Willa Harlow Ross
@willaharlowross.bsky.social
Filmmaker. A Sheik main called Worst. 🏳️⚧️
Jafar Panahi is the greatest filmmaker in the world.
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Jafar Panahi is the greatest filmmaker in the world.
My list of "What four movies would you see in IMAX for the first time if you could?" is so damn good, I'm so smart and cool, fuck
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
My list of "What four movies would you see in IMAX for the first time if you could?" is so damn good, I'm so smart and cool, fuck
It's incredible how much less forgivable the poor combat in OCARINA OF TIME becomes when you know the game didn't invent Z-targeting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 AM
It's incredible how much less forgivable the poor combat in OCARINA OF TIME becomes when you know the game didn't invent Z-targeting.
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this like intuitive impulse that "if a game is not preparing you to play every other game on the shelf it is wasting your time or impeding you"
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
this like intuitive impulse that "if a game is not preparing you to play every other game on the shelf it is wasting your time or impeding you"
I saw someone say "Action games should not have combos" (specifying they meant pre-determined input sequences that hold enemies in hitstuns, or juggles, for lengthy periods), thought "What the hell", then realized that when I think of any single player game with combos instead of MELEE this is true.
November 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I saw someone say "Action games should not have combos" (specifying they meant pre-determined input sequences that hold enemies in hitstuns, or juggles, for lengthy periods), thought "What the hell", then realized that when I think of any single player game with combos instead of MELEE this is true.
Look I'll level y'all I'm looking for transfemme friends to compete for score in arcade/arcade-like games and I don't even really care what game it is so long as it's good.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Look I'll level y'all I'm looking for transfemme friends to compete for score in arcade/arcade-like games and I don't even really care what game it is so long as it's good.
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Caillois of Man, Play, Games fame described this natural desire for evaluation that stems from the competitive nature of skill based games. 11 years before Pong.
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Caillois of Man, Play, Games fame described this natural desire for evaluation that stems from the competitive nature of skill based games. 11 years before Pong.
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cracking open a cold can of beans at the party 😩👌
September 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
cracking open a cold can of beans at the party 😩👌
oh shit the ffs is making me really hot
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
oh shit the ffs is making me really hot
Will never sing the SKYFALL song without singing it like "Let the Sky Fallllll, when it crum-BALLLLS" because i respect and honour the rhyme scheme.
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Will never sing the SKYFALL song without singing it like "Let the Sky Fallllll, when it crum-BALLLLS" because i respect and honour the rhyme scheme.
My take on the Optic/Haptic vid is: It tries to develop a unifying theory on a broad thesis with a shaky premise (“Why don’t movies look realistic anymore?”) and inevitably winds up with a mess of cherry-picking, self-contradictions, specious reasoning, along with a lot of individually good points.
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
My take on the Optic/Haptic vid is: It tries to develop a unifying theory on a broad thesis with a shaky premise (“Why don’t movies look realistic anymore?”) and inevitably winds up with a mess of cherry-picking, self-contradictions, specious reasoning, along with a lot of individually good points.
This applies across almost every art form, medium, and genre IMO. The more you learn about art, the more capable you become of enjoying it more than ever.
People don’t understand that this already is happening to them and that they actually had much longer on-ramps to their media than they realize.
People don’t understand that this already is happening to them and that they actually had much longer on-ramps to their media than they realize.
This post's really funny but I think if we're being real the awesome part of gamedev is that it didn't kill my fun, it just made everything more extreme. Bad design is like nails on a chalkboard while great smart design is BLISS
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November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This applies across almost every art form, medium, and genre IMO. The more you learn about art, the more capable you become of enjoying it more than ever.
People don’t understand that this already is happening to them and that they actually had much longer on-ramps to their media than they realize.
People don’t understand that this already is happening to them and that they actually had much longer on-ramps to their media than they realize.
