Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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All Hail the Return of MGS4
There’s only one thing most reviewers of Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 care about, and that’s the return to playability of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Perhaps the strangest, most personal, and most divisive game Hideo Kojima has made, the 2008 epic has been stuck on PlayStation 3 with no…
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28 Years Later, Jim Carrey’s Most Unhinged Movie Performance of All Time Is Officially Free on Streaming
Peter Weir’s 1998 satirical dramedy The Truman Show, which has just been inducted into the National Film Registry, is one of those rare works of science fiction that was hailed as prophetic very shortly after its release. It didn’t so much satirize its present or speculate on a far future as predict, with unnerving accuracy,…
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Ryan Gosling’s 100-Minute 10/10 Crime-Thriller Cult Classic Is Officially Free on Streaming
Ryan Gosling can seemingly do anything. His turn as Ryland Grace is undoubtedly the highlight of Project Hail Mary, where he brings a silent but heroic fish-out-of-water quality to the role. The opposite is true of films like Fracture (2007) and Blue Valentine (2010), where Gosling turns up the abrasiveness for good measure. There’s also…
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Marvel Officially Reveals New X-Men Movie Cast at D23
Marvel Studios is rebooting its X-Men film franchise with an all-new cast. But the studio’s plans for the X-Men under Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier has been the source of much reporting, rumor, and speculation for the past few years. At D23, Disney’s fan convention, Marvel officially revealed who will be joining the MCU as its…
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Final Fantasy’s Biggest Competition Officially Returns In 2026
Bandai Namco’s Tales RPG series marked its 30th anniversary last year, and a major cornerstone of that celebration was the announcement of the “Tales Remaster Project,” which is… exactly what it sounds like. Since the reveal, we’ve gotten remasters of Tales of Graces f, Tales of Xillia, and Tales of Berseria. The fourth installment of…
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The Best Classic JRPGs You Can Still Easily Play Today
Remakes, remasters, and reimaginings are all the rage right now in video games. For the last several years, studios the world over have crafted new and vastly improved versions of all-time classic games, ranging from faithful modernizations like Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 remake to Square Enix’s wildly ambitious and expanded Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy.…
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5 Anime Endings That Fans Still Argue About (I’m Still Mad About #3)
Endings can be hard to pull off. A perfectly serviceable anime might ruin its well-earned goodwill with a particularly disappointing or shocking ending. Death Note suffers from this problem, as its brilliant cat-and-mouse build-up feels upended by a rushed resolution that is significantly different from the manga. At other times, abstract or confusing endings can…
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Dua Murid Koding Next Masuk Top 10 Dunia di Kompetisi Robotika Internasional
Di tengah persaingan lebih dari 400 peserta dari 22 negara dan wilayah, dua pelajar Indonesia berhasil mencuri perhatian dunia. Mereka adalah Dylan Viady Deng dari Koding Next Samarinda dan Margareta Darmais Tehja dari Koding Next Medan. Keduanya sukses meraih peringkat ketujuh dalam 2026 Robotics AI Innovation Challenge, sebuah kompetisi internasional yang mempertemukan talenta muda terbaik di bidang…
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Pokémon Pokopia update 2.0.0 adds loads of fantastic quality-of-life improvements
Pokémon Pokopia update 2.0.0 is finally here, and the biggest addition by far is that Ditto is now able to dive underwater. Not only that, if you buy the Pokopia expansion pass, you’ll get access to the Bubbly Basin region, which includes a new storyline and a bunch of new Pokémon. However, alongside the big…
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There will be nudity in Marvel’s Wolverine — but there’s a catch
It’s undeniable how much Marvel’s Wolverine pivots from Insomniac’s Spider-Man games. There’s a lot more swearing, an incredible amount of blood and gore that’ll make even Mortal Kombat fans wince, and now, according to the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), there’s a chance we’ll see more of Logan Howlett, aka Wolverine, than just his yellow-spandex…
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