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You nailed my issue: this feels like this was approached like a best series list via the most famous episode of each series.

Been chewing on this list in the back of my mind for a bit, and I kinda don't know how I'd put something like that together; all of these choices are great episodes of tv, that goes without saying. But I think there's a severe limitation in distilling every show to a single episode on the list...

Book 20: A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin Consider this my ultimate acquiescence to George never finishing the series, as I’ve been holding out on a reread for the occasion of the publication of The Winds of Winter. I’ve felt fairly certain it isn’t coming, but that’s something I’ll...

It is a little surprising to see such a harsh response from early critic reactions; usually you end up with the opposite as there's a crush of people who want to deliver a buzzy quote. I had next to zero interest in the first Joker; I'm just sick of that guy. But the addition of Gaga and the...

Got to the Messmer and the Abyssmal Serpent boss fight in Shadow of the Erdtree recently; it's been one I've run at a couple of times, set aside to level up a bit, then came back to a few times. Last night I got a couple summons (I moved recently and finally have reliable internet!) to join, we...

Alien Romulus was a fun time at the movies. The plot didn't make much sense ( ), and while the movie is creepy when it's cribbing Alien it's kind of undercut by the action-movie setpieces when it's cribbing from Aliens. The Alien isn't scary in this one! The methodical winnowing-down of...

I'm no sound engineer, and I get that I'm streaming this but...does this new Jack White sound poorly compressed to anyone else? (album good tho)

I think it was on Criterion Channel a couple years back and, yeah, it's not as fun as it promises. Around the same time I watched Lumet's The Anderson Tapes, which is a lot more dynamic iirc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anderson_Tapes

Now I’m just thinking on how weird one’s reactions to film violence can be: I can chomp handfuls of popcorn while Jason mows through a yearbook’s worth of horny teens, but will hide under my seat at implied eye/nail torture.

Same boat. I’ve seen some of the squickier horror flicks out there, ironically; The Thing is straight-up one of my favorite films, period.

Based on Alvarez’s Evil Dead remake I’m scared it’ll be too gross for me; I love Alien but I avoided the series because the chest buster is so upsetting to me as a concept. I’m curious though.

Based on my experience using comcast while renting, it’s kinda similar: you won’t hate it until it breaks, but when it breaks it breaks you too. I just picked up my comcast router and self-installed with minimal sweat, so consider me a loyal customer to the Sheinhardt Wig Company 🤷

I think they're one and the same; I intended to sign up for CenturyLink and got routed to Quantum Fiber. At the time I thought it was just gravy, fiber=good. I just tried the CenturyLink site again, and I think there's no workaround: From what I can tell, I can no longer sign up for...

Anyone have strong feelings about their ISP? I tried to sign up for Quantum Fiber for my new place, but they last-minute canceled the appointment and seem to have straight-up deleted my account. My research told me as much: their internet is great, but god help you should you need customer...

welp, I got got. Woke the day after a work conference with a sore throat, thought it was allergies due to the first sunny day after a week's rain, then got an email indicating someone at the conference tested positive. Within a few hours the fever descended on me, and the chills. That was...

Someone turned the Amblin dial up to “extreme suburban childhood nostalgia” and broke the knob!

Someone on the instagram post comments asked who this is for, but honestly I may snag it during the sale; lots of stuff I haven’t revisited since film school, lots of blank spots in my film education, and a few I’ve been meaning to add to my collection. The only overlaps are I already have a Do...

This Colman Domingo movie looks really good, but every time i see an ad i think of the Mel Brooks gag of the same name from the ‘05 Producers: “gottaaaaa sing-siiiiiing!”

Curious to see how this pans out. I thought hiring the Russos was a safe-bet choice, but bringing back RDJ feels a bit panicked and a missed opportunity to go a bit more out there. Then again, this could be the out-there choice. Truly a feeling of this is either a fresh new era or time to pack...

I love the frantic energy and the theater-kid banter. By the time Tim Curry is running through the various solutions I'm utterly twist-turned around and they truly could be making it all up.