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Genuinely such a random cameo cause usually it's character that kids might recognize but instead it's fucking Nite Owl.

For the those who don't know the folk tale, the red oni and blue oni lived alone near the village. The red oni wanted to make friends with the villagers but were scared off everytime the red oni appeared. The blue oni devised a plan to get the villagers to not run away from the red oni. The blue oni would stage an attack on the village and the red oni would pretend to fight him off. The plan worked, but there was a catch; the blue oni would have to leave the red oni forever in order to fool the villagers. The red oni in fiction tropes represents wild passion and impulsiveness, while the blue oni represented cunning introversion.

Sinners adapts a more fucked up version of this tale where the villagers are the monstrous ones, violently assimilating all in their path. Stack (red oni) initially expresses curiosity towards the new strangers. When turned, like with the rest he is seemingly happy to join the villagers (vampires). Smoke (blue oni) dies by the end of the film, but not after letting Stack remain a vampire, Stack gets what he wants; but with the cost of losing Smoke forever. Both Smoke and the blue oni's sacrifice are viewed as heroic. They both selflessy ruined themselves for the sake of their brother (in Smoke's case a lot more than just one friend cause he shot up the KKK) however the twist in Sinner's version is that Stack will forever indulge in the toxic assimilation that plagues the themes of Sinners.

This is a rant post

I wasted four years of my life cooking and cleaning just to get paid less than 20k a year (edit: last year I was paid only $10,000), never getting a permanent job. I fucking hate this job market so much someone free me from this hell. A week ago I spent my entire morning cooking for an employer in a "trial interview", leaving everything perfect just to get left on read when I ask "Have you hired someone yet." All of your choices effect my life, have the smallest amount of respect and just tell me you chose someone else. Every employer, EVERY EMPLOYER treats employees like their life isn't dependent on their fucking choices. I need you all to wake up and act like it, be a decent hiring manager and communicate with potential hires. Tell them whether or not they got the job when you see their message because YOU ARE WASTING THEIR FUCKING TIME.

Circus Baby would make for a killer that could insta pick up a survivor after a single hit, using her stomach hatch to suck in a lone survivor. Shiromiku could be a more mobile killer, using her flowers to trap survivors, the servant could have a status effect related to sanity. Then Jack Baker could function as a more traditional slasher, maybe having an ability that allows him to walk through wall and pallets like that famous scene in RE7. Finally Kayako just has so many strange abilities that could be used in DBD, dragging people into the darkness, enveloping them in black fog, time travel.

Fuck Activision for gutting Beenox's Spider-Man series in favor of movie tie-ins.

It's probably one of the most well aged PS1 games and it layed the foundation for many different action game tropes and mechanics. It was one of the few games that'd autosave mid level, it introduced popular 3D action game boss archetypes, built mechanics that'd still be prominent in games moving forward, and had an accessibility mode all the way back in the year 2000. Its set pieces were genuinely years ahead of its time and would only eventually be topped by the release of Uncharted.

It's the grandfather of 3D action games alongside Tomb Raider as the grandmother. It's general lack of popularity may be because it was considered a children's game but a lot of the roots in modern 3D action games started with this one.

Her name is Roderika.

I know it's kinda unfair for Insomniac Spidey since the other two lean towards God of War/DMC style gameplay but it's still a good beat em up.

Edit: (I realize this has started a bit of an argument over what is and isn't a character action game. To me a character action game is a catch all term for games that focus on a combo based melee oriented combat system that tie in strong character archetypes with stylish fighting that normally avoids the use of a lock on or methodical movement. You can disagree with me all you like but that's just how I see it and all these games fit the bill for my personal definition.)

Been on a little bit of a horror binge but I'm willing to go back to comedy or action at the drop of a Bloodborne-ish hat. These have been sitting in my backlog for a long while.

1: GOAT is a really good animated movie that suffers from an issue a lot of recent animated films have been suffering which is pacing that is specifically designed for toddlers who watch the movie while on youtube. It has some funny jokes, and some stellar sports action scenes that really play around with animal biology. The characters are well thought out and I feel like they're just fun to watch (especially Modo). Good film but it's not the GOAT

2: Night of the Living Dead is flat out the most revolutionary horror film of all time, compared to variants of the genre even spanning decades ahead it was ahead of its time. The protagonist Ben is a legend and I really wished he lived.

3: I rewatched The Lego Ninjago Movie for the second time ever recently. I didn't think much of it back when it first released but now I think it stands alongside The Lego Movie in terms of comedy and character writing. The writing is surprisingly mean spirited for a 2017 children's movie

4: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, for the first time ever I watched this classic. I am a little squeamish about realistic torture so I was kinda hesitant, it was tamer than I thought it'd be and I just couldn't be scared. I don't exactly know why, I feel like it's because the characters aren't putting up enough of a fight throughout the movie. Usually when Leatherface gets up close it's over from the jump. There is a lot of tension, but I feel like they lose it way too fast when the killer is really efficient and the victims are kinda dumb. Otherwise this film is beautiful and entertaining, I felt sympathetic towards the main cast and that ending was spectacular.

What's funny is that the Grace sections of RE9 are genuinely 10/10 some of the best moments in the franchise, and then it gets completely compromised by Leon's segment. The story comes to a screeching halt as the narrative intrigue is completely tied to whether Grace is on screen. Leon's appeal as a character just isn't there either, its worsened by the fact that I'm not attracted to men so half his appeal is just gone. This game was pretty good, but nostalgia held it back. It's kind of the opposite for 007 though, everytime nostalgia is a factor in this game it's written to push the game forward and pay respect to the films, books, and video games it's based on, rather than being used as a ten minute bit of fan service. Despite the constant gameplay changes everything remains consistently well made. I really liked both of these game but with RE9 I was disappointed while with 007 I was appointed and very impressed.

I'm sure something will release this year that beats out both of these titles, I kinda struggle with remembering what games are coming out this year but I'm super excited for the Avatar fighting game, I kinda don't have any high hopes for GTA VI since Rockstar never really improves and just sort of does the exact same job but bigger each time. As much as I like Nightreign, Duskbloods is coming out on a console I'm not able to afford. Galactic Racer looks like the Burnout game I've been praying for. New indie titles like Sprawl: Zero and Mina The Hollower are super promising. Honestly I'm just hoping something pops up an impresses me cause I feel like this is an extremely tame year if you aren't a Rockstar super fan. Especially following the last two years where so many weird and interesting titles along with franchise come-backs released.