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y'know i was wondering who would actually vote for a drink over snacks

but getting a drink from the convenience store is an absolute staple that now that i'm considering my vote it might be me

I voted for drink (from one of the machines). Convenience store snacks are overpriced!

it's always tempting tho last minute to chuck a reese's on there

FOR 3 FUCKING TINY ASS CIRCLES OF CHOCOLATE IT'S SUCH A RIP-OFF BUT YUMMY

wait does reese's count as chocobar or candy shit i'm stuck again

Get me an energy drink please. I need it to stave off this ennui I've been suffering from recently How ya been lately, Grimlyn?

Also original Reese's counts as chocobar, Reese's Pieces counts as candy. Duh

Also I think that collage shows you're getting better at hands!

I can't say for sure if I've ever actually tasted an energy drink in my life, i remember kids getting red bulls in primary school but i've always just stuck to pops. i've maybe had a sip but I don't think I've ever purchased a can myself to drink.

lately ehhhhhh but happy with art works for the vtubbies!... except oof the live2d parts are again, painful

mnk posted...

Also I think that collage shows you're getting better at hands!

literal peg-arm and misshapen ball hand days will be missed

but for sure thanks! the flannel one is when I finally took to following a tutorial and then just gradually building practice off that

Is the simplified chibi version based off anything else? It looks vaguely familiar, but I can't put my finger on why.

mainly just inspired by the hololive smol variants, I think that started with smol ame that came from an artist Walfie

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/8/6/AAN7AaAAEpMG.png

which has since been made pretty official to the brand and I've even got smol ame & smol ina plushies

small one on the right is animal crossing

m night shyamalan movie watchthrough progress

what the fuck was lady in the water

I'm old enough to remember when walfie (and the artstyle thereof) was a touhou thing

also please get me one of those bags of snack pickles

i ended up getting a bag of chips

which is not what i voted for

GuessMyUserName posted...

m night shyamalan movie watchthrough progress

After Earth: pretty land/generic, had a lot of rip-off dune vibes but in a foresty environment, but hey Will & Jaden father son roles
Devil: okay this is the first decent one I've run into in a while so i can't help but lol it's the one he didn't direct
The Visit: this one's decent too! legitimately creepy scares and the ending was real unnerving

just the Unbreakable sequels left to go

I didn't realize Unbreakable had multiple sequels.

^Yeah Split and Glass are both technically sequels to Unbreakable; it's just that the former also works as a standalone film without the final scene. Personally I think it should have stayed as a standalone.

Split beated

lmao yeah I heard that Shyamalan had to pitch this as weakly related but oops I didn't know the relation was the twist of the movie. the whole thing works perfectly fine without the connection at all it's just kinda tacked on there, but with Glass being named after y'know, Mr. Glass and prominently featuring Sam Jackson I take it the next one is as direct as it gets

maybe I spoiled myself by knowing, but I can't imagine seeing that reveal and getting like a mind-blown reaction because it doesn't feel relevant for this movie, it's more like an MCU post-credits scene about hyping up the next one

though didn't expect the movie to end with the beast getting away, but then i guess that's the only way to actually set-up a face-off for the sequel. kinda makes this feel like a long set-up then, but hey it had more going on than Unbreakable in the first place which was more of a really good 30 minutes story stretched over 2 hours

also anya taylor-joy looks so much younger after seeing The Menu, I don't think I was really aware of the actress before Mario.

tag

Glass beated

I mean I know it's never really been like an actual supes series but did they really just make a 3rd movie about powered individuals being led to doubt if they actually have the powers that their own movies already demonstrated they do indeed have

Sam Jackson's great tho. Willis weirdly non-existent, bit sad as it's one of the last big films before his recent retirement, but looking up I hear he was showing symptoms at this point on set.

also wow I didn't even realize spencer treat clark was the boy in Unbreakable, I recognize him more as an adult namely from Agents of Shield

i don't know what movie to watch tonight

last night was American Psycho, I think I heard about it being an unreliable narrator story before, but I somehow didn't realize the severity of it. anyways good movie

hmmm i wanted to watch the hills have eyes again, i watched it when I was young but I really don't remember anything

also the texas chainsaw series is something I gotta get too, I don't think I've seen any

oh fuck that's right and I was gonna watch the recent Hellraiser. though I'm not sure if I've seen the 2018 one either, I might have but I'll have to find out, like watch the trailer *edit* yeah no i haven't

i think 4 was the last hellraiser i saw actually

shit

Grab me a Magnum ice cream thanks Lyns.