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tomb raider 2013 saying "you won't always have a fancy gadget to tell you where you are. learn to read the land and the stars" and then immediately prompting me to press LB for an objective marker is really going to set the tone for the whole experience, I think
November 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
tomb raider 2013 saying "you won't always have a fancy gadget to tell you where you are. learn to read the land and the stars" and then immediately prompting me to press LB for an objective marker is really going to set the tone for the whole experience, I think
*Weakly* Direct cinema is not cinéma vérité and cinéma vérité is not direct cinema... please actually watch the movies from each movement... they're really good, it's worth it...
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
*Weakly* Direct cinema is not cinéma vérité and cinéma vérité is not direct cinema... please actually watch the movies from each movement... they're really good, it's worth it...
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Well, I finally found time to speculatively tint Lubitsch's THE OYSTER PRINCESS (1919).
November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Well, I finally found time to speculatively tint Lubitsch's THE OYSTER PRINCESS (1919).
I've never seen something that so fully demonstrates my opinion that the primary purpose of industry awards shows is to be self-promotional tools. There is only one game here that was completed and released in 2025.
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I've never seen something that so fully demonstrates my opinion that the primary purpose of industry awards shows is to be self-promotional tools. There is only one game here that was completed and released in 2025.
For those following me who remember me from Twitter, I promise you, my posting is even better than you remembered.
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 AM
For those following me who remember me from Twitter, I promise you, my posting is even better than you remembered.
Am absolutely shocked to report that after ten years of being loudly disappointed by del Toro’s visual decline in spite of working with Dan Laustsen, I am totally in the bag for FRANKENSTEIN ‘25
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Am absolutely shocked to report that after ten years of being loudly disappointed by del Toro’s visual decline in spite of working with Dan Laustsen, I am totally in the bag for FRANKENSTEIN ‘25
Single-player video games should generally have far fewer mechanics. Having a lot of mechanics should be considered a super risky thing for a game to do, or a sign that the game is effectively offloading design work to players, but it's the widely assumed correct approach by both players and devs.
November 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Single-player video games should generally have far fewer mechanics. Having a lot of mechanics should be considered a super risky thing for a game to do, or a sign that the game is effectively offloading design work to players, but it's the widely assumed correct approach by both players and devs.
Playing HOLLOW KNIGHT, getting pretty much all the items and beating all the bosses outside the endgame, all DLC EXCEPT the final, ultra-extended pantheon, and deciding whether to go ahead and attempt that pantheon (would take weeks of practice) is really making me contemplate this game’ merits are.
October 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Playing HOLLOW KNIGHT, getting pretty much all the items and beating all the bosses outside the endgame, all DLC EXCEPT the final, ultra-extended pantheon, and deciding whether to go ahead and attempt that pantheon (would take weeks of practice) is really making me contemplate this game’ merits are.
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Folks, we're receiving new updates on this story as it breaks. Apparently, and I can't believe I'm hearing this, the new TRON movie has underperformed at the box office.
*touches ear piece* The news desk is receiving shocking reports that the new TRON movie is visually slick and has a cool score but is narratively unsatisfying. Our entire team is on the scene to analyze this breaking news.
October 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Folks, we're receiving new updates on this story as it breaks. Apparently, and I can't believe I'm hearing this, the new TRON movie has underperformed at the box office.
checked into my hotel tonight and um
September 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
checked into my hotel tonight and um
Thinking about the common response media criticism that "art's effect on the audience is subjective and down to individual preference".
It tends to be a means of arguing that we shouldn't make declaratives saying people who like something or wrong or that less work like it should be made. thread 🧵
It tends to be a means of arguing that we shouldn't make declaratives saying people who like something or wrong or that less work like it should be made. thread 🧵
September 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Thinking about the common response media criticism that "art's effect on the audience is subjective and down to individual preference".
It tends to be a means of arguing that we shouldn't make declaratives saying people who like something or wrong or that less work like it should be made. thread 🧵
It tends to be a means of arguing that we shouldn't make declaratives saying people who like something or wrong or that less work like it should be made. thread 🧵
After years of consideration I feel confident saying that I think SUPER MARIO BROS is a substantially better game than SUPER MARIO BROS 3
August 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
After years of consideration I feel confident saying that I think SUPER MARIO BROS is a substantially better game than SUPER MARIO BROS 3
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