Nicol Smith

[🎃💀Video Dreadfuls🇵🇲💀🎃 @53gaDr3amca5t]

The TV version of Die Hard 3 is objectively the superior version because it is so fucking funny to imagine that basically the entirety of Harlem is racing to try and kill McClane because he's like a nihilist

[Nicol Smith @TheAshenVictor]

RIP to a horror icon with immense screen presence.

[Nicol Smith @TheAshenVictor]

@adashtra @verge @InsertCredit Understandable. Are you a regular on Insert Credit now? You've been great there as a guest on the older episodes I've reached, but I'm catching up to the later ones.

[ToonHive @ToonHive]

Teaser for ‘Scavengers Reign’ Season 2 produced at Green Street Pictures of what was to come if the show had been able to continue.

[Game Developer @gamedevdotcom]

"In any other game, this would just be bad UI/UX. But here, it is essential. The machines' limitations and clunkiness become an antagonist. Each device is method acting, permanently in character."

Inside the vintage horror vibes of Stories Untold

https://t.co/NrPbAlSwF6

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Nicol Smith @TheAshenVictor]

@Kotaku Man, that 2nd place was robbed of the top spot. I can't believe you put a "mostly good" show higher than the single greatest piece of Star Wars media created. A nice list regardless, I haven't seen them all, but I'm tempted to check out the acolyte now.

[Nicol Smith @TheAshenVictor]

@merrittk This, my first Jackie Chan movie, inspired a wild brawl with my friends culminating in a broken window. We were thrilled, mom was not

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

every update to this app, including the latest which prevents you from seeing how many quote tweets there are (making it harder to gauge backlash), feels explicitly designed to soothe the bruised ego of elon musk. he will drive twitter into the ground in an effort to appear liked

[Nicol Smith @TheAshenVictor]

@botherer Such a great horror show, and a lovely write up. Appreciate your point about not all mysteries needing to be solved, I tend to mention that when recommending it. I also like how characters will solve problems by just talking to each other, subverting my expectations repeatedly.

[Nicol Smith @TheAshenVictor]

@TychoBrahe Tried imagining it before clicking but was still surprised. Not disappointed, 10/10.

[Nicol Smith @TheAshenVictor]

@TychoBrahe The first one has the best melding of non-emergent plot and mechanics I've ever experienced in a strategy game.

[Nicol Smith @TheAshenVictor]

@adashtra Now you're on to Saulnier you should check out Blue Ruin. Crushingly bleak deconstruction of so many dad movies' premise. Then wind down with BR star Macon Blair's I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore. A dark comedy with great Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood performances

[Melissa Capriglione @mcapriglioneart]

you look nice today

[Jesse Brenneman @Jesse_Brenneman]

What detractors of free online archives like the Internet Archive don't get is that it's not about getting things for free instead of having to pay for them, it's about the kinds of things that only exist if they are free.

[Dobby Club @DobbyClub06]

timeline cleanse c/o of Plannin' On Scrannin' #MenWithVen

[nolen @itseieio]

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

A thread about my favorite story from running OMCB....

[Granite Man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @GraniteDhuine]

I remember when a computer didn't automatically connect to the internet, it used to make a screaming noise. We should have listened.