It's been years since I was on dating apps but I'm hardly shocked. I got plenty of bumble matches and I'm pretty certain I never exchanged more than 5 messages on the app. The vast majority of women simply never sent a first message or the rare ones that did hit me with "hi" or "hey" which is honestly worse than having me initiate the conversation because I have to awkwardly respond and start a conversation. It's a fun idea in theory, but reality is a real slap in the face
Spider-Man: Brand New Day 3/5 - After the last movie brought in all of the people associated with Spider-Man I knew this was going to have to tone everything down and it did. It's a good Spider-Man movie with an interesting villain, better than most of the MCU stuff right now
Ice Cream Man (2026) 1.5/5 - It's in the splatter horror genre like Terrifier which I've found to be disappointing in general. Usually there's an emphasis on over the top gore but it often comes around to being cartoonish because it's so unrealistic and that's the case here. Add in AI scenes, child sexualization, and vague racism and there's not much redeemable here
The Hobbit (1977) 2.5/5 - Watched this in honor of the new magic set. It's goofy as hell, but has a lot of hand drawn charm. It's been a long time since I read The Hobbit but if you told me all the songs in the movie were from the book I'd believe it. The Gollum scene drags on for far too long, but overall I appreciate it as being pretty faithful, if not abridged
Heat 4/5 - My first time seeing this and it was pretty good. I think an hour of build-up and character building is on the long side for what the movie needed, and the heist itself was a little simplistic for my tastes. Overall still very well executed
SOULM8TE 2.5/5 - If you're going to rip off movies like Companion and Ex Machina you gotta do something to differentiate yourself, and the opportunity was right there considering this is (supposedly) in the M3GAN universe. They don't really bother taking advantage of the crossover and while there are some interesting kills and funny moments, overall they don't really capitalize on the premise
The Dink 4/5 - What if we made Challengers palatable for Republicans? I jest, it's funny, pretty self aware, and manages just enough swerves to keep you engaged. I appreciated that the main character was a fucking moron and that they never redeem that. He is just so dumb. Also John McEnroe is fucking hilarious in every movie he's in
I was playing video games with a friend while listening to music and said out loud "is this a Tom Jones cover of Burning Down the House?" and her immediate impression of the song was dead on even though she'd never heard it before
Start off confusing them with a cacophony of sound, followed by high energy, into Tom Jones shouting. Should be pretty hard to sleep through all of that
You're a little late to the party. Brain Rot skins (the actual in game names) have been around for a while. Before that there was AI Darth Vader, and it used James Earl Jones' voice
My work was matching donations at one point and Wikipedia was an option so I donated $50 + $50 of corpo money to Wikipedia at one point. They've never stopped asking me for more
So not that I'm a Minions lore expert but in one of the montages showing what the Minions were up to over time they were canonically frozen on an iceberg during the events of WWII. Presumably to avoid saying they worked for Hitler. Now the events of Minions & Monsters does seem to partially dispute that fact with its timeline but I'm also splitting hairs
I read that trilogy a few years ago. The stakes really ratchet up after the first book. I have heard the 2nd trilogy is pretty good but I haven't been compelled to check it out myself
Currently reading: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time #4). I really enjoyed books 1 and 2 in the series but found 3 to be a bit messy. This so far feels like a return to form and I'm enjoying it much more. The mantis shrimp seem to be an addition to stick to the older framework but I'll reserve judgment once I've seen more from the one character we've met
Just finished: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite. An interesting little premise that blazes through so fast that you don't really get to examine the scenery or dive into any ideas. It's not bad, but if it's aiming to be a cozy mystery the rapid pace seems discordant
To be honest I have no idea how retroachievements works. I just remembered that game as being easy to get all of them and assumed it'd be the same across platforms like most achievements are these days
From that time I remember people getting Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth because you could get all of the achievements in under 5 minutes by just spamming your basic attack on the tutorial mobs
Basically the plot of Crash (1996)
Well the airforce did build a PS3 supercomputer
