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My thing is that after most movies that I watch, my entire reaction is “yeah, that was fine”. The other day I watched The American Friend, a fairly deep cut, because I wanted to see another take on the Ripley character before watching the new Netflix series with Andrew Scott. Other than thinking it’s really funny that Dennis Hopper and Matt Damon played the same character 20 years apart, I don’t have much of anything to say about that movie, good or bad.

I probably watch an average of 4-5 movies a week (and often a fair bit of TV), but I don’t like giving numerical ratings and don’t have it in me to give “real” reviews most of the time, so I’m not nearly as active in this thread as I could be.

That’s what makes totality so cool/worth it. Once the sun is completely covered and you can’t see anything through the glasses, you can look with your bare eyes and see the halo effect. But as soon as any bit of red starts showing through the glasses, it’s instantly too bright to look at directly.

I was joking about eclipse snobs earlier, but now I kinda get it. When it hit 100% (and zero cloud cover), it suddenly looked and felt like we warped to like 8:15PM. Not the total darkness of late night, but like the sun had definitely set recently. A minute later, as soon as there was just a tiny sliver of red showing, it was basically back to normal almost immediately. The sun is… bright. It was an interesting experience.

I forgot to bump this! Movie rips. It has some shagginess that’s common in a directorial debut, but overall it’s an extremely enjoyable, satisfying ride.

Well, that was fun. Good excuse to get some fresh air on a nice day. Perfect weather, hardly any clouds.

Anything less than 100% is a waste of time. Don’t even bother. (Eclipse Snob is my new favorite type of internet commenter).

Still bouncing around between too many games. Nothing is sticking. At least I’m going through Game Pass/PS+/my library and not feeling this while buying a bunch of new games.

I saw the movie in the theater, but it really didn’t leave any impression on me, so I wasn’t paying much attention to this show. But I heard enough good things that I watched the first couple of episodes, and I like it a lot. Kaya Scodelario

Winning ticket was sold in Oregon.

I don’t really see the point these days. Magazines are for doctor’s waiting rooms.

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I think I’m just going to take a nice long bike ride on Monday. That’s the level of effort I’m willing to put into this (something I would do anyway on a day off). If I get to the deep suburbs, that should put me just inside in the path of totality.

It’s mostly structural. The story as told is perfect in the game, but would be extremely hard to translate to TV as directly as the first game. Especially if they split it into two seasons, to do it “right”, that would be almost an entire season of the show with an all-new cast. Which I would love, because that’s a really bold swing and it’s part of what makes the game so powerful, but I can’t imagine that sitting well with the average TV audience.

Yeah, I finished my PS5 playthrough. The whole time, I kept thinking “I have no idea how they’re going to adapt this.”

I couldn’t find one that would take my per diem card.

I see the appeal, but it’s not really my scene. Now that I’ve been there as an adult, it’s lost some mystique for me. The best case scenario for a visit seems like if you’ve got a lot of cash to burn and some friends who really want to cut loose for a few days.

Yeah, everything was expensive. Luckily, my per diem covered basically everything. The bulk of my trip was pretty boring. I put in a decent amount of overtime, and most evenings after work I would basically find something to eat and then go back to the hotel. I had one day off, and got in some touristy stuff, including the Hoover Dam and the Omega Mart. I hit the strip a couple of times and Fremont Street once, but mostly just kinda walked around. One night, the fire alarm started going off in my hotel at 2:15am. Turned out there was an electrical fire in the elevator. That was fun. Ended up getting relocated to a slightly worse hotel that actually would’ve been a better setup for a long stay, but I only had a couple nights to go at that point.

I’m playing the demo, and her insanely long hair constantly clipping through her body really tones down the rest of the character model. edit: finished the demo. Might be a “wait for PS+” game for me. Not bad, but also not really my thing.

Mission Impossible also only had one week before Barbenheimer took over everything.

I impulsively bought Pokémon Brilliant Diamond when I saw Amazon had it for $40. Haven’t played a mainline Pokémon game in over a decade, and I skipped this generation the first time around, so it feels “”fresh””.

Just finished the season. Having nothing to compare it to, I fully loved it. I feel like this really could be a big crossover hit. There’s some deeply nerdy shit at the core of this, but it starts off simply enough that I think plenty of people could connect with the story/characters and would still be on board by the time things get real wacky. And a really fun cast! Shoutout to Benedict Wong in particular, I absolutely loved the vibe he brought to this.

I forgot today was Easter. My sister is out of town, I don’t have anyone else I would “celebrate” with.

If nothing else, it looks like he gave a lot of fun comedic actors a payday. I clocked Andy Daly as the Quaker Oats guy.

I’ve watched the first two episodes, and I dig it. Downloaded the rest of the season on my iPad for my flights back home tomorrow.