rj

rj

@rj.dcellgames.com

(as in rj lake) direction + writing + trailers + voice direction + "running comms" for UNBEATABLE at @dcellgames.com also OST + SFX + VO direction for I AM YOUR BEAST, EL PASO ELSEWHERE, TMNT, SPACE WARLORD ORGAN TRADING SIM ++ (rj @ dcellgames . com)

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the umurangi generation joke in penguin colony got a gut laugh out of me but i gotta know do the pictures go anywhere

i'm sorry but if you're calling it a "launch trailer" it can't be over a month to go until the game comes out. i'm already irritated when people do that the day before, much less a week, MUCH less THIS. a launch trailer is for the LAUNCH, what are we doing with our words

tentatively very excited for gerwig's narnia. only narnia people talk about is the original trilogy but the best narnia books are nephew, horse, and silver chair and so help me god if we get a trilogy of those three i'll be over the moon. trailer is weird but barbie was good enough to give me hope

nephew is basically two kids showing up to fucking carcosa for the first half. lewis had a real mean cosmic horror streak running through a lot of the less discussed books. the desolation of charn makes it an incredible, terrifying book to read as a kid and i like it much more than tltwatw

also relevant to all the control resonant stuff being in the air lately ofc. nephew has to have been an influence on that

now it might just be because i'm playing on Nightmare but Silver Pines' first boss is one of the funniest and longest and easiest fights in any recent game i can think of. the combat is extremely terrible (complimentary/hilarious)

five minutes of doing nothing but jumping back and forth and hitting r2 over and over and over

the issue with letterboxd is i don't really watch that many bad movies because i don't have that much time and my gut judgement of whether or not to see a film has served me well over the years. what this means is almost all my reviews are too high. curve is overinflated because i'm smart and cool

if i think about this too hard it's going to make me chase more bad movies. i can't decide if this is a good thing for me or not. i used to be willing to watch way more bad movies (esp in college) but that was before i had deadlines. now i play bad games instead, because i'm a time genius

experiencing bad art is extremely valuable if you engage with it honestly and there's always beauty and grace in it. and who doesn't love a trip to da movies. and also sometimes a movie just surprises you. but it's the lack of time that's the killer

arrived in Ireland and have met the ai generated six sevening airport bunny named Dubby, defined by his famous catchphrase

lady in front of me on the plane was watching avatar, which is already funny to contemplate as that's a movie defined by its presentational technicianship more than anything else, but she then got to the scene where jake sully gets permanently bodyswapped over and she shook her head and cut it there

the idea that this is the first time she's seen this, somehow, and it was this way, on the tiniest screen ever, and that was the moment she was like "no" is really good. full marks

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it's obvious a huge part of the film not hitting is in huge part due to the marketing, even if O Green World is the perfect song to pair with the movie thematically. i can't help as a trailer guy but think "how the hell DO you make this into a trailer?" because so much of the film is uncondensable

the main instincts would be that you maybe either give away a huge part of the conceit of the film (which likely gets more people interested in seeing it but hurts the first watch experience) or you blender cut it, do the propulsive a24 imagery assault (so much of the imagery hits more in context)

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also this and primetime are fucking BATTLING for film score of the year. and that's in a year where we got what we got with the odyssey. some incredible music at the movies lately

digger is the first successful dr. strangelike ever made. how i learned to stop worrying and love the storm

as i was walking out of the coffee shop just now i overheard the mba guy staring into the corner on his call say "see, i'm a CAPITALIST socialist. and that's crazy, because..." and it took everything in me to not walk right back in that door to just hear what the hell the next part of that could be

the reason people used to love twitter is twitter spiritually was forums, and then it stopped being forums and they hated it but everyone was there. bluesky is, despite everything, forums right now, but the bluesky team is trying really hard to skip the step of people loving it

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I have opinions on how things are handled but I’d rather just promo the fundraiser, we have raised 550 dollars so far! We are sending stickers out to ppl who donate Silence is complicit, the latina community feels very abandoned by the lack of even “yeah thats not us” bsky.app/profile/r0tt...

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Helping the Defending Our Neighbors Fund! Hey, it’s me! One of the gay little people in your phone! My friend Mandy and I have put together an incentive for people to donate to the Defending Our Neighbors Fund! The Fund aims to raise and deploy 30 million dollars to organizations that provide…