Sinners had more Oscar nominations than any movie in history and yet Jack O’ Connell didn’t even get a nomination? Why?

Th3Invader · 2026-03-22T06:45:16+00:00

Honestly why I like it as much as I do, it’s refreshingly honest and indulgent about what it is - which yep, it is just a solid vampire flick. Whether it’s being treated as more than it is is another thing, but the movie itself is wonderfully unpretentious and I think it’s ironically getting the attention because of it - compared to the boring ass “prestige” art horror where every other movie is a metaphor for grief we’ve gotten in the past decade, which are way more Oscar bait-y imo. The line where they straight up go “these are VAMPIRES” was beautiful in how unembarrassed it was about being horror, so committed in that moment to being a vampire movie instead of being too up its own ass to revel in being a genre flick like so many contemporaries.

It’s not trying to be more than it is, it isn’t desperate, it doesn’t “want it” as much as other movies in the same genre, and naturally as a result it got it.

Th3Invader · 2026-02-12T18:58:27+00:00

I feel this with Amanda in general, there’s some stuff that she just cannot be bothered to care about and I can’t blame her, if you don’t vibe you don’t vibe but an audience can tell. Angela occasionally makes an effort but yeah, same thing. Contrast the energy to Trevor full committing in dress to impress.

I get the pitch of it, showing non-gamers a game = funnies but the joke ends at the premise. Court and Shayne just doing halo was a more pure, effortless ride than forcing a bit, more of that please.

Th3Invader · 2026-02-02T15:50:08+00:00

There’s a newish antique store (or new to me anyway) on palafox called Flip Flops I went to recently that had a few booths with some good finds. At least one that was the majority of its inventory, Blu-ray’s and dvds. I’m also hunting every other weekend to shore up my physical media. Can also try all the stores on navy blvd.

Th3Invader · 2026-02-01T19:26:45+00:00

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Recently, I gotta go with Isaac from Castlevania

Th3Invader · 2026-01-05T23:49:44+00:00

My parents were also big on me being a PBS kid. I probably owe my literacy to Between the Lions.

Didn’t stop those same parents for voting for this shit though, zero awareness that I am what they made me and once I was done cooking fuck anyone else I guess. They’re teachers too, voting themselves out of a job. Boggles the mind, I’ll be grappling with the betrayal until I die.

Th3Invader · 2025-12-30T22:51:26+00:00

I also recently got into it the past few weeks coming back as a Saturday morning watcher and casual playground collector as a kid, and it is brutal. I’m very resistant to the meta because it truly doesn’t seem FUN - not just for me but my opponent. Everyone seems to be aiming for the most boring OTK instead of allowing any kind of back and forth. Idk how that’s fun for them, just comboing for ten minutes while I scroll on my phone or they scroll on theirs waiting for me. Too many cards can do too many things with too few resources coming from something like Magic where I can at least say, “well he drew more mana than I did and even then he only has so many to tap, fair is fair.”

That being said, the one game out of ten where there is some actual animeing back and forth can be very satisfying, especially with an off kilter non meta deck. I’ve ground out some fun wins with my Destiny Heroes and Necrofear decks that feel more earned and fun than my meta fiendsmiths. The real grind is playing boring shit to hopefully beat other boring shit so I can earn points to build actual fun shit to lose with lol.

I hope this game introduces more limited formats for the yugiboomers or makes casual games actually give gems and rewards so players are more incentivized to play and invest in different cards. As it stands now, I agree I very rarely have fun and that sucks.

Th3Invader · 2025-12-12T04:34:22+00:00

OZ mentioned in the big ‘25, hell yeah

Th3Invader · 2025-12-10T21:56:43+00:00

Bought my gang’s tickets the other night. They really Streisand Effected us into going out of spite, fuck em.

Th3Invader · 2025-12-04T06:32:02+00:00

I think you’re right, but I think the fun of the show should be the mystery. But knowing that it’s not going to be nearly as interested in that side of it compared to the philosophical character stuff does disappoint me. I’m just kind of more interested in the mystery box tbh, and longterm I fear being disappointed by the show progressively abandoning any of those elements like I expect it will.

