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He's been hospitalized for a couple of days now after the tumor grew large enough to push against his small intestine. He previously had a gallbladder stent inserted, he's currently fed through a tube and underwent intestinal bypass surgery, but that probably isn't going to help much. Actually not entirely sure that he'll be able to leave the hospital (well, alive, that is, but the post is morbid enough without mentioning it directly - oh, wait ). Tumor resisted any and all attempts to reduce its size to an operable level. It's terrifyingly aggressive, even for pancreatic cancer, but such is the nature of the beast.

Easiest way to finish the Sarevok fight is Potion of Invisibility + Protection From Magic scroll = standing on the trap that fires infinte Skull Traps until everything is dead. Not sure if any mod or the EE patched that out though.

I see, and that makes sense. Alan Rickman is great in everything, he's the primary reason I watched the Harry Potter films and actually liked them - for the most part, at least. Not very fond of Order of the Phoenix or the way the finale drags itself out, but I think we've been over that before. We never really rewatched films outside of me wanting to see them and just putting in the tape when I was six*. Which was, by far and large, the original Star Wars trilogy, I must have watched the films over a hundred times. I'm pretty sure my parents are completely sick of the films. Out of the Pixar films I've watched, I liked A Bug's Life, but that came out at a time where I simply had an appreciation for the technical leap in between Toy Story and A Bug's Life, I'm unsure how the film would hold up nowadays and I don't feel like rewatching it just to check. Finding Nemo was okay insofar as Dory is a character that is a perfect match for a friend of mine. When the film came out she used an image of Dory as avatar and started calling herself Dory in real life. WALL-E on the other hand is good fun, has really nice moments between WALL-E and EVE, and now that I think of it, it dawns on me that the interactions between Hibiki and Uta in Bubble are perhaps a little similar to WALL-E and EVE. Huh. Guess rewatching WALL-E is up at some point. Can't deride something that's not there. Kidding. It's not your taste, actually, just your - admittedly enviable - ability to enjoy apparently everything because it's just a movie**. *We had - still have, in a way, just in the basement - this massive film library at home. Hundreds upon hundreds of tapes, then DVDs, then Blu Rays, and at best they got used once directly after buying them, and only when they were films we wanted to watch but didn't go to the cinema for. **Infuriating when it happens in online games. Yes, perhaps this is just a game, but that does not give you the right to waste my time, filthy casual.

Not entirely certain what to make of this fasco-goth look but otherwise it's... something. Not a bad something though. In spite of the looks, it's not really heavy enough to be metal, so it's in this thread.

Watched enough Star Trek for the parody to work? I loved Galaxy Quest, but I'm not sure if that film is interesting at all without it working as intended. Other than that: Usual and obligatory comment on the Dollars 'trilogy' whenever it comes up: Like some of the commenters on the RL re:View video, I think Once Upon a Time in the West is Leone's best film, even if Clint Eastwood would probably have been a better main character than Charles Bronson - but alas, one can't have everything, right? Casting Henry Fonda as the villain was a bold choice, and from what I recall from interviews one of the biggest reasons Henry Fonda took the role in the first place. Doing something else for a change.

