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  1. Heriotze

    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    You're kind of answering your own question here. Corporation didn't just sporadically start hating money; it has lost enough money that they are trying to figure out how to kid-glove it back to profitability and stem the bleeding. You've seen how they treat franchises that make money, and this...
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    The Terror

    This had an interesting introduction episode. The Terror is just a random anthology thing at this point, but it still felt closer in tone and scope to Channel Zero. Outside of season 1 of The Terror, I would much prefer this to mirror Channel Zero, as I thought that series had weak seasons but...
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    Widow's Bay

    This is gold. The song playing when he did his inaugural swim was perfectly chosen. Revenants suffering from loss of erection and sea hags that sit on your face until death
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    Subnautica

    The sound design really made the setting feel real and tense in the first one. It was lightning in a bottle that they promptly fucked up as hard as they possibly could
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I have no idea sir, I think they are just hoping that it works with no backing data other than cost analysis. We've also quit hiring specific disciplines and are all full-stack so I'm fixing absolute dogshit AI react code while still having to explain to people how to make paginated API...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    We've just frozen all hiring above junior level due to AI first policies and w're even backing out of that to grab interns. VPs believe that interns + Copilot is going to invalidate experience and seniority. There's no reasoning with it at this point so I'm trying to mitigate by putting strict...
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    New movies that dont deserve their own thread.

    That can't be the premise for an entire movie. It would be a 10-15-minute segment in a compilation where a guy ironically gets exactly what he wishes for, but as a feature-length movie, there's no way that there is enough material to keep that going. It's a bad episode of The Twilight Zone...
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    Dust Bunny (2025)

    This was good, something interesting at least. It had really bad control over pacing, so once anything happened at all, that was the plateau that it kept reaching for again, so the climax felt like any other action scene in the movie, and that made it drag after a certain point. The story was...
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    Undertone (2026)

    This is atmospherically great. Psychological/Epistemic horror has really been going down the route of expert camera work lately, and this sits near the top of that vein. It seems like it's going to be a slow burn, but the sound and visuals do a ton of legwork, really digging into a very...
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    Warhammer 40k

    Perturabo, then Russ, then maybe Khan if they do the 11th edition bike and speeder refresh, then Dorn, Vulkan, Corax, and last Lorgar. Alpharius is already doing something and can't be bothered to return until he needs to get killed to be Snape.
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    The Deep Dark (2023)

    I don't regret watching it, but it will never be rewatched. A bunch of stuff happens solely because the plot requires it to. Half of the miners run around like Ricky Bobby's kids, shouting "anarchy" the second that they get trapped. It doesn't really feel like a mine for most of the movie...
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    Operation Taco Gary's (2026)

    Simon Rex is in legitimately enjoyable movies. This was pretty weird sci-fi and had some funny moments. Jason Biggs does a great job of playing a caricature of himself and Dustin Milligan plays a good straight man as opposed to the dopey characters that he mostly played in his early career
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    New movies that dont deserve their own thread.

    If you're a fan of Jeunet and Caro, this is a nice homage to that style. She Loved Blossoms More
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    Warhammer 40k

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    Do Not Enter (2026)

    This is amusingly terrible. It looks amazing. It's just a shade less interesting of art direction than the remake of House on Haunted Hill and I'm pretty sure that the monster has down syndrome. A lot of effort was put into making something both terrible and watchable and a viewing won't be...
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    Cold Storage

    The twist is that he's super ghetto and she's hyper refined and knows electrical engineering because she's working on a veterinary degree.
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    Cold Storage

    This is terrible. The edit is really bad, and/or the direction is bad because there are a few nonsensical things that happen. He needed to dial his ghetto up to ten if she was going to comment on it, and naming him after a black Renaissance character that nobody gives two shits about, then...
  18. Heriotze

    Novel Writing

    Thank you for the offer sir but I think that I'm also going to pick up a copy. Always up for supporting a board member
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    Novel Writing

