Avoids direct sunlight

We No Speak Americano

He’s not bad but he also smartly chose his role. He plays an exasperated character connected to the outside world by limited one way communication dealing with situations that demand large reactions. The character he plays is very similar to his streaming persona so he just had to change his tone and mannerisms a little

I think it would be an interesting story to hear if you could tell the true story of Michael Jackson. I think it’s pretty obvious Joe Jackson beat the youth out of him and managed to replace it with being the most famous person on the planet since he could form memories. That’s the type of thing that’s going to create a type of person who has never existed before and may never again. However I think by being so successful for so long too many people who bought the myth ended up in his sphere making it difficult, if not impossible to get down to “the truth”

He obviously had a very complicated relationship with youth, identity, and fame. I think focusing on his doubts, internal conflicts, and personal challenges would be the more interesting movie, but probably not more profitable

Pizza Movie 3/5 - Between this and The Napa Boys it seems like the writers thst influence other writers are interested in exploring how you can do the raunchy teen sex comedy without being exclusively gross to women. I’m not entirely sure that this vein is worth mining but like most raunchy teen comedies, it’s fun enough to watch stoned with your buddies

Exit 8 3.5/5 - Liminal Horror is in baby! I think Backrooms is trying to be the tentpole movie for the subgenre but until it comes out this is a pretty fun version. I think this is the only video game movie where I beat the game quicker than I watched the movie

Mortal Kombat (1995) 3/5 - Honestly for being a 90s video game movie it’s not bad. It mostly sticks to the “plot” of Mortal Kombat which barely has one anyway. The CGI is bad but Paul W. S. Anderson can at least pull off edgy cool pretty well

The Drama 4.5/5 - This is nightmare fuel if you’re mid wedding planning. I think there’s a lot of interesting discussions happening in this movie, I like the acting, and it is sufficiently tense

Rat Race 3.5/5 - It’s basically a bunch of really complicated set ups to huge visual gags. It’s not groundbreaking but it’s funny. Also Rowan Atkinson should avoid speaking roles

Mars Express 4.5/5 - Wow! Watching this feels like watching a classic Sci-fi movie despite it being less than 3 years old. So many cool ideas that aren’t just handed to you. They use visual and environmental story telling to just cram in a crazy dense story in 90 minutes. This is a masterful intersection of art and technique. A high recommendation to fans of classic sci-fi like Blade Runner, Nueromancer, Ghost in the Shell, and Akira

Octopussies is actually the name for a harem of Maud Adams clones

That’s a plot point in The Sting

I haven’t watched Phineas and Ferb but am generally familiar with the concept. There’s probably multiple narrative things happening here

1. Writers are people too. Writing crazy over the top stories gets boring after a while. Sometimes you want to write something more grounded to practice nuance
2. Lower stakes content is generally more relatable and relatable is a high priority in kids media
3. Contrast makes stories more interesting. If you’re always dealing with world destroying calamities then eventually they become route
4. When a show goes on long enough sometimes you try breaking the format as an experiment to see what the reaction is, maybe people like it better and you can pivot
5. Subverting expectations is the basis of comedy. You’ve been led to believe that by their antics Phineas and Ferb would legitimately try to paint an entire continent, the fact that it’s just a regular painting subverts your expectation for a joke

Those are just my thoughts as someone who is relatively familiar with what TV and Movie writing is like

I introduced a friend to it and she called it a “palliative care joint” because it should be reserved for people actively dying

You jest but a local dispensary will take a joint, roll it in THC oil, then roll it again in THC crystals for a very intense joint:

Since most people are unbeatable at tic-tac-toe I have a variant I like to play that has nested boards. Sometimes I call it tic-tic-tac-toe-toe or nested tic-tac-toe. Here’s some shitty MS Paint to explain (red numbers indicate the board, the blue the squares on the board as they correlate to bigger board):

Rules:

• You have a tic-tac-toe board where each square is itself another tic-tac-toe board
• The outer board is numbered 1-9 going from top left to bottom right
• Each sub-board is also numbered the same way, 1-9, left to right
• When you play on board, the square you play in determines the board that your opponent must play in next
  • For example: if you play the middle left square (4), on the bottom right board (Red 9), then your opponent must play on the middle left board next (Red 4)
• Winning a sub-game wins that square on the overall board
  • You may tie a sub-game by filling a board, those squares are dead and nobody gets them
• Getting tic-tac-toe on the overall board gets you a win
• You cannot play on a finished board
• If a play would force a player to play on a finished board then that player may play anywhere instead

It sounds confusing on paper but once you draw the board and play like 2 turns people immediately get what’s going on. It’s really funny to observers because they watch people make “obviously” bad plays on these disjointed boards and they have no idea what’s going on

I also once nerd sniped an intro programming class because I thought making this in the command line would be a fun project for one of my intro assignments. It turns out updating and printing nested python lists can get very confusing very quickly

Getting sick when traveling is absolutely more common, you’re exposed to foods, diseases, weather, and people that you aren’t used to. However if it’s happening reliably and specifically after flying as opposed to other forms of travel that does sound like it could be a specific problem. It could be an inner-ear thing since airplane compression can fuck with that

It’s not a perfect solution but sometimes when I fly I wear a mask to reduce the odds of getting sick, though it’s pretty rare I get sick from travel myself, and I travel internationally annually

I suppose if you took the time someone spent watching each thing on your platform and then made it a percentage of their total watch time that month and multiplied it by their subscription fee you’d have what they “spent” on a show. It’s not a perfect measurement but if someone only watched Malcolm with their subscription then arguably it produced the revenue

Anecdotally just having The Office on your streaming platform guarantees a base level of revenue because so many people will always sub to have it on

I watched 225 movies last year and 2 new releases really stuck out to me

Predator: Killer of Killers - it’s 3 short animated segments about different humans fighting Predators and it looks great. It’s low on dialog so you can just enjoy the action

Eternity - these are some of the most dynamic characters that I’ve seen in a movie. Despite being dead they all go on emotional journies and by the end you’re really satisfied

Batman/Superman: Apocalypse

It’s a movie primarily about Supergirl, that largely takes place on earth and does not threaten the end of the world. It does briefly go to Apokolips, but that’s a different word than the title

Dune is like 10,000 years past the Butlerian Jihad which is supposed to be an existential war against AI and humans that leaves Earth unrecognizable. Even generously that’s still not even close to this millenia

There was an Emperor’s New Groove show and Kuzco is an adult

returns to IMAX screens

They specified the format that it was returning to because it rotated out for Mario

Not at work but I briefly lived with that guy. I just started agreeing with him on everything. “And we all know what the correct opinion on net neutrality is” “Yes we do.”

“People just don’t understand what Trump is doing” “Yeah, you’re so right”

There’s really nowhere to go when you just vaguely agree with what they’re saying but don’t commit to anything

I take the Supreme Court’s line on shitposts. They’re hard to define, but I know it when I see it