Philby Bear
@philbybear.bsky.social
A game master, voracious bookworm and cinephile, a tired socialist and a manic depressive chocolate salesperson from Montreal. They/them. 33.
Tadaaaa!
My (Current) Favourite Games. Gun to my head, these would be my immediate choices.
My (Current) Favourite Games. Gun to my head, these would be my immediate choices.
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Tadaaaa!
My (Current) Favourite Games. Gun to my head, these would be my immediate choices.
My (Current) Favourite Games. Gun to my head, these would be my immediate choices.
The crew's verdict?
Fun movie, but not as much of a masterpiece as the first.
... That said, they did prefer the spectacle of the climax over the first's.
Which, can't blame them, a rapping Daoist monk casting Unlimited Blade Works at the Buddha goes hard as fuck.
Fun movie, but not as much of a masterpiece as the first.
... That said, they did prefer the spectacle of the climax over the first's.
Which, can't blame them, a rapping Daoist monk casting Unlimited Blade Works at the Buddha goes hard as fuck.
a person is holding a sword in front of a clock .
ALT: a person is holding a sword in front of a clock .
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The crew's verdict?
Fun movie, but not as much of a masterpiece as the first.
... That said, they did prefer the spectacle of the climax over the first's.
Which, can't blame them, a rapping Daoist monk casting Unlimited Blade Works at the Buddha goes hard as fuck.
Fun movie, but not as much of a masterpiece as the first.
... That said, they did prefer the spectacle of the climax over the first's.
Which, can't blame them, a rapping Daoist monk casting Unlimited Blade Works at the Buddha goes hard as fuck.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
Here’s what I legit do not understand shit this man:
He clearly neither reads, watches nor engages with pop culture in any audience capacity. It’s plain by the painfully shallow factual errors even a casual fan wouldn’t make.
He clearly neither reads, watches nor engages with pop culture in any audience capacity. It’s plain by the painfully shallow factual errors even a casual fan wouldn’t make.
This tweet only being maybe fourth funniest reference to scifi that proves he doesn't read books or even watch anything is really funny.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Here’s what I legit do not understand shit this man:
He clearly neither reads, watches nor engages with pop culture in any audience capacity. It’s plain by the painfully shallow factual errors even a casual fan wouldn’t make.
He clearly neither reads, watches nor engages with pop culture in any audience capacity. It’s plain by the painfully shallow factual errors even a casual fan wouldn’t make.
… now introducing my friends to the other Chinese Ghost Story movies.
I’m starting to realize these films hold vast real estate in my brain.
I’m starting to realize these films hold vast real estate in my brain.
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
… now introducing my friends to the other Chinese Ghost Story movies.
I’m starting to realize these films hold vast real estate in my brain.
I’m starting to realize these films hold vast real estate in my brain.
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The right wing turn of New Age people isn't the result of inherent properties innate to spiritual belief but rather that New Ageism is a repackaged set of culturally Protestant moralisms that blend half-truths from Eastern Mysticism to be marketable and appealing to faithless Americans.
all left wing people should oppose superstition and irrational beliefs, which are necessary in order to maintain class, racial and societal heirarchies and oppress mankind.
Speaking as someone who’s lived and moved in hippy-adjacent spaces for most of my life: the hard truth that you should not trust most new age people as far as you can throw them
April 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The right wing turn of New Age people isn't the result of inherent properties innate to spiritual belief but rather that New Ageism is a repackaged set of culturally Protestant moralisms that blend half-truths from Eastern Mysticism to be marketable and appealing to faithless Americans.
That… was silly, cheap as hell, and a fucking blast.
Now, if I were surrounded by Shocker troopers in fishnets, I wouldn’t be quite so terrified…
… Rider Kick ain’t leaving my head anytime soon, that is…
Very, very, very catchy.
Very, very, very catchy.
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
That… was silly, cheap as hell, and a fucking blast.
