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I think about this a lot, how there are things that you can appreciate the craftsmanship of but not enjoy as much as something that's lesser on a technical level but just works better for you. Frankly I've given up on trying to rationalize it and have just accepted my broken brain.

Eh, not enough options to execute homeless people. 6.9/10.

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The Baker (2022) The Retirement Plan (2023) Pretty much old guy kills a lot of people when his estranged (grand)kids are put in danger. At the end of the day they're the same kind of movie, decent popcorn or background stuff but not really memorable.

Both mayo and miracle whip are the condiments of the devil. The BLAND devil. At the very least whip in some spices or hot sauce into it, or use butter. I went to Tim Hortons and ate a bec croissant and a crueller with a latte because I had to start work at 6am this morning.

Bibi has definitely made it clear that he favors the Republicans pretty damn heavily and uhhhh....Bibi may have intervened in the 2016 election to help Trump. So would not be particularly surprising to me. I think the most damning thing for Biden comes from Biden himself, whose unwillingness or inability to rein in Israel makes him look callous or weak. Joe is going to lose to Trump because he can't even call out a guy who hates him for doing war crimes, let alone stop sending weapons to him. More and more I think the Dems just like losing.

Huh, maybe I'll try to read Dune. I don't like Villeneuve's movies because they very much feel too mechanistic and don't have the weird psychedelica that is in Lynch's Dune and apparently the books. Anyway I read Raw Dog - a book about hot dogs, the labor to make them, and a breakup happening over a road trip. It's pretty good tbh. Next up is After the Revolution.

It's actually good, especially the Onyx. But it is vodka and does have a big price tag (at least here in Texas) so maybe not $50+ good.

You're missing out on The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976). Easily one of the best movies I've seen.

Mulholland Drive (2001) I can certainly bang out a very big blog post about games but I'm not sure if it has to be Obsidian specifically.

I think the anti-vax stuff is dumb and all but I'd personally be able to overlook that if the acronymn man was also a steadfast union guy or consistently anti-war but he's not. For all intents and purposes he's just a laughable centrist whose biggest differential with Joey Genocide is that he'd prefer to shoot up anabolic steroids instead of a vaxx.

I'd have more respect for, and perhaps even consider voting for, RFKJRBBQ if he didn't fold on his anti-war/interventionst stance when it came to Israel decimating Gaza. Joe Biden is already the disappointing centrist who can't do anything worth a **** and I'm ashamed to have voted for him in 2020. At this point I'll probably just go with the most popular candidate of 2016: staying home.

Amadeus (1984) Director's Cut Like the recent Elvis movie, this is a biopic where the main character isn't the subject. Unlike Elvis, instead of a greedy manager in the spotlight we have a seething Salieri who is disgusted that a vulgar creature like Mozart is more talented than him while also being in awe of him. It's also got ye olde costumes that look hilarious now like the powdered wigs. Yuge reccomend.

I have officially taken care of my taxes. Thank you H&R Block for making taxes in Ameristan so byzantine instead of the feds just sending me a bill. Maybe I'm just an ignorant lapsed Catholic here but why in the world would they take away Good Friday as a holiday for Protestants? The rest of it sounds like a real handful, I guess if they make it hard to leave that means they can make more money save more souls.

I remember hearing fantasies if how AI/automation would free us from tedious work and allow creativity/leisure, I see countless panels featuring some soulless tech dip****s giddy at the idea of AI making all the art so we can do tedium even harder, but the truth is that all AI is spam or scam.

I think this is one of the first articles I've seen in a "mainstream" outlet that hasn't stuck with the awkward exonerative wording to avoid saying that Israel killed people.

I'll do it. The one I can get is the director's cut I think, it's about half an hour longer than the US release. I'd tentatively reccomend it to you, compared to a lot of films today it's not quite as outrageous as when it dropped. Like I said it wasn't what I went in expecting and frankly turned out to be a much better film because of it. I'd also be curious to see your take on Lair of the White Worm and how it relates to Altered States. They're very different (hallucinogenic fantasy vs horror) but the hallucinations scenes felt like they could be transplanted.

Sleepwalkers (1992) It's a 90s horror flick. Not really much else to say, it doesn't do anything particularly noteworthy. The Devils (1971) I think this is the film Ken Russell followed up with The Boyfried (1971) that took @Bartimaeus last shred of sanity. So I went into this mostly blind and was expecting something completely unhinged and got something that was all too hinged. It's an incredible film, perhaps one of the best I've seen, but it hits much closer to what The Crucible (1996) wanted to be than the hyper-sex crazed Excorcist I went in expecting. There are some truly striking scenes and transitions filled with top notch acting and dialogue that hits wonderfully. I'm just at kind of a place where my brain is so broken that "wildest film evar" doesn't really move my weird-o-meter....but I guess that's just me being a big ol weirdo. Altered States (1980) I got to say that it very much reminded me of another Ken Russel film, Lair of the White Worm (1988) in terms of composition of the hallucination sequences. Observation aside, movie is god damn incredible. I love when time jumps are handled relatively organically instead of just plastering "5 years later" over the film, Altered States does this several times which helps reinforce the psychedelic atmosphere by playing with the viewers' sense of time. Definitely enjoyed the shift from depicting hallucinations from the perspective of the hallucinator to that of the one viewing them, particularily when the main character started to.....deconstitute???? It's a very weird ride

I'm too busy to play many new games right now, but "Hell Pie" does sound pretty funny.

No I see it too. Maybe you have a doppelganger. Edit: reacting to it doesn't seem to do anything

Sexy Beast (2000) A stylish and lean crime drama that packs an incredible punch. It's got both Ian McShane and Ben Kingsley in it and they are just incredible, and Ray Winstone nails the look of a retired criminal whose settled down. There's several dreamlike sequences that go into surreal territory which make for a nice break from the slice of life and crime drama parts of the film, sort of acting as a bridge between them. Sound is also completely on point, and there's more than a few scene transitions that will stick with me for a while.

Okie Dokie KoTor 2 - I originally played this before the first one on a friend's xbox when I was either in elementary or middle school. It blew my mind. Coming back to it years later as an adult I found it was rough around the edges but still largely held up. NWN2 - I was a big 3.5 guy back in middle school and high school, so I played the **** out of this. MotB remains one of the best dnd things I have ever played, og campaign was meh and the other expansion was cool but not really my thing. Fallout: New Vegas - Probably one of the best games I have ever played. I finished it once because I have a terminal case of rerollitis but I PoE - On paper I should love this game, but on release I hated it because the way it came together it was just too damn tedious. After expansions and polishing it I find it to be ok to good but still missing something. Deadfire - As with the orignal, on paper I should love it but in practice I just don't. It didn't have as rocky of a release as PoE but at it's worst it's very tedious. Also I got killed more by traps than by combat lmao, because they made trap detection only influenced by Perception and only give one companion with good perception and I didn't take the gun lady with me as much. And I thought that 5 man party just felt odd, but I tend to prefer even numbers. Tyranny - An ok sidestory game, but not very memorable. The rest I haven't played much of or I forgot about them.

"Vote Putin" and "Halal"? Russo-Islamic Caliphate of Eurasia confirmed.

Not yet. I'm desperately trying to beat Fire Emblem Engage on Maddening before DD2 drops because I don't want to get derailed again. From what I've seen I'm going to spend a few hours in it at least.

As an aside....., since @Bartimaeus was talking about chins in the movie thread I can't help but think of Tarantino's massive chin. It could be used as a diving board, which he would probably enjoy.