“As seen on VHS”!

Buck-toothed Melody, bespectacled Marci, and chubby Mickey are socially awkward sorority sisters. Desperate for some fun, they invite a trio of equally nerdy fraternity pledges over for a party. The party fizzles and the guys are on the verge of leaving when the girls try to liven things up by holding a séance. The crystal ball they use at the séance is cursed and causes the girls to become possessed by a succubus.

The suddenly sexy girls share some pie and a bath and then set out to seduce and murder their guests. The girls take on new personas to help them trap their prey. Mickey becomes a bikini-clad jungle girl, Marci transforms herself into a pigtail-sporting naughty girl, and Melody changes into a wild rock chick. The boys fight temptation and try to find help for the girls. The situation gets more complicated when the boys’ loutish fraternity brothers show up looking to score.

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Nightmare Sisters was filmed over four days in September 1987 for about $40,000 using left-over film, cast, and crew from the just completed Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama.[1][2]

The film was shot in the producer’s rented home. Set decoration largely consisted of different colored lighting and covering the walls with posters.

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The company distributing the film abruptly went out of business with the result that less than 2,000 copies of the tape were ever distributed.[4] The film became an instant obscurity.

Over the next decade, the popularity of the three actresses, word of mouth about the famous bathtub scene, and the scarcity of the film caused it to develop a cult reputation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_Sisters

Last couple times this happened I called a plumber I trusted. The first time they used a “snake”, the second time they used a sink plunger. At the time I had a bit of money and could afford it, and I didn’t want to break a pipe or put the wrong chemical down there or something.

Somehow I feel more “represented” by VLC than I do by any of the astronauts.

ikr the more I think of it, the premise of @[email protected] 's story is flawed.

Mid-sized midwestern cities usually have 1-2 universities and often a couple smaller colleges too, which means at least 1 walkable neighborhood with cafes and art galleries and smaller concert venues and populations of people who graduated and stuck around to form co-ops and quirky small businesses because they like the quality of life and cost of living. Not to mention most major acts tour all those cities.

Pharmacy tech? I can easily think of 3 friends who I wish had a job that good. iirc it requires a background check, so that means if you got that job then you don’t have a prison record nor do you have a drug habit that would lead you to start swiping the opiates.

“Sure, it might be a little cringe to see an older person dressing alt,” Sergio said as he looked in the mirror. But you know what? There’s a whole legion of people who don’t care about that, who wear dark clothes and fishnets and dark makeup, who make it a point of pride that they can’t be touched by those people who think that they’re underachievers, those people who call them scrubs, who think that they’re too fat or too poor or wear clothes that don’t quite fit… YES! Crack open a Faygo and put Milenko on loop! For the MC of the story will always be welcome among the JUGGALOS!!! WHOOP WHOOP MMFCL [email protected] !!!

Reminds me of the poem “Whitey on the Moon” (more timely than ever!): https://youtu.be/3nzoPopQ7V0?t=23

Last time we talked about this someone suggested there was an Area of Effect property to water blessing. Like you can’t just bless all the water in the biosphere so that all vampires in the world get killed by Holy Water Vapor.

wow that’s a great job! I was searching sector-by-sector but still didn’t see it. if I was a little rodent in that yard I’d def. be dead.

One of my earliest memories, right after I learned how to read as a kid, was coming across one of my parent’s college textbooks and seeing a cartoon of the grim reaper mowing down a wheatfield representing dead soldiers in WW1. You’re right, some future kid is gonna see…

Yeah. Kinda reminds me of the meme below about indie music tho. At some point if you ignore it long enough and come back around to it it gets interesting again.

a problem entirely fabricated by YT

I agree with your basic point, tho to be fair, server costs are a thing, so it’s more like a problem fabricated by… capitalism? the commercialization of the internet? The centralization of resources? I guess it depends on what you think the long-term solution is.

brand recognition. IOW, when you are at the grocery store, you think of Coke in general rather than any specific ads.

Agreed. More specifically, I think brand association plays a part. Even if you never drink cola of any type, the ads make you think “Coke is the kind of drink for people who (whatever)”. Then when you see your friend drinking one you say “Oh you drink coke? I guess you’re the kind of person who (whatever the ad campaign says).” It’s really insiduous.

Some of those old books had ads for cigarettes in them! Mostly the cheaper paperbacks. For some reason it wasn’t as annoying, it was more of a historical artifact, an indication of the context in which the book was originally read.

I will sit on my floor with nothing, for hours, before i watch ads.

I notice that I don’t pay attention to videos as much any more. It’s just stuff playing in the background while I game or edit an image or browse piefed or something. So if it “hangs” for a couple seconds while ublock fights the ads, it doesn’t really bother me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

ikr whenever I visit my elderly aunt, she has cable TV on. I timed it once and there’s like 10 minutes of ads for every 20 minutes of content.

Aw yeah we did a watch part of this last year: https://piefed.social/post/782629 Looks like the peertube and archive links are still up tho it left tubi.

It was the largest city of the pre-Columbian era in South America. … The city of Chan Chan spanned 20 square kilometers (7.7 mi2; 4,900 acres) and had a dense urban center of six square kilometers (2.3 mi2; 1,500 acres) which contained extravagant ciudadelas.[3] Ciudadelas were large architectural masterpieces which housed plazas, storerooms, and burial platforms for the royals.[8] The splendor of these ciudadelas suggests their association with the royal class.[8] Housing for the lower classes of Chan Chan’s hierarchical society are known as small, irregular agglutinated rooms (SIARs).[8] Because the lower classes were often artisans whose role in the empire was to produce crafts, many of these SIARs were used as workshops.[8]

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After the Inca conquered the Chimú around 1470 AD, Chan Chan fell into decline.[8] The Incas used a system called the “Mitma system of ethnic dispersion” which separated the Chimú civilians into places already recently conquered by the Inca. A little over 60 years later in 1535 AD, Francisco Pizarro founded the Spanish city of Trujillo which pushed Chan Chan further into the shadows.[8] While no longer a teeming capital city, Chan Chan was still well known for its great riches and was consequently looted by the Spaniards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Chan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Bridge_(1940_film) The plot seems like it has that old-time twisted morality tho.