Huldra

joined 4 years ago
 

Low budget TV movie that I found recommended on Twitter in the wake of the news breaking on James Earl Jones.

What starts out like what you'd expect of a movie adapting a real alleged abduction actually ends up unfolding into an extremely effective relationship drama as the alleged abduction puts a strain on their mental health and already tenuous social standing as not just a mixed couple but also one featuring a divorced black man, all in the early 60s.

Genuinely top class romantic acting from both James Earl Jones and his co-star Estelle Parsons, with James also turning out some really great acting of panic and terror during the hypnosis scenes.

 

TL;DR: Vinegar is being sold at concentrations unsafe for preservation without proper warnings, 4% vinegar is unsafe while 5% is safe to can and pickle with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The first one that was deliberately a horror film that I can recall is seeing the very start of Aliens on tv and getting to the point where the soldiers discover the woman who gets chestburst, then immediately shutting the tv off and going to bed.

There must have been some scary childrens movies along the way but thats the first one I can remember that was too much for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dairy talkAnyone got ideas for what to do with high quality butter? My gf was visiting and brought over some local high quality stuff that idk what to do with now, except that I dont wanna just put it on toast exactly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Genuinely can't imagine being mad about this part of character creation when the more pressing issue for if you are a big gamer who care about video games, is that the game doesn't let you pick your own skills.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Boltgun, it got hyped to hell and back as an epic awesome BOOMER SHOOTER but its literally not a boomer shooter, it's just doom 2016 with pixels.

Just felt really boring to keep being locked into rooms and having a bunch of shit spawn at me until I kill enough for the game to decide to release me. Also the weapon balance felt off, you get an upgrade powerup in almost every level that upgrades a gun for that level, but the only gun worth upgrading seems to be the titular boltgun, the default weapon, cause it gets like doubled mag size, pinpoint accuracy, big damage etc, while other guns just get gimmicks like bouncing shotgun shells.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

They even manage to make guns with wild differences and gimmicks in the legendary tier but then those are divided into "dumb gimmick that makes the gun suck" and "gun whos gimmick is that it shoots 10 shots at once and does more damage than god"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Bioshock 2 also had like, "Ooooh we did individualism in the last one but now this villain wants to do collectivism instead!!!"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I keep hearing shit about Starfield that sounds literally like a parody, there's classes(backgrounds) now with preset skills and also some history stuff that may or may not matter in quests, so you might expect there to be a custom one.

Well there is a background labeled, "FILE NOT FOUND" that remarks that they have no biographical data on you.

This is not a custom background, it also has preset skills you cannot change, presumably it might in fact actually also not even be a blank slate since the description has some vague hints that someone deliberately erased you from the system, but who knows.

Could not make this shit up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The game seems to literally look bleak and washed out as well, every screenshot or video clip is colorless as hell.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Glad to be studying again so I can get some real post-exam stress nightmares.

This time my brain decided to cook up a dream about my dad getting untreatable brain cancer that was also somehow all a setup for a visual pun. Felt like dogshit the whole way through the dream then I got the pun right before waking up and I didn't even feel bad anymore just baffled and dazed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mid BMF post.