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Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · Aug 11

I'm going to write out a list of all the projects I am/want to work on as a sort of accountability. It will not work but hey, it'll be a good exercise and I never write about what I'm doing here.

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Sean Seanson @seanseanson.bsky.social · 1d

6 years old me whenever I see more than 3 skeletons on screen at once

Is this a pidegon meme, with the text 'Is This The Greatest Game Ever?'

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 3d

Folks really out here getting septum piercings just so they can hear the M1 Garand ping when they sneeze.

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 10d

Ludum Dare 58 approaches. Exciting!

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Rosalie ✨🖤🎃 @littlerecordgirl.bsky.social · 13d

Forever thinking about the Irn Bru Dreamcast I saw at Retro Games at the Barras.

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 13d

father of Annapurna Games Megan Ellison and Skydance’s David Ellison

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16d

Please launch this in Scotland in a blaze of patriotic red, blue and white imagery, making it very clear everyone must have one, or they will get fucked. Put photos of the King on it, maybe Captain Tom as well. Boris Johnson, if he will fit. Thank you

Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.s.. •10m
The "Brit Card".
. Could they make it any
more dogwhistly?
Also, fundamentally ignores that undocumented workers already, drum roll please, lack documents. Adding another one makes little difference, but does make it harder for people to escape exploitation.

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 18d

Opus rules without a hint of irony

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Crispy Hanako @crispyhanako.bsky.social · 20d

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jam @jamspoon.net · 20d

watched street fighter 2: the animated movie (1994)

m bison towering over a goofy little ryu, pointing down at him and saying "u should join shadaloo"
ryu says "no". i forgot to draw him drooling

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

Ghibli was innevitable on this list, and Porco Rosso (1992) might be one of my favourites. The central themes of apathy and rise of fascism still hit hard and the gorgeous representation of the seas and skies of the Adriatic are astounding. Rather a pig than a fascist!

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

How had I never seen Do The Right Thing (1989)?! The way it builds to a boiling point, the soliloquys and 1st-person shots, the way we follow the cast throughout this one day, the deep sadness of the pot overflowing and the aftermath. Absolute kino.

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

To cap off the trilogy, Sneakers (1992). Another wonderful heist with an extremely charming crew. There's a little hokeyness in the finale but it's cemented itself as a good time, and with some genuinely savvy of-the-era hackery.

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

Hackers (1995) is iconic, it's earnest, and it's got Fisher Stevens in a big dumb coat. There's not too much that can be said about Hackers that hasn't been said before. One of the greats. Hack the planet!

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

Get ready to jack in for HACKING TRILOGY. Swordfish (2001) is a repugnant movie where Huge Jackedman is Small Jack Man and there's little actual hacking. A collage of vignettes that form a kind of "cool" indicative of a truly rancid worldview. They do fall down that hill for like 2 minutes though...

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

[2/2] No. But as a group we were really struck by just how well executed the whole thing is, from cinematography to lighting to soundtrack. A pleasant watch with a good ferret.

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

[1/2] Kindergarten Cop (1990) is not where I would have expected Arnold Schwarzenegger to first appear on this list but that's the nature of the list. It's got the school that was used for Silent Hill in it, so we're watching it. Is this anything special?

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

[2/2] I love how I can imagine both these movies as scenarios to be played out in a game of Fiasco-every character is their own player in the madness that unfolds.

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

[1/2] What a difference 3 years and a significantly larger budget can make. Snatch (2000) is so sharply well-paced that it makes me jealous. It loses a little from it's grimier Lock Stock heritage and some of the humour doesn't land but it's such a ride that falls to the wayside.

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

Don Bluth's The Secret Of NIMH (1982) was a movie I remember scaring Tiny Hex. On rewatching it, it's a gorgeously animated thing with some exceptional voice work. Does the addition of "magic" maybe dampen the core themes of the original work? Quite possibly but it's certainly a spectacle to behold.

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

You may think "Isn't Donkey Kong Country - The Legend of the Crystal Coconut (1997)" a TV series, not a movie? You would be only partly correct as this is a compilation of several pirate-themed episodes of the nightmarish CG Donkey Kong. Wince-inducingly janky, Alestorm covered the songs...

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

It had been a while since I last saw Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). It's still a really enjoyable caper that sets a template for Ritchie to expand on in the future, but it does have it's own charm-it's certainly not just a rough draft.

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 22d

Practical effects and uncomfortably prescient politics aside, Robocop (1987) is occasionally stiff but comes together to form a cohesive vision. Still a blast, I could watch ED209 in the stairwell for hours.

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 23d

The Raid (2011) is disgusting. The Raid (2011) is kinetic. The Raid is brutal (2011). The Raid (2011) is influential. The Raid (2011) is a great martial arts movie. The Raid (2011) is a great goddamn movie.

Hex @hex.arcanerituals.co.uk · 23d

I hope this is the last Disney Channel Original Movie I ever watch but I fear it will not be. The Luck Of The Irish (2001) is a repugnant scatterbrained festival of tropes with painful young actor performances that cannot be saved by some reasonably well executed size-changing VFX.

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Oliver @dubiousdevil.bsky.social · 24d

*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*
*fires off a single fireball towards you that slowly tracks you*