Also are you doing a super early Halloween horror movie marathon.

it's more that when I find something to watch again it's easier to think of other similar things so that gets queued

also gsis recommended the recent hellraiser but i keep forgetting

but yeah following similar things is how i just got in an m night shyamalan binge

Ah that's fair.

I've been interested in Shyamalan's body of work since I love crazy plot twists but I haven't actually seen most of them.

Recommend:
- The Sixth Sense
- Unbreakable
- Signs
- Split
- The Visit

So Bad Its Good:
- The Happening (2008)

Meh:
- The Village
- Old

Haven't Seen:
- Glass
- After Earth
- The Last Airbender
- Knock at the Cabin
- Lady in the Water

the twists were honestly the disappointing thing because yeah that's what the name shyamalan is synonymous with but then so many are complete nothing

pretty much manny's list of the seen stuff, although I didn't really care about Signs even, I think I said it in the last topic but suspect watching Nope before it spoiled me on the the concept

I'd also bump Old down into an awful tier because it really didn't bother making you care about the characters... rapper named Mid-Sized Sedan tho holy shit

The Village was alright, I watched that one with my mom since she loved the atmosphere of the period. The twists were decent, at least to me in hindsight after seeing more of Shyamalan's work.

The Happening can indeed be one of those So Bad It's Good movies, I'm not sure if I'd fully mean it myself but it was at least entertaining to watch the weird ass hot dog dude and Marky Mark's ridiculous attempt to act as a science guy (to be fair the script absolutely does not help)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nB7L5N57Qk

this cracks me up so much

man I looked up and understood Hellraiser 8 (Hellworld) was an original script then tacked on to Hellraiser but wow it was REALLY just tacked on

it's just some beyond stupid party (that turns out to be an induced hallucination) where people are given a mask and a phone supposedly to hook up with others you call, but like everyone is repeatedly taking off their masks for the camera it's like why tf is this a thing, and the phones, dudes, it's a party with blaring music and people are supposed to be attentive to their phones during a party?

and then the kills are more like Jigsaw traps and completely unrelated to any Cenobites, some randomly appear during a killing but the big "reveal" is that the whole thing is just a revenge plot by the creepy middle-aged host and there is no party, the victims were drugged and buried alive (with a breathing tube) to hallucinate their own punishments

after the movie is all wrapped is when the puzzle box is actually discovered, the Cenobites just show up and kill the host and that's the grand total of their actual existence in this entire thing

this is the worst one yet

*edit* oh yeah and the surviving two were saved by a ghost calling the police to share the location they've been buried for days

hellraiser beated

2022 was fine, but not worth watching 7 through 10 for

my fault sure but i can't just not watch everything

p satisfied with rig so far

https://streamable.com/ags6ia

may tweak more when i get my replacement part for my pen display but yeah in its current state much smoother than the last rig

also since model's pose-able now

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/9/4/AAeYFbAAEqC6.jpg

Grimlyn posted...

the twists were honestly the disappointing thing because yeah that's what the name shyamalan is synonymous with but then so many are complete nothing

pretty much manny's list of the seen stuff, although I didn't really care about Signs even, I think I said it in the last topic but suspect watching Nope before it spoiled me on the the concept

I'd also bump Old down into an awful tier because it really didn't bother making you care about the characters... rapper named Mid-Sized Sedan tho holy shit

The Village was alright, I watched that one with my mom since she loved the atmosphere of the period. The twists were decent, at least to me in hindsight after seeing more of Shyamalan's work.

The Happening can indeed be one of those So Bad It's Good movies, I'm not sure if I'd fully mean it myself but it was at least entertaining to watch the weird ass hot dog dude and Marky Mark's ridiculous attempt to act as a science guy (to be fair the script absolutely does not help)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nB7L5N57Qk

this cracks me up so much

Unexpected nickname, and an extreme surprise of feels towards it and I don't know why. Good feels. Degrassi feels?

