Well yeah he’s awful for the wish but I don’t really buy the whole ‘he was protecting Bear’ thing. If my best friend has been pining over our mutual friend since HS, who I’ve been hooking up with casually on the side, I think the kindest thing to do would be to be straight up with him. If the movie hadn’t opened with Ian essentially going “yeah she’ll HATE the heartfelt confession, you should just neg her instead by calling her by the nickname her bullies used in school”; I could buy the ‘he was just protecting his friend from getting hurt’

I’m in the camp that Nikki never liked Bear and Ian knew it.

This was my take as well but I think that is also why I view Ian as also a piece of shit. Entire movie could have ended in the diner if Ian had just gone “She doesn’t like you more than a friend, but cheer up there’s more fish in the sea” instead of saying ‘just wait for the right moment :)’

I love going to the movies & I love talking about them with people, so the pleasure’s all mine. I should do more serious reviews. Next week will be Leviticus, which I hope will be good. (Actually shocked my theater is showing this since they FUCKING REFUSED TO SHOW PILLION FOR EVEN A SINGLE DAY…but then again Leviticus is gay conversion camp horror whereas Pillion is a bdsm romance…)

Stay tuned later this month for my reviews of The Death of Robin Hood and Supergirl (lol), maybe also The Furious too if my local theater bothers to actually show it for more than a week. Maybe the new Jackass as well.

July will of course be The Odyssey since I managed to get IMAX tickets for it. And maybe Spider-man but I doubt I’ll make a review for it since I expect it to be standard Marvelslop (there hasn’t been a good Tom Holland Spider-Man movie change my mind)

August will of course be dedicated solely to Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie

the director is apparently a big deal right now with horror movies, right? I think he made another two that did well

Curry Baker is the director. His only other film is Milk & Serial which is a found footage film and available for free on Youtube. Similar to Backrooms’ director Kane Parsons who also got his start on Youtube. (And they’re like 5 years apart in age)

He’s getting to direct the A24 Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot, which is where you may have heard about him

it’s popular streamer iShowSpeed nodding in agreement; which means that it made sense to me, so good

OOH are solar flares what cause the weird VCR overlay? I thought it was power overdraw (because i’d get the ‘low power’ warning) but had literally ~20 panels.

The panels., batteries, and habitat were all within the turret’s range. My first screenshot shows it essentially how it was when the meteor struck like 5-10 minutes later, except I added two more rows of 5 panels above the batteries and finished the row of batteries.

I’m pretty sure now thinking back that it was probably a solar flare at the same time as the meteor storm but I didn’t realize that is what those were & that they’d negatively affect the power generation and buildings as a result. The explosion was spectacular though I wish I could have screen recorded it because 1 meteor took out all the batteries/panels and as I was reeling from the shock, the second one descended and landed on the habitat LOL.

I will say as a suggestion I think the Lenin statue should have a way larger radius. I put it right below the habitat for aesthetics but was very upset when I realized it only affected the rovers when they came back to deposit metal since it has such a small radius. It should at least be able to reach the big minefield you can see my 3 rovers stuck in at the top of my second screenshot; or at least give an lesser unlimited range speed bonus!!!

Also I will say the rovers don’t really like building multiple things with shift. They constantly would do like 3/4 of the panels and refuse the 4th one even though I had metal. Maybe a pathing thing or I was just clicking too much but I had it happen thrice.

Played like 25-30 minutes of it and liked it.

Yes sir I will build that habitat

I will say, the meteor showers really fucked me over. I had my turret smack dab in the middle of my solar panels/batteries and habitat/refineries, expecting it to at least prevent the critical stuff from going boom. But…no? Two meteors landed right on top of my solar panels & batteries, blowing them to hell and basically soft-locking me because my power draw is now too high for any of the rovers to move

…At least the Lenin statue survived

noo, not the don’t laugh one, we used to have this one as a emoji too

he is exactly where he wants to be, dont save him lol

i meant that more in scope of the other characters. Like there was no reason for Bobby to go down the slope, go at all the clothes and say “ugh smells bad in here” and be like “okay :D let me go further to the very end of the rope for no reason”

His girlfriend running off in search of him when he got dragged away, sure I can buy that in the moment but the entire time they were down there as a group I was like “just turn around you got the proof you need/wanted with the video-camera why are you all collectively deciding to explore more” and yeah, he’s down there cause he likes it there - that became evident to me when he was like “dang bobby’s dead and my other employee just presumably ran off to her death. can’t forget the camera though :D”

If I’m the therapist though and my patient has already come to me freaking out about the rooms, I am NOT going past that damn threshold more than once. Oh I got in?? Cool, this validates his belief in my eyes, let me leave a “hey just stopped by, come to the office when you want to talk about this!! completely believe you now” note and turn my ass around!!

I don’t need to keep going further past the weird ass reversed Stop sign and the subsequent cardboard cut-out with the Voyager “Hellos from earth” audio playing from a wired speaker attached to it.

Theseus here is “the hot guy” with the “End Apartheid” shirt, come to free the slaves trapped in the labyrinth, but because he’s no longer a prince, but a wage earner, Ariadne and Daedalus (with his ball of string / rope) can’t help him.

holy shit lol i thought at first you were just shitposting but when i got to this part i literally went

(also does anyone know the emoji code we have for this i couldn’t find it)

I wouldn’t even call it a horror movie more like a psychological thriller

looks like shit as expected it is very obvious they’ve modeled Link after the Live Action Actor child for the presumably shit movie they will put out next year.

we didn’t need a OOT remake with the ugly ass Unreal Engine render. Will I be buying & playing Day 1? Well of course I will, I have a Majora’s Mask poster hanging in my apartment for all to see when they walk in and have played every other edition of OOT. Will I like it? Probably fucking not it looks ugly as shit lol and I can only imagine they’ll ruin/change parts of it.

