Post body originally said “Saturday 18th August”, now corrected to Monday 18th August.

As @perishthethought@piefed.social said

• prepare to watch the movie itself whatever way you can/want (your own physical media, locally stored file, whichever streaming service offers it in your area)
• everyone starts the movie when the ‘host’ posts “press play now” on Mastodon
• participants proceed to post about it on Mastodon, including in their posts the hashtag #MondayActionMovie (and sometimes also a hashtag with the name of the movie)

For #MondayActionMovie, the rotating ‘host’ of the party (the person who chooses the movie) often includes a streaming link in their Mastodon announcement or in the event details in the watch party calendar (go down to the calendar, scroll calendar to the relevant date, then find and click on the event name; a popup will show more info on the event. E.g. a copy of the movie on YouTube https://youtu.be/xxeDmjgSS1I )

That final fight with Ken Lo is simply astounding and why I just rewatched DM2. There’s a video breaking it down as the best fight scene of all time (it took four months to shoot).

So I watched the whole film again last night. An absolute delight.

In hindsight, that could look a bit like a corpse, so let me say that’s Jackie Chan in Drunken Master 2 (1994) and his character there is alive. Just passed out after a night of heavy drinking, after which the baddies humiliated him by leaving him like this.

£ says: “The fuck they are, mate!”

Just noticed the the text colour I chose is the same as that of his teeth. :D

Maybe nominate it for #Monsterdon and show it to dozens/hundreds of people at once. (Live cast on https://miru.miyaku.media/ )

Looking here, it doesn’t seem to have been shown yet.

• https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/

I like it rather than love it, but wow! 16%!

Lost River (2015)

I went into it with zero knowledge or expectation and was held by it from beginning to end (even when I knew it was blatantly emulating David Lynch etc, I didn’t care, I was gripped). Only to look it up online afterwards and find out that critics and viewers kind of hate it.

• IMDb: 5.6
• RT tomatometer: 30%
• RT popcornmeter: 38%

:)

Saw that whole special a few year ago. Love him.

Ricky Gervais.

Liked him ~ The Office, Extras, podcast period, even some of his Golden Globes hosting, but now I find his “edginess” and mugging grating.

[He didn’t really say that, but he might as well have. And I do feel the EU needs stronger procedures for dealing with an anti-democratic member? Hopefully more steps before expulsion that could bring a straying member state back into the democratic fold. Orbán sure loves bashing the EU while taking its money.]

Nah, simply so pedantic as to give a Hungarian name in Hungarian name order.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_names

Orbán Viktor said:

“Hungary under me will drain every euro, forint and zloty and spend it on undermining European families, farmers and industry. Slava Russki!”

Used computers at school (BBC B), uni and work (beige PCs); and had video game consoles (Intellivision, NES, Atari Jaguar, 3DO, Philips CD-i, etc) but didn’t my own first home computer until relatively late, bought in 2000.

A Dell Inspiron 7500 “desktop-replacement” laptop, with:

• 15-inch 1400x1050 screen (shit hot back then, still higher resolution than many laptops today),
• 6GB HDD
• Intel Mobile Pentium CPU (can’t remember exact specs)
• 128MB RAM (a significantly expensive extra back then)
• ATI Rage Mobility M graphics
• Windows 98 SE (I tried out BeOS R5 PE on it, so much more stable but the only available graphics driver could only give 800x640)

And I’ve been cleaning out my mum’s shoddily built shed and just found it in this sorry state!

The hinge was always super stiff, and after 4-5 years snapped. I kept it alive for a while by rigging up some brackets to hold the screen. Eventually I put it away, and after a few moves it ended up stored at my mum’s. Now wIth a fair bit of opossum crap on and around it, and rainwater from the leaky shed roof.

I wonder if there are still any episodes of The Sopranos downloaded from Dalnet IRC on it.

When your junk smells so strong that dogs bark at it and the fuzz stop you…

We got chips one day. One day out of the whole lot.

This will be the biggest nail in the coffin of the Lido Corfu Sun Hotel management in their crimes against humanity trial.

NEVER FORGET!

TIML

“Today I .ml-ed”

And additionally:

Yesterday, singer Alicia Keys deleted an Instagram post which said she was thinking of taking up paragliding after asking her followers: ‘What would u do if you weren’t afraid of anything?’

Advocacy group posted a screenshot of the post on Twitter, and questioned whether it was ‘some sick ode’ to Hamas attackers.

smh