Nope >>>>>> Signs. The sheer anxiety of the slowly isolating and condensing and retreat of the characters is still such a tangible and palpable sense memory that a lot of the plot details and twists don't matter much to me. Phoenix, Breslin, and Culkin sitting on the couch with tinfoil hats watching the Brazilian broadcast is such masterful intensity. Like, the video easily come off as silly, but the fear the characters exude is spine-chilling. I go back-and-forth between good and okay on it, but the fact that it still affects me like it does leads me to good (meanwhile, Unbreakable I recognize as a good movie but it has nowhere near the amount of reactive capture).

Old & The Village are in the same tier for opposing reasons. The Village is a decent movie, but it bores me and I don't care. Old is a terrible movie, but there are parts that intrigue and terrify me and haunt me, and I think it helps that I watched it piecemeal in completely random order while working, so there were a lot of mysteries to my experience that didn't really exist watching beginning-to-end, and a lot of moments (Ken Jeong's death) that seemed more important and terrifying than they were otherwise. It's not farcically bad like The Happening, it's got way too many nothing characters, stupid dialogue, and very silly plot points to be good, and it just exists.

"What? Nooo" is love.

Also
Grimlyn posted...

p satisfied with rig so far

https://streamable.com/ags6ia

may tweak more when i get my replacement part for my pen display but yeah in its current state much smoother than the last rig

also since model's pose-able now

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/9/4/AAeYFbAAEqC6.jpg

CUUUUUTE! Love the little makeup bits

Grimlyn posted...

p satisfied with rig so far

https://streamable.com/ags6ia

may tweak more when i get my replacement part for my pen display but yeah in its current state much smoother than the last rig

also since model's pose-able now

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/9/4/AAeYFbAAEqC6.jpg

Just popping in to say that this is absolutely adorable.

<3 <3 <3

awh, thx all~

stuck it on my vertical monitor's wallpaper and last night i didn't wanna turn the monitor off for bed

At first I thought you got a reflection going on the TV, but then I realized that was video output. Still neat.

https://streamable.com/tsb6lo

... i made it an animation and figured out how to set mp4s as your phone lock screen / wallpaper

The animation is quite impressive.

yessss

I've fixated a lot on the imperfections of my previous attempts (lmao i keep using my concept art of the last one instead of the model because it looks much better at that stage)

but this time i just wanted to keep things simple both in design and rig, not expecting it to really end out the best but I've really never done the head angle tilts better. then body rotations I just kept to a minimum since by now I've seen so many models not even bothering with any of it and still looking good in motion so maybe just minor movement would be nice and yeah I'm very satisfied

on Texas Chainsaw Beginning rn and all I can think is "damn Matt Bomer is hot"

and then I remember Doom Patrol gave him a disfigured character that hides his face in a mask, like wtf

movie's unfortunately boring so far, 40 minutes in and too much focus is on Sheriff Hoyt

lol, my partner is always saying he can't believe Matt Bomer signed up for four seasons of having his face covered up.

mnk posted...

lol, my partner is always saying he can't believe Matt Bomer signed up for four seasons of having his face covered up.

He gets to act without feeling insecure that his looks are why he's great

Chainsaw 3D not too bad, although some week scenes like the main character just reading files for a while

but man right now's a sheriff going through the basement that's basically Leatherface's base, describing all the creepy things there are - dresses, high heels, bones, "LADIES MAKE-UP?", like i'm sorry but getting this plot so often i can't help eye roll at the listing off of creepy possessions is just 90% on crossdressing but then with just bones thrown in with it

also christ the main character's been reading files for 10 minutes now

*edit*

beated now, it's easily the dumbest one yet but at the same time I kinda love it. like it's IMPOSSIBLE to do the plot it wants to tell without it ramping up morally questionable stupidity, and sure it's not the most original plot concept either, but it's fun. like really we got the fucking Sheriff here watching Leatherface murder a guy and the main character tells him not to shoot so he just stands there watching Leatherface kill him. Sure they're also evil but in fairness their "evil" is being overzealous in fighting the rampant evil of the Sawyer family! So not only doesn't the Sheriff stop an easily preventable murder, but after it's done the Sheriff's just like... alright and walks away. HELLO?? So now you don't care about the nth massacre he was just laying to waste? Not gonna finish him off after he killed the baddie? Or fine, attempt an arrest? Nothing? We just go home now and pack up and main character lives her life with cousin Leatherface roomie? It's sooooo dumb but I'm all for it.

