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Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PewWp5JaZmk

eat my fuc told me about this. i didn't know. i looked into it.

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Kvantum
Feb 5, 2006
Skee-entist

mariooncrack posted:

Do you work in an "agile" shop?

Ugh. Yeah, and I hate every bit of it. I just want to be a Cloud monkey, helping people move stuff into Azure, even just as backup. I just want to my fellow admins never have to worry about a fire. I want everyone to see their data center on fire, shrug, and go "Yeah, give me half an hour and we'll be running on laptops. No worries."

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
In 1515, Albrecht Dürer created his woodcut of a hippopotamus (or in Middle Low German, a grimasse) based only on a written description of the animal, without ever seeing the animal himself. in 1970, over 400 years later, Ray Kroc was highest bidder for the woodcutting at an auction, and the rest is history.

NienNunb
Feb 15, 2012

https://youtu.be/bbPushhqwe0

drrockso20
May 6, 2013

Has Not Actually Done Cocaine
Watching some Batman '66 right now and man it's just such a good and wholesome show

Chinston Wurchill
Jun 27, 2010

It's not that kind of test.

drrockso20 posted:

Watching some Batman '66 right now and man it's just such a good and wholesome show

Speaking of, here's a thread of superhero fan-film clips which may be amusing in these trying times. Or any time, really.

NienNunb
Feb 15, 2012

This video sent me down a rabbit hole of looking up weird Super Mario 64 development trivia, shitposts, and spooky fan theories.

https://youtu.be/qK4L4wR3-pU

Writer Cath
Apr 1, 2007

Box. Flipped.
Plaster Town Cop


Tracker has had a rough week.

(Coned, a bath and all her bedding washed.)

I'm just the worst.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

The cone of shame! :3:

ChrisBTY
Mar 29, 2012

this glorious monument

Today was Kitteh's yearly vet checkup. As I suspected she has kitty arthritis.
Still better than my friends: One of them lost a cat to rapid-onset cancer, the other is probably losing her cat to kidney failure. Which I'm worried about because I think she loves that cat more than she loves her fiancee.

NienNunb
Feb 15, 2012

Windjammers is great, got it for my birthday

Captain Magic
Apr 4, 2005

Yes, we have feathers--but the muscles of men.
I made a workbench.







A house is just a model kit you live inside.

CobiWann
Oct 21, 2009

Have fun!
Me - "I'm gonna go downstairs and watch Lifeforce."

Wife - "Lifeforce? Is this another one of your movies where you swear up and down it's a good movie but I come downstairs at the exact moment the lead actress gets naked?"

Me - "..."

Update - the movie doesn't deserve the hate it gets.

The Cameo
Jan 20, 2005


At some point you gotta roll with it and go "hey, it's what got people in the theaters back then."

Spiderdrake
May 12, 2001



CobiWann posted:

Me - "I'm gonna go downstairs and watch Lifeforce."

Wife - "Lifeforce? Is this another one of your movies where you swear up and down it's a good movie but I come downstairs at the exact moment the lead actress gets naked?"

Me - "..."

Update - the movie doesn't deserve the hate it gets.
So she's just constantly going up and down the stairs? Isn't that the movie with the space vampire who is naked for like half the movie?

CobiWann
Oct 21, 2009

Have fun!

Spiderdrake posted:

So she's just constantly going up and down the stairs? Isn't that the movie with the space vampire who is naked for like half the movie?

Half? Try nearly all.

My wife is living proof of the theorem, "you could love the hell out of something, but when you show it to someone it's the worst/most embarrassing portions," ie Jerry Springer on RAW.

CobiWann fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Jul 13, 2020

Joey McChrist
Aug 8, 2005

been playing baldur's gate. missed out on it all those years ago because i was never a PC gamer (hell, i didn't even have a PC until my first year of high school)

its amazing. no wonder its lauded as one of the must play RPGs. got the 2nd one as part of the package too so i'm gonna be set for a while.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
Well i waded into the comic books speaking out for the first time because i saw Warren Ellis' name and still had not watched season 3 of Castlevania.

...

Hooboy that was a lot...

jesus WEP
Oct 17, 2004


Joey McChrist posted:

been playing baldur's gate. missed out on it all those years ago because i was never a PC gamer (hell, i didn't even have a PC until my first year of high school)

its amazing. no wonder its lauded as one of the must play RPGs. got the 2nd one as part of the package too so i'm gonna be set for a while.
2 is better than 1, planescape torment is way better than both. so you've got a lot of good poo poo ahead, friend :)

ChrisBTY
Mar 29, 2012

this glorious monument

Planescape if better than both if you hate combat and don't mind if it's terrible. Because Torment takes the RtWP D&D system, guts it, and turns it into something nigh-unusable.
If you can deal with that; It's a trip unlike anything else in gaming.

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

ChrisBTY posted:

Planescape if better than both if you hate combat and don't mind if it's terrible. Because Torment takes the RtWP D&D system, guts it, and turns it into something nigh-unusable.
If you can deal with that; It's a trip unlike anything else in gaming.

Planescape Torment is good, but is it...disco??

