Nate
@nategm.bsky.social
Rando. U.S. government and game design enjoyer. My most defining attribute is my lack of interesting attributes.
One of those weird millennial things is having lived through the most violent period of documented crime in U.S. history and that it happened 30 years ago.
November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
One of those weird millennial things is having lived through the most violent period of documented crime in U.S. history and that it happened 30 years ago.
It’s kind of surreal how the richest man to ever exist is also a complete dipshit.
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
It’s kind of surreal how the richest man to ever exist is also a complete dipshit.
There are lots of things O’Hare International Airport has that Midway doesn’t, but O’Hare sure doesn’t have a homoerotic bronze sculpture prominently displayed next to your gate
October 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
There are lots of things O’Hare International Airport has that Midway doesn’t, but O’Hare sure doesn’t have a homoerotic bronze sculpture prominently displayed next to your gate
Oh totally. I’m not willing to bend to their prejudices to accommodate them, but I can appreciate the irony that they’re in a prison of their own making
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Oh totally. I’m not willing to bend to their prejudices to accommodate them, but I can appreciate the irony that they’re in a prison of their own making
Thanks GameHole Con, it was a real one. Now back to not running TTRPGs every day (he says as he gets his notes together to run a TTRPG tonight)
October 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Thanks GameHole Con, it was a real one. Now back to not running TTRPGs every day (he says as he gets his notes together to run a TTRPG tonight)
My face when doing the run back to the Crawbug Gauntlet in Greymoor for the 10th time.
September 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
My face when doing the run back to the Crawbug Gauntlet in Greymoor for the 10th time.
People are giving the Trump administration a lot of pushback but trans people ARE extremely dangerous. I knew someone who was bit by trans but tried to hide it and then they became trans and attacked the rest of us and… oh wait, sorry, I’m thinking of zombies. Trans people are fine.
September 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
People are giving the Trump administration a lot of pushback but trans people ARE extremely dangerous. I knew someone who was bit by trans but tried to hide it and then they became trans and attacked the rest of us and… oh wait, sorry, I’m thinking of zombies. Trans people are fine.
The thing about Draw Steel is that the sword cuts both ways.
September 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The thing about Draw Steel is that the sword cuts both ways.
Never forget: Harambe was killed because he knew who was on the Epstein List. Do not let this noble ape’s sacrifice be in vain - hold your elected officials responsible!
July 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Never forget: Harambe was killed because he knew who was on the Epstein List. Do not let this noble ape’s sacrifice be in vain - hold your elected officials responsible!
The Mex part is objectively superior to the Tex part.
July 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Mex part is objectively superior to the Tex part.
Me in 2018: Leave a tip? At Subway? I just watched you make a sandwich and hand it to me!
Me in 2025 as I leave a 20% tip and look the person in the eye: The proletariat has a moral obligation for mutual aid until every last billionaire is destroyed.
Me in 2025 as I leave a 20% tip and look the person in the eye: The proletariat has a moral obligation for mutual aid until every last billionaire is destroyed.
June 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Me in 2018: Leave a tip? At Subway? I just watched you make a sandwich and hand it to me!
Me in 2025 as I leave a 20% tip and look the person in the eye: The proletariat has a moral obligation for mutual aid until every last billionaire is destroyed.
Me in 2025 as I leave a 20% tip and look the person in the eye: The proletariat has a moral obligation for mutual aid until every last billionaire is destroyed.
Tell me about a fictional character death you still haven’t gotten over using only a picture.
June 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Tell me about a fictional character death you still haven’t gotten over using only a picture.
In summary, Remmick is a fantastic character, and if you haven’t seen Sinners, go see it. If you have seen Sinners, go see it again. I promise it is just as good the second time.
May 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
In summary, Remmick is a fantastic character, and if you haven’t seen Sinners, go see it. If you have seen Sinners, go see it again. I promise it is just as good the second time.
And this is a message we ALL can carry in these troubled times: the rotten, parasitic core of White Supremacy isn’t beaten by flowery words or noble philosophies. It is beaten, as Smoke knows all too well, by power.
May 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
And this is a message we ALL can carry in these troubled times: the rotten, parasitic core of White Supremacy isn’t beaten by flowery words or noble philosophies. It is beaten, as Smoke knows all too well, by power.
