Inside Pulse

Many people think that having a lot of skins in their inventory means they’re valuable. But that’s not actually true. One player might have a hundred skins, but their value might be much less than the value of two skins owned by another player. This raises questions about what influences inventory value in CS2. This is useful for anyone who is somehow connected with skins, and you’ll get answers below. The first thing to determine is how rare a skin is.

Back in April of 2025, I was treated to Italian horror composer Fabio Frizzi appearing at Kings in Raleigh to do a live performance of the score for Lucio Fulci’s Zombie. They projected the Composer’s Cut on a screen behind Frizzi and his band. I really came to appreciate the film’s music listening to it live instead of coming from the speaker. If he ever tours again, I fully recommend heading down to take the gory fun.

The simplest games often last the longest. Not because they lack depth, but because the player understands the promise almost immediately: do one thing, see what happens, try again. That rhythm has travelled from arcades to living rooms, phones, web games and casual digital entertainment. Pop culture remembers it because it is easy to describe. A maze, a falling block, a paddle, a daily puzzle, a spin, a score. The shape changes, but the loop stays recognizable.

When a group of us discovered the Hong Kong action wave that happened in the ’80s and ’90s, we found ourselves driving over an hour to Carrboro to rent VHS tapes from Dave’s Videodrome. There were three main directors that we would instantly grab their VHS boxes off the shelves: John Woo, Ringo Lam and Tsui Hark. Of the trio, Hark was the hard one to find stuff. He didn’t always direct film. He wrote scripts and produced other projects. He produced A Better Tomorrow and The Killer for John Woo.

The Last Showgirl got a lot of people to reevaluate their thoughts on Pamela Anderson as an actress. The Last Showgirl proved she could do more than run around a beach in a red swimsuit. She gives a deep performance as a Las Vegas showgirl who is seeing her longtime role in Sin City vanish. Also in the film are Dave Bautista and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film arrives today on Blu-ray and Digital.

The days when I’ll have time to read comics are coming up, but it won’t be this coming week… Best Comic of My Week: The Sacrificers #21 – I’ve been looking forward to the end of this thoughtful and dark series by Rick Remender and Max Fiumara (as well as André Lima Araújo), and this did not disappoint.

Are you ready for the arrival of Toy Robot Video? The subsidiary of Arrow Video launches in September with five amazing titles. The big one is the original Masters of the Universe on 4K UHD. This is the one that you’ve worn out on VHS and DVD over the decades. Now you can see even more of Dolph Lungren’s pecs. Guyver: Dark Hero is the sequel to Guyver. Roaring Fire & Ninja Wars are two films that feature Hiroyuki Sanada (Shogun) and Sonny Chiba (The Street Fighter).

What’s great about an Arnold Schwarzenegger action film is that you know exactly what you’re in for when you sit down to watch one; and for someone who’s been at it for over four decades now, Schwarzenegger’s track record is incredibly impressive. He has a number of absolute genre-defining blockbusters to his name, and even when he goes the polar opposite direction and makes a movie that doesn’t look to dent the mould, let alone break it, it’s still a good time to be had more times than not.

Before we get too deep into this review, let me quickly clarify that the Solo being reviewed is not the Ron Howard movie about the early years of Han Solo and Chewbacca. That Solo has caused me to fall asleep all three times I attempted to watch it on Disney streaming. The Solo being reviewed was made in France in 1970 by Jean-Pierre Mocky. I didn’t let my eyes rest during the 87 minutes of action. This is a masterpiece of student radical tension in a Neo Noir setting.

James Gunn will be talked about for the next month since he’s the producer on the upcoming Supergirl movie. He’s in charge of the D.C. Superhero movies after scoring huge hits with his three Guardians of the Galaxy movies for Marvel. But he wasn’t always about comic book stars for Gunn. He got his start at Troma as the writer of Tromeo and Juliet that featured Lemmy from Motorhead.