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Wait, what, there was "Sleeping With Ghosts: B-Sides," and I missed that until now? Huh.
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Choosing just 9 games is brutal (like, I would love to put both Switch Zeldas here), but you should catch the drift.
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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" is one of the most famous books ever, probably, and while it was mentioned in many places, I never took interest in it. This all changed when I started following @mobydick, and from the quotes, I could clearly see the explicitly superb language; and that's with not even complete sentences sometimes. Then, I noticed that I can buy the whole thing for 7 euros; and so I did.
And this thread will be about what followed.
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I saw "Hot Shots" when I was young, and I don't really remember if it was very funny. I do remember quoting stuff with my classmates, but I can't recall the extent to which it was amusing me. Now, years later, it rather has funny moments at best. Overall, it's so and so. The funniest I found was the manner in which Charlie Sheen and Valeria Golino talk, as if they were parodying something but it was forgotten what.
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I saw "Hot Shots" when I was young, and I don't really remember if it was very funny. I do remember quoting stuff with my classmates, but I can't recall the extent to which it was amusing me. Now, years later, it rather has funny moments at best. Overall, it's so and so. The funniest I found was the manner in which Charlie Sheen and Valeria Golino talk, as if they were parodying something but it was forgotten what.
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I saw "Hot Shots" when I was young, and I don't really remember if it was very funny. I do remember quoting stuff with my classmates, but I can't recall the extent to which it was amusing me. Now, years later, it rather has funny moments at best. Overall, it's so and so. The funniest I found was the manner in which Charlie Sheen and Valeria Golino talk, as if they were parodying something but it was forgotten what.
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I saw "Hot Shots" when I was young, and I don't really remember if it was very funny. I do remember quoting stuff with my classmates, but I can't recall the extent to which it was amusing me. Now, years later, it rather has funny moments at best. Overall, it's so and so. The funniest I found was the manner in which Charlie Sheen and Valeria Golino talk, as if they were parodying something but it was forgotten what.
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I saw "Hot Shots" when I was young, and I don't really remember if it was very funny. I do remember quoting stuff with my classmates, but I can't recall the extent to which it was amusing me. Now, years later, it rather has funny moments at best. Overall, it's so and so. The funniest I found was the manner in which Charlie Sheen and Valeria Golino talk, as if they were parodying something but it was forgotten what.
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"Knox Goes Away" is 2023's Michael Keaton's, both directed and starred, movie about a contract killer who discovers is being devoured by dementia and has literally a couple of weeks left. The movie feels like a long-overdue spiritual successor to "Memento," with Knox writing things down, and slowly losing it. There is a whole noir layer in the movie, but it felt more like a pretext to show dealing with own's impeding death. And it's funny at the same time.
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Season 4 of "Veep" follows a campaign and presidential election that follows a resignation of the president of the United States of America; a president that was never shown on screen. The series holds its level and mid-season Hugh Laurie joins the cast. Sorry for the spoiler, as it took my by surprise, but it's not that much plot-related. I begin to like the character of Pierce, who's a helpless fool and should not survive a day there. And yet, he does.
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Season 2 of "Veep" is the same but more. There are 3 new characters this time around. Everyone talks fast and throws offences so often and so layered that it's nothing short of amazing. And at the same time, no one seems to be offended. I guess the show is a good illustration of how much it sucks at the world of politics. With every episode, I am getting more and more certain that I would never want to be a politician.
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"Severance" reminded me heavily of Haruki Murakami's "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World," and I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, so let me fix that. The book was definitely one of the stranger and more original ones that I have ever read.
The resemblance is not only about having two sets of person in one, but the whole encrypting data feels similar to data refinement.
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As far as my understanding goes, the legendary ZDoom, continued as GZDoom and now UZDoom, was primarily based off "Hexen," and that makes the game even more important evolution-wise. To throw my favourite comparison in, "Strife" was only reverse-engineered and at much later time. Technically, Doom scene owes a lot to "Hexen."
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"Death By Lightning" (2025) is a limited series that tell a story of the 20th president of the US. It's all-star-driven (with my beloved Michael Shannon, Nick Offerman, and Shea Whigham, among others). While it sticks very close to the facts, from what I checked, and has only understandable shortcuts (like only 1 doctor), it feels very much like a comment to our times in the first place. And the metaphors are not subtle. There is even disenfranchised lone shooter.
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"Rigor Mortis" (2013) is nominally a horror, but felt more like real-live anime. More action-packed than scary. Not a bad thing, just know what to expect. Sadly, I had English-dubbed version which broke immersion a bit for me. The creators managed to build a very dense atmosphere, somewhere between brutalist hell and liminal space horror. If you're into these things, that film is for you. I think the final twist could be cut off with benefit for the story.
