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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.

Holy ****, his former podcast co-host Robert Rundo is the guy who told nazisconcerned citizens who lean a little to the right how to hop the border to Mexico to avoid federal charges. Was just listening to a podcast about him recently, very serendipitous, hope both guys truly have a bad time and get a ticket to hell asap.

I was thinking mostly the same, but I got a bias towards gishes so maybe I'll go for Spearhand or whatever the Thief/Mage is. The Trickster looks interesting but also not really my thing.

I'm hyped but I wish they'd let us see more classes. I got the feeling Ranger is gonna be the advanced for the archer, but I'm interested in what they do for the thief's advanced vocation. Also Trickster and Warfarer don't follow the standard color mapping of hybrid vocations (they don't use two of the base colors bisected like the mystic spearhand or magic archer) so maybe there's more of them than the six hybrids we'd normally expect.

I dunno, maybe Lynch understood Dune better than all of us and Kyle MacLaughlin's Paul Atreidis is a villain. While I haven't read the books but from what I've seen Space Lawrence of Arabia who manipulates the religious beliefs of a colonized people in order to take revenge and seize power certainly is a legit read on Paul and is undoubtedly villainous. That's certainly a more interesting story than the conventional heroes journey. Timothee Chamalet (I don't know if I mispelled it and I don't care tbh) looks like a grown up starving Victorian child. I would have cast Kristen Stewart or Lakeith Stanfield as Paul Atreidis.

Night of the Comet (1984) - Chakotay plays an 80s horror movie in the holodeck. It's not bad, there's several well done scenes and it's genuinely a more interesting take on zombies than I've seen in most films, but it is extremely 80s in every way but the obligatory nude scenes most other 80s horror flicks have.

A beef and mushroom ragu with a simple salad and sheet cake for desert. I'm satisfied.

My hype level for this is rising, hopefully I can finish my Maddening run of Engage before it releases or it may get interrupted just like last time with BG3.

Admittedly I'm not the biggest Star Wars guy, but I took the Darth Plagueis story to be more of Palpatine trying to trick Anakin into falling by tempting him with something, especially because his promise went unfulfilled. And Star Wars cloning doesn't seem to replicate the person so much as create a biological copy of them, while Return of the Jedi: Abrams version had it definitely as Palpatine himself, not Palpatine's body double. But really it was just a bad move for the reasons you've already mentioned. It's clear that the only plan for the sequel trilogy was to try and print money off the brand name and that the trilogy was greenlit without even an outline which is questionable storytelling but apparently good bizness. Moreover, the obvious answer would be to have just introduced Abeloth. I think we can all say 2 hours of Star Wars Cthullu would have been better than what actually happened.

"Somehow, Palpatine returned" ...... I think the bigger problem isn't the talents of professional writers per se as the studios being increasingly neurotic and businesses wanting to overwork everyone while not paying ****. So the only ones who can reliably work in Hollywood are nepobabies while talented people from less wealthy backgrounds get burned out in the gig economy instead of being able to create....all while studio execs burn down hundreds of hours of work for a tax break because the algorithm told them 1000 pound twin housewives would be better. It's all a ****show.

Yeah that's worse than I'd have thought. Mostly I'm just sad about Nintendo both being sue happy IP trolls and bizarrely unwilling to curate their classic titles. I can see doing one or the other, but doing both is just head scratching.

Knowing nothing about this I have to say it sounds incredibly dumb on the part of Yuzu. We all know Nintendo can be extremely litigious and to test them by trying to scalp them on their biggest release in years is asking to get your ass buried in lawyer drama. That said Nintendo's track record of preservation is atrocious and it's sad that what was one avenue for preserving a rich catalog has effectively been demolished. I'm thinking back to the N64, GameCube, and even Wii games that will likely never be able to be played legally without hunting down old consoles and physical media.

Moar Fire Emblem Engage - Maddening The main chapters aren't that hard but holy **** the paralogues are brutal. The Ike one has a great "oh ****" moment where Ike just blows up half the map and you get rushed by everything from the top of the map and stupid busted reinforcements (with no xp gain from fighting) that pop up to **** up your backline. If Ike had used Great Ather I'd have had to restart.

Arrebato (1979) This film is very weird by my standards, so make of that what you will. Many have made films where cinema itself was the focus, this is the first I can think of where cinema is treated as an addiction akin to heroin with steep withdrawals and eventual consuming those who are hooked on it. Stylistically it feels like a drug fueled nightmare with unnerving music throughout and a raspy static voice over narrating much of the film.

I can see that, but the thing is that he's more of a burden when he tries to do stuff and has been told so every time we have to rush him a chair and water. He's also convinced himself that there isn't a big issue with his lungs despite having been a heavy smoker since he was a teenager and struggles for breath constantly. It's just exhausting.