Jason Callina

Lots of great stuff was added to the Criterion Channel

Bunch o John Woo films
Chinese Ghost Story I,II,III
Some John Carpenter films
Altered States - My favorite drug related, initially based at Harvard, genetic memory film.
[REC] A shockingly great Spanish horror found footage film.

Are these available to purchase as a collection. I am not seeing links to them on their site. Did I just miss that in the article?

I am recycling an old joke of mine because we have been dealing with this nonsense for almost a decade now.

This administration should spin up a new crypto currency, the Dunning-Krugerrand. It will seem to be performing way better than it actually does, but they won't be able to tell.

I did watch this in English. I would have preferred not to, but it was late and I didn't feel like searching. I will watch it again in Spanish as soon as I can.

Women protagonists with agency where they are the primary source of action.

This is a wrestling movie, so there is at least 30 min of just watching a wrestling match

Practical creature effects are pretty great, I am not totally sure how they did it. The suit actor must not have been able to see

The spanish poster for 'The Women Wrestlers vs. the Aztec Mummy'

I've avoided 'Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy' for years because I thought it would be a slog, but it was awesome. Lots of problematic content like yellowface and a Yellow Peril theme, but if you are in this game working to see past it is part of the cost.

Quick observations in thread

YouTube video by D-TOKU Super Sentai All First Henshin

Relaxing with my morning coffee and watching all of the first instances of Super Sentai transformations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FbP...

An image of a McDonaldLand meal which if we are honest contains way too many calories for a single human

Grimace is experiencing a cardiac event

Tracks gets a 10 on design and a 2 on personality

G1 Transformers background art from S02E25 with a skyscraper that oddly says "Banana" at the top

Another G1 Transformers oddity from S02E25. I want to desperately know what is going on in that center building.

For those that care, this is a Tracks centric episode that takes place in "the city" which is basically where you go if you want to get carjacked.

I am enjoying the series, but it feels like the Ineffectualbots vs the AynRandicons and can be frustrating. Someone should just staple a solar panel and battery to Cosmos, or change the Insecticons so they can eat garbage and make Energon that way. World Peace achieved.

* Non human Atlanteans are canon
* Magic and wizards are canon
* Magical artifacts can perform time travel
* Human like aliens are canon

* Cutting a single wire can disable an Autobot. Doesn’t really feel like advanced tech. Intelligent robots with a single point of failure covered by a thin sheet of metal.
* There is not enough Jazz

* My own canon makes me think that Cybertron was a lost technology civilization. Neither side seems to actually understand how they are made, things regularly go wrong AND YET they still do things like create the Dinobots on a whim who seem to have sentience and autonomy.

* That said, the Decepticons could probably be completely disabled by some conspiracy theorist introducing Megatron to perpetual motion machine scams.

* Truly evil humans in the series are a rarity with a couple of notable examples
* The human characters don’t show up enough, especially Chip and Carly. They could probably solve all Autobot issues and shut down the Decepticons if they just hung out and brainstormed for two hours.

* As the series goes on themes shift to the futility of war. Many Autobots struggle with wanting to do science or art instead of fight, some Decepticons do as well. Devastator is loyal but seems deeply unhappy with his day to day work.

* Autobots try to preserve the environment, Decepticons try to exploit it. This is almost always in service to both sides needing resources.

* 4 million years of hibernation was a weird narrative choice and I am definitely feeling for Shockwave sitting at that console the whole time. That David Warner sounding dude must be completely insane.
* The original theme seems to be largely environmental.

* The Autobots are earnest, but largely not very bright.
* The Decepticons also lack intelligence, but also have no morality.

Transformers G1 art that is pre-animation and off-model

I’m challenging my nostalgia by rewatching G1 Transformers and comparing it to my memories. I am midway through S2.

Some notes in thread:

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Alan Dershowitz decries ‘bigoted vendor’ who denied him pierogi at Martha’s Vineyard farmers' market Alan Dershowitz is threatening legal action after a farmers' market stand purportedly refused to serve him pierogi in light of his politics.

Dershowitz knows there is a difference between a private business not giving you a pierogi because you are acting like an @$$ and secret police kidnapping you off of the street without due process, but I guess this is the hill he wants to die on.

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I don't think its for everyone, but one of the best experiences I have had in a long time.

Oddly, Lunacid approached that feeling for me, despite not being grid based.

I have not. My schedule is pretty packed so I hunt for out of the box experiences mostly, but that website is fantastic, thank you. I will check out the mod when I can. Nothing modern-ish has quite hit the sweet spot.

I am the market for this game, so much so that I search for them weekly. Specifically to scratch the missing Dungeon Master itch.

Action large combining robot inspired by the Transformers Bruticus

My working companion today. Large mug for scale. Bruticus was the only combining robot I ever owned as a kid, this guy is a bit of nostalgia therapy.

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Call of Cthulhu, despite being broken and weird.