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Cake day: February 15th, 2025

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  • I worked putting together DCPs for theaters and managing checking the subtitles in the beginning of 2020, and was always impressed with the quality of the timing. If anything ruined a joke (which was pretty rare) I’d take it upon myself to split the line and adjust the timing to work better. I’ve always wondered why it seems like streaming subs have always been much worse, you’d think they would just use the same ones.








    1. It’s the funniest movie ever made.

    Came out in 1979, Spielberg directed, Zemeckis wrote it, John Williams did the score, it has John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Christopher Lee, Toshirô Mifune, among others.

    It was way way ahead of its time. There are more jokes and setups & payoffs than entire decades of more recent movies (I’m not even exaggerating much). The practical effects are awesome and they blow up tons of stuff for real. It’s refreshingly anti-war. It has absolutely bonkers set pieces. You might recognize things they try that you see in Spielberg’s and Zemeckis’ later movies. Can’t reccomend it enough.

    Make sure to watch the extended cut because it just includes all the missing scenes from the theatrical, which just has gaps and loose ends.




  • Watch in a theater if there’s an event near you or with a bunch of friends. The theatrical cuts are much better paced. It was even criticized for being much faster than the books. If you get to the Mines of Moria (1/2 of the way through the first) and you’re not hooked then it’s not for you. LoTR is movie magic. Not just “wow that was a great movie” but something that transcends the medium, and makes you ask, “HOW did they DO that?” Hope you give it another shot. Cheers


  • Pretty terrible. My executive dysfunction and ADHD makes it impossible to do simple tasks, even with nearly limitless time. Bedrotting, doomscrolling, watching the world collapse from the dumbest most evil people on earth starting wars. I have hundreds of acquaintances but not really anyone I feel that I can really talk to. We’re living every black mirror episode at once, and everyone is too tech illiterate to know how bad things will be in the near future. I had sky high aspirations for myself but they’re crumbling before my eyes. Never really been in a relationship. I’ve gone home alone from every night out I’ve ever had. Sorry for the word vomit but needed to get something out.

    I mean doing alright, you?