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The 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards Nominations

The 78th Annual Golden Globe Award nominations were released yesterday with plenty of surprises in film and television.

Colorblind Modes (and More Accessibility Options) Coming to Dead by Daylight

Dead by Daylight have finally taken steps to begin adding more accessibility options into the popular 4v1 asymmetrical survival horror game.

Games

Coming Soon: The Binding of Isaac: Repentance

The Binding of Isaac: Repentance is the final DLC to the long-running The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth game coming to PC on 31 March 2021.

Games

Dead by Daylight: Upcoming UI and Ranking/Matchmaking Changes #intothefog

Behaviour Interactive has announced a new in game UI and new ranking/matchmaking systems for Dead by Daylight.

Announcements

#31Days: A Collection of Horror Essays Vol. 1

#31Days challenge is to watch a different horror film or TV show every day for the month of October. In his debut collection of non-fiction essays and reviews, professional media critic Robert J Gannon shares 65 original essays and reviews of horror media

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TikTok, Text-to-Speech, and Accessibility

TikTok added an unexpected accessibility option in their new update. Text boxes can now be edited to use a text-to-speech feature so viewers can listen to rather than read on-screen text.

Music

63rd Annual Grammy Award Nominations

Here are my highlights from the 63rd Annual Grammy Award nominations.

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On Captioning Social Video

For years, TikTok users have been asking TikTok to add a captioning feature to the social video making app. TikTok so far has ignored the requests. It is frustrating, for sure, since the TikTok video making features are actually pretty advanced and robust.

Games

Dead by Daylight No Bloodlust Test Weekend

From Friday, 20 November until today, 22 November, Behaviour Interactive turned off the Bloodlust mechanic in Dead by Daylight. DBD is an asymmetrical 4v1 survival horror game where a team of four survivors try to finish five generators and escape the trial before a monstrous killer sacrifices them

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A Reflection on the 74th Annual Tony Award Nominations

On 15 October, the Tony Award nominations for the truncated 2019-2020 season finally came out. We all knew that it was going to be a different kind of list since so few shows opened between May 2019 and March 2020, but I don’t think anyone anticipated some of the more unusual results.

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Introducing Ko-fi

I realize that I’ve never done a proper post explaining what, exactly, Ko-fi [https://ko-fi.com/robertjgannon] is. I’m really excited about this patronage platform and I hope you get excited as well. Ko-fi is another social fundraising platform like Patreon. The difference is Ko-fi actually support

Announcements

Announcing: Spookier Times

Introducing Spookier Times. This is a new biweekly podcast about everything horror, Gothic, and weird fiction across media. I’m incredibly proud of the project and the opportunities it affords in media criticism.

Event

The 75th Annual Tony Awards: What You Need to Know

The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing announced that the 75th Annual Tony Awards will happen at some point. We don’t know when. We don’t know how. But they will happen.

Books/Print

Coming Soon: Allie Brosh's Solutions and Other Problems

Solutions and Other Problems is the second original collection of comics from Allie Brosh, creator of Hyperbole and a Half.

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On Creating through Trauma in a Time of Uncertainty

Writing has always been an escape for me. I used to find a quiet corner to hide in and form my thoughts and feelings into bizarre pieces of weird fiction. It was a way of reflecting on the world and what happened to me in my day to day life. I’m not going into past trauma right now, but my writing w

Games

Dead by Daylight: State of the Game and Silent Hill Chapter

Dead by Daylight celebrated it’s 4th anniversary on Tuesday, 26 May. They made the most of the new normal with a great mix of video montages and live discussions. Lots of things were announced.

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About that RuPaul's Drag Race Disqualification

World of Wonder (the producers of RuPaul’s Drag Race) and VH1 (the network airing the series) have disqualified a contestant after the majority of the season already filmed. Sherry Pie is no longer eligible to win the competition (if she made it to the finale) and will not even be allowed to attend

Film

Cats Review: An Addendum

I stand by every word of my unconventional review of the Cats film [https://sketchydetails.us/sketchy-details/catsreview2019]. The version released in theaters Thursday, 19 December 2019 was an unprecedented mess, filled with digital glitches rarely seen out of video games being beta tested. The use

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91st Academy Awards Reaction and Winners

The 91st Academy Awards happened last night. I cannot speak to the broadcast as I opted to dive into Umbrella Academy instead. Yes, a slick superhero series with some…issues in how it portrays anyone except for straight white men felt far more relaxing than a night of awards that could bring serious

Music

Brandi Carlile and the 2019 Grammy Awards

Brandi Carlile might be one of the most naturally gifted singer/songwriters to come around in a long time. That is not to say that she is a new artist; 2018’s By the Way, I Forgive You is her sixth studio album. Her breakthrough came in 2007 with the release of The Story and she has steadily been cr

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Oscar Nominations and Final Awards

The 2018 Academy Award nominations came out last Tuesday and they have me feeling a certain way. I’m going to break down the major categories and share my final nominees and winners in the correlative categories. Let’s get to it.

Film

First Look: Jordan Peele's Us

On Christmas Day, Universal Pictures released the first trailer for Jordan Peele’s new horror film Us. Jordan Peele is the Academy Award-winning writer/director of last year’s breakout horror film Get Out. He somehow found the time to write and direct another horror film while also developing the la

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The 76th Annual Golden Globe Nominations

This morning, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominees for the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards. The ceremony, honoring film and television, will be broadcast live on 6 January at 8 pm EST. These nominees tend to be quite different from the Oscars or the Emmys as the HFPA is com

Games

Epic Games is Launching Its Own Digital Game Store in 2019

It’s a wonderful time to be a PC gamer. Steam gives you access to thousands upon thousands of games in a one stop shop for digital downloads. That’s on top of the still thriving browser game industry (even seeing a resurgence with all the .IO sites, like slither.io or agar.io), proprietary sellers l

Books/Print

More on Plagiarism and Integrity in Publishing: Plagiarism Accusations Against Pushcart Nominated Poet

When I think about the latest plagiarism scandal in publishing, I wish for two things. One: I wish plagiarism was not such a common occurrence in the industry. Two: I wish more stories of plagiarism were actually exposed in a way that gets people talking about Intellectual Property Rights.