Paper Lion
Dec 14, 2009




https://twitter.com/piesaac/status/1282105999231299584

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgcV8PrCLcs

quarantine/riot/vacation movie list part 8 or 7

Sucker Punch – one of the worst movies i have ever seen in my life. i think i could write a book on everything wrong with this movie. this movie is shot like a two hour long music video. Baby Doll gets sent to a mental institution, and then reinterprets it in her mind as the Magical Whorehouse Dimension. sexy dances performed in this fake dimension are reinterpreted as video game fights that we see in a deeper dimension, the Video Game Dance Fight Dimension. one dance is a Dark Souls boss rush, one dance is Wolfenstein, one dance is a cheap Unity asset game that takes place in a small train. this film about women in an insane asylum being mentally, physically, and sexually abused has been hailed by many men as a very empowering film for women.

Police Story – with the current situation in the world, i thought i would watch a movie made during a time when we still thought fondly of the police. Jackie Chan is a police officer who goes on a personal vendetta against someone who he believes has slighted him. his superiors cover for him even though they suspect Jackie of murdering an innocent person. back then, being a cop was different.

Red Sun – what a disappointment. Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon, and Charles Bronson come together to make something much lesser than the sum of its parts. Toshiro Mifune was saying all of his English lines phonetically, and so was Charles Bronson. the score is abysmal and kills the mood whenever it appears. everything looks ugly. the script is bad. Charles Bronson is awful in this. this was directed by Terence Young, who directed Inchon, so that might explain it. this is like a chef taking amazing ingredients and making diarrhea soup.

Phase IV – boring sci fi movie about ants. the ants aren't even big, just regular ants. the human actors in this suck and have no chemistry. the ants have way more personality. really boring but people love this movie for all the cool macroscopic shots of ants doing their thing. i didn't like this film because they killed a lot of ants in real life, which i do not condone. also because it was incredibly boring and the actors were terrible.

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - i was about 10 years old when this movie came out, and i remember being sort of terrified of Hugo Weaving done up in drag in the tv commercials. well, he was just as scary as i remembered him. perhaps even scarier. despite Mr. Weaving's horrifying visage, this movie was cute. being a drag queen seems fun.

A Boy and His Dog – while watching this movie I began to realize how many video games ripped this film off. Don Johnson plays a youthful scavenger in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, and he has a pet dog that talks to him telepathically. the dog has advanced echolocation capabilities that allow him to locate women for Don Johnson to rape. check it out, i guess...

Mulholland Drive - i didn't get this movie. i had to look up an explanation after i watched it. i didn't have to look up an explanation after i watched Predator, you know.

Shoplifters – this is a cute movie about a family of Japanese thieves. this movie is better than Parasite.

Parasite – this is a movie about a family of Korean con artists. this movie isn't as good as Shoplifters.

San Andreas – The Rock is a helicopter pilot and has to protect his daughter and ex-wife as California sinks into the sea. i am ashamed to admit i enjoyed this movie.

The Day of the Dolphin – George C. Scott accidentally trains a talking dolphin to assassinate the President of the United States of America. sadly, for a movie with such a tremendous premise, it is also tremendously boring. Mr. Scott spends a portion of all his scenes yelling for his wife Maggie, who is invariably in another room.

Godzilla – this movie is so cool. Godzilla is really the manifestation of the guilt and fear felt by the Japanese people after World War 2. the movie isn't really about Godzilla's rampage, and has a poignant message about how humanity must stop focusing on building weapons of war, and instead must come together and build something greater than what we had before, for future generations to enjoy and expand upon.

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla – in this one a robot Godzilla is sent to Earth by aliens from outer space and the robot Godzilla and regular Godzilla beat the poo poo out of each other and it's fuckin badass. Godzilla kicks Mechagodzilla's rear end so hard the first time they meet, that the aliens have to kidnap a scientist from Earth to fix Mechagodzilla. this is because the technologically advanced aliens lacked the knowledge and skill required to repair the robot that they themselves created.

Dark Star – John Carpenter's cheap student film about space garbage men that explode unstable planets. four hairy men sit in a tiny spaceship and complain about everything and lose their minds. there is a sentient bomb and a beach ball alien. this is my favorite John Carpenter film so far.

Affair in Trinidad – Rita Hayworth looks like she's got some sort of wasting illness in this one. everyone looks old and tired and sickly. allegedly takes place in Trinidad but everything is an interior shot.

Sanshiro Sugata – Kurosawa's first movie. it's about some Judo guy. this is one of the not-good Kurosawa films. there are some very nice looking shots, because it's still Kurosawa, but it's just not very interesting. it's missing two scenes, but i don't think they would have improved the movie much. watch it for the novelty value, i guess.

I Was a Teenage Werewolf – a young man with mental problems goes to a psychiatrist who surreptitiously injects him with a drug that turns him into a werewolf. this is why i had such a hard time finding a good therapist.

Plan 9 From Outer Space – this movie is fun, but it gets kinda boring. the big problem with all these famous “bad” movies is that they're all dull. they're funny for the first 15 or 20 minutes but then you have to watch the rest of the movie. its about how the atomic bomb is bad and how humans will make an even worse weapon, much like Godzilla.

