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Ryan
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Living in Japan, playing all the hottest video games from 2-7 years ago! Liker of movies and TV. 日本語でもオッケー。 PSN: PhantomGazebo
I watched a TV show!
The Beast in Me (2025) [Netflix]
I love Claire Danes & Matthew Rhys, and any scene they are in is compelling. This feels like top-class tv at times, but honestly cheap & predictable at others. Overall it was good, but regrettably not great.
December 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I watched a movie! #41
🇺🇸 Wicked
🇯🇵 ウィキッド ふたりの魔女
2024 (Prime)
My default mode for musicals is dislike, w/ the possibility of being won over. I hate the unnatural feeling of suddenly singing & joyously dancing just for the sake of it. Wicked mostly felt weird, but ended strongly & had a few good songs.
December 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I read a book!
🇯🇵 地獄星レミナ - 伊藤潤二
🇺🇸 Hellstar Remina - Junji Ito
An evil sentient planet is attacking earth & huge mobs of people blame you! I didn’t love how the story progressed but it was an enjoyable ride. The bonus story 億万ぼっち was great.
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I watched a movie! #40
🇺🇸 Train Dreams
🇯🇵 トレイン・ドリームズ
2025 (Netflix)
A life story told in moments. Lonely & cruel but compelling & beautiful.
December 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I watched a movie! #39
🇺🇸 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
🇯🇵 ジュマンジ/ウェルカム・トゥ・ジャングル
2017 (Prime)
This was a great popcorn flick. Decent laughs, action & heart. Just as the credits started rolling & I was thinking “hey I’d watch another one of these”, the sequel popped up to watch next 👍
November 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I watched a movie! #38
🇺🇸 A Merry Little Ex-Mas
🇯🇵 メリー・リトル・エックスマス
2025 (Netflix)
It’s “made for TV”rom-com Christmas movie season on Netflix! Starring Alicia Silverstone? This started out pretty cringe but came around to be a decent movie for what it is.
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I platinumed a game! 🏆
Skate. (PS5)
⏱️ 87h
Despite the laundry list of complaints you can make, I haven’t spent any real money & I’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment from this game. Still needs proper online multiplayer, player-made challenges & parks, etc.
⭐️ Good (7/10)
I made a Skate. video
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I made a Skate. video
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A donation machine in an English hospital www.reddit.com/r/Weird/s/2l...
From the Weird community on Reddit: A donation machine in an English hospital:
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November 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
If you only watch one video today… www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCrin...
From the TikTokCringe community on Reddit: Americans should definitely watch this right now
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November 12, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I thought this paper clip I found was a knife-wielding drifter, but it’s just that kid carrying wood & reading a book who’s always memorialized in front of Japanese elementary schools.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I watched a movie! #37
🇺🇸 The Woman in Cabin 10
🇯🇵 第10客室の女
2025 (Netflix)
Starts off compelling, like an Agatha Christie novel, but just as you start guessing whodunnit they drop the whole explanation on your plate, and it all unravels into something kind of ridiculous. I liked Keira Knightley though.
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I watched a movie! #36
🇺🇸 Robot Dreams
🇯🇵 ロボット・ドリームズ
2023 (U-NEXT)
A Spanish-French animation with no dialog. Really charming movie. Lovely art style. You start off with a “this is cute and all but what exactly am I watching here?” feeling, but it really gets you in the end.
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I watched a TV show!
The Penguin (2024) [U-NEXT]
Colin Farrell’s great & Cristin Milioti is good. Overall it felt a little bloated & slow. Mob movie tropes & unbelievable getaways. Penguin’s a nice guy but don’t forget to sprinkle in him being a total psychopath. I didn’t love it.
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Far cry 6 update!
It took a few hours to get a handle on things but this game is fun as hell. Every outpost is a puzzle to unlock with a thousand different solutions (in hard mode most of those solutions result in death).
Great writing. I love Dani singing along to the radio so much.
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I started a new game!
Far Cry 6 (2021) [PS5]
Fun so far! The prologue pulls you in immediately, feeling like a vision of a suddenly not so unlikely American future, with soldiers brutally taking over neighborhoods, thrusting you into a band of guerillas with a boatload of motivation to fight back.
November 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I platinumed a game! 🏆
Hogwarts Legacy (PS5)
⏱️ 79h
Decent story & combat (but killing hundreds feels weird). The world is designed beautifully, but also feels empty & the activities rote. The game needs more consequences, like morality, friendship & house points systems.
⭐️ Pretty good (7/10)
November 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I watched a TV show!
Nobody Wants This S1 (2024)
I saw S2 came out, which reminded that I never posted about watching S1 a few months ago. Honestly it was very vanilla & forgettable. I have no plans to watch S2.
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I watched a movie! #35
🇺🇸 Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
🇯🇵 ティム・バートンのコープスブライド
2005 (Netflix)
Hard not to compare this to Nightmare before Christmas, because they hit the same notes: visually delightful, musically hit & miss & a meandering story. I kinda like the idea of these movies more than watching them
October 31, 2025 at 5:58 AM
This story is great
In the end, the company's lawsuit likely cost them some serious time and cash (while generating a bit of unnecessary bad publicity)
10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.
arstechnica.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Well, with 3 games left in the season, the J-League team I support (Shonan Bellmare) is officially going down to league 2. With something like 20 games without a win it was a miserable fucking season. I can’t say I’ll miss my weekly dose of depression. Maybe J2 will be better?
October 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I watched a movie! #34
🇺🇸 We Live in Time
🇯🇵 この時を生きて
2024 (U-NEXT)
Not a big Andrew Garfield or Florence Pugh fan. A story about love & loss told at different times in a couples’ relationship. I didn’t find it very interesting or original for most of the movie but I felt some feels towards the end.
October 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I watched a movie! #33
🇺🇸 Licorice Pizza
🇯🇵 リコリス・ピザ
2021 (U-NEXT)
Tries for Tarantino-like spontaneity, but ends up as a jumble with weird, unbelievable cameo characters and no real plot?
October 22, 2025 at 6:09 AM