Maybe my only obscure masterpiece that I can say I saw in cinemas - the little art house in my home town. I've been obsessed ever since, it's such a great and beautiful film.

CRcrobertcargill.bsky.socialSep 27, 2024 10:24pm

In a major coup, MUBI - the streaming service that is Criterion for people who think Criterion is too mainstream - has acquired & restored Tarsem's brilliant THE FALL, available today. A criminally underseen masterpiece, this movie has been hard to find for YEARS. Now it's out there. Fucking LOVE it

That got me the first time as well! I'd just been playing Successors where the combat units do automatically change control, and just assumed it worked the same.

New arrivals today - came much faster than I expected. Looking forward to cracking them both open.

I’ve seen people in the past assume the “oh shit get in the bunker the Waffle House closed” thing is a joke so I need to stress that it almost entirely is not

DBdlbowman76.comSep 26, 2024 8:35pm

Oh MAN. This is incredibly serious. Waffle House does *not* do this unless the weather threat is literally catastrophic.

All Waffle Houses in Tallahassee closing as Helene approaches

All Waffle Houses in the immediate area are closed effective Thursday, a representative for the chain said.

FVIII, Mon Amour. unwinnable.com/2024/09/25/b.

Baroque Pathology: Monkeys Shampooing While I Slowly Die and Play Final Fantasy VIII - Unwinnable

In a desperate attempt to conjure halcyon days I played Final Fantasy VIII. I played the game during a horrible time in my life.

Sure! I've only played two games, so I'm still messing about - I played a lot of We the People as a teenager but very little WW. I'm DrCrossbows on RtT

Such a good game, and a great implementation

I definitely get how it can be annoying to see nerds being pedantic about the thing you made or the section of the industry you're in more generally, but nerds are going to be pedantic about the thing they know about in any situation. [insert screencap of Roel talking about ditches in warfare]

There seems to be "don't talk about historical accuracy in film/tv costuming" discourse happening on Twitter again. Thanks, I hate it.

Yes, you may receive periodic requests from me to double check something - but at least I'm on this side of the world so they'll (probably) be at a reasonable time!