Funny how Neopets was brought up in the last topic because there's a complete reworking for it in the works.

https://www.pcgamer.com/neopets-goes-independent-cancels-nft-game-and-promises-new-era-free-from-corporate-baggage/

https://twitter.com/Neopets/status/1680940987764318209

literally what we were just talking about of "how tf have they not updated Neopets for the new era" lmao

... and if the reason for that is because they were mistakenly focused on NFTs or lordy god

I wonder what the intended audience for Neopets is

40 year olds who played the game decades ago
or
actual kids?

30s-40s but yeah

I do know streaming neopets is still a thing but as far as I can tell it's a millennial nostalgia type channels

I would say more mid-20s to 30s.

The website was mainly popular during the early-mid 2000s. So if you were into it, you were likely a kid or a young teen. Though I'm sure some older people were into it if they saw it as a pet raising sim.

And I don't have a source for this, but I recall a streamer claiming that Neopets was the thing that got a lot of people into HTML coding at a young age in their lives. I know that was the case for me.
Though looking back at it now, I do wonder if they sanitized any of the stuff that people could put in there.

yeah that sound right when I think of it, my brother as more on the older end and he's 37 now

WhiteLens posted...

And I don't have a source for this, but I recall a streamer claiming that Neopets was the thing that got a lot of people into HTML coding at a young age in their lives. I know that was the case for me.

definitely for me

also though lots of websites allowed custom html theming back in the day

deployed a beta for lfaqs running on a Flask framework with updated theme, responsive design, and not structured by an ugly fucking mess of PHP files

hoping my hosting plan can manage it because I really really really hate php

pulling up the phone while I'm in bed and checking out the responsive design and I'm liking it

text is bigger than gamefaqs mobile layout, I don't think that's a bad thing... maybe I can go a bit smaller but I like bigger than gfaqs

I think I wanna completely scrap the margines for the topic & message lists tho

watching the hills have eyes movies

how is the remake just bulldozing the entire plot of the original at breakneck speed and ends up 20 minutes longer

wait as I'm typing this I reached a part they're actually spending a lot more time on than the original... but it's the sexual assault scene - sigh as I'm typing my disappointment it's even extending said scene with a second sexual assault like what

how is this the first part of the remake that isn't slashed to pieces, literally everything until this part has just been completely glazed over and cutting out every bit of detail from the plot from the original

now I'm checking back on the original and somehow this point in the remake is about the same spot the original is in.... how??? they cut like every single thing about the gas station owner who doesn't talk to ruby, doesn't warn the family (who by the way doesn't even mention going to the silver mines), doesn't reveal anything to the dad coming back, doesn't even get attacked

man, gas station dude was probably my favourite character

so yeah beated - I can see why people would like it because of the second half, but it feels more like an action movie that uses a pre-existing movie to establish a plot so the movie doesn't have to bother doing that itself - kinda bizarre how much the back half focuses entirely on Doug and like there's zero communication at all from the point he enters the village to the rest of the movie

the change to make the mutants live in an abandoned village as opposed to just in the mines is pretty neat though, and there is a great variety of new mutants to populate it which is at least visually compelling....... but the characterizations are entirely lacking. the original movie they're actual characters. I also lost track of who's supposed to be who among them, the original makes it pretty distinct who's who among Jupiter, Ruby, Pluto, Mars, Mama... and well the other boy mercury as minimal as he is doesn't get confused with the more established mutants. this one nah I can only really extrapolate from actions that are repeated from the original into here to say "oh that's them"

like when Bobby & Brenda set up the trap against Jupiter my first thought was, "oh Jupiter was in this movie?" and it's so weird because in the original he's clearly made out to be the big boss, with a backstory told by the gas station owner. but here it's just oh yeah we haven't done anything with these characters so lets pull back from the source material again, after giving Doug something brand new that actually worked and made up most of the ending alone.

so yeah, what the movie does new it does alright, but what the movie repeats is just flat-out worse and it's hard to give props to a movie when 75% of it is just the same thing done badly. should've focused much heavier on the original content.

I never did see Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon, just the first two & Scorpion King

Jet Li & Michelle Yeoh wtf how am I only starting this now (okay Yeoh wasn't a known figure to my child-self at the time, but I loved Jet Li in the Once Upon a Time in China series, and The One)