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It's going to be hard for me to watch the remake. Someone decided that they needed to have rapidly flashing red and yellow title and chapter cards in the movie and I'm at serious risk of getting a migraine given how often they happen in the movie.

That's not what brings me here at this moment though.

I am, again, pleading with people who have never watched a single pornographic film to stop saying things that aren't porn are, in fact, porn. You don't know what the hell you're talking about. It makes you look ignorant to claim things are porn that aren't (and, technically, you are ignorant in this case which is only a problem because you're pretending you're not and I'm trying to appeal to your ... desire not to look ignorant). There are some of your audience who will take that as a sign that they should watch whatever you're ranting about. That will work out sometimes but probably not here!

If you're offended by the existence of genitals on your screen, just say that.

I really do want to watch the remake despite the attempts to give me a migraine. It's doing something interesting. I'm not sure I like it but I haven't watched the movie either.

A tale of 40-minute train frequencies, which we have on my line until 10am:

I'm helping out at an event today which starts at 10:30
The registration desk opens at 9:45
To be ready to greet people etc. we are having a caucus at 9am
Because the trains run every 40 minutes I have to get there at 8:35 🫠
Which means I left home at 7:30 🫠

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I am in the Exoborne playtest. No images or streaming is allowed, though I think I am allowed to type a bit of text about general reactions.

It's an extraction shooter. It's less brutal than Tarkov and less "wtf are you even doing here, Bungie" than Marathon. It has a lot of crafting.

There are officially-allowed playtest reactions on Youtube from reviewers like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gdSUvkuhzM

I have 3 invitations to hand out to Steam users if you are into this kind of thing.

meow, etc :blobcattea:

#caturday

From Wikipedia:

Pasolini and producer Donato Leoni were charged with obscenity by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rome but were acquitted after only an hour's deliberations.

Seems about right. In terms of I can see how they could be charged with obscenity and how it was a quick acquittal.

I don't think the various interpretations on the Wikipedia page are saying anything particularly meaningful about the movie. Although I am the weirdo who it's best for me at least to know as little about a movie as possible before seeing it. :blobcatgiggle:

I ran into a remake of the Pasolini film made last year. I haven't seen it yet. I have an interpretation of the original film but I'm not going to get into it here. Suffice it to say, the movie seems to be saying something but it's edging on surrealism to accomplish what it sets out to accomplish.

The remake is called The Visitor (released in 2024 ... one of two movies by that name released in 2024). There's a variety of reasons that's probably both a better and a worse title for the work.

Without getting into the details of the original movie, I saw a review of the remake and it makes me laugh. It absolutely tears apart the new one ... with descriptions that are at least basically accurate for the original. Now, you'll notice I haven't said anything in favor of the original. In my opinion, it's not a movie where you can rate it good or bad. It is saying a thing. How you feel about it will likely have more to do with how you feel about what you perceive it to be saying than about any goodness or badness in the movie itself.

It also 100% did not need a remake. I'm going to check out the new one eventually though. If only to see whether that reviewer may have had a point.

We found the monitor!

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it's called an EZ-Up, not an EZ-Down

How strange that there isn't an established emoji for the concept of emoji.

Tirritate fans of fake runes by telling them that Oghams were the real runes.

Did all the prep (chopping) to make three batches of pepper jelly.

What else you gonna do confronted with a 5kg box of perfect sweet Italian peppers 🌶️ for very few dollars.

Saw a 60something guy at the breakfast diner this morning wearing a Billy Idol t-shirt and came to the realization that somewhere there is a group of people collecting social security and headbanging to Megadeth and Metallica.

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