The Lurkdragon's Lair

Step 1: See a greatest hits CD from America at the new Pilot in town

Step 2: ALL THE CHILDHOOD FEELS

Step 3: Plan to buy like everything the band did next paycheck or seven

Step 4: Remember that America did the soundtrack for The Last Unicorn

Step 5: ALL THE ADULTHOOD FEELS BECAUSE YOU MISSED THAT MOVIE AS A KID

Step 6: Plan to look for and/or start a blog dedicated to awesome oldschool chimeric unicorns, none of these horses with narwhal tusks stapled to their heads (except perhaps on special occasions)

…ok

hyrulechozo:

Video essay on games as art

Very nice video essay. Many good points.

I’ve often said that playing retro games - while one of my favourite things - can be a bit like trying to read Chaucer in the original Middle English, and that’s one thing this touches on.

historical-nonfiction:

David O. Selznick was fined $5,000 for the line “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” in Gone with the Wind (1939).

That awkward moment when a film says “‘based on a true story” and it breaks your bullshit meter so spectacularly that you can’t enjoy the damn thing even if it’s otherwise good:

(via crystalsoul16)