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The first film or TV show to really understand Tulsa since Rumble Fish. Watchmen gets a lot right, but it looks completely wrong since it was filmed in Georgia.

In China? Have you been here before? Rent in major cities is so high that migrant workers (like waimai drivers) sleep 4+ beds to a room. In Beijing, the median salary is 10500 RMB/month. The median rent within the 5th Ring Road is 7000 RMB for a 1 bedroom.

Great list! What a year. I'd add Asthenic Syndrome, Unbelievable Truth, Interrogation, Caligari, The Church, Beijing Watermelon, Cook/Thief/Wife/Lover, ItLoD4, Elephant, Meat Love, Gang of Four, Patlabor, Recollections of the Yellow House, My 20th C, Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia, and Sukkubus

I have successfully not bought any new accessories or tools for my Gaggia in over 3 months. Do I have stuff in my cart? Of course. But this is a win for me.

Illustration of a Lich for Pointy Hat's new book "Lich Codex". The image shows a decorated room with tiles and blue arch and the lich standing in front of the arch. They wear a decorated robe and a large golden crown. They have a vulture resting on their arm. Next to them is a devoted follower offering them a skeleton horse as a gift. Below them there are other followers looking at the lich with admiration.

Excited to share this illustration I drew for @antodemico.bsky.social new book "Lich Codex". This is probably one of my favorite illustrations I've ever created. You can pre-order the book through this link: pointyhat.myshopify.com

I have one. Bought a broken one from Japan for cheap a few years ago. PSU recap and a new rubber band for the floppy fixed it up easily. The video output is awful. Weird scaling and windowboxing through S-video. I'd love to sell it and buy a desktop FM Towns instead.

Djeng has quickly shot up into the commentary pantheon for me. Good mix of "here's a short bio of the guy on screen", personal anecdotes, historical/cultural context and responding to the film. Also zero dead air which is crazy considering how many he does.

Walters and Governor Stitt had a big falling out in 2023. Walters is doing stupid shit all the time and often gets more news coverage than the governor. I think the porn thing was a good opportunity to show him the door and the non-profit is a soft landing so he wouldn't put up a fuss.

Don't Get Your Hopes Up is all architectural horror, human warmth, and unnervingly stoic pigeons Don't Get Your Hopes Up is a short interactive comic about Amsterdam's housing shortage and architectural horror.

Featured on @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social today, with an absolutely wonderful writeup and analysis by Nic Reuben:

"I had a hard time finding a single sentence in this thing I didn't want to screenshot." ❤️

www.rockpapershotgun.com/dont-get-you...

Best to just follow @michaelpettis.bsky.social if you want ongoing commentary on how this strategy is working for China. He usually will post the major articles floating around on the topic as they pop up.

There are a whole host of internal economic, political and cultural reasons why we won't see a Chinese version of USAID. It's not a geopolitical strategic decision. Philanthropy is heavily discouraged in general. Add on the budget crisis and the general poor state of domestic social services.

As someone who just bought my first two kits and lives in China, this is oddly targeted towards me.

Get an adapter so you can fill smaller bottles from the bigger tank.

Hard to keep up with all the new flavors, but I had these "Basil Seafood" Lay's Stax the other day and they were great.

I want an MKVToolNix shirt in this style.

Mike, are you able to discuss the editorial decision to refer to this type of outright corruption as a "bold departure from political norms"? I don't think journalists at the NYT would be discussing paying off journalists this way if it took place in another country. Seems oddly deferential.

There's apparently a complete film recording of the 1947 staging with Laughton locked up in an archive somewhere. Hope we can see it someday. Still love the Losey film, but Laughton was born for the role.

Everyone deserves to have a place to sit and admire all their gadgets.

There is a guy in Tianjin who has a warehouse full of old arcade cabs. Hundreds of cigarette-drenched candy cabs. My dream is to get my work to buy one so I can spend work hours restoring it when I'm bored. MiSTer by far seems like the best solution unless you're an arcade PCB collector.

I once moved a dresser in Beijing using a public bus. Nowadays, you can just use an app to have a small moving fan show up to your house in under an hour.

Here's a picture of the taobao listing if that helps. Pretty sure he still has an AliExpress store.

RetroCastle's JAMMA edge is bookmarked for whenever I have space for a candy cab.

Wow. This is playing at 8 theaters in Beijing this week. Super rare for a retrospective release not to mention a silent.

The West gets more stacked every day. If this team was in the East, they'd be contenders for Conference champs next year. In the West, they can't make it out of the second round.

Having Criterion so invested in boosting Sammo would have blown teenage me's mind. Happy to see some of the old barriers between arthouse and popular cinema fade away. Now if only they could clear up the rights with whatever is going on with Carry On Pickpocket.

Big fan of 3. Was hoping for a 4K box of everything up to the new one this year but I guess Warner doesn't like easy money.

An any mood any time of day record if there ever was one.

This is normal now from Beijing to middle USA due to the war in Ukraine. 35+ hours door-to-door pretty much every time. 47 hours each way my first trip back to the States after Zero COVID ended.

The Guardian is close. Unlike the NYT, they have the good sense of hiding their anti-trans bigotry in their UK section, but the stink does waft over from time to time.

AI-written garbage and AI-generated design work is much more common here in China than it is in the States. Social media posts by large companies, billboards, newspaper copy, etc. It's everywhere and every profession is obsessed with it. Every doctor I've been to this year has had DeepSeek open.