Romance is for Losers, and I never Lose!

just watched an interview with james ortiz (rocky’s puppeteer) where he’s like “they were torturing ryan gosling for this movie. it was killing him. he was developing isolation sickness in real life from being the only actor on set for 6 months. i needed to be there for him even when rocky wasn’t in frame to serve as his guiding light and the sole thread tethering him to the concept of love. i was kneeling at the altar” and what

and then in ryan goslings interviews he’s like “i was struggling in the depths of hell. until a beautiful puppeteer angel lifted me up out of the darkness and saved me so completely and understood the character so well we had to make him play the role for real”

multiple people have commented “usually i consider rpf to be morally reprehensible. however in this case it is okay, because it is ryan gosling and a puppeteer, and that’s really fun.”

one thing that absolutely murdered me reading phm was how after grace n rocky separate and head towards to their respective planets, for ages afterwards grace sets aside a brief period each day where he kills the engines on the hail mary so he can fire up the petrovascope and look back at the IR light from rocky's ship. and he does this so consistently that after the taumoeba-burrowing-through-xenonite crisis, he still knows roughly where Rocky's at and that his ship was still functional up until pretty recently, because he's been checking on him every day 😭

Happy 10 year anniversary to this post!

Grabs you by your shoulders you need to get rid of that idea that shipping is always romantic or sexual. You need to think of shipping as an exploration of character, not just the allo-centric view of relationships. No stop leaning in to kiss me. I’m serious stop with the we’re both boys nonsense I’m serious here dude.

The "Breath of the Wild"ification of games nowadays (particularly first party Nintendo games) is legitimately one of the most frustrating trends in all of gaming imo No, I don't want my Metroid game to have shrines in a big wasteland with nothing in it to be more like BOTW. No, I don't want an open world Mario Kart if the actual track design is going to suffer because of it. And certainly no, I don't want games that would work fine if they were linear (or even just open zone instead) being open world for no particular reason. Legitimately it is hard to play any game that comes out these days because everything must be a giant open world with small mini challenges on the map because "Well Breath of the Wild did it! We can too!" No! Stop it! Genuinely please stop! I'm tired of every game being open world! Limitations on what the player can do or where they can go can be a good thing! I will take cohesive level design over massive worlds that have nothing to do in them!