Steven Nguyen Scaife

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Freelance game, movie, & TV critic. Editor for hire. Bylines at Slant Magazine, Polygon, Unwinnable, Fanbyte, Buzzfeed News, etc. He/him.

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I'm sure the reporters who actually cover tech and climate at the WaPo made it clear that posting an AI tool for readers to use to read their climate reporting would look stupid to everyone capable of using it and some dipshit in a tie said "too bad, I'm putting it in my annual self-evaluation"

I reviewed Dandelion for Slant. It's about a musician finding her voice, but it doesn't trust its own imagery to do the talking. But it IS a step up from Holler, which didn't hit me at all for similar reasons despite my familiarity with the Ohio area where it takes place.

'Dandelion' Review: When Words Are Unnecessarywww.slantmagazine.com Around the edges of the central relationship between two musicians, Nicole Riegel's 'Dandelion' is disappointingly diffused.

blaming Denzel for getting me excited about a Gladiator sequel

i would have preferred to get COVID back when i could actually get paid leave for it

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the empire strikes back should've been called star wars 2

too much effort involved so please pretend I photoshopped THE DEVIL'S BATH characters onto the poster for MONSTER-IN-LAW here

was briefly tempted to buy this just to have the greatest tie-in cover of all time

defuse 5 bombs to get 200XP and a hat from Winston Waterboard

It’s like Ubisoft made an entire game out of the concept of tonal conflict

literary cat

houston we are back on adhd meds

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i tried something a little different for VGBees, talking about my time loving and then slowly souring on PACIFIC DRIVE through the lens of its soundtrack

What's a road trip without a killer playlist? @midfalutin.bsky.social chews the tracks that made Pacific Drive in his debut for VGBees. vgbees.com/pacific-driv...

Pacific Drive in Five Songs - VGBeesvgbees.com “Ghost on the Road” by A Shell in the Pit Any road trip can be boiled down to its soundtrack: what playlist you made, what...

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Doctor Juice having like 12 entries in this is appropriate and correct

What's a road trip without a killer playlist? @midfalutin.bsky.social chews the tracks that made Pacific Drive in his debut for VGBees. vgbees.com/pacific-driv...

Pacific Drive in Five Songs - VGBeesvgbees.com “Ghost on the Road” by A Shell in the Pit Any road trip can be boiled down to its soundtrack: what playlist you made, what...

i tried something a little different for VGBees, talking about my time loving and then slowly souring on PACIFIC DRIVE through the lens of its soundtrack

What's a road trip without a killer playlist? @midfalutin.bsky.social chews the tracks that made Pacific Drive in his debut for VGBees. vgbees.com/pacific-driv...

Pacific Drive in Five Songs - VGBeesvgbees.com “Ghost on the Road” by A Shell in the Pit Any road trip can be boiled down to its soundtrack: what playlist you made, what...

went to see A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE and somebody in the front row was taking pictures with a whole-ass camera????

so I'm hearing that the prequel to A Quiet Place in fact does not depict "What is the WEAKNESS" being written on a whiteboard

okay fine I'll be president

my cat's new food bowl is supposedly at The Optimal Height for whisker comfort so of course she refuses to use it

Balatro was actually rated 18+ because the text size is dangerous for children's developing eyes

this is not how sandals work

help

Netflix really dumped Joko Anwar's anthology series with zero marketing huh

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The real conspiracy

does Neo Tokyo ever appear in the anime anthology NEO TOKYO: an investigation

this is partly why I stopped watching MST3K. didn't like the idea of it being my first (and often only) exposure to a lot of weird stuff

POSSESSION prequel that ends with "They've even given it a name: Bob"

ARCTIC EGGS seems neat but I think we should aspire to a better future than one without a spatula

i do not recommend having your mother around when Mads Mikkelsen starts smacking Daniel Craig's balls with a rope

What's the most awkward movie you've watched with your parent(s)? #FilmSky🎥

Undawn star Will Smith to headline Bad Boys movie

if I had a choice, I would perhaps not stake my livelihood on my ability to not be awkward in a job interview

i enjoyed FURIOSA but boy is "we wrote this in order to make FURY ROAD" not the ringing endorsement they think it is?? sometimes when you jettison the world-building Lore, you gotta leave it jettisoned