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Not sure it's a film I would want to watch right before bed...

Still can't tell if I like or hate the look of that show.

I'm pretty sure the Bible said something about we four Horsemen of the Apocalypse all liking the same thing being the ignition for the end times, so I'm personally hoping @majestic hates it. InsaneCommander can probably get by with enjoying it without the apocalypse starting, though.

@Sarex I'm not going to disagree with you, because I can't. But I can't because I am trying really, really hard to recall what you're talking about right now, but I can only remember all of about a minute or two of that movie, which makes it just about impossible to be reminded of it at any place or time...outside of other situations where I have general feelings of anguish, mental disconnect, and "oh my gosh won't this please end". So no, Everything Everywhere All at Once does not remind me of that film, .

@Sarex No. Also, holy crap, I knew Waymond reminded me of someone... @KP wants Blue Velvet I did see that, but I already forgot I saw that. This movie was, on the whole, slightly more enjoyable than The Northman to me, .

I don't want to oversell it, so maybe only read this after you've seen it:

Yeah, I don't normally go for wacky silly insane stuff, but Everything Everywhere at Once is an exception.

Well, instead of watching that, I watched Wizards (1977). It has magical dwarves and fairies, robots and nukes, Nazi wizards and German war propaganda (no, really, read the plot)...what more could you want? This Ralph Bakshi guy sure made some weird stuff in his day. P.S. Watch the Nicholas Cage film instead.

I have not see Paddington 1/2, which on top of not having see this film either, I really just don't have the right context to understand what you mean, . Nicholas Cage doesn't seem to be in either, so I'm struggling to see the connection...

Did they improve upon the design of the original where like...you could only play as Shinobi and maybe like one other class I can't remember right now because every other class made for terrible damage sponge gameplay?

It's on Amazon Prime, but at a cost. I've also heard good things about it, although it still doesn't exactly sound like my cup of tea.

I saw all the black actors, general style, the fact that it's horror...and couldn't help but immediately think "man, this really feels like a Jordan Peele film". I thought that having watched and enjoyed his Get Out and Us, and then oh look, it actually is a Jordan Peele movie. Feeling slightly racist, but at least I was right, .

This sounds like it's just a transparent excuse for having her fall and look "cute". Is that the case? @majestic Sorry to hear that, I'm sure they'll get back on track soon.

If you've played it, how does it compare to the first Nioh? The first game was one of the "worst" games I've ever played (it's not actually among the worst in an objective sense, but I thought it was a pretty shoddy 5/10-ish Dark Souls knockoff that did practically just about everything it tried to do somewhere between somewhat to much worse than Dark Souls...and a 5/10 game that you play all the way through to the end feels much worse when it's like a 60 hour long game compared to a 5/10 4 hour game). Your top two complaints sound like they didn't fundamentally change much about the design of the game, though.

I have Wolf Children bookmarked from when I looked at a whole pile of modern-ish "prestige" anime films way, way back when I was first starting to try out anime...which I got through probably like ten of and was like "holy crap these are all just the worst" and stopped, so I never got around to it. I think Your Name, which I watched much later because I burnt out on trying them, was the only one of that group that I even semi-liked. I really, really don't feel as though A Silent Voice can work for me - the film-making sensibilities of that film were so repulsive to me that I was instantly hoping for bad things to happen to the characters. It's possible I was in an extraordinarily terrible mood when I tried it, but I feel as though you're not supposed to turn into a raging psychopath within the first 5-10 minutes of a film like A Silent Voice if it's going to work for you.

Are you challenging me? Oh, well, carry on then.

Is Netflix ramping up for Halloween, or what? I didn't much like their teen drama Sabrina show, but a dark Addams family show centered specifically on Wednesday...could be either awful or good.

The only HoMM game I've played is Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff, and that's apparently just a remake of King's Bounty. It was entirely about the units and not the player/hero character. That game is a little terrible, but it's also kind of fun and I beat the entire game a few years back, so I can't complain too much.

My impression of the show is that they really want to give every character something to do, even if whatever that is is pretty worthless to the story or just plain annoying. I can only assume this is at least partly because of fan pressure and trying to please everyone by giving all the fan favorites X amount of time to do whatever. It doesn't help that the cast keeps growing so the different groups of characters are becoming too large to really effectively showcase everyone outside of the slowest moments (not that I am against when the show slows down!). I would have liked for them to kill off or even just drop a few characters.

If you put it on XMP (or whatever) and it gets through one pass without error, it's almost certainly good. There's not really much need to let it do the full 4 passes or whatever it wants to do by default unless you actively suspect that there's something wrong with the module.

The End of Vampire in the Garden. I had a fit of insomnia and watched the rest of it. You know what, @KP wants Blue Velvet was right, it was pretty decent. Did I love everything about it? No way, but it more or less made up for the things I didn't like with things I did, so I wasn't being hypercritical while watching it, and that's what's important.

Vampire in the Garden, episode 1. So the few images I saw of this show highlighted a few things that I liked: odd character design, a girl looking pathetic and disconsolate (as if she had failed or done something that she'd rather not have), two girls working together in what looked like a factory (one of them being the previously mentioned sad-looking girl, which would imply one or both of them are important characters), and...vampires. I didn't really realize it, but I think Miyu has had an effect on me in that I find the idea of vampirism kind of interesting now (assuming they're not the outrageously stupid kind). So even though this is a piece of crap Netflix anime released in 2022, I thought I would try an episode. Plus, it's only 5 episodes long to begin with, and I don't think there's any possibility of a sequel, since it's an ONA? I'm not sure how that works, really. Well...it had some things that I liked, and a few things that I didn't. Well, really, it was kind of just one thing that was strongly negative, but it happened like three times: the main character deciding to have super emotional moments during important scenes that kind of just deflated them because they poorly handled and way overdone, which is unfortunately a bit of a staple of modern anime. Still, I'll watch a second episode, and that's not too bad - I'm kind of curious to see where it goes. I certainly have a much more positive impression than I did when I watched the first couple episodes of that Netflix Castlevania series.

Yeah, I always memtest86 new modules - feel like it's worth it to get it out of the way ASAP given how easily tested RAM is relative to other components.

I was sent this yesterday, and it now feels appropriate to post it here: