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Thoughtful Sloth

@thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social

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Enjoyer of film, TV, books, comics, video games, sumo, science, streaming, scifi, fantasy, anime, manga, crosswords, mysteries, city pop, electronica, and other slothy things.

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 6h

If they wanna try it, sure. Worse that happens is people have another Alien movie they can subjectively ignore. If Weaver is happy with it, I'll give it a shot too.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 6h

Excellent rizz.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 6h

Wow print edition major sucks for that difference. I guess truth is subjective to the print editor.

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 7h

A short story of choice in four frames.

1) Oh, no. A temptation.
2) Do I dare?
3) Not today, Progress Satan.
4) Lookit my shadow!

#gamesky #babysteps #videogames 🕹

Nate stands at the edge of a broken overlook. The overlook has haphazardly aligned wooden boards for a floor and very skimpy thin metal pipes for guardrails along its edge at waist height. But the corner of the overlook directly ahead of Nate has missing guardrails, creating an open edge Nate could easily step over and fall. Nate was placed here after a cutscene in which another character contemplated falling because they would not be hurt in the video game world, but they would have to walk all the way back to this spot. It is implied Nate is also thinking about it, but the other character decides not to and walks away. Nate still wears his onesie and a knitted grey donkey hat that looks like a donkey head.

We see the view of what's over the ledge of the lookout ahead of Nate. Nate and the view are seen from above. Down below is mostly a light blue haze that blocks a lot of details, but through the haze at the middle of the screen we can see two cliff edges disappearing into a hole further below. Two of the cliffedges nearly touch, looking like a thin strip of rock that formed a walkway but lost part of the middle of the bridge.

Nate is seen from behind walking away from the edge on the wooden lookout. He walks toward a stable rock bed ahead. Thin metal railings are on either side as Naye walks in the middle with enough room to fall without falling over the edge. Nate still wears his grey knitted donkey hat. The back of his onesie is completely muddy with only the sides of his torso and legs appearing slightly clean. He is barefoot.

Nate is seen from behind walking over a sand dune. Ahead of him is a dip in the dunes and another rising sand dune. Nate's shadow is cast on the side of the rising dune up ahead, it looks like a dark outline of his body in the same pose. The shadow is cast by the sun which lights Nate's back and lower body. He still wears the donkey hat and his back is still muddy. Farther in the distance we can see some palm trees around what looks to be water from a blue lake or oasis. Light blue fog starts to cover everything in the distance.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 7h

Spent some time at this chill spot for a vibe with the soundtrack.

#gamesky #babysteps #videogames 🕹

The character Nate from the video game 'Baby Steps' is seen from behind, wearing a knitted donkey hat. In front of him is the sun toward the bottom left of the screen and Nate, the sun drifts toward the horizon behind some blue clouds and looks pink. To Nate's right, on top of a rocky cliff, is a street lamp with bugs flying around it. Small black bugs fly all around the screen. The sky is light blue and purple ahead of Nate.

Nate stands in the same position but is seen from the front with rocky cliffs behind him and a broken cobble stone path leading to Nate's right (screen left). The front of Nate's onesie is soiled with brown mud showing where he has fallen and slid. Nate has a bit of a somber look on his face. The donkey hat is grey with floppy ears, red button eyes, and a tuff of black hair. The monkey's snout is white or light grey. Nate is a 30 year old white male with brown hair and beard, he wears wire frame glasses.

Nate in the same position but seen from above. Nate's back faces the bottom of the screen. The donkey hat is closest to the camera as we seen Nate's body fill much of the lower screen. Ahead of Nate, filling the upper screen, a ledge a step away leads to a puffy slope that glistens slick in the setting sun. It looks slipper and steep, heading down.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 12h

Case in point:

A photo of the Plex UI on the Home screen on the Recommended for You list. The film "Evilspeak" (1981) is selected. It's description reads, "The clumsy military cadet Stanley Coopersmith is orphan and completely outcast in the West Andover Academy. He is frequently..." The image to the right depicts an airbrushed looking man as he flies through what looks like cyberspace, his blonde hair is blown back I'm the wind, and his arms hang down below him. He has a look of surprise or amazement with his mouth open in a near grin and his eyes open wide below his raised eyebrows. Behind him are blue squars laid out like a crossword grid at an angle, but the squares are dark and light blue. Dissolved in with these squares are a pair of menacing eyes of red and orange that appear to be getting brighter colors of orange light, as if the eyes were about to shoot lasers. We can see the outline edges of a mouth on either side of the man as if he was blocking a scowl or howl. The eyes peer down at the man locked straight ahead at the face's center. It looks as though the eyes are after him in the grid of cyberspace. The genres of the movie are listed as horror and science fiction. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes long. It stars Clint Howard, R.G. Armstrong, Joe Cortese, and Claude Earl Jones. Who are these people? Oh, "who are these people?" is not text on the screen. I'm just asking you, person reading this alt text if you're out there, do you know these people? I've never heard of them or this film. Hope you're having a good day. Rock on.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 12h

