Call Of Duty Movie Director Previously Called Playing Video Games ‘Weak’ And ‘Pathetic’
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Peter Berg, who is directing the upcoming CoD movie, didn't seem like a fan of video games a decade ago
kotakuvip_feedPeter Berg, who is directing the upcoming CoD movie, didn't seem like a fan of video games a decade ago
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'Recent decisions by WOTC and Hasbro leadership have not aligned with the values of their employees'
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin Smartphone Game Ends Service, Shelves PC Release
Apr. 27th, 2026 05:00 pmanimenewsnetwork_feedGame launched on iOS, Android on February 5
Dell abyss Brian hodge the darker saints ebook vs paperba to k
Apr. 27th, 2026 09:09 pmhorrorlitreddit_feedI started Brian Hodges the darker saints but I was having a hard time reading it due to the small print. I got the ebook version and I noticed the page count got reduced to 360 something from 390 something. I checked the first four chapters and they all started the same,so I'm curious, is there a difference between the two?
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Gido Amagakure's Yurayura Q Manga Ends
Apr. 27th, 2026 04:00 pmanimenewsnetwork_feedSeries debuted in October 2019
The Week In Games: Peak Diablo 4 And The Return Of Heroes Of Might And Magic
Apr. 27th, 2026 08:00 pmkotakuvip_feed
Lord of Hatred might be a high-water mark for Blizzard's action-RPG
I’ve finished Tender is the Flesh
Apr. 27th, 2026 07:14 pmhorrorlitreddit_feedI made a post yesterday asking for your opinions on the book. I finished it this morning and just wanted to share my opinion. I went into this book not knowing anything of it aside from the excerpt it offers. I had no idea this book was popular at some point or overhyped the way others have mentioned. This was a blind read. There are spoilers below.
It was okay. I started out the book enjoying being in the mind of a very indifferent mc but towards the end where he’s having what I guess was a crisis (?), it dragged. It dragged hard. I found myself skipping over paragraphs because of how much I wanted to be done with it already. For it being first person and I’m assuming intentionally written in his indifferent tone, there was no fleshing around his thought process. His decision to sleep with the female. Keeping her, treating her like a pet. Him eating meat for the first time after his son’s death. Things like that I felt could’ve been idkkkkk elaborated on???? It kind of felt as if he was making decisions with no reasoning and just powering through the consequences that follow.
In regards to the horror aspect of it, it’s meh. I understand it being written in the pov of a man who’s just accepting this new world, but it could do with a little beefing around the edges. It was more gore than anything. Not necessarily scary but still horrifying in a cannibal kind of way.
As for the actual plot of the book. There is none. I think this book is very intentionally written to be a window into this man’s mind. Despite the fact that there was no inner turmoil regarding his decisions, the reader is very much just going through the motions alongside MC. There was also an undertone of “the government lied about the virus”. That could’ve been a very big thing to work into the plot, but it’s always just mentioned in the background
The ending, while I didn’t expect it, was okay. I grew accustomed to just accepting whatever decisions mc made for himself because he was so indifferent. I wanted to say the ending was great but it was lackluster. The wife’s reaction threw me for a bit of a loop, though.
Whatever theme this book was going for was completely lost on me. I have no idea why this book was written. I also will not be likely to pick it up again. It’d be interesting to compare the translations because reading the book was a bit off, but I’m not about to drop more money for this.
TLDR it’s a 2/5, not worth the money I paid for it
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A Wizard of Earthsea graphic novel, by Ursula Le Guin, adapted & illustrated by Fred Fordham
Apr. 27th, 2026 12:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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An incredibly beautiful book and a very faithful adaptation. Much of the language is word-for-word from the book. I would happily hang most panels on my wall.
A number of sequences are completely wordless, and while very beautiful I don't think I would have understood what was going on in all of them if I hadn't already read the book. There's also a lot of panels which are extremely dark, so much so that it's hard to tell what's happening. Most of these are indoors. I know there's no electricity but in most of these there is magelight!
Also, the otak is the size of a mouse and looks very much like a mouse. That is too small - in the book it catches a mouse and brings it to Ged, and other people tease Ged that it's a rat or a dog. I pictured it the size of a kitten or squirrel, and looking somewhat like a stockier weasel, or a small wolverine or marten. Definitely not a mouse!
It's always interesting to see other people's visualizations of books. The dragon of Pendor is seen mostly through a thick fog, all glowing eyes and fiery breath and insinuation. The flying creatures that pursue Ged and Serret from the Court of the Terrenon are not monstrous pterodactyls, as I always imagined them, but hideous living gargoyles.
I highly recommend this to anyone who's already read the novel, but I don't suggest reading it instead of or before the novel.
