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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 7h

The protagonist has to file a report in Flagstaff and its dirty, crowded and lines take days of waiting. The food in the markets is rancid. The AI in his computer is hallucinating nonstop.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 7h

There's a Kit Reed story titled "Frontiers" in a 1982 issue of Twilight Zone about a dude whose family may or not have vanished from a remote outpost in post-apoc AZ.

The part that spooked me the most was the implication that the apoc broke reality, where nothing works and everything is rotten.

Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 7h

Wife is watching SINISTER and we’re marveling over the 2012-era MacBook and internet that just do their jobs.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 7h

I love the DEEP THOUGHTS takes on this which aren’t wrong but leave out “every trash periodical wanted a slice of that lads mag coin.”

Hone your shitty voice in the game journo trenches in hopes the house’s management will notice and bump you up to writing for their Details clone.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 7h

"By the power of Tab, Virginia Slims, and Revlon's Charlie, I beseech you, Slender Queen of the Cowlneck, Matron of Metrecal, Grand Dame of the White Wine Day Drunk."

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 8h

1978 made for TV movie capsule summary: "A commercial pleasure ship, cruising near the Gulf of Mexico, brings aboard a sunken Egyptian sarcophagus which contains the son of Satan."

me:

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 9h

Because I am a media-damaged child of the Seventies, my initial mental image of "Satanism" or "the occult" doesn't gothic rock or heavy metal.

No, it conjures images of suburban ranch homes with orange pile carpets and folks in too-tight polyester ensembles from Sears.

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Matt Dxgges @sequentialmatt.bsky.social · 10h

Dark October

Black Mary
Countdown
by Paul Dini, Sean McKeever, and Tom Derenick (2007)
After Mary Marvel loses her powers, she convinces her family's nemesis Black Adam to transfer his powers to her, setting her on a much darker path.

#DarkOctober #ProjectDaare #DailyDrawing #OneMoreTime

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Gre-Gory's House of Nonsense @garaujo1.bsky.social · 10h

October 11, 1985 prime time viewing options.

Pick your poison…

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 11h

One of my all-time favorite videogame bits was in Tron 2.0, where Jet ports to an older mainframe to escape a system reformat, and it's the Tron 1.0 universe where his power-ups are limited by memory restraints and processor limitations.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 11h

They keep trying with Ghostbusters and Tron movies when the sequels everyone really wants from those franchises were done note perfectly in game form.

Well thought-out plots that "got it" along with callbacks that worked on more than a pandering fan service level.

Hot Blooded Tough Guy Rusty Shackles @rustyshackles.bsky.social · 11h

Oh damn I just remembered this one

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 11h

Worth it to have the new Havok model where his chest circles are a light/particle effect instead of just marks on his outfit.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 11h

Found out the simple decompilation tool for adding/editing characters in Marvel Ultimate Alliance doesn't work in Windows 11, so I booted up my old gaming laptop to do the work there and shuttle the file to my current machine via jump drive.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 12h

The 1989 VMAs were the one where David Fincher was nominated *three* times out of the five videos in the Best Director category, yet was still unprepared to walk up on stage while presenter James Woods stalled for time.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 12h

Anyway, recite with me that evening's recurring litany:

"Madonna, Express Yourself
Paula Abdul, Straight Up
Living Colour, Cult of Personality
Steve Winwood, Roll With It"

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 12h

While I'm a little disappointed this isn't the original live feed, it's still amazing to see how they attempted to redact its many shitshow elements in post-production.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, wow, this copy of the 1989 VMAs is the broadcast edit shown on a Fox affiliate a month later.

Fucking Stalinesque with its revisionist edits. The Diceman's bit is gone (which, yeah), as are the Cult's and Cure's performances, and they spliced in a do-over of Neil Young's mic mishap speech.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 14h

Total now stands at nine episodes and the 1989 VMAs with original commercials.

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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 14h

We can now quantify precisely how many people saw Morbius ironically due to all the Morbin’ Out jokes on social media

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 15h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 15h

That’s six episodes of Classic MTV pulled from the 1989 tape transfers so far.

A lot of what’s on there is isolated Night Tracks or VH1 Sunday Brunch stuff, iffy quality and not interesting enough for me to archive it.

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Matt Dxgges @sequentialmatt.bsky.social · 15h

Dark October

Parallax
Emerald Twilight
by Ron Marz and Darryl Banks (1994)
Driven to madness by the destruction of his home city, Green Lantern Hal Jordan turns on his fellow corpsmen and allies to accumulate enough power to change history.

#DarkOctober #ProjectDaare #DailyDrawing #OneMoreTime

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 17h

"Just Say Julie was brought to you tonight by the Nintendo Entertainment System."

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 17h

All right, a bunch of 1989 MTV tape transfers dropped.

So far I’ve extricated two episodes of Classic MTV with Martha Quinn and an episode of MTV News at Night.

Some of it is going to require a bit of audio sync fixes and cleanup, but that’s part of the thrill for me.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, Crown...

Making AIP seem like Merchant Ivory by comparison.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 1d

This is where the roster currently stands.

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 1d

There are now really nice classic Nighthawk and Jim Hammond mods, plus upgraded ones for Polaris and Captain Britain.

Hammond especially would be cool because the Invaders, West Coast Avengers, Heroes for Hire thing fits my maximum team-building potential objective.

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