The beauty of the Bachman books isn’t just King trying to fly under the radar but him modifying his style enough to his leanest and meanest prose and narratives, and at every turn this softens the material until it ends up completely squishy.

Yeah I know that franchise is freighted with so much inertia in terms of audience interest but idk how anyone can be hyped about 6. Everything about it feels Duke Nukem Forever coded.

Gameplay and ideas-wise, RDR2 is the pinnacle of Rockstar’s status as “what if Hideo Kojima were an American dipshit instead of a more compelling Japanese dipshit” and there are pluses to that but the minuses…my word

My unrepentant day 1 take has been that RDR1 was and remains vastly superior to 2, which is one of those games that comes along every few years and feels instantly trapped in amber in terms of embodying every trope and mechanic of that period in a way ppl think will last forever but is passé in 18mo

Significantly worse nutrition even among the aristocracy. Even today, North Koreans average 1-3 inches shorter than South Koreans due to radical difference in food access.

I get two emails and a text every single day from Ossof (whose office FINALLY sent me a perfunctory ‘thanks for contacting the senator’ email a month ago for the calls I spammed back in *March* in the last round of shutdown chicken) and hooo boy good luck with fundraising Skip