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Westin Lee webzone

[videogameads]

SUPER ALESTE Toho Super Famicom 1992

Ask me anything!

[westinlee]

SPACE MEGAFORCE! Presented by Toho.

[jeffgerstmann]

Oh! Hmm.

[westinlee]

That stupid bug can't stop won't stop on my iPad also

[keaneoncomics]

Spider-Gwen by Bruce Timm!

[brianmichaelbendis]

Bendis, how do you deal with the soul crushing thought that your work is terrible and people will hate it? Or should I just have another beer?

don’t EVER have another beer and get back to work.

 EVERYONE has soul crushing thoughts that your work is terrible and people will hate it but you have to remember that everyone of your heroes, any one you’ve ever admired, has pushed past that so they could create something.

if you write honestly and truly create something that you yourself would buy the rest will fall into place. 

 and if not you will pick yourself up off the floor, dust yourself off, and start over again.

 standing in your own way is the easiest thing you can do. anyone can do that. most people do. so why don’t you be one of the other people.

[lierdumoa]

I just wanted these in one place.

[mckelvie]

god beyonce as new captain of the enterprise please 

[radiomaru]

Attention: Everyone

[jeffgerstmann]

GitS is a hard film to really understand until you've seen other Mamoru Oshii movies. I don't mean this in an "you fucking idiot how can you not get this way", I mean it in a "this guy is weird and tells weird stories in strange ways". Try Jin Roh!

I wouldn’t really call it hard to understand, though it’s probably easier to come to terms with these days, since the whole “where does humanity end and technology begin?????” concept is everywhere. Maybe that was harder to grasp and felt more “special” 20 years ago.

I think it’s got a good setting and potentially interesting characters, which… means I’m probably going to have try the fucking TV series now. Crap.

[westinlee]

Stand Alone Complex is basically a sci-fi police/espionage procedural. I think it's way easier to watch these days than the films.

[westinlee]

JUST KIDDING

Merry Christmas, guy!

[westinlee]

Uh yes Piper? Can I help you?

[westinlee]

"When you say his name, you give him what he wants."

Jeff Gerstmann of Giant Bomb fame said that in this week's (?) Bombcast, in reference to a certain popular online pharmaceuticals villain. I found his unwillingness to name drop said person pretty wise, and something I'd like to perpetuate, for that guy and for others like him. We don't need many of the things we have, and that especially applies to information. Next time some bit of Internet riles you up, maybe ask yourself, "does this have absolutely any impact on my life?" I bet the answer is no. Anyway, let's see what's happening at Gawker.

[westinlee]

I played Cibele

It's super interesting. I'll write about it later.

[westinlee]

Quake on GearVR

It's cool and immediately clear what people have been saying about normal FPS controls in VR. I get it now!

[jeffgerstmann]

Is the Gear VR anything cool? You guys don't seem to mention it much, even though it's been released.

No idea, I don’t have whatever phone you need to have to use it.

[westinlee]

Also it's hard to get video off that thing now.

Source: I bought one (it is cool)

[westinlee]

庵野秀明×樋口真嗣のゴジラ！『シン・ゴジラ』特報

東宝が12年ぶりに製作する『ゴジラ』最新作。 http://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0020635 配給：東宝 ©2016 TOHO CO., LTD. 公式サイト：http://shin-godzilla.jp/

Anno Hideaki is directing the new Godzilla movie? Whaaaaat?

[westinlee]

Wait did you see that?!

[westinlee]

What is sports?

Help

[westinlee]

Helldivers is fun, and a Starship Troopers homage, and very cruel. I spend a lot of time cape spinning with strangers. As you do. Anyway, it's on Steam now. Because PC eventually gets all games. I wonder if Until Dawn will make the jump...

[westinlee]

Why Kilgrave is Scary

Finished Jessica Jones last night. I’m very happy Netflix is doing Marvel shows.

What I’m struck most by in JJ is how absolutely terrifying Kilgrave is. I’ve seen villains I love to hate (Prince Joffrey, Dolores Umbridge), but it’s rare for a genre thing to dish out a truly terrifying villain. The reason why? JJ does something genre fiction rarely does nowadays:

Kilgrave uses his powers on ordinary people, in ordinary places.

The guy doesn’t terrorize an entire city to make some abstract point about humanity. He doesn’t exist in some Norse sci-fi dimension. He’s a dude that goes into people’s homes and uses them until they die. Every one of his victims is a home invasion movie where the protagonists have no hope of escape.

And it’s not like there’s some grand scheme he’s up to. He just wants what he wants - power, women, riches. Villains in genre fiction have long been up to things so huge and abstract that they can’t make us feel vulnerable.* Who cares that Loki wants to take over the Earth? How does that relate to me? It doesn’t. 

But Kilgrave could show up at my door, and my life instantly twists into a nightmare.

*For the most egregious offenders of scope creep, watch some spy movies. Their cat-and-mouse scenarios with secret bases and huge action sequences are so far outside of normalcy that when they say they’re ‘saving the world,’ it sounds like hand waving. What world? There’s not a single moment in any Bond film that is relatable to anyone viewing it. Unless you hang out on a beach and have sick abs.

That’s not to say spy films don’t rule. They just can’t justify their worlds anymore.