But Coogler is a smarter man than I, and the message is clear: Remmick wasn’t beaten by love, or music, or culture, or solidarity. Remmick was defeated by a militant Black war veteran shoving a chair leg through his ribs.
May 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
But Coogler is a smarter man than I, and the message is clear: Remmick wasn’t beaten by love, or music, or culture, or solidarity. Remmick was defeated by a militant Black war veteran shoving a chair leg through his ribs.
Now I’ll admit that when I first watched the ending I wasn’t completely satisfied with Remmick’s defeat. I felt Sammy had earned a victory over his foe in a way that Smoke hadn’t – it felt a bit too cute, too MCU, for the villain to fall the way he did.
May 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Now I’ll admit that when I first watched the ending I wasn’t completely satisfied with Remmick’s defeat. I felt Sammy had earned a victory over his foe in a way that Smoke hadn’t – it felt a bit too cute, too MCU, for the villain to fall the way he did.
The Smokestack Twins built a living, thriving world out of scraps, stolen goods, and unwanted things. Remmick, in contrast, can only build through death and destruction. In this sense he is the epitome of Whiteness: draining the resources of living places in order to maintain the past, forever.
May 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The Smokestack Twins built a living, thriving world out of scraps, stolen goods, and unwanted things. Remmick, in contrast, can only build through death and destruction. In this sense he is the epitome of Whiteness: draining the resources of living places in order to maintain the past, forever.
Part of Coogler’s brilliance in this character is packing so many details into the character without needless backstory or flashbacks. We know Remmick is old. We know Remmick was almost destroyed nearly 12 hours ago. He has tried this before. He has failed before. Many times.
May 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Part of Coogler’s brilliance in this character is packing so many details into the character without needless backstory or flashbacks. We know Remmick is old. We know Remmick was almost destroyed nearly 12 hours ago. He has tried this before. He has failed before. Many times.
Likewise, in the final confrontation with Sammie in the river, Remmick admits that this was all a ploy to summon the ghosts of his culture. It was never really about harmony – it was about sucking the resources out of a living culture to revive a dead one
May 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Likewise, in the final confrontation with Sammie in the river, Remmick admits that this was all a ploy to summon the ghosts of his culture. It was never really about harmony – it was about sucking the resources out of a living culture to revive a dead one
We first see that Remmick doesn’t understand his own lies (or is perhaps has no moral core at all) during the Irish dance scene. Remmick has established that he has a psychic connection with all of his victims. He could choose any dance or song. But he makes them all puppets to HIS song.
May 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
We first see that Remmick doesn’t understand his own lies (or is perhaps has no moral core at all) during the Irish dance scene. Remmick has established that he has a psychic connection with all of his victims. He could choose any dance or song. But he makes them all puppets to HIS song.
So what Coogler gives us is this fascinating parasite, this creature that knows Whiteness is a lie yet uses Whiteness to protect itself and hide and feed. Whiteness is the entry wound by which Remmick spreads his infection.
May 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
So what Coogler gives us is this fascinating parasite, this creature that knows Whiteness is a lie yet uses Whiteness to protect itself and hide and feed. Whiteness is the entry wound by which Remmick spreads his infection.
We don’t know this yet during the film, but Remmick is also a character who understands Whiteness. Based on his hints later in the movie, we know his family was oppressed by the English hundreds of years ago. He knows Whiteness is a construct.
May 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
We don’t know this yet during the film, but Remmick is also a character who understands Whiteness. Based on his hints later in the movie, we know his family was oppressed by the English hundreds of years ago. He knows Whiteness is a construct.
But then he sees their klan robes and instantly changes his tack. And he survives, because of his Whiteness. If, in that moment, the racist sharecroppers don’t see him as White, Remmick is dead at the hands of Choctaw vampire-hunters and we get a very different story.
May 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
But then he sees their klan robes and instantly changes his tack. And he survives, because of his Whiteness. If, in that moment, the racist sharecroppers don’t see him as White, Remmick is dead at the hands of Choctaw vampire-hunters and we get a very different story.
What’s notable about Remmick’s introduction is that we see him at his lowest point: he’s barefoot, fleeing, wounded. He may lie as easily as he breathes but his desperation at the sharecroppers’ door is real.
May 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
What’s notable about Remmick’s introduction is that we see him at his lowest point: he’s barefoot, fleeing, wounded. He may lie as easily as he breathes but his desperation at the sharecroppers’ door is real.