J. Martin

@gyokusai
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All my snark is sincere.

In Europe, Germany, Düsseldorf for the time being.

Writer, Ph.D., Professor of Game Design. Not necessarily in that order. Indie Dev Studio in HK 2006–2010. Twitter veteran JAN 2007—DEC 2022 as gyokusai, movethirtyseven, and newsoftheend.

https://linktr.ee/gyokusai

加油 🇭🇰 🟩 🇺🇦 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌮 🕎 ☮️

Bloghttps://betweendrafts.com
Bookhttps://ludotronics.net
SF Horror Projecthttps://voidpunk.com
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@gyokusai nah, the originals are still genius. This is just shit

Maybe I watched too many cartoons as a kid, and maybe my memory is distorted by nostalgia’s rose-tinted glasses, but this trailer looks like the exact dumb shit a dumbed down movie industry would churn out that I wouldn’t even want to watch if being paid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-43VeYGiPM

#movies

Coyote vs. ACME | Official Trailer

YouTube
You’re never alone in the forest.
Everybody talks about the food pyramid but nobody talks about the food mummy and its terrible curse
“Yet it is not #China that erases #Taiwan, it is us -- the governments, institutions and corporations of the democratic countries who profess to share the same ideals as the Taiwanese people. And we are doing it to placate a Chinese Communist Party that seeks to subsume Taiwan's sovereign democracy.” https://asia.nikkei.com/opinion/china-is-not-erasing-taiwan-we-are

#movie question:

In Resnais’s Last Year at Marienbad’s final shot (hotel going dark) I noticed a shuttle or ambulance enter from the left & stop in front of the hotel. Checked at home the 2018 Studiocanal BluRay, and there it is: 1:33:32 to 1:33:40, after which it immediately cuts to »fin«.

Anyone with illuminating thoughts? (The internet has *nothing*.)

Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains in a single transaction
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/21/almost-half-of-eus-busiest-flight-routes-are-hard-or-impossible-to-book-on-trains-report

#FlightFree #CrossBorderRail

Almost half of EU’s busiest flight routes are ‘hard or impossible’ to book on trains – report

‘Stone age’ system of booking cross-border rail tickets holding back climate action by consumers, says thinktank

The Guardian

The first World Fencing League is happening from April 25th and it will debut this amazing "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event.

Developed by Japanese engineers, and - trust me and watch - it makes fencing simply stunning viewing 🤺

I hear Cook is going to issue pardons to the design team on his last day.