Matt Goldammer

image-bearer of Christ seeking the nexus of truth and beauty

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

Celebrating murder always makes you a ghoul.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

The mechanisms of our government at the highest levels are in the hands of dishonest, dishonorable, disgraceful people who are, for the foreseeable future, unaccountable.

Congress must reassert itself after the midterms. Before would obviously be better but I'm being realistic.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here. 

The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming.

Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene. 

The suspect also had 2 magazines and no ID—this looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement. 

About 200 rioters arrived at the scene and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement on the scene, crowd control measures were deployed for the safety of the public and law enforcement. 

This situation is evolving, and more information is forthcoming.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

Defending and justifying slaughter of unarmed innocents. Is that the "greatness" they want to restore? Truly a shameful gesture.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals.

This decision is final. Their place in history is settled.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

Checks and balances in 2025: when two branches of government somehow - miraculously - do their job right for once, the third will be there to ensure things still get screwed up. Just as the Founders intended, right?

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

@NVIDIAGeForce @stalker_thegame #RTXOn
Loving the game so far - warts and all.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

@NVIDIAGeForce I do, in fact, want this. #HalfLife2RTX

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

It's ironic that the prestige TV adaptation of The Last of Us has to underline all the themes for the audience while the writing in the games gets to be comparatively naturalistic and subtle. It's not bad. Just a little more on the nose.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

So I did a critique/review of #RingsOfPower's first season before the new one drops. Season two is probably make or break for this show. S1 was mixed, but there was a lot of potential promise.
https://t.co/UMFKmDiIUH

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

@joshcarlosjosh Ill news is an ill guest.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

@mattmillsap It was a perfect fusion of Bond and Radiohead. Nothing against Sam Smith, but "Writing's On the Wall" is clearly the weak link in Bong songs during the Craig era.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

Oppenheimer got (most of) its deserved awards and Dune: Part Two ruled. Pretty good weekend for movies.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

Now there's only one more question: they did get Ron Perlman, right?

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

This looks pretty promising. I prefer a slightly darker, more sombre Fallout where the humor is a little more recessed in the background, but I think it's probably smart to strike a different tone to stand out among other post-apocalypse media for general audiences.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

At least in the film industry some of the suits have *seen* a movie. A lot of people high up in the games industry don't play games, don't understand them, and don't care. And it shows.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

The games industry is going through a similar phase as when the film industry collectively chased the success of the MCU without understanding what made it work at all. The result was a bunch of garbage movies that nobody wanted and mostly lost money.

[Shinobi602 @shinobi602]

WB sees its future games strategy to involve more live-service, mobile, and free-to-play games.

"Rather than just launching a one-and-done console game, how do we develop a game around, for example, a Hogwarts Legacy or Harry Potter, that is a live-service where people can live and work and build and play in that world in an ongoing basis?", said WB Games CEO J.B. Perrette.

More here: https://t.co/u0uRI7Ulu8

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

This applies to any Chili's but Lambert International Airport confers a special bonus multiplier.

[Jared C. Wilson @jaredcwilson]

Chili’s in the St. Louis airport is where dreams go to die.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

I hope the 2023 box office means that audiences are truly sick of "remember this?" as a film's only selling point. It's lazy and cowardly. Big franchises made a lot of money, sure, but the ones that did best had real *ideas* behind them regardless of franchise association.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

The Mandalorian S1 was pretty great, but Star Wars under Disney has no idea what to do with something that's working. They run it into the ground every time. I've seen every Star Wars movie in theaters since the Special Editions in the 90s. I have zero interest in this.

[Wario64 @Wario64]

The Mandalorian and Grogu film coming to movie theaters

Directed by Jon Favreau, and produced by Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy, and Dave Filoni, The Mandalorian & Grogu will go into production in 2024.

The Mandalorian & Grogu will lead Lucasfilm's ongoing feature-development slate, including films helmed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, James Mangold, and Dave Filoni, who is also currently developing Ahsoka Season 2, among those in the works.

https://t.co/eAxiCPPAU5

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

Let them finish Andor. Hopefully they stick the landing. After that, go ahead and blow up the franchise since it'll never get a dignified death.

Disney Star Wars could have been so great, but quality storytelling and creativity was basically at the bottom of their priority list.

[Matt Goldammer @Gonkz]

Sheesh. Looks like Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is may very well be 2024's Redfall: a boring, vapid game from a formerly great developer ruined by live service garbage. Hate to see it.