Stephanie Smith

I really liked One Battle after Another but The Smashing Machine, not so much.

There is a Fela Kuti album with Ginger Baker that’s worth a listen.

It’s my favorite PSH role. He played vulnerable so well.

It aged extraordinarily well. Saw it in the theater when it first came out and while I remember really liking it, I’m not sure I had enough life experience at the time to fully appreciate it.

I just re-watched Boogie Nights for the first time in many many many years and cannot believe what an absolute freaking masterpiece this film is. To me, this is Goodfellas level of excellence.

Photo shows a copy of the book Room to Dream by David Lynch and Kristine McKenna atop a flowery fabric background.

100% the most life affirming book I’ve ever read.

I loved Kinds of Kindness. Could have watched a dozen more shorts with the same actors.

I never read them. 🤷‍♀️ I just wanted to try and finish what I’ve started.

I’m not enjoying the 2nd part of Dune.

Not at all what I’m thinking of. Ever see Gaspar Noe’s Climax? Take Climax, Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream, Boogie Nights, and throw it into a blender with Saturday Night Fever. Get A24 to distribute it. It needs to be a psychological drug induced nightmare with an amazing soundtrack.

Why hasn’t anyone ever made a truly excellent movie about Studio 54?

Rewatched The Favourite. Loved it again as much as the first time. All three actresses are excellent in it but Olivia Coleman is 🔥

Also watched Kinds of Kindness this week and really enjoyed it. (More than Bugonia- which might need a 2nd viewing)

Love Yorgos.

I really enjoyed it the first time. Felt like it really nailed that time period. Everything looked and felt amazing. Great atmosphere. Re-watching it, you lose the way it led you in the first time. Its slowness wasn’t as much of a build up as it was boring. Still looks really good though.

Sadly, House of the Devil did not hold up to a 2nd viewing.

The map looks really good.

Green box with the words “Alley-Up” in white capital letters. Image on box shows a blue dexterity game where you have to try and roll a marble back and forth to climb to the top of an inclined plastic tray. It has a date of 1971 on the box. Made by Hasbro

Played this in the 70s, bought it off EBay a few years ago f/ my birthday. It makes me laugh when the ball rolls back down. What are your thoughts on dexterity games? Do you have any that you enjoy playing solo? Are vintage dexterity more or less fun than modern ones?

My hope is for hobby game designers to do their best to consider different people’s capacity for learning- to try and test with interested players who possess different capacities for learning.

Definitely not! Not asking for anything hard to be dialed back- just sometimes presented in ways that are more accessible- which might mean extra pages/player aids/a Rodney video - which might not always be in the budget.

For sure. Not all things are going to be for all people. When it works, yay! But I just seriously must disagree with the notion that effort will prevail when trying to learn a game.

I spent hundreds on games I really wanted to play but despite being a reasonably intelligent person, AuDHD often makes figuring things out way more complicated than it should be. I love Pax Pamir, but learning it solo was really hard. Root is very accessible to learn. Accessibility is important.

Haha! I’m old! Met my husband in a mosh pit in 1987!

During the original Thrash era? (I don’t know how old you are) I’m OG Thrash.

You don’t have a LinkedIn profile?

Quote with five jobs you’ve had:

Studio Artist
Blogger
Yoga instructor
Percussionist
Technical Writer

I wonder if that could work via Zoom? Or via a search angel?

I’m researching mid 19th century Eastern European ancestors and I feel this.

I have had similar design ideas to this. But more like a box of things for people to use their imagination to play with.

I straightened all the copies on the shelf for you at my local Target last night.

This is wonderful. A recommended watch. PS: I definitely remember a version of those pop up spring toys that Rene invented.