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"Red Lights" from 2012 were a last moment choice when the other film didn't pan out. I got lured by the cast (Cilian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, and Robert De Niro), but it was a bit of a dud. The first part is strong, but then the story goes into weird, and not in a good way, areas and developments. The end made the experience somewhat better, but it's 5/10 for me.
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As strange as it may sound, I have never seen "Fatal Attraction" (1987). Apart from love scenes, like the one in the elevator, the movie got old pretty well. It can be seen as a cautionary tale for married men or (probably) something about oppressive patriarchy, which shows the initial quality. Glen Close plays a role which usually is reserved for male characters, and she can have a very chilling impression when she's calmly scanning the environment.
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"Perfect Days" from 2023 is Wim Wender's movie about a cleaner of public toilets in Shibuya in Tokyo. Slow-paced every-day’s routine of a middle-aged man turned out to be a very appealing lifestyle. Working, taking pictures of trees, listening to music, and reading books. And all by himself, not really talking to anyone, not even coworkers. Like a hermit in the middle of a crowded city.
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Whenever I need to take a nap during the day, I play the "Doom 64" soundtrack with its hellish soundscapes in my headphones. What does it say about me, I have no clue. But yesterday I didn't hear my dog sulking outside the bedroom because those children cries hid it.
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"Boiling Point" (2021) is a project from Philip Barantini and Stephen Graham, who gave us "Adolescence" earlier this year. Just like the show, the whole movie is done from a single shot. The plot is on one hand pretty trivial and very occupying on the other hand because everything happens so fast. And it's despite the fact that I'm not a fan of cooking-oriented stories; they just bore me. I am also once again reminded of how hectic working in a restaurant is.
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Fantastic album. A faux soundtrack, something that is popular on Bandcamp; but I still checked if there was no movie.
At times, it sounds like a lost follow-up of The Queen, whose sound was never picked up by any musician, thus making the band one of its kind.
https://theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/the-cover-up-original-motion-picture-soundtrack
https://soundmachinestore.bigcartel.com/product/the-cover-up-cd
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"Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition" for €5.99 in the Nintendo store, so I thought why not. I am mostly interested in the new episode which uses an updated features from the engine, which I find amazing in a case of a game from 1994. Notes to follow soon maybe because I already started 2 other games and I don't wanna spread myself thin.
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When Kyle Simpson wrote a book about monads, "Unwrapping Monads & Friends," I decided to read it. I'm done with monads in my life at this point, but I was curious how he tackled this. Kyle has a talent to nail various subjects without pretentiousness (and Lord only know how much of that there is around monads). I still think that monads are rather exotic concept in JS, but on a theoretical level, it's beneficial to be aware of it.
https://leanpub.com/blog/new-book-launch-unwrapping-monads-friends-by-kyle-simpson/
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"Crime and Punishment" from 1983 is Aki Kaurismäki's debut. As title suggests, it's Fyodor Dostoevsky's adaptation. What's impressive is that it was adjusted to then-modern times and yet, it managed to keep faithful to the source material (as far as I remember now). Finns deliver sufficient amount of deadpan for the movie to be funny, despite its subject.
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I got inspired to re-listen to Scatman John's first album, "Scatman's World." Something I haven't done in decades. It's probably one of literally 3 or 4 cassettes I had in my life. The album got old pretty visibly, but the mix of scat singing and dance music didn't catch up with others, so it brings back a specific moment in time. I'm twelve again.
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"The Hidden" (1987) is a glorious, shameless sci-fi action horror. Kyle MacLachlan plays here an aloof FBI agent, pre-Twin-Peaks, and it's a perfect casting. He brings all his Kyleness to the role, which initially helps to fool us, the viewers. Something that would be a twist and major reveal in other movies happens almost immediately, thus making us guessing when the detective on the case will catch up with that. Fantastic 80s rock completes the picture.
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The Polish title of "The Usual Suspects" was "Podejrzani" (just "Suspects"). Some phrases don't translate directly. However, the title was inspired by a quote from "Casablanca" ("Round up the usual suspects!"), and I could find Polish subtitles for that movie and see how did they tackle that sentence.
[2 mintues later]
So, it's "Znajdźcie podejrzanych" ("Find suspects") as well. It further confirms that it's impossible to do it smartly. Case closed.
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As promised, I rewatched "The Usual Suspects." The film aged like fine wine, although the soundtrack sounds a bit oldish, reminding me of Tim Burton's Batmans. What I like about this movie is that knowing the main twist doesn't spoil the fun because now you can spot details that you missed the first time. I really appreciate how different all the 5 characters are in personality and clothing style wise.