Angus Paterson

This is the Screen Rant tribute to horror cinema’s most memorable soundtracks: bit.ly/48LjySV 🎵 Psycho 🎵 Halloween 🎵 A Nightmare On Elm Street 🎵 Tenebrae 🎵 The Thing 🎵 The Shining 🎵 Alien 🎵 Rosemary’s Baby 🎵 Candyman 🎵 Hellraiser

Yes, sure.

🇮🇳 Entitled Indian immigrant decided to leave Germany because she experiences microaggressions, her dreams and hopes aren't fulfilled, and she doesn't feel welcome. Safe journey home, Pooja. ✈️

Epic's Tim Sweeney: "Crash 2.0!" Unity's Matthew Bromberg: "It's all going to be fine"

Being German is to be simultaneously angry about the administrative burden AND angry about people being angry about the administrative burden

Timeline is so full of love for Ridley Scott and the Alien prequels and you truly do love to see it.

"The Odyssey" translator Emily Wilson doubles down on criticizing Christopher Nolan's movie, this time calling it "emotionally empty." “Nolan’s 'Odyssey' is itself a kind of Trojan horse. The script grandly insists on the importance of human kindness, while the camera shows us an entirely different set of values. In these times of hatred and misinformation, we need more than the ‘apparent magic’ of deceptive images. We need art that is truthful about the costs and the necessity of compassion, and that recognizes that a sense of spiritual superiority may not protect us from lies. These lessons are legible in Homer and Virgil, but are elided by Nolan’s visually stunning, emotionally empty film.” “What matters cinematically are the logistics: the rolling of the horse uphill and the claustrophobic, waterlogged interior. Once the ambush of the Trojans begins, the camera lingers repeatedly not on the human actors but on the enflamed, toppling buildings and the great gates of the city, whose slow-moving mechanism is observed at great length. The script tells us loudly that people matter, but the camera shows us that what matters is the mechanical challenge of moving objects through space.” (via The Atlantic) variety.com/2026/film/news/t…

Things no one tells you, breaking up with friends is harder than breaking up with lovers.

Earlier today, Insider Gaming received emails from several Ubisoft employees that two of its studios were shutting down and hundreds of employees would be affected. Subsequently, after corroborating said information, we ran with those stories. This is normal journalism. It's a normal practice - you get news from sources, you corroborate, you try to get a comment from the company, and you publish. After some of these stories went live, Ubisoft contacted us to say that the information was under an embargo (which IG never received), which, frankly, is weird but understandable, since employees should be told first by their employer. However, before each story went live, the affected teams were informed of the impacts, and that's how we found out; it just wasn't a company-wide announcement yet. Sure, there were probably a few people who were affected and didn't know about the layoffs/changes, but it has NEVER been the media's job to protect a company. Developers find out about layoffs all the time via the media, and I even know of instances of journalists pursuing a story, texting/emailing developers BEFORE their dreaded all-hands meeting to say they would be laid off in a matter of hours. The fact is, it is shit to report on layoffs, but ultimately, it's a part of our job. Am I glad we published articles on layoffs today? Hell no. But I am glad that we did what we were supposed to do. Personally, I think as an industry, we're running into quite dangerous ground when we start abiding by embargoes about layoffs, but even more so when we publish the info like we learned info from sources rather than the company itself... But maybe that's just me.

Everyday in this hell of a flatsearch I hear a quite common Berlin flat story - couple broke up months ago but cannot move out because they can't find flats. And the desperation only increases. I think this is a potential startup idea: a flat swap for couples who broke up.

Alien isolation is one of the best horror games ever made. It perfectly captures the vibe of the first alien movie, the sound design is top tier and it’s absolutely terrifying. Everyone should play it.

Someone should create a second Internet without algorithms and ai and other bollocks from the Zuckerberg era onwards.

Is the German Stare normal? This lady stopped deadass with her husband and her baby in the stroller to keep staring at me for like two minutes lmao

There's a lady in here who's really fucking upset because she has one of those spammy recipe websites and was making like $300,000 a year and now since LLMs users can access recipes directly she's not making squat. Apparently she didn't have any readership loyalty at all.

My best guess is that AI is going to soon cause a Deflationary Doom Loop due to the Paradox of Thrift. As chatbots become agents, the layoffs will accelerate and spending behavior will rapidly change for many previously high income workers. In macroeconomics, the Paradox of Thrift states that when everyone tries to save money at the same time, aggregate demand plummets, causing businesses to fail, which drives wages down further, forcing people to save even more. The Physical Labor Glut: As millions of software engineers, lawyers, and corporate managers flood the market for physical jobs (plumbing, electrical work, elder care, construction), supply will vastly outstrip demand. The Wage Floor Collapse: Wages for physical labor will probably crash to subsistence levels—just enough to buy calories and a crowded room. Because humans are panicking and hoarding every spare penny, discretionary spending will probably collapse except for the capital class. "Everything becomes cheap and abundant" is a utopian narrative with one major flaw: The employee class spends most of their money on Rent, Transportation, and Food... Intelligence is not the primary bottleneck for physical resources. AI cannot print more land in desirable zip codes, it cannot bend the laws of thermodynamics to make gasoline infinitely efficient, and it cannot materialize calories out of thin air. It's increasingly hard to fathom a future where 2/3 of the population doesn't become useless eaters.

My best guess is that AI is going to soon cause a Deflationary Doom Loop due to the Paradox of Thrift. As chatbots become agents, the layoffs will accelerate and spending behavior will rapidly change for many previously high income workers. In macroeconomics, the Paradox of Thrift states that when everyone tries to save money at the same time, aggregate demand plummets, causing businesses to fail, which drives wages down further, forcing people to save even more. The Physical Labor Glut: As millions of software engineers, lawyers, and corporate managers flood the market for physical jobs (plumbing, electrical work, elder care, construction), supply will vastly outstrip demand. The Wage Floor Collapse: Wages for physical labor will probably crash to subsistence levels—just enough to buy calories and a crowded room. Because humans are panicking and hoarding every spare penny, discretionary spending will probably collapse except for the capital class. "Everything becomes cheap and abundant" is a utopian narrative with one major flaw: The employee class spends most of their money on Rent, Transportation, and Food... Intelligence is not the primary bottleneck for physical resources. AI cannot print more land in desirable zip codes, it cannot bend the laws of thermodynamics to make gasoline infinitely efficient, and it cannot materialize calories out of thin air. It's increasingly hard to fathom a future where 2/3 of the population doesn't become useless eaters.