Ilandar

I watched 'Mother, Couch' (2023). It starts off as a typical dry and quirky (in that indie film festival kind of way) comedy but becomes something quite serious and contemplative by the end. It is very open-ended by design, which I think put a lot of people off based on their reviews. It's also not funny in a mainstream laugh-out-loud comedy film kind of way, so I think that's another reason why audiences were so split over it. I think it's quite a good film though, definitely worth watching considering its short runtime.

Makoto Shinkai films are much more about the overall experience, rather than the details I think. They always have this very strong bittersweet/poignant element running through everything (visuals, music, story) that leaves me with this very odd feeling afterwards. Japanese cinema in particular has this wonderful ability to subtly convey very complex emotions to the viewer so that you get to the end of a film and realise you have tears in your eyes without really understanding how or why they got there.

On the bright side, your pile of shame is now so big that you can live in it and avoid buying a house!

Possibly, although it hasn't stopped people from doing it in the past.

Thankfully I have so many games on my Switch that I am yet to finish or even start that I have absolutely zero desire to buy a Switch 2 and deal with this problem. Never been so grateful for my pile of shame lol

We didn’t buy most games when I was a kid, we rented them.

Many people still rent games, for even cheaper then they did back then. Xbox Gane Pass and similar services are popular for a reason.

You fanboys get so weirdly defensive whenever someone even slightly pushes back at this conspiracy narrative you're trying to push. Almost as if part of you knows your "evidence" is nowhere near as solid as you pretend.

Ah, so the monobrow photo is after the security cam photos. How interesting that you tried to avoid telling me this the first time around.

I like that there's an option to play the original version now. My problem with Zelda remasters is that they're not always a great representation of the quality of the game at release. This is obviously not an issue for most people, but when I'm going back and playing Zelda games I missed at release I like to judge them on their original design because that's how I judged every other Zelda game I did play at release.

Ah yes, the "different nose" which is mostly obscured in the top photos and has a giant red circle covering it in the bottom photo.

When was the bottom photo taken?

It’s a monarchy really

Yes, this is actually a much more helpful way to think about Trump's approach to presidency. Here is Dr David Smith from the United States Studies Centre explaining this in a recent episode of PEP (excellent in-depth American politics podcast from Australia).