Anyways I personally believe OOT is perfect as is (yes, even locked to 20fps) because it is primarily a product of its time. Without OOT you have no z-targeting/strafing in modern games, as well as a few other things like open worlds (debatable really but I think few would deny that OOT really pushed things). A large part of OOT’s charm is definitely tied to the design limitations of the N64.

Do we need a 4k version? No. Do children need a new version to play on their Switches? No, isn’t that what the NSO subscription is for with the N64 Emulator??

I guess on the bright side we’ll have a lot less “OOT is the best game of all time, no I haven’t played it” LARP. Am willing to bet $50 they fuck up the camera controls/movement and it just becomes a completely different game as a result though.

OOT with free cam

you have to meet the instructor first and Ghislaine famously does not think yoga is real

Yeah I was just saying I don’t think the average layperson can tell you off the top of their head the Travelodge TV admin code lol. I can assure you now though that I’ve associated the phrase “1105 Travelodge admin” with the idea of ‘common knowledge’ in my brain so be sure to test me in the future on a random thread. I fear for whatever actual piece of common knowledge got booted out in my brain for it.

“Can anyone do CPR here?! We’ve got a man down!!”

Me in the future: 1105 travelodge admin

it’s pretty common knowledge that the service code for the Travelodge TV admin menu is 1105

i wouldn’t think that’s common knowledge at all actually

The Seventh Seal

goes hard we need Death as an emoji

very funny that you have Hereditary mixed in with what are otherwise just fun kinda campy action films LOL

I’m brave I’ll post my top 4:

Yeah I get that in terms of Hasan but also he could just stream himself talking about international politics, or just politics in general, without doing the DNC endorsements and saying shit like “actually you’re wrong for caring about the fact that Platner isn’t a good candidate because of the nazi tattoo, the mercenary work, etc. he needs to win otherwise you’re never getting anything like universal healthcare but go off king i’ll be there with you when you start the revolution” to anyone in his chat/online who raises the point to him. Entryism and its consequences.

I actually have a lot less sympathy for the Chapos when it comes to this because they’re outside of the whole Twitch.tv ecosystem and while Patreon does have the ultimate say over their $2.4 million dollars a year, it is insane to me for them to make the mistake with Fetterman and then immediately go “Yeah I’m supporting Graham Platner” to which I can only say: …okay, here’s hoping he gets M4A passed, maybe that’ll put him back in the positive for ‘lives saved’ versus ‘lives taken’ (I have no idea if Graham Platner has ever killed a man but I’d wager he probably watched multiple die over the course of his time in Abu Ghraib and did nothing so he’s in the negative as it stands given his pride of having served)

I’m not saying they were or have to be ‘vanguardist revolutionaries’ lol. As I said in my original comment - there is just a certain “why are you even supporting them then??” that cannot be easily squared away when you’re listening to Felix Biederman say something along the lines of “Chapo’s endorsements do not even have a realistic effect on Maine elections so you guys shouldn’t be upset at us for supporting Graham Platner even if you disagree with us”. And sure, the Chapos have never called themselves communists or anything - but Hasan actively does call himself a socialist???

Good for Chapo for ‘disowning Zohran’ whatever the fuck that means; weird comparison to make in general though given Zohran doesn’t have or ever had a nazi tattoo, wasn’t stationed in Abu Ghraib, wasn’t a mercenary, and hasn’t made ‘proud veteran’ a central board in his campaign’s platform. Zohran’s also just a fucking mayor. He’s not sitting in Congress actively letting the wheels of the US government continue to flatten various other countries, marginalized people’s rights, etc.

Should I wait another year or so for them to walk back their Graham Platner episode in which Will basically says “yeah he’s a mercenary and that’s a blight on his soul…but I’d still personally vote for him”?

It should only take like 2-3 key Senate votes on like war powers resolutions or something being shut down by a 48-52 vote for them to start tweeting “Graham Platner is scum of the earth” right? lol

Let it be known that I’m not a ‘electoralism is stupid hahaha you should be out giving unhoused people copies of Capital Vol I’ leftist. I have defended politicians before (speaking of Zohran), I vote pretty regularly because I understand it does have importance and only takes literally 5-30 minutes out of my day once every 2-4 years. But there is a difference between going “Yeah chat I’m voting for Kamala Harris because at the end of the day, I just don’t want Trump to win, and I think you should too” as an American ‘left of center’ or even socialist streamer & going “Yeah I support this senate candidate who lives on the opposite end of the country who only recently got rid of his nazi tattoo after claiming he didn’t know what it was despite serving for 5+ years, was there when the US army was torturing hundreds of people in a prison in Abu Ghraib, and consistently says he’s proud of his service & time being a mercenary”.

Anyways you’ve been up and down this thread defending Hasan so I assume you are just reacting out of affection. Which is fine, you’re allowed to like Hasan and think he does good - I think he does too for the most part; but he & the Chapos are still fucking stupid for this and the fact that your only argument in defense of them is “when did they ever say they were vanguardist revolutionaries” is funny