Sam

8 weeks?

life has been very weird (complimentary) for the last 6 weeks.

nooooooo they're lisping, it's european spanish 😭

I technically started in college, but I started using Babbel when I began learning again as an adult.

I started playing Cyberpunk in Spanish... it was recommended on a subreddit I found while looking for children's video games to help me learn. I know more Spanish than I thought! Which is next to no Spanish. Good luck, V.

My friend suggested I do this with Mass Effect instead and... yeah.

Worf's parents being Russian Jews is faaaascinating. I guess I don't know they're Jews, but the actors both are. Plus, they're a very specific type of Jewish parental stereotype. Also I guess the actor playing the dad was a huge Zionist, so that's gross!

SO SO bad.

i have been through sooooooo much therapy in the last 35 years. the opening scene with troi therapisting at Picard is hilarious now.

Is there an episode of TV that's more important, narratively, than "The Best of Both Worlds"? It affected every bit of Star Trek that came after it.

i remember pausing my 10th birthday party to watch the episode where picard goes home to deal with his ptsd. needless to say, as a 10 year old, i thought it was boring. looking forward to it now!

I was 9 the last time I saw this... no internet access, no spoiler culture fed by need for engagement... when Riker told Worf to fire I had to wait MONTHS to find out what happened. Excruciating!

Also they/we really lucked out with Patrick Stewart, huh?

That Locutus reveal still hits.

In fact, considering that in the first part of the episode the ADMIRAL talks about fantasizing about Shelby, the way Shelby is written is preeeeeeeeeetty unfortunate.

But the Borg/Picard stuff is still good.

I've restarted the all-Trek rewatch that I started like a billion years ago and stopped with "Best of Both World" because I was worried I wouldn't like it as much as I did when I watched the first time, when I was 9 years old.

So far, I think Riker's being a dick. When I was 9, I was on his side.

cool, a new adderall shortage

Yeah, it's pretty gross.

it was the first time i heard the term yacht girl/boy.

my thai parasocial gfs have gone to the red sea film festival and i HATE it. we read articles about the big names, but there's also allegedly a really gross trafficking element when smaller stars are there, especially young women.

Yori needed more screentime, but it was 1982. Quora was a manic pixel dream girl and I thought they'd learned their lesson from the tepid response. Nope!

Also the fact that so many reviews praise the women in the cast and say their roles should have been bigger is such a nail in that coffin. We have to sit through 2 hours of Leto in a slick, otherwise-generic action movie? Why? And I'm supposed tonspend money and time on that? Yuck.

I will not be seeing Tron: Ares in theaters. Tron is my favorite movie of all time. There are folks on the Tron subreddit (the first sub I joined, lol) saying we should see it so Disney makes more Tron.

I don't understand this mentality. I'd rather no more Tron than bad Tron.

Please do as shaun says, but not before reporting the account for spreading disinfo.

genAI is so good nowadays that we're all gonna get got eventually, but being told/shown over and over that you're disseminating a lie, and just ignoring people who point it out, is a serious red flag.

uh, when did we find out the palisades fire was arson?

ask me my thoughts on birth/rebirth finally retaking frankenstein from the men who turned it into a story about fatherhood.

actually, don't. those are basically the extent of my thoughts.

week 1 spooky season (new to me) watches:
where evil lurks
santa sangre
bring her back
birth/rebirth

I appreciate Shudder dedicating part of the 100 Greast Horror Movie Scores to sound design, because... yes. Sound design is so cool and so overlooked. But wild not to mention David Lynch in that!

This is how I feel about Tron: Ares.

spongebob squarepants is holding up his hands in the air and saying gay . Alt: spongebob squarepants is holding up his hands in the air and saying gay .

I've been quasi-obsessively playing #HadesII (it's SO much better than when I last played in Early aaccess) and I am in deep for Melionë and Eris, tyvm.

Ooh, Shudder got a bunch Hitchcock movies.

The map of his flight so far

Holy shit, this is not a joke 🇫🇷🇪🇸

Netanyahu plane is flying AROUND France and Spain, due to international arrest warrants, on his way to NYC

Even Netanyahu knows he is WANTED all over the world for the crimes he committed in Gaza

Shame and disgrace to the Jewish people.