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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

8 months

How far are you willing to go to get ahead? Proud to present our trailer for Happy Traveler.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

9 months

Laughing at the Cybertruck interior having apparently no real airbags and apparently being composed of a solid block of marble.

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@Michigrimk

3 years

Movies aren’t too long. Social media just fried your attention span

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You’re gonna die of a fractured skull if you slam on the breaks.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

9 months

There are fictional cars that are safer than this.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

I worked for an AI company early last year. I quit because they expected me to lie to the customers about what their software was actually capable of.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

9 months

@scriptz4sale Wave goodbye to your passenger’s frontal lobe!

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

People forget that Ellen Ripley being the protagonist of Alien is actually a twist that got lost with the knowledge of subsequent movies. Sigourney Weaver wasn't a big star when she signed on to that role.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

Love that old PC commercials supposed a world in which the proper place for your PC was a mysterious room in a void with checkerboard floors bordered by columns

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

9 months

@ATM09Scopedawg @docsquiddy Either way it’s absolute shit design.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

2 years

Oh. Landed a writing gig.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

@xtinatucker The other day I saw someone comment how a certain author should have “Gone to Therapy” based on a book he wrote in the 1950s when electroshock and lobotomies were common and there was a huge stigma against getting treatment for mental illness.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

2 years

The worst part of pitching projects is when people ask you to lay out your trauma to justify why you are the best person to tell the story. No wonder so many writers are in therapy.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

@brendengallager People forget that in order to get the “Hollywood look” on a small camera you still gotta spend money on locations and crew to get it competitive in the film festivals.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

That’s what I’m worried about with AI right now. It clearly doesn’t work the way people say it does and the examples that do work are cherry picked to play to it being terrible at rendering movement.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

9 months

@felicia_hart13 If it’s durable and dense that might be at odds with avoiding head injury.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

It 100% was a pivot to video scheme like Facebook pulled The kind that killed a certain kind of journalism to sell a service that didn’t actually work.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

I often think about one of the reasons why South Korea has such a vibrant film scene is that in the 1990s the U.S. State Department and Hollywood lobbied for the killing of SK’s domestic screen quota and their guilds pushed hard back against it.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

But anyway a lot of these AI companies are relying on technobabble to obfuscate that computer learning can be stupidly dumb at times with relatively simple concepts and while it has gotten good at building profiles for advertisers it hasn’t gotten good at cracking emotion.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

You know, the thing that’s vital to storytelling? You can’t plug in feelings. It might figure out surface level aesthetics but it can’t tell the intention behind them.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

5 years

@baddestmamajama @potato_shaped An underappreciated line is "As a self made man myself I really admire you for following in your father's footsteps"

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

It was even bad at box office projections. They expected us to sell this to studio execs who don’t understand they are being conned.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

9 months

@readfryeye Check this official website under versatile utility

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

But the software fixates on center straight on framing, not his hand trucked dolly shots or when he plays with light like this shot from Grand Budapest.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

9 months

You could do this by photographing a bunch of the actors and actresses in suits from Disneyland and it would have more personality and emotion than the blank eyed stares I see before me.

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

9 months

Disney has released a new Thanksgiving painting, however the new version is seemingly created with AI.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

I doubt it could pull off something like this

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

Hence all the Wes Anderson imagery even though there is a ton of motion in his films.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

Screenwriting contests are like “If you aren’t God’s gift on earth with regard to snappy dialogue get the fuck out”

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

5 years

A few thoughts on screenwriting classes and manuals. (1)

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

10 months

80s crime movies are hilarious in that they posit that 90% of all violent crime is caused by teenaged punks and 20 somethings that look like this.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

7 years

Found a Ludens at #ax2017 @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN @KojiPro2015_EN #AnimeExpo #AnimeExpo2017

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

Reminded of that time the screenwriter for The Rock was baffled UN testimony in 2002 during the lead up to Iraq contained “spring of pearls VX configurations” when it was something he made up to look cool on film.

philip lewis

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'I Am Legend' screenwriter reacts to vaccine conspiracy theories, pointing out the plot is fiction: "It's a movie. I made that up. It's. Not. Real."