Shutter Island – Leo DiCaprio has to go to Crazy Man Island Prison to uncover a mystery. he encounters an inmate who essentially gives the same speech about hydrogen bombs as the alien from Plan 9 From Outer Space. I thought this movie was fine but apparently people have problems with it. it's fine, whatever.

Casino Royale – the one with Peter Sellers. this movie is a real mess, but i kind of liked it. Peter Sellers was so scared of Orson Welles that he quit the film before it was finished. every woman in this film is beautiful, and every man is ugly. Peter Sellers probably would have fit right in on the forums. not because he was funny, but because he was always depressed, and his strange behavior alienated him from other people, and he was intimidated by large, confident men. this film is a cursed object, it was forced into existence against the will of the universe. if you watch it, you will be cursed to have Burt Bacharach's incredible score stuck in your head until you die.

i'm sorry for the delay, i thought the forums were going to disappear and the mood was real down and i've been waiting for another manic episode so i could write.

Dangerous Person
Apr 4, 2011

Not dead yet
Tomorrow my post work movie is gonna be Ikiru. I bought the blu ray years ago and never got around to it


I really really want that Criterion Godzilla set but my brain keeps telling me not to spend 100 dollars on giant monster movies

Paper Lion
Dec 14, 2009




Seth Rollins posted:


Mulholland Drive - i didn't get this movie. i had to look up an explanation after i watched it. i didn't have to look up an explanation after i watched Predator, you know.


youre tryin to heat me up and i wont let u. serenity now

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

Sanshiro Segata

yea ok
Jul 27, 2006

thanks for the goods. the stuff i like that you like i'm glad for. the stuff you dontl ike that i like, youre an idiot!!!!!

ChrisBTY
Mar 29, 2012

this glorious monument

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

Planescape Torment is good, but is it...disco??

Disco Elysium is Torment without the bad parts. Though they do have radically different stories and tell and both are worth your time.

Also; I've been playing Outward. I have never felt this outclassed by a video game before. I am 20 hours into a playthrough and I am still so loving bad at combat. I can't overcome it and I can't think about anything else. I've asked for help but unfortunately most of the answers ultimately boiled down to 'Git Gud' in the nicest way possible. i swear to GOD they are talking about a different game than I am. I can't do this and I am loving pissed that I can't do this.

ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Jul 14, 2020

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Seth Rollins posted:

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla – in this one a robot Godzilla is sent to Earth by aliens from outer space and the robot Godzilla and regular Godzilla beat the poo poo out of each other and it's fuckin badass. Godzilla kicks Mechagodzilla's rear end so hard the first time they meet, that the aliens have to kidnap a scientist from Earth to fix Mechagodzilla. this is because the technologically advanced aliens lacked the knowledge and skill required to repair the robot that they themselves created.

Absolutely loving incredible :allears:

NienNunb
Feb 15, 2012

Mulholland Drive is my favorite movie.....

CobiWann
Oct 21, 2009

Have fun!

jesus WEP posted:

2 is better than 1, planescape torment is way better than both. so you've got a lot of good poo poo ahead, friend :)

Don't sleep on Icewind Dale. Where Torment is all about the story, Icewind Dale is all about the hack-and-slash.

Shard
Jul 30, 2005

I may have been exposed to the virus. My job requires me to be in office 1 day a week and a friend watches my kids. My babysitter's husband's mom died of presumptive corona what the doctors called it. Also someone at his job has it now.

The crazy thing is that family has been being careful.

Spiderdrake
May 12, 2001



CobiWann posted:

Don't sleep on Icewind Dale. Where Torment is all about the story, Icewind Dale is all about the hack-and-slash.
On the other hand, do sleep on Icewind Dale, since the combat is still better in BG and BG has an expansion, a sequel and an expansion so why bother playing the Drizztverse version when you can spend a hundred hours going whole hog in BG until you're violently ill at the thought of pausing combat again?

NienNunb
Feb 15, 2012

Back into watching movies again.........

Bullitt rn, wanna watch Grand Prix next. Man of the West I watched this morning. Mid century moods...

NienNunb
Feb 15, 2012

Someday I wanna post a bunch of movie reviews like Seth Rollins Drew McEntrye and have everyone say "I'm proud of you NienNunb I love you" but what would more likely happen is that the trolls and the sycophants would throw rotten vegetables at me and a big vaudeville hook would pull me off stage. Cav would be manning the hook.

Bluedeanie
Jul 20, 2008

It's no longer a blue world, Max. Where could we go?



I like your letterboxd reviews. even the ones I hate.

Beef Jerky Robot
Sep 20, 2009

"And the DICK?"

I watched and reviewed a movie a day in 2018 and it was a big pain in the rear end. Still love da moviesh though.

NienNunb
Feb 15, 2012

Bluedeanie posted:

I like your letterboxd reviews. even the ones I hate.

Love the anti-Dean warding spell I put on Kubrick reviews

Bluedeanie
Jul 20, 2008

It's no longer a blue world, Max. Where could we go?



It works on me bc it smells like what I imagine he smelled like

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Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
i think niennunb should post reviews in this thread

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