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Last week's Komi remained untalked about, apparently. It was the second part of the school trip and it was actually quite fine. It even had a decent payoff at the end. This will never really become good due to a number of bad decisions, but it really stopped being horrible a while back. Not sure if that has to do with the insane stalker girl and dog girl being curiously absent. Except for a brief stint in the bath where dog girl's breasts were called giant meatballs (or something like that, anyway) and stalker girl tried to touch Komi's. Or rather, asked if she was allowed to. A couple more of those and I'll actually start believing that's what Japanese girls do when in the bath. Sheesh.

It is a command line call that adds a registry key to disable the new context menu in Windows 11. Requires a reboot. You can also use regedit of course but that is slower than just copy/pasting this.

Why do you hate freedom? Okay, 20 year old reference is old, but maybe it'll work.

When you (eventually) switch to Windows 11, remember to execute this command: reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve Otherwise you'll end up going crazy. Well, maybe that's me projecting, but the new context menu sure drove me crazy before I figured out how to turn it off.

It is, and it never gets better, although there is one moment in the film that caused me to laugh out loud. Not sure when that was, but I think it was after twenty minutes. Jessica is looking for Hernan and stumbles across a jazz jam session. Bass, piano, guitar and drums. The camera just holds on Jessica and some other people initially rapturously (then somewhat uncomfortably) watching the performance for one and a half minutes, and then the scene switches to their point of view and one can observe the band. Clearly art. What could spell out ART any better than some jazz in this piece of art?

That'll fix any pressure issues. Well, any pressure at all, even!

Tilda Swinton's Non-Interactive Walking Simulator (2021) Well, the actual title of the 'film' is Memoria, but why not call it by what it is. It roped me into being watched by having a favorable review in a newspaper I read and Tilda Swinton in the lead, and when isn't Tilda Swinton delightful in what she shows up in? In cases of filmmakers who create walking simulators but forget to make them a video game. The basic premise of the film is rather simple, Jessica, played by Tilda Swinton, is one fine night woken by a strange sound she will later describe as a rumble deep in the earth caused by a small concrete ball hitting a metallic surface. That sets off a chain of events that's best described as Tilda Swinton walking through various scenes that are with two exceptions filmed in flat angles with perfectly static framing. No, this isn't one of my exaggerations, outside of one scene where she walks down a road with the camera following her and one scene where the camera is mounted inside her car (which promptly stops to make it static again), there is zero camera movement in the film. The shots are either wide when there's no dialogue to be had, or close when there is. That is the entire extent of the film's camera usage, which was described, by the review, as delightful experience for all senses. At best this applies to the sound engineering of the film. Saying that the pacing of this fabrication of scenes is glacial would be doing an injustice to the speed at which glaciers are currently disappearing. Continental plate drift is pretty quick in comparison, but even that comparison falls flat, because in order to have a pace, one needs a plot that proceeds at it. Which this film doesn't have. For the most part, it really is just a loose collection of incredibly boring, static shots of Tilda Swinton walking through Columbia - which is admittedly a pretty country, all in all. Every now and then she interacts with another character. One called Juan, and one called Hernan, because apparently the director and script writer could not come up with any other Spanish sounding names. There's a doctor who gives Jessica a Jesus loves you brochure to help her with the insomnia she's struggling with. Ironically, if you're looking for a cure for insomnia, this might be it. I don't have any issues with films that don't readily make sense, or that are slow paced, but in such cases they need to be visually interesting - they're films, after all, and this is a masterful showcase of how to not achieve that. For those of you that played Furi, imagine watching roughly two hours and fifteen minutes of the game's 'storyline' unfold between the fights, just with a lot less talking. Eh, and no strange worlds, just Columbia, with people walking about. Or, if you want, imagine a film that is basically a point and click adventure let's play. Just without puzzles, or jokes, or anything that makes point and click adventures interesting. One of the reviews really stand out: Emphasis added by me. That may very well be the case, but at the end of the day, it is a film, not an audio drama or a collection of meditative audio tracks you put on to relax. Actually, if you removed the film part, and just let everything play without visuals on the screen, the experience would probably be worthwhile. Alas, once more, I don't understand the raving reviews. Looking at an experimental film that says nothing and tries to be contemplative is all nice if it works, but it just doesn't. I don't even know how I should rate this. Tilda Swinton gives a good performance that simply doesn't work and does not evoke the slightest reaction. Guess I'm not one for meditative experiences. Who would have thunk? If I had not watched Sailor Moon Crystal I'd rate this travesty as the worst piece of dreck I've ever had the misfortune to sit through, and I'm not sure Sailor Moon Crystal, in a vaccuum, is worse - it is just really bad next to the older version. Hell, I'd rather watch The Last Jedi again, and that is a film that made me appreciate Attack of the Clones. Now, if you feel the need to call me an uneducated gonk with no appreciation for art, go ahead, but at least try to explain to me how a film consisting of next to zero visually interesting shots is supposed to be a masterpiece of filmmaking and cinematography. Edit: I want to take this opportunity to apologize to @David Lynch who most likely isn't reading this forum anway that I called Mulholland Drive pretentious cow droppings. I profusely apologize and repent, I have seen the light. Yep.