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

If you ever get worried about your follower count I need to remind you that Steven Soderbergh is on here with only 22k followers completely unverified while there’s plenty of screenwriter influencers that don’t even have a credit with a check mark.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

@Bitterstaff That’s one of the reasons I’ve been pretty vocal on Blanks. Getting rid of blanks doesn’t solve the root issue which is penny pinching in spots it’s dangerous to do. It could have easily been a crane, a picture car or a stunt.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

@xtinatucker Like, cultural context is pretty important here. We had huge stigma against men going to therapy until the 1990s.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

2 years

@sonofether I feel the same way when people get mad about games with guns in them. Like I can understand the disappointment but to act shocked that one of the biggest genres of game is still going makes me feel like you don’t understand your own industry.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

@ABC7 Quick question, who is the CEO of the company that owns you?

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

Guess who just got brought in to do re-writes on a feature?

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

2 years

Our entire team is currently fighting a war to maintain the sovereignty of their nation is a pretty solid reason to delay the game.

Tom Warren

@tomwarren

2 years

Microsoft ended its Xbox Games Showcase Extended with the beginning of Stalker 2. It has been delayed to 2023 due to the Russian invasion in Ukraine, where the Stalker 2 devs are located. Here's how they're living during the war 💙💛

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

We really need to teach film literacy because the amount of professional critics that think that depiction equals endorsement is a lot higher than it should be.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

Films like Wolf of Wall Street and Nightcrawler are important because they remind us that our society rewards shitty people because they make money and not everything is a Save The Cat morality play.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

And lets not even talk about how Ripley doesn't take center stage as the protagonist until after Dallas dies. Before then the film treats her as the rest of the crew save the one moment where she refuses to let them come through the airlock.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

Lost my Grandmother today. Her husband passed away from COVID-19 a few weeks back and she had recovered. She caught it again and didn’t make it a second time. It hit me like a ton of bricks. Fuck the President for his lack of testing and contract tracing.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

@nevslin @thetzechun I got a note on my occupation of Japan set pilot that my Japanese American characters didn’t sound Japanese enough because their arcs were more about them regaining a sense of humanity in the face of wartime disruption and zero talk about honor.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

From the Batman Animated Series bible but I feel like these are good rules for most writers.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

The original trailer completely removes the context required to parse the plot of the movie and who would die where. Tom Skerrit, Harry Dean Stanton and John Hurt were the bigger stars of the day.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

Metal Gear Solid has a weird distinction of featuring both a telekinetic psychic and cyborg ninja but also having a more or less accurate depiction of how DARPA, Livermore Laboratories, and Defense Contractors work together to make nuclear weapons.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

It's really funny to me that Blake Snyder hammers home Alien as an example of the kind of story structure orthodoxy he's so keen on. It wasn't designed for that from the get go. Alien is first and foremost an ensemble film that picks off its cast until Ripley remains.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

10 months

Oh Alan Wake’s (the character not the game) bad writing is 100% intentional. The man threw a fit and got real insecure after he killed off his cash cow and got writer’s block and relies heavily on Deus Ex Machinas.

Gene Park

@GenePark

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@Charalanahzard The amount of people misinterpreting this as a criticism of the game’s writing lol

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

5 years

From Episode 2 of Chernobyl by @clmazin How the hell are you gonna write a scene in which a character non verbally receives the worst news in the world if you don’t write it like this? (5)

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

Disco Elysium's achievement metrics are fascinating because they essentially show that the predominant political path that most players follow is the communist one.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

2 years

@sonofether Even funnier when they actually work on games with guns I saw this from an Apex dev and I was so fucking confused. My dude you work on one of the biggest gun games.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

2 years

The fact that The X Files regularly pulled stuff like this on an 8 day shoot schedule boggles my mind.

caroline (going woman)

@soonrightaway

2 years

Crazy how a network tv show from 25 years ago looks better than most feature films coming out lol

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

2 years

I’ve always wondered who was the blue warped man from The X-Files intro.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

This image came up tangentially in a work related call prompting me to say the "If you think about it the pin up ladies on WWII plane noses was just a primitive form of Waifuism" and I immediately felt deep shame for making that statement.

