A lot of things that happen in your kitchen do so on a timer that pings or beeps when it’s done. So what I do is, any time I’m waiting in the kitchen, I do a high plank for the last minute of the timer, and try to make it to the beep. It squeezes a tiny bit of DID THE THING into my day, which helps.
It’s been a solid five years since the power actuator on my driver side door lock worked, so I just…haven’t been bothering to lock the car? I just don’t leave anything in it. And nobody wants to steal a shitty old Prius. But last week after they fixed the brakes……the door lock started working again?
A cremator and a lawn chair, and also being able to stomp small enemies? Amazing.
MS is like, “Oops, we 100% shot ourselves in the dicks, like literally everyone said we did, so our solution is to instead, stab ourselves in the dicks, that should fix everything.”
I remember a BTS thing from Cavill on The Witcher where he talked about how hard he worked to make the sword fighting look real and also good, and Highlander is from the John Wick guy, so I’m Very Excited to see what they think 4-5 sword fights look like in a whole movie about cool sword fights.
In a world where Spider-man 2 exists, I hold that The Quick and the Dead is Sam Raimi’s finest work. The crowning achievement of a guy just out having a good time with his buds, seeing what wacky shit they can do with a camera.
Here’s the gif of maybe the Sam Raimiest thing ever filmed in The Quick and the Dead (1995), a bunch of dolly zooms in different directions, some where the camera also rotates, tilting the horizon, it’s absolutely incredible. Please read the alt text, I worked hard on it!
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This shot, my favorite from The Quick and the Dead, is only the second Sam Raimiest shot in the movie. Later there’s a scene with quick cuts between several different dolly zooms, where the camera also rotates so the horizon skews, it’s fucking wild.
Me, every time a teammate dies to an environmental hazard in a video game: PROFESSOR! LAVA! HOT!
a two panel meme panel 1 - geordi signalling 'no' with the text data centres and images of data centres Panel 2 - geordi signalling 'yes' with the text "data centaurs" and a crudely edited image of the character data from star trek pasted on top of a centaur
do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"
One thing in it that I had never considered before is that the job of the guy who carries the president’s nuclear briefcase includes convincing him to use it, in case the president has misgivings about annihilating humankind. So that’s pretty bleak.
Last week, when it seemed like the world could end at any moment (how fun!) I made the mistake of thinking watching A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE on Netflix, about what the end of the world would probably actually be like. It’s an incredibly bleak movie, but it’s very good. Maybe not great to watch right now.
Of course, that said, I do think we spend vastly too much on military and police, but even so the things we don’t spend enough on are STILL incredible. We’re going to the fucking moon for less money than operating the NYPD. Fuck.
Just overheard a 20-something tell his friend “taxation is theft”, and it made me angry. We should be proud to pay taxes. We should feel good about contributing to collective solutions to problems. “Taxation is theft” is a fucking bullshit catch phrase made up by the dickholes doing the theft.
Back when John Woo movies exploded in the west, a guy in my shadowrun game wanted to play a two pistol physical adept, and I had to manage his expectations, I told him the dual weapon rules in that game were not for you to shoot more people, they’re for you to shoot people more.
Napoleon is Master of Europe. Only the British Fleet stands before him. Oceans are now Battlefields. - April 18:05
I would do anything for love, but I won’t watch act iii
More and more, it seems like the ballroom is happening because he saw that stupid Gerard butler movie and asked where the bunker that can survive a nuke is, and they were like “lol, that doesn’t exist” so he cried and cried until someone told him okay, we can make you one for… $100 million dollars
Too much anxiety and depression to fall asleep last night. Just kind of laid here and contemplated the void.
Ahh, I love the @ithayla.bsky.social art! I haven’t met him irl, but we blow up aliens together online, which is pretty close.
A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.
I’m hoping that in a few days when I don’t have to walk 20+ dogs per day, I’ll start feeling more normal, but just having people out there I know give a shit is honestly pretty helpful.
I heard my monitors beep on and off a few times in a row last night at like 3am and I was like fucking windows update night, what’s not going to work right tomorrow
oh no
Nothing saps my tenuous and rapidly dwindling will to live like seeing a United States Senator post this kind of “somebody do something!!!!” trash. I get feeling powerless, it’s natural. But even as opposition under the trump admin, a United States senator is one of the most powerful people alive.
Man, every time I think to myself “I’m more depressed than I’ve ever been and I can’t believe I’m enduring this” there’s a tomorrow coming that’s like “you are never gonna believe this, buddy”
Every time a new Angel Studios movie appears, I get a fresh new collection of actors I used to like, and it sucks. Like do they sign the papers before they find out it’s the right wing propaganda studio? Do they just not care? Do they need the paycheck bad enough because Hollywood sucks? I hate it.
I had to walk so many dogs yesterday that by the end of it, my will to live had completely drained, and I also have that many dogs today, and then tomorrow I have slightly more than that. Friday I have slightly fewer, so if I make it to then, maybe I’ll get back to a normal amount of depression.
I don’t know if you saw the target thread before it broke containment and the original poster deleted it, but it got me thinking about how the police in this country can literally just murder you and never face any consequences for it, and it doesn’t even matter why they did it.
Quick, while they’re hung ho on tearing up the birthright citizenship in the constitution let’s convince them to remove the part where you have to be born here so their boy Musk can run (and get blown out of the country by a 50 million vote margin in favor of Mamdani)