Yeah, I guess I really am an alien. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow's CGI doesn't even try to pass itself off as real, and therefore is infinitely better than the CGI animals in Prey. The film looks like an animated version of a early 20ies/30ies sci-fi movie with a campy 50ies storyline. It is absolutely perfect in what it tried to achieve. Actually, if CGI was exclusively used for films like that, I'd sit here arguing for more instead of less. Is it a good film? Well, probably not. But it's simply wonderful. I was thinking of high budget movies in general, and there are those that are still shot on film, like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which I've never watched because I generally find myself not liking Tarantino films (in spite of them usually being more character and dialoge driven than regular films, I guess there's something about his style that simply doesn't speak to me). In epic action, fantasy or sci-fi films, even the big budget titles that don't look terrible fall flat because they're terrible for other reasons. The Force Awakens for instance had good sets instead of everything being CGI like in the prequels, but the film itself was creatively bankrupt to the point where it make Return of the Jedi's reuse of the Death Star looks like a vibrant, fresh idea. But yes, that mirrors the issue with triple-A gaming and (Japanese) animation, but I still think film is still in a better place than either anime or triple-A gaming. Anime often panders to the lowest common denominator in a way that just wouldn't be acceptable in film any more and employes rote tropes and stereotypical characters to that end, and modern character design looks gross and adds a malus to that needs to be overcome by everything else being better than it otherwise would need to be. Triple-A gaming does the same, with a different focus group. Films? Yes, the overwhelming amount of films that come out are trash, and there's a new dime a dozen romantic comedy or superhero film out every day. Yet, still, there's usually a bunch of servicable or better films in any given genre per year of varying budgets. The writing's on the wall, of course, with everything in the streaming world heading towards an inflationary period where everything is simply being drowned in mediocre trash to keep people subbed to a hundred different services. Subjectively, I had more success finding various films I enjoyed that were made recently than either games or anime. Actually a bunch of pretty good ones came out last year or this year. However, as per the initial part of this post, I guess my subjectivity isn't worth much to actual people. Don't misunderestimate (lol ) me here, I do enjoy the occasional so bad it is good film, and I have Masters of the Universe in my top 10 movies of all time list for a reason. Fire Birds isn't one of those, and Top Gun - at least the first one - isn't a bad film by any metric when looking at what it is, factoring in genre conventions of the time and adjusting your expectations accordingly. Something that is much easier when one is provided with contrast in the context of said conventions. It sure feels outdated nowadays and probably aged less gracefully than other films, but that is something else entirely. Still perfectly valid to not like Top Gun. I hated being forced to watch Bridget Jones's Diary too, but the film is arguably a good romantic comedy if one likes that sort of thing.

Episode title: Redhead Force(d) Ghost Gangbang. I'll show myself out.

The wisdom of Confucius applies to movies as well: Even old clothes look new if put next to even older clothes! Best read with an utterly racist accent. Can substitute whatever ancient wise man you want, Buddha, or maybe one of the Dalai Lamas. But yeah, exactly, nothing makes average action schlock look better than worse action schlock as contrast.

Yeah, so my stuff was mostly uncommented and intentionally as arcane as I could manage to make it. Which is fairly easy to do in C, especially if your target operating system is Novell-DOS. typedef unsigned int (far *s_arrayptr); struct mainscreenstructure { int x; int y; s_arrayptr screen[80]; } mainscreen; void screenOutputxy(int x, int y, char *out, long ATTR) { for (int i = 0; i <= strlen(out); i++) mainscreen.screen[y][x + i] = out[i] + ATTR; } void main(void) { _DL = 1; _DH = 1; _AH = 0x02; _BH = 0; asm int 10h; for (register int i = 0; i < 25; i++) mainscreen.screen[i] = (s_arrayptr) ((void 0xB800 + i * 0xA * )( 0xB800 + i * 0xA ) + ( void near * )( 0 )); mainscreen.x = 0; mainscreen.y = 0; screenOutputxy(0, 0, "Hello World", 0xF000); _AX = 0x0700; _asm int 21h; } Heh, that CODE tag is kind of hard to read. In case it's not totally obvious ( ), this clears the screen, then builds a struct full of pointers to every character on a DOS 80x25 screen and writes Hello World directly on the screen, then waits for an input. Because only lamers use printf().

I'm unsure if that's a Sub Rosa joke or not. If it is, that's the most disturbing thing posted here by far. If it isn't, that just shows how disturbed I am.

Can't believe you guys actively dislike Top Gun. There are worse movies out there. Go watch Fire Birds as a contrast, while that's helicopters, not fighter jets, it's... you know, actually like really bad.

Too late, he already set everything in motion. With his mind. Might take a couple of decades, but it will kill you. Eventually.

