The Raggedyman

Gryphon in Clan Space Weeb colours for #battletech. The shoulder plates are supposed to look like ablative armour,rather than fixed body parts, and I'm quite proud of how the "one layer of red over a solid silver, leaving the silver showing at the edges" technique conveyed that.

Logically speaking, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023), is the most realistic of the movies. If you could sufficiently train four prime-of-adolesence humanoid turtles to the levels of kung-fu movies, they would absolutely kick that exact amount of arse.
#TMNT

I love that, for all the changes made to enhance the Netflix #Ranma1/2 reboot, they have stuck to the core principle that every character is a fucking idiot. Smoother story, clearer goals, less filler, twice as much dumbass.

SubSpecies is a very dull film with a couple of moments of really okay horror effects. SubSpecies 2 has even less plot going on, such that the best version of it is the 5 minutes recap at the start of SubSpecies 3. And, incredibly, SubSpecies 3 is even duller with less plot.
Only two more to go

#mech day! 2 v 2, one lance each.

#punk

Happy #Rapture Day!!

"Athena" is a solid mech-callsign

This is the country I grew up in.
I recognise the violence, the hate, and the bigotry.
This is who we are.

So, that was a perfectly watchable bit of kid friendly horror. Not amazing, but fun and well put together.

So far, #FiveNightsAtFreedy's (2023) answer's the question, "What if Roald Dahl wrote a big budget teen slasher for a huge wadge of cash?"?. I never played the game before, so I can't say if it's a good adaptation of the game or its story and themes; I'm just saying it might not suck as a movie.

"We never thought leopards would eat one of our faces" insists family of man who campaigned to have packs of face eating leopards run loose everywhere.

"Better late than never" isn't really a saying in the anaphylactic shock scene.

20 minutes in and the film is absolutely determined to make me feel like every victim had it coming and that any of the likely murderers was justified in doing it.

Thanksgiving (2023) has both Opinions and A Message. They're written in well chewed crayons, but they are proud of them. I Know What You Did Last Media Cycle for the young horror enthusiasts whose favourite slasher is Capitalism.

Watching 40 Minutes: Voices Of The City (1984). It's amazing how many of the issues raised in it are so relevant to our model world: such as media misinformation, economic hardship, and (apparently) everyone in Newcastle being miserable.

Basil Rathbone, Lon Chany jr, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Tor Johnson in one film‽ The Black Sheep (1956) says "yes!", so I'm going in....

I refuse to speculate on Trump's announcement later today, as it could be anything.
Anything.
"I'm alive"
Okay
"I've given this person a job"
Sure
"This person is awful"
It's a Tuesday
"The Marines are being deployed"
Fine
"Mint causes cancer in lettuce"
Standard

Anything.

That's not a good thing

People claim that transgender individuals haven't been accepted by American society. But this week I've seen countless commentators defend the rights of trans folks to murder kids with guns, and that's just heartwarming.

Guns don't kill people.
People with easy access to guns, in a society that considers easy access to guns more important than any number of dead people, kill people.

"We need to teach kids civics at school if we're going to let them vote at 16"

Yes. Obviously. We should have been teaching this previously any way.

My question is; once all this is over, who are the people who voted for Trump going to vote for next and how much worse will that person be??

Oh no, did the rich business genius have to follow basic employment and contract law??

Everyone is the hero of their own story.
Everyone.

I'm not sure which had the bigger impact on #cyberpunk in the UK: Max Headroom or Get Fresh.

Noooooo, @hjdoom.bsky.social - don't do it!!!

(For context, listen to the most excellent #movie podcast below)

I can't help but think that I'd have enjoyed #Wednesday season two part one a heck of a lot more if it wasn't so focused on being a hook for part two and laying the foundations for series three, four, and onwards.