Chris Schilling

@schillingc.bsky.social

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Editorial director, @lostincult. Former Edge deputy editor. Author of Heartbeats, Dreams and Laser Eyes: 15 Years of Simogo; Outer Wilds: Design Works; IMMORTALITY: Design Works. Critic (games/film). chris@lostincult.co.uk / letterboxd.com/downaboutit

an IMDb search for "resident evil" that suggests under 'Titles': Zach Cregger's forthcoming Resident Evil movie, Paul WS Anderson's 2002 Resident Evil movie, the 2022 TV series, 2004's Resident Evil: Apocalypse and 2007's Resident Evil: Extinction. Below, under the 'People' section, the first entry is Donald Trump.
Andy Kelly’s excellent book Perfect Organism (The Assembly Cut), published by Lost In Cult
A crying baby/Nigel Farage
Miho from Rhythm Heaven/Paradise Groove
Michael Caine (big Dragon's Dogma fan) saying "I cannot let myself be overcome!" Batman Begin.
A screenshot from the brilliant video game Despelote, in which a character says “We’ve never qualified. But we never lose faith, you know?”, posted to celebrate the Ecuadorean national team qualifying for the knockout stages of the World Cup
A tweet from me on September 2, 2019 that reads: Switch Sports Resort. Come on, Nintendo, it's an open goal.
Paul Mescal at the end of Aftersun, looking utterly defeated by life
A variation on the epic handshake meme, in which the common factors are 'doing magic and killing jacked-up beasts with the help of a wisecracking inanimate object that has gained sentience' and the participants are Forspoken and God of War: Laufey
It's Peter Molyneux!
Search entry highlighting a Letterboxd review (of 'Blue Moon', btw) I wrote on 29 Mar 2026 — "Extremely unrelatable film about a short, balding, embittered writer in his late forties"
Google's 'AI Overview' being stupid: There are 2 "d"s in Chris Schilling. Chrid s Schillind Wait, let's spell that out correctly: C h r i d S c h i l l i n d
A piece of Tears of the Kingdom key art with the caption “Weapon degradation is good, actually. Learn to value purposeful friction in games.”
Apple Music's 'Top Songs' selection for The Beach Boys, with the execrable 'Kokomo' in first place, because people are awful
VAR being the worst, yet again
An animated image of Patrick Starr from Spongebob with a caption that reads: I'M ROOTING FOR YOU
Headline: James Corden returns to US late-night TV Subhead: Hosting a World Cup show with Rio Ferdinand
I CANNOT SANCTION YOUR BUFFOONERY in the He-Man font
CNN headline: [Marco] Rubio meeting Pope Leo after weeks of tensions with Trump
Iwata: ‘Stories and better graphics don’t grow game audiences’
A photo of the Sanbone Trio from Gitaroo Man on the Met Gala steps
A big lad from the new Resident Evil teaser
App Store page for Birth!, a lovely, slightly macabre puzzle adventure
Screenshot from the Bottom episode 'Chess'. Richie's pieces include a Spider-Man figurine, a sauce bottle, a cactus with a crown on and a plastic skeleton
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter
A screenshot from 'Austin Powers in Goldmember', during the scene where a character has a large mole and Austin is trying (and failing) to stop himself from looking at/talking about it
A hoodie on the A24 site for The Drama, the text on which reads: THE DRAMA is about couple (Zendaya and Roberlson) who arc almosl doing some wedding soon, but in before-days everything starts going wrongly in the most incorrect. Normal stop acting normal and begin behaving like the relationship run but tripping. From the outside-eyes romances looks very good-shaped, but inside we become fallen down like a chair. Small finding-things become huge fights because both of actors in two keep understanding the opposite and remembering that aren't even malching the real happiness. The film is to begin like romantic comedy but the tonc and goes somewhere behind it. turning into stress feelings. Secrets come out in not-right information gets wrong, and trust becomes a day early and keeps sliding. When the wedding day gets almost here, no people in there of them knows if they are marrying the person or the wrong-person on accident. Everything starts feeling down there, like the relationship is wearing and pretending. Every fixing they try is fixing the wrong. causing the more to appear instead of less. Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in a ROMANTIC drama dark comedy form
A clip from One Battle After Another, in which an angry Leonardo DiCaprio shouts down a phone: "Aaaaaah, FUCK you, you fucking moron! FUCK YOU!"
Logo for Moon: Remix RPG Adventure
Heartbeats, Dreams and Laser Eyes: 15 Years of Simogo book from Lost In Cult. A matte grey book with gloss details, featuring abstract line art of the Swedish studio's nine major game releases, set against a blue gradient backdrop. (It's probably the best thing I've written to date.)
Leo, with his rakish moustache, at the Academy Awards
A microscopic image of a violin measuring 35 microns by 13 microns. (A micron is one millionth of a metre.)
BOBSON DUGNUTT
Outer Wilds: Design Works
Farage, who has been an MEP for 18 years, has one of the worst attendance records at the parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg. He is ranked 748 out of 751 MEPs and has taken part in only 37% of votes in the current parliamentary session, according to VoteWatch Europe.
That BlueSky 'map' thing. I am situated very close to Video Game Industry Professionals, and not far away from BTS ARMY Fanfiction Community
Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another, saying "Awww, fuck you you fucking moron! Fuck you!"
Pep Guardiola in a post-match interview, saying: "More than you believe. More than you believe I am tired. I'm so tired, believe me." (In the real interview he said 'happy' instead of 'tired')
An email from Amazon with the subject line: chris, ever wonder if your reviews are getting noticed?
dril tweet: 'and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.'
A partial headline from The Guardian: ‘Wicker review - Olivia Colman is smelly’
A post from that Miiverse guy who just really fucking loved water: 'Impressions amazing water'
"Imperfect is the true reflection of ordinary people. Our flaws are what make life truly vibrant," the person wrote.
Ayo Edebiri's Instagram post about the Hunter Schafer/Dan Stevens film Cuckoo: "I'm seated. The theater employees are scared and asking me to leave because it’s 'not August yet' but I’m simply too seated."
Adam Driver in Marriage Story, saying "I cried four times."
A largely empty cinema screen, before the adverts have started. The lighting is very Virtual Boy coded
the making of gaming’s most pathetic character
Pole to Pole With Will Smith review – every single moment is gorgeous or thrilling *** It may feel like a redemption tour, but the star's epic jolly across seven continents is consistently funny, moving and quite frankly breathtaking
“Queen Latifah, wow! I can’t believe it!” - Stephen Graham, 2026 Golden Globes
Moody Bespoke (sic) fragrance — of Assassin smoke and abandoned temple
Thomas Mahler and Mike Ybarra
Main text complete - first draft
Word Count Result Total word count across all tabs and nested tabs: 57308 (that's more than Outer Wilds: Design Works)
Columbus [Kogonada, 2017]
What a shit week
A screenshot from Simogo’s The Sailor’s Dream, featuring the Secret Lighthouse
Alistair Green's 'inquisitive man'
Crazy over Horses
Quote from Merriam-Webster: "Even if you despise 'comprised of' and have made it your life's work to expunge it from the writing of others, chances are very good that you never approached the level of dedication exhibited by the Wikipedia editor who, over a period of years, deleted tens of thousands of uses of 'comprised of' from that website (in addition to writing a 5,000 word explanatory article)."