    Yeah, I can't argue with anything that you said. I'm in the more select genres of transgressive dark humor and epistemic horror, so the 80% female writers don't impact as much as other areas like Fantasy or Sci-Fi, but it's still a factor based on a majority of publishers moving towards more...
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    Tiptoes (2002)

    Kermit legs
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    Warhammer 40k

    One of the rumors swirling around is that the 11th edition is the beginning of the end times. If that's true, then that means Russ is coming back, and then there might be Russ and The Lion buddy cop time where they run around the universe getting the band back together
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    Novel Writing

    I am trying not to but that is potentially in the cards
  23. Heriotze

    Novel Writing

    I just finished my first book in December and my first novella last month but haven't heard back from agents or publishers yet. I also have a big chunk of magazine submission short stories planned for the next 2 years that I am working through each month but nothing has been published
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    Honey Bunch (2025)

    It's a really interesting movie. Very weird and they did retro correctly so it wasn't just a gimmick. The story is brutal when you get to the end and reflect on what the poor guy went through for his horrible wife but it's also a bit self-reflective about that and that's part of the horror. You...
  25. Heriotze

    3d Printing and the Future of Piracy

    I had decent results with meshy.ai. The prompts were a little rough to figure out but everything it generated was printable.
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    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

    Your occipital lobe is in the back of your head, he wouldn't be able to see if his head was caved in like that, and would no longer be conscious, and his helmet would be so deformed it wouldn't be removable. I understand the artistic choice to show damage versus the internal destruction that...
  27. Heriotze

    Warhammer 40k

    Silent King without his pylons v Victrix Honor Guard. Necrons have two bruiser detachments right now, and one is centered around the Silent King and gives him unbelievable survivability, but, depending on when the picture was taken, those Ultramarines were really unbalanced when they were...
  28. Heriotze

    Warhammer 40k

    If there's a writer who's going to eventually introduce it, it's going to be Brooks. Noggifying them is part of their big endgame of subtly revealing Alpha Legion as the "Snape" of the 40k universe. Having black guys play the system for years and then altruistically come out as the savior that...
  29. Heriotze

    Warhammer 40k

    What gut punch. I was riding on a gravy train with biscuit wheels after the Bonereapers announcements, then they laid this turd on top of everything
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    Hokum (2026)

    Damian McCarthy is auto-watch at this point. It will be interesting to see what imagery carries over into this. So far the bell from Oddity and the bunny theme from Caveat that had already carried over into Oddity
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    Pluribus

    You assertion is the correct one based on Gilligan's past writing style applied to this show. The hive putting on a show for the audience either reveals something crazy about the nature of the show's world or it is terrible writing as everything has been legitimately, hamfistedly, diegetic up to...
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    Keeper (2025)

    Visually and tonally this was another great entry from Perkins. The classic "unseen until it's seen" for the actual horror elements is tried and true for a reason and it works incredibly well here. I had a love/hate relationship with Maslany's performance up until things started going and then...
  33. Heriotze

    The Chair Company

    Morale is really down, I'm going to come in dressed a as a chicken tomorrow
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    Mr. K (2025)

    It's not amazing but I liked it, it's fun levels of weird. It's like a pseudo Fellini movie but without any giant Italian tits
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    The Resurrected is such a great Lovecraftian adaptation and it's kind of been lost, or was for a while. I had to seriously dig around to watch it 4 or 5 years ago and I think the only thing I could find was an old VHS and some VHS rips on YouTube but good to see that i's actually on a streaming...
  36. Heriotze

    What's that song?

    Foster The People?
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    When Evil Lurks (2023)

    Yes sir, what @Chanur said, Terrified
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    When Evil Lurks (2023)

    This guy's previous film is great as well but this really upped his game. Spanish/Latin horror achieved this weird next level over the past few years, it's some dark stuff and they do it incredibly well.
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    The Banished (2024)

    The Red King has all of the makings of a great folk horror but the main character is just so grating without earning anything. I'm going to watch through to the end but she has probably made something that could have been casually rewatchable every now and then into something that I'm struggling...