As an avid fan of animation, for me, that ship already sailed 20 years ago. In cinema, you at least get the odd high budget movie that still looks good, with decently made CGI if there has to be any, or films that do not rely on special effects that work mostly without CGI, or films where CGI is used appropriately, whereas in animation, we will never ever get anything that isn't trash grade digital any more, and worse, to wit: Even animation that once looked good (one can think of Disney films that they want, but for the most part, they're all impeccably animated) is ruined to make it look more modern - and the horrible implication that sits at the back of the fact that filters for this even exist, that modern audiences actually prefer this one-note digital coloring effect where everything looks clean and fake. Kinda like CGI bears, except worse. Resolution and random screencaps from the web nonwithstanding, we went from this: To this: Can someone please put me out of my misery?

Yeah, sometimes when the mood strikes me, I'll grab my old backups and flip through them. The stuff I wrote at school, no wonder my teachers hated me.

As we all know, everything is better when turned into Eurodance. Everything. In the magical year of 1996, this Eurodance cover of Queen's Bicycle Race came out, finally proving that the 90ies surpassed every other decade in music history! Well, and because I'm fairly certain some of you musical heathens here will not appreciate this greatness, let me post the best part as a screenshot of the video: Yes, that's Blümchen cosplaying as Freddy. At least I think that's what this is supposed to be... Heh, and you all thought Scooter was bad, huh?

Well, you asked for it:

Well, back at work, already confronted with the fact that literally everyone else at the company is a complete dweeb incapable of critical thinking and problem analysis, and I'm back at doing what I sadly am best at: fixing someone else's mess. Yay...

Wait, are you telling me that my bank didn't send me an e-mail telling me to confirm my account? What's next, the Nigerian prince did not need my credit card credentials for a lucrative gold mine deal?

Looking at pictures of the stuff, not just for the average Japanese palate.

Looks like this Alex Jones Sandy Hook trial had a hilarious side effect. The plaintiff's council apparently obtained a copy of Jones' mobile phone data for the past two years (sent to them by Jones' defense, no less) and now the January 6th committee wants a piece of it.

We used to have a poster who complained that Bioware made all the women in DA:I ugly or with male skulls to push some hidden trans female agenda.

I typed up half a paragraph about the use of CGI in films, but then Agent Smith asked my why I persist, and I realized that I should just chose not to. Suffice it to say that this sort of weightless fake CGI hurts my personal suspension of disbelief more than an alien big game hunter stalking humans for fun. The bear is only one part of the film, but certainly the most egregious - there's of course the fake snake too, the fake wolf and the fake cougar, and they all have the same problem. Very, very deep uncanny vally. Everything about these scenes makes my brain scream at me. Like @Bartimaeus suggested, if that is the result, one might as well just drop the action sequence entirely. No, you're right, they're all supposed to be Comanche. Great, now the archery doesn't just look wonky, now I know it is wonky. No idea what happened there, but from the video you posted and looking at a follow up, it looks like the producers took a peek at Ishi archery and added some Mediterranean flavor to it. Well, or they watched too much Avatar like you said.

Predator punching CGI bear is probably my laugh out loud unintentionally funny moment in film for 2022. What follows isn't so bad either, the Predator drags a thousand pounds of almost weightless bear through a beaver dam. Yeah, sorry, I guess sometimes close enough just isn't good enough.

It's just shortened to DÖF anyway. Fun fact, there's a Yiddish version (with some English lyrics): The sister of Codo (well, the singer, at least) went on to found 2Raumwohnung: I know, our somethwat grumpy, not very funny northern neighbors. EAV isn't German, is all. Brilliant music videos too, this one often gets falsely derided for being racist, just because it has a bunch of white guys in yellow face and mixes every East Asian culture under the sun. Linked it before, though in the anime thread. Yeah well, I can see how that could be considered racist when not understanding the lyrics. Heh. Actually... without a certain appreciation for the language, the music is just average silly pop. Well, can't be helped.