I feel like I'm missing something with the Control Resonant combat tuning, because the game is largely quite easy so far, with the extreme outlier exception of side missions where you have to defend a stationary object against enemy waves.

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The backyard is having a three way scream war between the crows, bluejays, and a barred owl.

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Hey everybody, you have to sanitize your YouTube links before posting them now, or disable the new channel visibility feature. Don't make me become a new kind of social media scold.

The pop country people being enraged that nobody cares about their capture of a cultural institution with fading relevance seems like a metaphor for American conservatism in general.

I'm always talking about how I want an American Izo (the anti-war Takashi Miike film about a historical samurai who fights everybody across time in an oneiric purgatory) and I'm sad to say that the closest we have appears to be Resident Evil Retribution.

📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 26/09/2026

Doing some Hotline Miami cosplay in Control Resonant.

Control Resonant screenshot with Dylan in front of the Oldest House wearing a letter jacket and a gas mask shaped like a wolf head.

📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 25/09/2026

Control Resonant isn't blowing me away yet, but there was a side mission with a moral choice where the "good" option (that is also more in character for the protagonist) may have locked me out of some content, which is a really good way of doing video game moral choices.

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 24/09/2026

It really seems like the goal of AI is to foist the negative externalities of being super rich upon the population at large.

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 24/09/2026

It's actually bi vincibility day. The one time of the year when the bisexual health bar stops being grayed out and they can take damage.

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Silent Hill Townfall and Control Resonant releasing within a day of each other feels like a big "screw you" to me specifically.

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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I'm really sad about the death of one of my favorite wikipedia editors so here's a thread of some of the greatest articles he wrote

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I want to mow the lawn, but all my neighbors are mowing theirs right now, and I don't want to have to keep doing the "yep, we made eye contact while mowing" nod at them.

Begotten – 4K Restoration – Official Teaser

I can't believe I only discovered that a Begotten 4K remaster is in the pipeline because I noticed the movie had upcoming showtimes on Rotten Tomatoes. Who's up for confronting their old haunted VHS tapes in the multiplex?

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YouTube video by Kino Lorber

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 21/09/2026

The children won't shut up about some kind of Minecraft/YouTube creature called "Verity" and it is really messing with my head because that is also the name of an upcoming erotic thriller motion picture with Madame Web in it.

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Dallas is working very hard on how to get the treats I put inside his new dog house without having to enter it.

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 20/09/2026

Resident Evil: Apocalypse easily clears the Bechdel Test and contains multiple scenes of "Oh right, the zombies."

📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 20/09/2026

I can't know how to hear anymore about Tilly Norwood.

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 20/09/2026

Lots of young folks are experiencing the Jovoverse Resident Evil movies for the first time with the reboot now in theaters, and I can explain! We had just gone a decade with only PlayStation games and tapes of Romero movies for our zombie media, and the Walking Dead oversaturation era was years away

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 18/09/2026

Finally watched Miracle Mile, one of the seminal films of the "guy in suit has a really bad night on the streets" canon. What a great cast; the character actor power levels in the diner alone are off the charts.

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 18/09/2026

Clickbait videos are always saying "This old Batman cartoon predicted the plot of Bioshock" but it's just because they both riffed on 'evil Walt Disney'

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 17/09/2026

I met a badass Black Philip looking goat with one eye today. Metal.

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 15/09/2026

We already did a fake Stanford Prison Experiment. It was called "The Stanford Prison Experiment"

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 15/09/2026

Making movie magic (around the corner) today.

An old yellow car and a Rampage arcade cabinet.

A Hitchcockian sized flock of grackles swarming the neighborhood.

I spent Saturday night playing Binding of Isaac: Four Souls with the 8 year old. We didn't get super far because the game has so darn many cards that we kept hitting veins of poor or non-shuffling, but I knew he would get a kick out of looking through the monster deck.

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Billion dollar movie pitch: a Crank sequel set during the supernatural apocalypse of Kioshi Kurosawa's Pulse. Jason Statham has to keep his adrenaline up by fighting Yakuza thugs, lest he succumb to the cosmic ennui of digital modernity and become a living shadow of ash and despair.

I don't understand how Steam can be so puritanical about serious indie games that engage with topics of human sexuality, yet when I played the demo of a Japanese body horror shmup with the "nudity" tag one time, I was immediately inundated with dozens of recommendations for AI jerk-off games.

📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 11/09/2026

Tech jargon pro-tip: "Finish setting up your device" is a special computer phrase that means "give me a credit card number".

Nightmare Junkhead @nightmarejunkhead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Samus was licking me!

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 10/09/2026

Calm down everybody. No one outside of this site and its evil big brother knows or cares about today's anniversary.

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 09/09/2026

Star Trek display name idea: Gorn Macdonald

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 09/09/2026

There is nothing a "body language expert" can tell you that a community ed acting instructor cannot.

📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 08/09/2026

I think people would have an easier time defining "working class" if we were allowed to discuss the term's antipode, because it seems really convenient for the ownership class to be lumped together with unemployed folks as "not working class".

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 08/09/2026

There appear to be three primary responses to the Zelda announcement: 1. Pure joy 2. Absolute revulsion 3. Child link as Elizabeth Holmes memes

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 08/09/2026

Finally had my Labor Day viewing of the Matewan disc I picked up like five years ago, which makes the theme of this weekend's movie watching "people getting their shit rocked from behind laundry on the clothesline"

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 06/09/2026

Now seated for Onslaught in IMAX because I need Dan Stevens' face to be Silent Hill 4 sized.

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📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 05/09/2026

I wish I liked the gameplay of Titanium Court better, because everything else about it is A+++

📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 05/09/2026

I'm brainstorming a new mutant superhero with the ability to convert embarrassment into kinetic energy. He has to hire a humiliation kink dominatrix to follow him into battle and pull his pants down in front of the enemy.

📼Knarf Black📼 @videoupdates.net · 04/09/2026

Metal band logo fail: I can still kind of make out one of the Es in there.