Now, if I were surrounded by Shocker troopers in fishnets, I wouldn’t be quite so terrified…
… Rider Kick ain’t leaving my head anytime soon, that is…
Very, very, very catchy.
Very, very, very catchy.
… I’m doing it.
I’m finally doing it.
A friend and I… are watching the first episode of Kamen Rider.
OG Kamen Rider.
I’m finally doing it.
A friend and I… are watching the first episode of Kamen Rider.
OG Kamen Rider.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Now, if I were surrounded by Shocker troopers in fishnets, I wouldn’t be quite so terrified…
… Rider Kick ain’t leaving my head anytime soon, that is…
Very, very, very catchy.
Very, very, very catchy.
… I’m doing it.
I’m finally doing it.
A friend and I… are watching the first episode of Kamen Rider.
OG Kamen Rider.
I’m finally doing it.
A friend and I… are watching the first episode of Kamen Rider.
OG Kamen Rider.
a man in a superhero costume is standing in front of a silo
ALT: a man in a superhero costume is standing in front of a silo
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
… Rider Kick ain’t leaving my head anytime soon, that is…
Very, very, very catchy.
Very, very, very catchy.
… I’m doing it.
I’m finally doing it.
A friend and I… are watching the first episode of Kamen Rider.
OG Kamen Rider.
I’m finally doing it.
A friend and I… are watching the first episode of Kamen Rider.
OG Kamen Rider.
a man in a superhero costume is standing in front of a silo
ALT: a man in a superhero costume is standing in front of a silo
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
… I’m doing it.
I’m finally doing it.
A friend and I… are watching the first episode of Kamen Rider.
OG Kamen Rider.
I’m finally doing it.
A friend and I… are watching the first episode of Kamen Rider.
OG Kamen Rider.
Somewhere, Alan Moore just sighs and pours himself another glass of wine.
'V for Vendetta' Is Becoming a TV Show
'V for Vendetta' Is Becoming a TV Show
DC Studios will produce a new adaptation of the classic comic for HBO.
gizmodo.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Somewhere, Alan Moore just sighs and pours himself another glass of wine.
It's been awhile, but reminder...
My sister's kitten is still quite adorable.
And ridiculously photogenic.
My sister's kitten is still quite adorable.
And ridiculously photogenic.
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It's been awhile, but reminder...
My sister's kitten is still quite adorable.
And ridiculously photogenic.
My sister's kitten is still quite adorable.
And ridiculously photogenic.
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the pastiche that outlives its source material is a weird phenomenon. bet a lot more people have read northanger abbey than the late 18th century pulp it affectionately ribbed.
November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
the pastiche that outlives its source material is a weird phenomenon. bet a lot more people have read northanger abbey than the late 18th century pulp it affectionately ribbed.
Not wrong!
A lot of Isekai/litrpg/progress fantasy are the same tropes but with magic and elves.
Sometimes worse, the island adventure boys usually didn’t have slaves because the islands were conveniently uninhabited.
Sometimes worse, the island adventure boys usually didn’t have slaves because the islands were conveniently uninhabited.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Not wrong!
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lot of talk about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in my TL today, and just wanted to say... thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
lot of talk about the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in my TL today, and just wanted to say... thanks!
... Ha, which, if that's not an apt analogy for the current state of the British "Empire" today, eh?
I guess the difference is...
Rather than adventure stories about boarding school kids on field trips, now it's all rather localized.
Everyone goes to and stays at Hogwarts.
Rather than adventure stories about boarding school kids on field trips, now it's all rather localized.
Everyone goes to and stays at Hogwarts.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
... Ha, which, if that's not an apt analogy for the current state of the British "Empire" today, eh?
... You know, it's kind of funny-
Sure, they wouldn't get that context... but would modern UK kids?
In a stroke of irony, the only reason we even *remember* that there was once a sub-genre of boys's adventure novels at all is because Lord of the Flies smashed it to pieces.
Sure, they wouldn't get that context... but would modern UK kids?