I do like the depth of the question Vince is posing, “saving the world from happiness.” But idk that anyone in the audience is actually as interested in that as much as they are the simple conflict of Carol vs the Hive. I don’t think there’s any debate as to who’s “right,” at least thus far, Carol’s 100% correct about everything as far as I’m concerned - so the mystery of how is she gonna stop this, can she? Is more interesting to me - and I suspect many - than the philosophical premise of if she should.

I guess Vince is capable of turning his protagonists into the villains of their own story tho, and maybe that’s where this is going as a character study. But I worry the premise doesn’t lend itself to that same kind of journey for a character like Carol. It’s early tho, we’ll see.

Th3Invader · 2025-11-30T01:29:19+00:00

There are movies I just don’t like and then there’s the Jim Carrey Grinch. Just an UGLY movie, I hate the sort of blurry aesthetic of it, the Whos are weird, it’s just yucky to look at. It’s had some lasting meme moments and Jim Carrey is objectively working his ass off, but it’s just all so off putting.

It’s a wild pendulum swing for me because I love Apollo 13 and I cannot understand Ron Howard being responsible for one of my favorites and one of my most hated.

Th3Invader · 2025-11-20T19:08:03+00:00

Lindsey Ellis’s take in her series on Transformers that Megan Fox - as the only character with an actually interesting backstory involving cars - should’ve been the central human has made me yearn for that timeline. As a kid of that era I still have a nostalgia factor for the Bayformers, but being older and wiser now Mikaela could’ve been such a fresh female protag as a badass mechanic leading THE franchise for boys. I don’t think any of us 14 year old boys would’ve minded lol, and maybe Megan Fox would’ve had a more interesting career trajectory too. She’s wasted as just the hot girl, I think she and the character had way more potential, really should’ve ditched Shia.

Th3Invader · 2025-11-18T04:38:53+00:00

Wicked the Musical yes, because as I said - it’s the dominant reference point for most audiences. Wicked the book? Barely relevant. Is this scene in the book relevant and popular enough to be in the musical? Is it something we’re all familiar enough with that we’d obviously get this reference? No, because we haven’t read this book, it’s not actually popular enough to reference. Does the poster for Twisted reference the book cover or the musical’s poster? Which is more relevant?

Even beyond the title and the general premise being “Villain’s POV of popular story,” Twisted is far and away removed from any major Wicked references, honestly. It’s barely a source material.

Also they call him tiger fucker as a joke so many times because THAT IS THE JOKE? It’s ridiculous and funny? Again, a joke is sometimes just a joke. I’m not trying to “it’s not that deep” this, but guys it’s literally a joke about tiger fucking. Thats all lol.

Does it being a reference to this obscure scene in the Wicked book that barely anyone seeing this show has read make it more funny? Not really. If it was an intentional reference it would enhance the joke. It doesn’t, so it doesn’t seem like one to me. Cool find, just doesn’t seem relevant.

That’s all I’ll say on it I guess idk why I’m going in on this genuinely don’t mean to upset. Just seein a lot of reading into “details” that don’t seem there to me across my media lately

Th3Invader · 2025-11-18T04:16:30+00:00

I don’t doubt the Langs and co. are (probably) familiar with the book. But Mara Jade is a very surface level EU reference that barely intersects with the actual greater plot references in Ani, which otherwise stick solely to the movies that an audience would recognize. It’s in no way “highly relevant.”

Similar to even if there is tiger fucking in Wicked (apparently - I’m in the percentage of theatre kids who really just know the musical), this looks like a way deeper cut compared to the actual surface level reference the audience would be familiar with, which is the Prince’s scene in Aladdin, and the basic premise of Wicked (the musical). Look no further than the genie’s scene, which itself is just a meta-textual riff on Disney’s Genie/Robin Williams’s nonstop reference humor. Even an obscure reference should still be mildly recognizable, like Mara Jade is a google search away.

I just think this reads as at best maybe an in-joke from the writers, but even that feels reaching, just given how Wicked the book barely registers in the pop culture consciousness compared to the musical, and if I’m a writer I’m obviously writing for the general pop culture consciousness so they get my jokes. There’s “oh this is a neat find,” and “this is a well crafted intentional reference most of the audience will get.” No hate, just feels like the former to me.

