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Fortress (1992) shout by elena This was highly entertaining. It's set in a futuristic prison owned by an evil private corporation. Bad acting, strange torture devices ("the intestinator"), questionable dialogue, a pervy prison dire...

It was pretty funny when a Tubi ad about becoming a correctional officer aired while I was watching Fortress...

Also, I gave it a 8/10. What can I say, I love bad movies.

#moviesky #filmsky

"Take your console to the houses of friends who don't have one, and get them hooked on Saturn."

It's painful to watch those videos showing the complete lack of geography knowledge of Americans.
Why doesn't the "greatest country in the world" teach such a basic subject in its schools?

YouTube video by GameTrailers Hellcard II - Official Announcement Trailer

I love Hellcard (60+ hours played).
In the next installment there's 4-player co-op, which means that if you play alone, like I do, you now need to manage four hands at the same time. It seems a bit too much.

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I play Threes compulsively all day.
I'm not very good at it but something interesting happened today!

I got myself a R4 cartridge and I'm now playing Pokemon Platinum on my original grey phat DS.
I'm having fun! I love Pokemon but only actually played the second and third generation of games.

Why do I keep doing this to myself?
I tried watching the first episode of Starfleet Academy and gave up after fifteen minutes. There's nothing left of the Star Trek I grew up with in these new shows.

#startrek

YouTube video by Maciej Rybak Five Easy Pieces all Palm Apodaca (Helena Kallianiotes) scenes

I need to watch more movies from the 70s!

Recently saw Five Easy Pieces. I loved the bit with the hitchhikers who wanted to go to Alaska.

#filmsky #moviesky

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Columbo S02E08 "Double Shock" is another great episode.
There are a lot of funny moments in this one, like when Columbo goes on a cooking show preparing hollandaise sauce!

#tvsky

Found it on Instagram, "Vintage Pokemon art by Aya Kusube".

#pokemon

Achievement unlocked?! #ChatGPT

Watched "A Stitch in Crime". A very fun Columbo episode with Leonard Nimoy as a killer surgeon.

#tvsky

This is the third time I see this guy, a beautiful pheasant, in the same spot.
When he notices my presence he runs away SO fast, it looks like a cartoon character.

#nature

Winning a race feels impossible though, at least for me. The pit stop section is a nice break from the desperate attempt to surpass the opponents.

#retrogaming #nintendo #nes

My Famiclone Games #1
FERRARI GRAND PRIX CHALLENGE (1992)

A solid racing game. Controls are good, the presentation is really nice. The HUD is full of little details, like the radio messages.

#retrogaming #nintendo #nes

I'm loving Pluribus SO much.
We've only seen eight episodes, I know, but I already see it as one of my favorite tv shows of all time.

#tvsky

To rekindle my love for games, I want to play through all my childhood famiclone games again (not on actual hardware, but via emulation).
Let's see if my skills have improved or are stuck at my 7 year-old self's level.

#retrogaming #retrogames #famicom

A photo of a coulter pinecone next to a human hand. The pinecone is larger by far, and dark brown in color.

This giant pinecone belongs to the coulter pine! It can be found in California & Mexico. Nicknamed “the widowmaker,” it produces some of the world's largest pinecones—which can weigh ~11 lbs (5 kg) & plummet to the ground with deadly force!
Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

I've been working on a new game dev project for a while. Still haven't written a line of code though, because this time I decided to first focus on the game design document. I hope this will help the next steps.

#gamedev #indiedev

YouTube video by Marc -Volcano- Szeglat Kawah Ijen: blue fire from burning sulfur

Blue flames from a volcano, because of sulphur. Pretty cool.

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Hanafuda cards spotted in an episode of Apocalypse Hotel.

#hanafuda #animesky

YouTube video by Spotlight Kid The Tenth Level 1975 | William Shatner

I watched Experimenter (2015), about the Milgram obedience experiments. Not that great, but I learned stuff.
But I also found out that there is a 1976 made-for-tv movie about the same topic with William Shatner as Stanley Milgram!

#filmsky #moviesky

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A crt tv screen photo of Golden Axe for ZX Speccy with a dungeon stonework and general creepiness background and the head and shoulders of a grinning skeleton looming in front of it and asking 'Happy with your controls yes or no'

"Hey friend, happy with your controls yes or no"

Was looking around Amazon and saw that Furbies still exist, they look different now.
I had one that would randomly produce terrifying screams. I still have nightmares about it.

#evilfurby #toys

I had no idea there was a Rolie Polie Olie movie!

Decided to try Anachronox again.
I really wanted to like it but it's too old and clunky for my taste. I love running around the place, the atmosphere is great, but the thing that made me quit was the frustrating lock-picking minigame. Maybe next time I'll have more patience.

#gaming #videogames

A movie that takes place where you're from

YouTube video by Vitor Cesar The Adventures of Marco Polo 1979 Opening

I started watching Marco Polo's Adventures. It's a 1979 anime that contains live-action documentary-style segments about the places visited by the guy. I hope the information provided is correct because I've always wanted to know more about his travels.

#anime #animesky

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I've read a few of these historical novels that are free on Kindle if you are a Prime user. Little unknown ebooks by Italian authors, usually set in ancient Rome or Greece.
I LOVE them so much. It's the only type of fiction that I can stand reading right now.

#booksky