In a stroke of irony, the only reason we even *remember* that there was once a sub-genre of boys's adventure novels at all is because Lord of the Flies smashed it to pieces.
YEAH. It's also better with the context that it was specifically written in response to a genre of 'english schoolboys get stranded and have a jolly time' novels.
It's not about how humanity sucks. It's about how, specifically, English boarding school boys suck
It's not about how humanity sucks. It's about how, specifically, English boarding school boys suck
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
... You know, it's kind of funny-
Sure, they wouldn't get that context... but would modern UK kids?
In a stroke of irony, the only reason we even *remember* that there was once a sub-genre of boys's adventure novels at all is because Lord of the Flies smashed it to pieces.
Sure, they wouldn't get that context... but would modern UK kids?
In a stroke of irony, the only reason we even *remember* that there was once a sub-genre of boys's adventure novels at all is because Lord of the Flies smashed it to pieces.
[eyes snap open]
Magnus Archives as an investigative horror RPG in the style of something like Citizen Sleeper or Disco Elysium, this anything?
Magnus Archives as an investigative horror RPG in the style of something like Citizen Sleeper or Disco Elysium, this anything?
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
[eyes snap open]
Magnus Archives as an investigative horror RPG in the style of something like Citizen Sleeper or Disco Elysium, this anything?
Magnus Archives as an investigative horror RPG in the style of something like Citizen Sleeper or Disco Elysium, this anything?
It warms my heart to see so many fellow admirers of Julie Taymor and her work.
Not me thinking about the theatrical fabulist sensibilities of Julie Taymor.
It... doesn't feel fair her filmography is so small.
It... doesn't feel fair her filmography is so small.
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It warms my heart to see so many fellow admirers of Julie Taymor and her work.
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YEAH. It's also better with the context that it was specifically written in response to a genre of 'english schoolboys get stranded and have a jolly time' novels.
It's not about how humanity sucks. It's about how, specifically, English boarding school boys suck
It's not about how humanity sucks. It's about how, specifically, English boarding school boys suck
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
YEAH. It's also better with the context that it was specifically written in response to a genre of 'english schoolboys get stranded and have a jolly time' novels.
It's not about how humanity sucks. It's about how, specifically, English boarding school boys suck
It's not about how humanity sucks. It's about how, specifically, English boarding school boys suck
Note to self, need to also revisit The Outsiders at some point.
Me revisiting Lord of the Flies 15 years after high school.
back when u were in school and forced to read classic literature but then it starts cookin' and you realized why its a classic
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Note to self, need to also revisit The Outsiders at some point.
Me revisiting Lord of the Flies 15 years after high school.
back when u were in school and forced to read classic literature but then it starts cookin' and you realized why its a classic
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Me revisiting Lord of the Flies 15 years after high school.
Finished my assignments, wrapped up my chores, took Terry on another walk.
Now…
Let’s go and finish Silent Hill f, eh?
I’m in a real video game-y mood, I have to say.
Now…
Let’s go and finish Silent Hill f, eh?
I’m in a real video game-y mood, I have to say.
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Finished my assignments, wrapped up my chores, took Terry on another walk.
Now…
Let’s go and finish Silent Hill f, eh?
I’m in a real video game-y mood, I have to say.
Now…
Let’s go and finish Silent Hill f, eh?
I’m in a real video game-y mood, I have to say.
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I think the thing that really made the Joyce Carol Oates tweet sting so bad is that it's a nerd power fantasy, this devasting, eloquent putdown that hurts worse than anything a bully can physically do to you, and that's the kind of thing he thinks he's supposed to be doing
November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I think the thing that really made the Joyce Carol Oates tweet sting so bad is that it's a nerd power fantasy, this devasting, eloquent putdown that hurts worse than anything a bully can physically do to you, and that's the kind of thing he thinks he's supposed to be doing
These guys are made of glass: see-through and just as fragile.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
These guys are made of glass: see-through and just as fragile.