It's been years since I was on dating apps but I'm hardly shocked. I got plenty of bumble matches and I'm pretty certain I never exchanged more than 5 messages on the app. The vast majority of women simply never sent a first message or the rare ones that did hit me with "hi" or "hey" which is honestly worse than having me initiate the conversation because I have to awkwardly respond and start a conversation. It's a fun idea in theory, but reality is a real slap in the face
Spider-Man: Brand New Day 3/5 - After the last movie brought in all of the people associated with Spider-Man I knew this was going to have to tone everything down and it did. It's a good Spider-Man movie with an interesting villain, better than most of the MCU stuff right now
Ice Cream Man (2026) 1.5/5 - It's in the splatter horror genre like Terrifier which I've found to be disappointing in general. Usually there's an emphasis on over the top gore but it often comes around to being cartoonish because it's so unrealistic and that's the case here. Add in AI scenes, child sexualization, and vague racism and there's not much redeemable here
The Hobbit (1977) 2.5/5 - Watched this in honor of the new magic set. It's goofy as hell, but has a lot of hand drawn charm. It's been a long time since I read The Hobbit but if you told me all the songs in the movie were from the book I'd believe it. The Gollum scene drags on for far too long, but overall I appreciate it as being pretty faithful, if not abridged
Heat 4/5 - My first time seeing this and it was pretty good. I think an hour of build-up and character building is on the long side for what the movie needed, and the heist itself was a little simplistic for my tastes. Overall still very well executed
SOULM8TE 2.5/5 - If you're going to rip off movies like Companion and Ex Machina you gotta do something to differentiate yourself, and the opportunity was right there considering this is (supposedly) in the M3GAN universe. They don't really bother taking advantage of the crossover and while there are some interesting kills and funny moments, overall they don't really capitalize on the premise
The Dink 4/5 - What if we made Challengers palatable for Republicans? I jest, it's funny, pretty self aware, and manages just enough swerves to keep you engaged. I appreciated that the main character was a fucking moron and that they never redeem that. He is just so dumb. Also John McEnroe is fucking hilarious in every movie he's in
They had a pretty limited musical run (and a 1 season IFC show) but Garfunkel and Oates had some funny songs
This is a good one. I particularly like Hell is the Absence of God from the same short story collection
I was playing video games with a friend while listening to music and said out loud "is this a Tom Jones cover of Burning Down the House?" and her immediate impression of the song was dead on even though she'd never heard it before
Cbat - Hudson Hawke
Gangnam Style - Psy
Burning Down the House - Tom Jones/The Cardigans
Start off confusing them with a cacophony of sound, followed by high energy, into Tom Jones shouting. Should be pretty hard to sleep through all of that
You're a little late to the party. Brain Rot skins (the actual in game names) have been around for a while. Before that there was AI Darth Vader, and it used James Earl Jones' voice
The one thing Trump is actually afraid of: Discovery
Just wait, I'm sure he also had a whole caravan of illegal immigrants shipped in to give him extra votes too 🙄
Dropout is one I have no issues paying for too
My work was matching donations at one point and Wikipedia was an option so I donated $50 + $50 of corpo money to Wikipedia at one point. They've never stopped asking me for more
So not that I'm a Minions lore expert but in one of the montages showing what the Minions were up to over time they were canonically frozen on an iceberg during the events of WWII. Presumably to avoid saying they worked for Hitler. Now the events of Minions & Monsters does seem to partially dispute that fact with its timeline but I'm also splitting hairs
I read that trilogy a few years ago. The stakes really ratchet up after the first book. I have heard the 2nd trilogy is pretty good but I haven't been compelled to check it out myself
Currently reading: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time #4). I really enjoyed books 1 and 2 in the series but found 3 to be a bit messy. This so far feels like a return to form and I'm enjoying it much more. The mantis shrimp seem to be an addition to stick to the older framework but I'll reserve judgment once I've seen more from the one character we've met
Just finished: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite. An interesting little premise that blazes through so fast that you don't really get to examine the scenery or dive into any ideas. It's not bad, but if it's aiming to be a cozy mystery the rapid pace seems discordant
To be honest I have no idea how retroachievements works. I just remembered that game as being easy to get all of them and assumed it'd be the same across platforms like most achievements are these days
From that time I remember people getting Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth because you could get all of the achievements in under 5 minutes by just spamming your basic attack on the tutorial mobs