James Ball

jamesrball.com

20 June 2025 07:40

“The eruption of campus and middle-class protest in recent years has little to do with the serious underlying issues, and has done virtually nothing to help address any of them” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-m...

Stephen Bush

stephenkb.bsky.social

15 June 2025 11:45

Thought-provoking look at how so many games struggle to depict sex well. (In blockbuster gaming, I don't think Final Fantasy X has been equalled or surpassed in the twenty-four years since)

Stephen Bush

stephenkb.bsky.social

15 June 2025 11:45

I disagree that technical limitations have been the problem: quite the reverse, good artistic depictions of sex are about desire. The era of “dialogue and a discretion shot” captured that better than “frequently gross and bizarre looking scenes” that western blockbuster games are now lousy with:

CJ Lemire

cjlemire.com

15 June 2025 11:41

💯 The increasing ease of depicting the graphic aspects has led to creators losing sight of the centrality of desire. Hitchcock got closer to it with a fade to black and a clip of a train running through a tunnel.

In Otter News

in-otter-news.bsky.social

09 June 2025 07:33

Shower time!