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦

@reshetz

1 year

It appears all those “gen z at war” takes weren’t that far from reality

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

It reminds me a bit how a lot of the promotional material for Knives Out treats Benoit Blanc as the protagonist despite the fact that a big story twist is that the true protagonist is actually Marta Cabrera who is absent for a decent chunk of the film's first act.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

5 years

Part of diversity is allowing characters to have story arcs beyond just their identity.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

(Which tells us what the chain of command is, the fact Ash is the one who overrides her is also a big hint as to who actually is in charge.)

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

She "saves the cat" but it's not a character establishing moment it's a moment to ramp up tension during the self destruct sequence.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

9 months

@spiny_lobe_fish Second to last image under versatile utility.

CYBERTRUCK | Tesla

Built for any adventure, Cybertruck has a durable exterior, spacious interior and technological capabilities so you can pack up your gear and hit the road.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

You ever think about how The Good Place made an explicit point about how the basis of our daily existence is built on a foundation of exploitation and cruelty meaning you actively have to make the world a better place instead of just “being nice” in order to offset that cruelty?

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

2 years

I don’t understand writers who when given the vast expanse of human experience decide that they’re going to write a story about a writer who writes.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

For a more traditional story structure you'd have to wait until the sequel which is built entirely around Ripley.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

People forget that Stop or My Mom Will Shoot only got made because Arnold Schwarzenegger got his hands on the script, thought it was terrible and then put out a rumor that he was interested in it in order to fool his rival Sylvester Stallone into signing on for it.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

5 years

@kumailn @jenyamato This is your country. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

This isn’t a movie it’s a fucking mood board created by stealing someone else’s techniques and intellectual property.

Barsee 🐶

@heyBarsee

1 year

AI generated Star Wars trailer. And we move a couple steps close to a future where you COULD make movies just by yourself.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

I love the series, but these are objectively better titles.

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1 year

Thinking about the Japanese titles for the Fast and Furious movies

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

I have creative partners in Australia and Canada who have talked at length about how the U.S. has effectively turned their industries into backlots for U.S. productions making it very difficult for their creatives to make a career outside of dwindling local content.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

2 years

@katiejstone91 @Bitterstaff @WillTheLandMan Really feels like there’s an exec at HBO with a personal ax to grind with animation.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

5 years

@GailSimone Can confirm I witnessed her Roller Derbying and doing the stunts myself. Margot Robbie is an incredible human being.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

Man this really makes the Studio Heads sticking on AI seeming like an exceptionally dumb sticking point just like I predicted.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

11 months

@BooDooPerson Thinking very strongly of Fujimoto and his anecdote about the lady that pushed over his bike and him getting a crush on her.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

5 years

@A24 @AriAster @MidsommarMovie What the hell happened during that breakup?

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

@MerrillHagan I know a guy who works on a major kids show, one of the old salt writers is known for accidentally lapsing into his old habits back when he worked for Hollywood sitcoms and doing plot lines about divorce. The show is for kids between 3-7

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

5 years

@SlimGypsies @baddestmamajama Nobody in the family gives a consistent answer where the protagonist's family comes from.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

Was interviewed about this today. The big summary I had for Silicon Valley now was “You can’t be the Wild West for too long before you realize half the stores are selling you snake oil.”

Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

I worked for an AI company early last year. I quit because they expected me to lie to the customers about what their software was actually capable of.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

@vivaciousvandal Honestly I wonder if this is one of the reasons why technical quality on shows and films has been declining lately. The people that know how to do stuff got burnt out of the industry in favor of a revolving door of people trying to break in.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

5 years

I want to give an additional thanks to @clmazin for showing me that you can write a character's thoughts in italics for tonal detail a technique I would have never found out about if I didn't read the scripts for Chernobyl that he put on

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

Still a perfectly executed visual gag.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

It’s wild to go back to a show like The X-Files and realize that by and large a 90s network show had far better staging than a lot of modern TV.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

Hate it when I’m at a party and this dude shows up and tells me he’s at my house. I ask him how’s that possible and he hands me his cell phone and tells me to call my landline. Sure enough he’s on the other end.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

9 months

I got notes from an exec that didn't understand that Tokyo and Hiroshima were two separate places.

Carrie Wittmer 👻

@carriesnotscary

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does hollywood not have wikipedia or history books

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

I firmly believe that having healthy film industries outside of the US, who are capable of producing their own content with broad mainstream appeal means Hollywood has to work harder to make better products. It’s healthy competition.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

8 years

@RealGDT I geeked out seeing you had The Tourist's original concept art. Also nice to see Gamell's illustrations (1)

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

5 years

This has been bugging the crap out of me for a while but Mark Zuckerberg looks way too much like a sickly H.P. Lovecraft.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

Disco Elysium opens with you, blacked out, engaged with your Ancient Reptilian Brain and your Limbic System in mental conversation. Honestly it's one of the strongest openings to an RPG I've seen.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

The Story Diamond still haunts me.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

6 years

@dertek It's not like people weren't aware of this for years. Plenty of voice actors would refuse to come to cons that Vic was at because they were sick of dealing with his behavior. I first heard about it around 2012.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

4 years

Got my first real pitch meeting.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

11 months

@Yaoipilled The wildest thing is that despite this image he gives the single best performance in the game. The man was not phoning it in.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

@Bitterstaff There was a pilot I worked on with a show-runner that has an insane amount of shows on the air. There was a sit down protest by the background because they weren’t getting fed, not allowed breaks and not allowed to sit down in the hot July heat in wool period clothing.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

@MerrillHagan Ok but in this episode of Bob The Builder how about we do our take on Kramer vs Kramer.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

Just got a call out of nowhere from a producer friend that said "I know you want to direct, do you have time for a phone meeting in an hour?"

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

9 months

Western Samurai media taking place post introduction of firearms by Nobunaga: “We don’t use firearms unlike our cowardly western enemies.” Actual Samurai from 1590-1868:

Gun Samurai

@_Gun_Samurai

9 months

Sometimes found on the feudal battlefields, these large cannon like matchlocks were usually carried by samurai. They were expected to use their greater courage and skill to locate and take on the most difficult targets… #samurai #gunsamurai #侍 #火縄銃 #砲術 #松本城

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@Michigrimk

2 years

A weird quirk of western politics is that every time someone dies they always talk about what a great guy he was even if he was a descendent of a man who instituted slavery in a colony In the 1930s and denied reparations to his victims.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

2 years

Honestly the worst part of being a low level creative is the realization that your financial well being is entirely dependent on how long someone decides to drag their feet on making important decisions or paying you.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

5 years

@baddestmamajama @potato_shaped His delivery is so deadpan that the insult probably goes over a lot of people’s heads.

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@Michigrimk

5 years

Sat on my reaction to it for about 3 days but I really do love @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN ‘s #DeathStranding . I love what it’s trying to do with its game design by building empathy towards your fellow players and communicating the scale of a one man expedition across America.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

1 year

In Canada there really isn’t the bandwidth for the next Cronenberg, same in Australia for the next Miller or Weir. It’s not great.

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Kevin Fox

@Michigrimk

3 years

@jesawyer The amount of working film people who don't understand that blank firing firearms are in fact "Real Guns" was baffling.

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