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RW Scott

@rrwscott.bsky.social

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restaurant vet, film geek, gamer, AV artist/writer, sober, atheist, hermit, 50ish, avoidant, straight, snipped. pro-DEI/lgbtq+/science/art/music & anti-stupid. hate conspiracy theories & AI slop. politics: Fabian. son of a (in)famous musician.

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RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 6m

I love how the post covid fascination w/ #liminalspaces has led to re-evaluations of some funky old games. #retrogaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYoM...

UNEXPLORED: The Ghost Streets of True Crime's LA

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RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 38m

throw some fried eggplant on there. 😁

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1h

I am old fashioned in that I've never used a smartphone. never walked around in public looking at a screen, connected to the net. don't think I ever will. strictly a dumbphone guy.

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1h

oh, you all hated it? lol.

I enjoy most survivorlikes. YAZS' is very barebones mechanically, but scratches an itch for oldschool Robotron-type gameplay.

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 8h

nice! love me some YAZS. 😁

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 8h

#filmsky watched ULEE'S GOLD ('97): quietly atmospheric & melancholic family drama. great performances by Fonda & Patricia Richardson. refreshingly understated & uncliched.
some of the line readings had me holding back tears. recommended.👍

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 20h

tried watching ORLANDO ('92) but gave up about 40 mins in. couldn't tell what vibe the director was going for, unless the vibe was 'omg Tilda Swinton', which definitely came across.

eh, maybe I'll give it another go later. #filmsky

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 20h

stomach was giving me grief last night, so I only got 2.5 hrs of sleep. oh well, coffee's on. morning y'all. 😵‍💫☕

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 23h

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Black Hole Sun/Paul Anka (Interstellar)

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RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

watched FEARLESS ('93): I generally enjoy Weir's films & liked the set-up for this a lot w/Bridges conveying a barely contained mania. much of the latter half felt like more of a pretentious ramble, tho. as an examination of trauma I don't think this has aged esp. well. #filmsky

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

#filmsky also, worst Ian McKellan cameo ever as Death from the Seventh Seal (whaaat?) delivering a unnecessary last minute exposition dump. I'm guessing the writers were suffering from nervous exhaustion.

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

#filmsky watched THE LAST ACTION HERO: curious after hearing about it's trainwreck production. some good things in it (notably Charles Dance & Bridgette Wilson) & a few self-aware moments that almost redeem the whiffy plot. but its really not satire or comedy, it's just a Planet Hollywood ad.

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

spot-on. the 'AI will end humanity' trope is pro AI propaganda. it's purpose is to divert people from having real conversations about the real damage it's doing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFT...

No, AI Will Not Doom Us All. We have REAL AI Problems to deal with instead.

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RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

the latter. it's all automated.

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

I thought it was edgy & cool when I was younger, as an older male I think it's really just a steaming pile of 70s misogyny & homoerotic weirdness. great soundtrack tho.

imo Kubrick kindof lost his mind around this point. all his later work felt off to me.

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand.

-raw shellfish
-A Clockwork Orange
-Come On Eileen

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

age yourself with a movie you saw in a theatre as a kid #filmsky

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

great record, had that on the original vinyl back home.

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

I used to, lol. I remember the line 'hoping for the best, preparing for the worst, doing what policemen do, on librium.'

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

a trucker friend gave me some quality crystal back in the early 90s. I snorted 2 lines and was awake for 80 hrs. pretty psychotic by the last day. I remember making a subgenius type collage, photocopying it & running around downtown Tucson w/a bucket of glue, pasting them everywhere.

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

growth or change, he was saying the habit of thinking 'I really ought to ______' is essentially the same as not doing ______, but w/a a layer of self-defeating baggage added on. and that these thoughts do not ever change our behavior.

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

'the quaking mess' was a term coined by Alan Watts to describe the thought game that we'd be better, happier versions of ourselves if we could only change certain things about ourselves, rather the accepting that we are the best version as we are, right now. he wasn't advocating against personal-

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 1d

comfort/habit/dependency

RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 2d

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Juana Molina - In the Lassa (official music video)

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RW Scott @rrwscott.bsky.social · 2d

Agartha was a canceled #Dreamcast #survivalhorror game set in Romania in the 1920s. damn, I would've been all over this back in 2001. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nI...

Agartha Dreamcast 2001 video demo in high definition (1080p)

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