Angus Paterson

Freelance writer. Electronic music obsessive. Displaced leftist.
Amateur political commentator.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

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."

[ScreenRant @screenrant]

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

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@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.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@JezCorden @ManaByte I don't see any reason why the Series X couldn't be dragged out for a few more years.

[kinocow @kinocow]

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?"

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

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.

[kinocow @kinocow]

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.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

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 = 🔥🔥🔥

[Arron Automata 🤖 @Arron_TK]

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.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@dannolan We all live in SlopWorld now.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

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...

[Jez @JezCorden]

Someone should create a second Internet without algorithms and ai and other bollocks from the Zuckerberg era onwards.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@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...

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@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.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@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.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@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 🤷‍♂️

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

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.

[breanna 🇺🇸🇩🇪 @txgermanbre]

Is the German Stare normal? This lady stopped deadass with her husband and her baby in the stroller to keep staring at me for like two minutes lmao

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@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.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@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.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@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).

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@txgermanbre eg. if you feel enthusiastic about your adopted country, lean into that and don't let miserable folk take it away from you.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@txgermanbre You don't have to justify yourself to all these clueless people.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@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?

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

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.

[Key 🗝 🦊 @KeyTryer]

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.

[Angus Paterson @AngusTPaterson]

@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.