One of my favourite pieces for @screenrant last year. A chance to dig into what fascinates me about horror soundtracks; how they "embody the provocative themes of their respective films, abrasive & experimental... similar to horror itself—a misfit genre forever on the fringes."
This is the Screen Rant tribute to horror cinema’s most memorable soundtracks: https://t.co/oEx2MjuYmI
🎵 Psycho
🎵 Halloween
🎵 A Nightmare On Elm Street
🎵 Tenebrae
🎵 The Thing
🎵 The Shining
🎵 Alien
🎵 Rosemary’s Baby
🎵 Candyman
🎵 Hellraiser
@DeekeTweak Asha has been on a tear and she's actually managed to turn things around and get the community back onside, after years of terrible comms and brand mismanagement. She's (successfully) cleaning up the mess. This just reads like a silly doomer post to me.
Met a guy who was fidgeting around the main door, desperation clear in his eyes. I asked him what's up and he's 4 months into his flat search and he just gave me a look of helplessness and said "sometimes people HAVE to move you know?"
Yes, this was me & my former partner in Berlin. We were forced to (peacefully) cohabit for roughly 18 months, after which I bounced around several nightmare sublets before fleeing to Hamburg, while my ex was stuck in an apartment costing 80% of her wage. Absolutely diabolical.
Everyday in this hell of a flatsearch I hear a quite common Berlin flat story - couple broke up months ago but cannot move out because they can't find flats. And the desperation only increases. I think this is a potential startup idea: a flat swap for couples who broke up.
There's a mobile port available of "Alien Isolation", so I've taken the time to start a fresh replay.
It's stunning, and one of the best things I've ever played (and among the best things to emerge from the franchise).
Art design + world building + environmental design = 🔥🔥🔥
Alien isolation is one of the best horror games ever made.
It perfectly captures the vibe of the first alien movie, the sound design is top tier and it’s absolutely terrifying.
Everyone should play it.
The internet actually used to be great, people forget. Online communities, forums, online media with a functioning ad model, popular sites existing that actually aren't Facebook, Twitter, or TikTok, etc...
@JezCorden The internet actually used to be great, people forget. Online communities, forums, online media with a functioning ad model, popular sites existing that actually aren't Facebook, Twitter, or TikTok, etc...
@Porkchop_EXP PS. I also respect the German tendency to police the boundaries between personal time and work, but accompanying that is what I think is a terrible work ethic. It's a nation of people who will take any opportunity to pass the buck, work wise. It's baked into the culture.
@Porkchop_EXP I can fully understand the value in closing the stores on Sunday, but there's also a certain intense rigidity in the culture that I haven't seen elsewhere. Hence the pushback to you daring to suggest there might be a different way of doing things. This rigidity gets tiresome.
@Dr_Tad Yeah the notion seems a bit weird to me; I interpret it as Germans being more relaxed about potentially making eye contact in public places, works just fine for me 🤷♂️
This is oft discussed, but honestly I never noticed the "German Stare" the entire time I lived in Germany. I think I was just an easier match for the German temperament.
@reece_us It probably would have been a different story if Starfield had actually landed in the same way as previous Bethesda games; it just simply did not, it's overall a bit of an embarrassment.
@VK_HM I really liked that little Naboo reference too. Gilroy liked to talk about how he wasn't a big Star Wars fan, but you wouldn't know. The use of lore was so organic and cleverly done.
@LizzyStarrrdust I didn't vote because I'm kinda neutral, but they're not meant to bring that into the boundaries of the therapeutic relationship (I've not experienced it to date).
@LauraRbnsn Finally someone said it, with eloquence. There seems to be heavy lifting going on by those wanting to make the film exclusively about the villainy of lonely incels, when the BPD parralels seem undeniable. Could our brains conceive the possibility that it's two things at once?
Publishers were bending over to accommodate the shitty SEO world that Google created. This utterly corrupted journalism and online content, a weird evolution in service of the tech gods. And then when it suited, Google pulled the rug.
There's a lady in here who's really fucking upset because she has one of those spammy recipe websites and was making like $300,000 a year and now since LLMs users can access recipes directly she's not making squat. Apparently she didn't have any readership loyalty at all.
@nib95_ I generally don't agree with harassing reviewers over review scores, but it was definitely unprofessional to allocate this writer to the review. Silly ragebait IMO.