Poor Things (2023) Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her ...

Tonight's film

Poor Things

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Screenshot from the NYT with the title House Votes to Extend Expiring Law on Warrantless Surveillance for 10 Days

What the fuck are we even doing anymore.

F1 (2025) Racing legend Sonny Hayes is coaxed out of retirement to lead a struggling Formula 1 team—and mentor a young hotshot driver—while chasing one more chance at glory.

Tonight's first film

F1

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Tonight's film

No Other Choice

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Watching ICE stroll around JFK is stomach turning.

I haven't slept through the night in two weeks and it's really fucking annoying me.

Crosscurrent (2016) A voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.

Tonight's film

Crosscurrent

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This is what I was looking for

bsky.app/profile/apar...

I want to say I tried it at some point and it worked.

I tried it recently and it does not.

Screenshot of Claude's consumer terms and policies, highlighting section on how refusing to improve Claude impacts retention of data.

Unngh, that's nasty

Basically "we won't work for you if you don't give us your data"

What's the kill code for Claude?

Like, there's a string starting with something like "ANTHROPIC_<blah blah blah>" that if Claude comes across it, it stops processing.

It's a dev switch or something.

We got Tron Bonne!

Fruitvale Station (2013) Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station, in the early morning...

Tonight's film

Fruitvale Station

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I won a match in the East vs West tournament at Game Spot Versus!

Three game win streak in ST at Game Spot Versus

I am happy

"net negative for humanity"

Spitting fire bro

Individually, a person who plays fighting games may have a bunch of different complicated nuanced motivations and emotions that are served by different parts of the fighting game experience — not limited to the game itself on their console, but the broader journey of mastery and connectivity. The high-minded ideal FGC stuff I mentioned above is real and does exist! It just doesn’t exist enough to sell the millions of copies that go into funding the next Street Fighter or Tekken. At scale, building and selling games as a service looks a lot more like making a theme park or a casino, where you have customers entering at a given point, you give them choices on what kind of experience they can have in your game, and you give them clear signs and paths to choose from in order to make it easy for them. In the above section, we established that people play video games because they want to feel something specific. It’s a brief moment of agency in a day where you were otherwise probably at the mercy of some stupid bullshit at your job, or at school, or in your family, or on the bus, or whatever. We spend most of our day pushing the boulder up, and the brief moment of rest we get is choosing the video game we play in between eating dinner and going to sleep, where we get to act like the person we imagine ourselves to be as the boulder rolls back down the hill.

"Why ranked sucks and we can't get rid of it"

Wrote about how fighting games rely on ranked matchmaking to retain players even though it often makes the experience worse. Read this to learn about friction, addiction, motivation, and how you can Ranked responsibly.

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Like, I didn't know I wanted to experience this, but I'm glad I did.

Retroactive bucket list item checked.

Snowfall in Tokyo, near the Suidobashi Station

IT'S SNOWING IN TOKYO!!!

Tokyo bound!

Sentimental Value (2025) Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora ...

Tonight's film

Sentimental Value

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I have my differences with my manager.

There are also good spots

I told him that the bender I will go on when my current project is complete (after 2.5 years) will be legendary

He said he can't wait

🥳🍾🎉

Happyend (2024) In a near-future Japanese city bracing for a devastating earthquake, a group of teenage friends navigate personal struggles and fractured bonds amid rising tension.

Tonight's film

Happyend

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#FREELUD UPDATES:
- Lud finally spoke with his lawyer
- Lawyer presents the asylum case to a judge tomorrow
- Press coverage in progress; stay tuned
- Raised $$$ are enough for current/potential future legal fees, and to help Lud recover once he is freed; GoFundMe remaining open

It was my first time seeing it.

It's powerful in such a subtle way.

I was holding my breath for the final scene.

Patreon Announcement!! YouTube video by IdolismJ

its been asked before, and now I have one; I have opened a Patreon!

It was never really something in my plans, nor do I really want to do it, but there's been some life changes that necessitate making sure the channel breaks even.

Learn more below and support if you wish!

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Moonlight (2016) The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while gra...

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Moonlight

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Dana from "The Pitt" saying "are you fuckin' kidding me?"

I'm gonna frame this

Prisoners (2013) Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a...

Bonus round due to the long weekend.

Tonight's film

Prisoners

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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

Tonight's film

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

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Screenshot from article in Fortune titled: OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude spark coding revolution as developers say they’ve abandoned traditional programming

AI companies manifesting super hard right now