I have not used Plex in a while. I started it up and saw this. I have no idea what this means. What has changed? Why is marketing writing the release notes? Just tell me what you changed like I'm a human, please. I just want to watch trashy movies.

#filmsky 🎥 #uidesign #plex

A photo of Plex's update screen on a television. The background is a gradient from the upper left corner in blue and the lower right in purple. In the center of the screen are two lines of white text, an image underneath, five blue dots beneath that image showing what number screen you are on, and a white "continue" button that says continue but you can't see the text in the image because of the photo quality and the white is too bright. The middle image is another photo of the new interface with a "Favorites" window selected. The favorites window shows a menu bar at the top where favorites is selected, the title of the selected movie, an image from the movie to the right, a description under the title of the left, followed by a line of movie and TV show box art at the bottom. The movie "Halloween" and the TV show "Mad Men" are among seven. "Out of the Furnace" is the movie selected. The image at the center of the UI has another small icon over it on its top left corner. Only the "Continue" button is selectable, you cannot click the center image to get more details on what has changed.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 15h

Reminded me of this:

Source www.buttersafe.com/2008/10/23/t...

A comic strip with four horizontal panels. Panel one shows a demon towering over a small stick figure. The demon says, "You should not have come here, human. Why do you cross through my domain?" The next frame is a close up of the stick figure in a light teal blue shirt, they say, "I was on my way to the kitchen for a snack and I got lost." The next panel is a closeup of the demon's eye, it says, "You ended up in the twelfth plane of torment on your way to the kitchen?" The next panel is of the stick figure again, they say, "I am not a clever man."

Source is https://www.buttersafe.com/2008/10/23/the-detour/

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 16h

"Low energy" is a very ironic phrase given Trump's own public naps.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 16h

I imagine because of the nature of social media these videos rely on people quickly scrolling past them. Media literacy is sadly very lacking as well, especially for both younger and elder folks.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 16h

I wish we had viewed the initial (and ongoing) disinformation campaigns as a more serious threat to bring to the attention of the general population as well. I think historically it will be viewed as one of the greatest successful psyops in a cyberwar. The damage is already monumental and ongoing.

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 16h

Not directed by him, but I just watched Mikey and Nicky the other day and it's worth adding to your list. Peter Falk is a nice bonus.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 19h

Ending spoilers:
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It was really bizarre to me that they spend the whole game giving these characters depth then at the end they're like, "Nah, just erase them & move on." I at first chose Maelle's ending & thought it pretty terrible, tho Verso's was no better. Whole thing felt misogynistic to me.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 23h

It's on my Kanopy list! Will boost it and watch soon. Seems like such a wild weird ride.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 23h

Important note: they also crashed into another vehicle, ripping off its bumper, while fleeing the scene of the accident in their rented van. The agents should be arrested for multiple violations here.

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 1d

We are so passively aggressive that our aggression is impossible to detect.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 1d

Would love it if a journalist actually tried to answer the question of why trans women in sports became such a focus. Not like the mental reason, but who first started publishing the stories and who pushed them to do so. Follow the money, so to speak. More investigating of such "journalism."

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 1d

Please don't be (though obviously the choice is up to you). This is a *striking* use of color. Play on!

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has always basically been a "human" LLM, taking the work of others and slapping his name on it.

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Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, the admin is lying bitches and every news organization reporting on Portland should have a reporter showing live video of the city whenever a story comes up. Show your reporters going to brunch, vintage stores, drinking kombucha, eating ice cream, walking in the park. The city is fine.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Dicks out for Kennedy?

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

This is literally the plot of 'You've Got Mail' but with "mechanic shop" instead of "book shop."

I will not be watching it.

#filmsky #films #movies 🎥

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Napster in shambles watching this era.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Holy hell. When the diagram breakdown is longer than some short stories, it's a problem.

Thoughtful Sloth @thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social · 2d

I'll believe it when it happens. Not playing Charlie Brown and Lucy football games.