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Valve’s New Steam Controller: The Kotaku Review
Apr. 27th, 2026 07:22 pmkotakuvip_feed
The next piece of gaming hardware from the company behind Half-Life is a fantastic gamepad that ain't cheap
'8th Loop for the Win!' Manga Artist Riku Natsume Launches New Series
Apr. 27th, 2026 03:00 pmanimenewsnetwork_feedSaimu Mahō Shōjo Kureca Riboca debuts on May 22
China kills Meta’s acquisition of Manus as US-China AI rivalry deepens
Apr. 27th, 2026 06:12 pmarstechnica_feedChina has blocked US tech giant Meta’s acquisition of the AI company Manus that was founded by Chinese tech entrepreneurs. That development indicates how difficult it has become for US and Chinese tech companies to strike and sustain such deals as government authorities on both sides take an increasingly hard line amid the deepening US-China AI rivalry.
The Chinese government formally asked Meta to unwind the acquisition on April 27 after deciding to ban foreign investment in Manus based on national security concerns. It had already spent months officially scrutinizing Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus that took place in December 2025—Chinese regulators announced they were reviewing the deal in January 2026 and instructed the two Manus cofounders to not leave China while the investigation was ongoing, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Manus burst onto the scene in March 2025 with its “general AI agent,” designed to help users with tasks such as searching real estate sites for a new home or booking airline tickets and hotels for an international trip. The Manus AI agent is an “agentic wrapper” or “agentic harness” that enables an underlying AI model—in this case, Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet—to take actions to carry out user requests. But Manus actually incorporates multiple AI agents to perform and verify tasks, including a planner agent that assigns tasks and an executor agent that can browse and interact with websites, create spreadsheets, use various software tools, and even code new applications.
Study: Infrasound likely a key factor in alleged hauntings
Apr. 27th, 2026 06:00 pmarstechnica_feedThe next time you walk into a purportedly "haunted" house and sense a ghostly presence, consider that those feelings might be due to vibrating pipes, mechanical or climate control systems, rumbling from traffic, or wind turbines, rather than anything paranormal. That's the conclusion of a new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. All of those are sources of infrasound.
Scientists have long sought to find logical explanations for alleged hauntings. In 2003, for instance, University of Hertfordshire psychologist Richard Wiseman conducted two studies that investigated the psychological mechanisms underlying supposed "ghostly" activity. Subjects walked around Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, England, and the South Bridge Vaults in Edinburgh, Scotland—both with reputations for manifesting unusual phenomena—and reported back on which places at those sites they sensed such phenomena. The subjects reported more odd experiences in places rumored to be haunted, regardless of whether the subjects were aware of those rumors or not.
Those areas did, however, feature variances in local magnetic fields, humidity, and lighting levels, suggesting that such sensations are simply people responding to normal environmental factors. Wiseman hypothesized that stronger magnetic fields may affect the brain, similar to how electrical stimulation of the angular gyrus can make one feel as if there is another person standing behind, mimicking one's movements.
Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review
Apr. 27th, 2026 05:36 pmarstechnica_feedSince time immemorial, serious PC gamers have proselytized about the superiority of mouse and keyboard control schemes over the more input-limited handheld controllers used by most console gamers (and others). In recent years, though, many PC gamers have started keeping a spare Xbox controller (or similar) nearby for the increasing number of PC games designed primarily or exclusively with thumbsticks and buttons in mind.
Valve's upcoming Steam Controller (not to be confused with the 2015 controller of the same name) is the Steam maker's effort to replace those controllers with something more explicitly designed for the PC, and for the upcoming Steam Machine. After spending a few weeks with the controller, though, we're not quite sure it sets itself apart from the competition enough to justify its high $99 asking price.
The rear buttons are pretty perfectly positioned for your middle and ring fingers to rest comfortably.
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There's a nice lip on the shoulder trigger to prevent your finger from sliding off the back.
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The face buttons on the Steam Controller are suitably springy and responsive.
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Baseline quality
From the first time you hold a Steam Controller in your hands, it's clear that this is a well-made piece of hardware. There's a sturdy build quality to all the pieces that makes the controller feel solid in the hand, with just enough heft to feel substantial without being too heavy.
Koji Yamamura's 'Haru no Umi,' More Japanese Short Films Compete at 2026 Annecy
Apr. 27th, 2026 02:00 pmanimenewsnetwork_feedAnnecy International Animation Film Fest will take place in France from June 21-27
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Apr. 27th, 2026 02:36 pmseekingferretPreviously, I've had the theory that if I blogged every day of Daf Yomi I would put more pressure on myself to be consistent, and the exercise would be good for my retention. The latter is probably true, but recently the blogging hasn't seemed to help with consistency, so I didn't try to do any blogging as I studied Masechtos Zevachim and Menachos, the latter of which I am on pace to complete on Thursday. This not blogging approach seems to be working, I've been consistent with my learning since October.
