Recent content by Szlia

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    Indie Games

    There is a Lucas Pope game and a Bennett Foddy game on this thing. I like these dudes and I am curious about their games, but not $205 curious (Foddy's game comes with the system, Pope's is $6).
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    Godzilla Minus One (2023)

    I am not sure there is a coherent "canon" timeline for the Godzilla films, but at the very least this one is set before the events of the first film (toward the end of WWII and a little after VS contemporary to the first film release, so 1954). Why not Zero? Maybe they wanted to leave some room...
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    Monkey Man (2024)

    Unsurprisingly, when you have a continent-sized country with many different languages and cultures, a very long and rich history in all kind of arts and probably the most prolific national cinematography in the world, the end result is that "indian films" is a term that covers a very complicated...
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    Monkey Man (2024)

    I read the previous posts, but just added some finer points about the content of the movie and a little bit of nuance: the style and form we associate with Bollywood movies is not true for all Bollywood movies and also not exclusive to them. While it's rare to see european or american movies...
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    Monkey Man (2024)

    I know you jest, but while the movie is set in India, is written and directed by an english actor who has indian roots (oddly, his parents were actually both born in Kenya) and deals with indian themes (corruption, the influence of sects, hijra, references to the Ramayana), it does not take the...
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    Garfield (2024)

    Mandatory reminder that the only good thing about Garfield is that it allowed the existence of Garfield Minus Garfield.
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Directed by Brian Yuzna! That's a name I didn't heard in a while! And to be fair, looking at his filmography, I am not exactly sure why I know the name. I guess The Dentist was kinda known at the time. One of those VHS rental era horror film... He also co-produced Crying Freeman... other than...
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    Monkey Man (2024)

    This is somewhat competently done, but feels more like a string of citations of other revenge movies than something original. There are buds of ideas here and there, but they never really bloom. I did not time it or anything, but if I had to guess, I would say about a third of the movie is...
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    Dune: Part Three

    I'll bite on that one since it's unbearably stupid. There is clearly a deliberate effort to increase the diversity in the casts of Hollywood movies. Of course, as a spectator, the narrower your tastes, the more affected you are (negatively, like in your case, or positively). The notion though...
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    Twitch.tv

    The average concurrent viewers is 2.5 millions, but for a live streaming platform to make money the maths are rather complicated. It's all well and good to have more sets of eyes to show ads to, but that also means more bandwidth costs. I am not sure if there is some sort of composing factor...
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    Twitch.tv

    The main problem is that half the people posting in this thread don't watch Twitch. They just regurgitate whatever pops in their Twitter or their righteous outrage reddit feeds. As a result we have posters who think all IRL streamers are of the pranking douchbag variety and that 99% of female...
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    Twitch.tv

    Yeah, CDawgVA is such a blight with his cycling around Japan in lesser known places while collecting funds for the Immune Deficiency Fundation :rolleyes:
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    Dune: Part Two (2023)

    He co-wrote the screenplays and it's an adaptation, so whatever will happen to the characters in the next movie (if there is one) is up to him really.
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    Fleishman Is in Trouble

    Not bad, but not very memorable as I saw it a few months back and had to think a minute before remembering what it was about and that I even saw it.
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    Twitch.tv

    What is "common sense" and how do you deem something is "overtly sexual" though? The nature of the beast is that rules will be set and then some people will try to explore the limits of these rules, which automatically will result in some back and forth. That will happen no matter what the rules...