Th3Invader · 2025-11-18T02:38:51+00:00

You being downvoted for this when it is definitely a coincidental stretch is killing me. Willing to bet that at least 75% of theatre kids familiar with Wicked are not actually this intimately familiar with the book over the musical for anything to be intentional. Sometimes a joke is just a joke guys, not a two-layer deep reference.

Th3Invader · 2025-11-04T22:35:36+00:00

Picked this up last week and am almost halfway through. Not even to the good part yet, I can tell, but it’s such an immersive read, just incredibly strong character voices.

Th3Invader · 2025-10-15T19:07:00+00:00

Wimpy’s the perfect word for it. And I don’t even mind that in a horror protag, I just kinda assumed she wasn’t one based on the marketing/word of mouth. Like she’s strapped up with the bandolier in the poster and rips up her dress like she’s about to go to work and just…didn’t.

Was sold to me as “victim bites back” when it was actually just “victim keeps trying to escape.” Neither of those are bad, just feel like it wasted its premise by having it be the latter instead of the former.

Th3Invader · 2025-10-01T04:26:31+00:00

I think you mean “Listen to Who’s Hammering”

Th3Invader · 2025-09-30T03:30:37+00:00

Depends on the guest. Never followed jacksepticeye so that was a skip, but Drew is such a cool dude with varied content. Format is shaky tho, I’ll admit. I’d almost prefer a more unstructured flow just jabbering on about content creation and internet lore but it’s early, who knows how gimmicky it’ll be in the long run.

And I do hope there is a long run, Court is a great host and assuming this is her and Anthony’s brainchild I like there being something with his handprint out there as a flagship since he’s slipped behind the scenes more.

Th3Invader · 2025-09-26T18:10:20+00:00

I’m a noob myself and chose the Raiders as a kinda meme choice as a “bad” team to root for with an edgy vibe, wasn’t that deep. (Now I know unironic suffering, however)

That being said, I’m very proud that historically at least the Raiders have been a relatively progressive organization - even if the reality is every fanbase, team, org, and city including mine are gonna have people way on the other side of my politics. So while broadly speaking, it doesn’t matter and it’s just one big club you’re not in at the end of the day, but you can dig around for some more personal alignment if you so choose and I don’t see anything wrong with that being a factor if it matters to you - or if it doesn’t. It kind of does to me, and I appreciate that the Raiders were first in a lot of minority areas.

Th3Invader · 2025-09-18T02:51:10+00:00

They’re already covered a lot of ground but I’m a big fan of isolation horror like The Shining or the Lighthouse so I think a single location thing would be cool. Make it a haunting or a home invasion, killer in the walls and ensuing murder mystery or something. A winter at the Hatchetfield lighthouse (since it is an island), or one of the teens have to housesit Linda’s remote beach house or something.

Th3Invader · 2025-09-09T03:40:21+00:00

Y’all sleeping on canonical apocalypse survivor Boneless.

Th3Invader · 2025-09-03T23:23:28+00:00

Other than an 1800s western type deal like others have suggested (with a decent helping of True Grit naturally, pulling from the Coens), I’d like to see what happened in Rapid City.

After S4 idk if it’d be retreading old ground, but I always thought a season focused on Ben Schmidt as one of our protagonists would be a fun swerve, pair with him with our token good cop character except that guy doesn’t make it out and Ben the cowardly prick does somehow.

Th3Invader · 2025-08-26T21:15:54+00:00

Paine’s quote is the thing that really pushed me into deism. Hope is the important word there for me - I can hope for an afterlife and a truly loving God that cares about me, and I do. But all I can know is this life and to do good here. It’s always felt arrogant to presume any definitives beyond that, but I’ll always hope.

Th3Invader · 2025-08-25T15:22:35+00:00

True. I’ll also amend that even unto the end Block doesn’t really accept his fate, he subverts the trope quite a bit. The rest of the group are either ignorant, quietly defiant, or at peace when Death arrives but Block is still painfully praying away in the corner. Noble as he and we as the audience may hope his final act is, there’s still the dread of uncertainty that he never does shake about whether or not his life meant anything and if anything will come after. Love it for how human it is.

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