Spawn's devil wants to remind you that he exist too.

Nah, guess you'll have to wait until I try (and inevitably not like) Samurai Champloo.

in the video for like half a second, starting at 53 seconds. It's from Stone Ocean, which I only recognize because of the pictures posted here, and then it cuts to you favorite anime character ever: Homura.

Having actually watched: The End of Evangelion Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion Recognize: Bleach Spy x Family Some JoJo's season Something from some Dragonball Some stuff from the Fate franchise Going to assume that the volleyball anime showing up every now and then is Haikyuu!!. Also, terrible song, but the video was clearly a lot of work, blending the Michael Bay cuts together like that. Mostly not my thing. In every way.

I had one job interview in my life. I ended up having to do a Thomas PPA and didn't get the job I applied for. Initially, at least, turned out the other candidate was a bit of a dweeb. Still enjoy teasing them with the 2+ years they lost over that decision, but to this day I don't know what the result of this PPA thing was. edit: This one should give @Sarex a heart attack, I recently integrated a customer where I didn't write a single line of code for that integration until one day before the project release date. I faked my way through the entire acceptance test suite with a glorified unit test script. That was fun. Not recommended unless you enjoy a little bit of pressure and some insanity. Heh.

The ending saved the episode. It wasn't as fun as the Discovery mirror universe episodes, but it wasn't as bad as it looked to be before the intro sequence rolled.

Dammit, I had a feeling I forgot something. >.< Ten minutes in this looks like it is going to be "If Wishes Were Horses" on crack (literally). Great, just... great.

He either really believed it and disqualified himself by lacking the mental faculties or he knew and understood and showed a whole lot of criminal energy in addition to moral turpitude. Curious how little difference that really makes. Either way the former Orange in Chief needs to be kept from power.

Pegasus is in Berserk? 😮

I used to watch ピコリーノの冒険 as a child - which has no real relation to either of the films, just wanted to say that. Anyway, while the 1976 anime wasn't dark or twisted, it was a different take on the story, particularily where the fox and the cat were concerned. They were mischievous if not downright criminal and got the naive puppet into trouble all the time. Kinda loathe to try rewatching. It was fun as a kid, not sure how that would hold up. Anyway, mildly looking forward to the del Toro version. Big nope on the Disney thing.

But surly you belief in the rule of law in the US ? Their is no banana republic their !

The beard is just a trick. It's designed to draw your attention away from the real problem, which is what he says when he's playing CBS corporate shill. Looks like it works.

That's what I meant, are you celebrating France's recent election to balance having Macron as the lesser evil? You should. We all should. Let's buy French cheeses. 🧀

Hey @BruceVC, are you buying cheese right now?

Amazon Prime is doing me a favor and will make Lady Asuka disappear in three days. Not going to binge 20 episodes in that time. Guess that means I'll get to listen to the original VA somewhat soonish, that might improve the show a bit - or make it much worse.

Lady Asuka 20: Everyone is unhappy and miserable.

Plain to see with the superior use of color and the sharper edges that the first one is the much betterer, newerer version!

Texhnolyze, up to episode seven. Seven episode into Utena I had an idea what was going on, but seven episodes into this much shorter series I'm still at a total loss, although with this seventh episode it seems like a die has been cast, and things will pick up from there. Heavy breathing 'protagonist boy' is sure grating my nerves a little though. My fault for reading spoilerish comments, I guess, but still, pretty interesting, all in all.