Coming up next, oddly enough, is Chullin, which is placed ironically in Seder Kodashim because it covers the laws of shechittah that more or less apply equally to Kodashim and Chullin.
I learned Chullin last cycle and kept up with my blogging all the way through! So if anyone wants to refer back to all my old nonsense, they can do so. I'm fairly proud of this writing, I think it is funny and curious and smart and approaches the text with appropriate humility.
https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/tag/bt:+chullin
Coming up next, oddly enough, is Chullin, which is placed ironically in Seder Kodashim because it covers the laws of shechittah that more or less apply equally to Kodashim and Chullin.
I learned Chullin last cycle and kept up with my blogging all the way through! So if anyone wants to refer back to all my old nonsense, they can do so. I'm fairly proud of this writing, I think it is funny and curious and smart and approaches the text with appropriate humility.
https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/tag/bt:+chullin
Get Icons!
Apr. 27th, 2026 01:02 pmyourlibrarian1) Anyone notice my shiny new icon? Thanks to soc_puppet's offer to make sheep icons for folks as part of ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
3weeks4dreamwidth I now have one in my favorite colors! And I'm repurposing my old sheep icon for use at tv_talk, which, thanks to seleneheart, I got during a previous 3 Weeks event.
Unfortunately, this meant having to boot some icons I wasn't using as much because my icon storage has been full for some time. But if you've been wanting icons for something in particular, there's a general icon request event going on as well!
2) Saw S1 of the Ipcress File and liked it well enough. I never saw the film but from reading a synopsis of the book and the film it seems that it's kept a lot of the original story, but changed it as well in interesting ways. ( spoilers )
3) I found some information saying that the network wanted to make more of Ipcress Files but that the cast was so busy they couldn't find a way to do so (and presumably still haven't). This is such a curious issue to me that seems to be related to both British TV and the current way contracts are made. ( Read more... )
4) Also saw Tron Ares. There was nothing wrong with the overall premise and plot for the film, and the idea that a tech billionaire might be overselling his capabilities and putting people at risk is, let's say, au courant. But I felt that the good performances within it were wasted because the movie was clearly about the cool toys. ( Read more... )
5) Funny how some shows click immediately and some do not. Because I have AMC+ for a week, we've been barreling through S3 of Dark Winds. Unfortunately not enough time for S4 but we will definitely see it at some point. We saw S1 and S2 a few years ago and always wanted to get back to it.
I tried out Cannes Confidential, and I really wanted to like it. ( Read more... )
On the other hand, London Kills grabbed me at once. Interesting setup and dynamics as well as mysteries in the episodes I've seen so far. I noticed they seem to have Sharon Small in a very similar sort of dynamic as Barbara Havers.
soc_puppet's offer to make sheep icons for folks as part of 3weeks4dreamwidth I now have one in my favorite colors! And I'm repurposing my old sheep icon for use at tv_talk, which, thanks to seleneheart, I got during a previous 3 Weeks event. Unfortunately, this meant having to boot some icons I wasn't using as much because my icon storage has been full for some time. But if you've been wanting icons for something in particular, there's a general icon request event going on as well!
2) Saw S1 of the Ipcress File and liked it well enough. I never saw the film but from reading a synopsis of the book and the film it seems that it's kept a lot of the original story, but changed it as well in interesting ways. ( spoilers )
3) I found some information saying that the network wanted to make more of Ipcress Files but that the cast was so busy they couldn't find a way to do so (and presumably still haven't). This is such a curious issue to me that seems to be related to both British TV and the current way contracts are made. ( Read more... )
4) Also saw Tron Ares. There was nothing wrong with the overall premise and plot for the film, and the idea that a tech billionaire might be overselling his capabilities and putting people at risk is, let's say, au courant. But I felt that the good performances within it were wasted because the movie was clearly about the cool toys. ( Read more... )
5) Funny how some shows click immediately and some do not. Because I have AMC+ for a week, we've been barreling through S3 of Dark Winds. Unfortunately not enough time for S4 but we will definitely see it at some point. We saw S1 and S2 a few years ago and always wanted to get back to it.
I tried out Cannes Confidential, and I really wanted to like it. ( Read more... )
On the other hand, London Kills grabbed me at once. Interesting setup and dynamics as well as mysteries in the episodes I've seen so far. I noticed they seem to have Sharon Small in a very similar sort of dynamic as Barbara Havers.
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Appalachian horror
Apr. 27th, 2026 06:21 pmhorrorlitreddit_feedI’ve been listening to a lot of Appalachian stories recently and would love some good books on the matter
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