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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!

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Sounds like we’ll be getting more then.

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It was also the worst of the bunch. There’s no accounting for taste.

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I was too young to see Gremlins in the cinema (as it was a 15) but that’s one hell of a slate of films they were competing against:

Premiering in the top two spots at the box office that weekend – the Barbenheimer of its time – Ghostbusters and Gremlins would hold their places for weeks, fending off The Karate Kid, Top Secret!, and The Neverending Story. They would go on to become two of the highest-grossing films of 1984, leading to sequels, spin-offs, and animated series.

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I went to the Museum of Liverpool today and they have a big section on the city in film and TV and it has appeared in a lot more than media than you’d think but largely standing in for elsewhere.

When it is featured as itself, the depictions are usually pretty accurate because they’ve been written by locals. I suppose the worst example is 51st State but that is over-the-top and so everything is rather cartoonish - my brother’s friend was an extra in that gang of punks but was largely left on the cutting floor.

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I just mentioned 51st State - twinsies.

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I’m definitely up for this.

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Sounds great. There’s a slight issue with different dates in different territories (Coppola’s latest hasn’t got US distribution the last time I checked, for example) or films that get released in festivals long before it appears in cinemas.

Where are you drawing the data from?

Should we have a Star Wars instance?

I previously posted this topic on the main Star Wars community, but it was removed for being too meta. Which is fair enough but it does leave is in a Catch 22 situation as you can’t exactly get a SW instance started if you can’t discuss starting one. Fortunately, @Blaze was kind enough to suggest this instance would be a...

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I’m almost always in support of new ones, and the few considerations I have for them are

  • who is running the instance
  • how can the instance build confidence that it will stick around

This is key.

People get hung up on:

  • Money - fundraising will scale with usage
  • Installing and maintaining the software - Lemmy tends to have a lot of people with the right skills, so this should be easy enough to address

And I will start another thread here about running an instance.

However, what makes or breaks an instance is:

  • Is there a good Admin team? Single Admin instances are just one day away from vanishing.
  • Are they in it for the, at a minimum, the medium haul.

When we took over the running of feddit.uk one of the most important things we did (perhaps influenced by the original Admin going AWOL) was to ensure that there was no single point of failure - duties are spread around between us and if any one of us gets hit by a bus tomorrow (not today, I’m busy) then the instance can carry on.

So the you just need a few people who are committed. Oh and they can’t be dicks.

Games Workshop: 'Talisman' Returns - New 5th Edition Inbound (www.belloflostsouls.net)

It seems like Games Workshop is just rolling out the new editions for everything this year. Talisman is back with a new 5th edition coming out July 1, 2024. And the first 5th edition expansion will be out later this year, too! But let’s get into all the details....

‘It's like a constantly evolving three-dimensional puzzle’: The visual effects of ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ (beforesandafters.com)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson sums up his role in helping to make George Miller’s follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road as “a constantly evolving three-dimensional puzzle.”...

A24's Great New Horror [I Saw the TV Glow] Is Secretly The Second Movie In A Trilogy - And The First Has 90% On RT (screenrant.com)

Jane Schoenbrun referred to We’re All Going to the World’s Fair as the first installment in their so-called “Screen Trilogy.” Instead of meditating on the all-consuming nature of the internet, and its potential for self-discovery, the filmmaker’s second entry in the Screen Trilogy tackles a different kind of looking...

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As they go on to say, it isn’t just about adult films but the whole industry being risk averse:

“You don’t get fired for doing a sequel or an origin story, something that already exists,” Linklater comments, when asked whether studios fear risk-taking for commercial reasons.

“You don’t get in trouble for what’s obvious and commercial. What changed is that films got greenlit by the marketing department and then it’s become really safe choices.

The trouble for Hollywood is that all these franchise films are under-performing. It used to be they could throw a few hundred million dollars at one and they’d make bank, now it is less certain. Deadpool and Wolverine will do well but most others are making a loss. We’ll see what kinds of business Alien: Romulus and Joker 2 do later in the year (the latter should be a big hit if they haven’t dropped the ball).

Meanwhile, Hit Man was made for less than $9M and sold to Netflix for $20M, plus it is getting great reviews. Not so long ago studios would be happy to put out a lot of these a year because the budget meant they only needed one or two hits to do well. Of course, the main company doing this was Miramax… However, I could see the pendulum swinging back towards cheaper but riskier films, it just needs production and distribution firms with a good eye for quality and that seems rarer than it should be.

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The water fell the furthest, therefore it’s the highest waterfall.

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Tallest, not highest.

Star Wars: Hunters is free-to-play junk food, but I wish it would come to PC just because I miss hero shooters (www.pcgamer.com)

Overwatch was murdered by Blizzard and nothing replaced it. Overwatch 2? Never heard of it. Other hero shooters tried to keep the lights on, like Paladins, and one of them is even came back from the dead, albeit only for three days [Correction: It’s actually back for real now]. But there’s no way around it: the hero shooter...

Morgue worker tried to steal sex doll from dead man's home for ‘evidentiary purposes' (lawandcrime.com)

According to a probable cause affidavit, deputies with the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office on Oct. 6, 2023, responded to a call about a deceased adult male at an apartment complex located in the 14000 block of Giles Road in Omaha, Nebraska. A detective on the scene called a local funeral home which normally transports dead...

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And, with that, I rest the case for the defence, m’lud.

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Dr Lubitz, Science Echidna

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https://c.l3n.co/i/z0hd5k.webp

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“Zo then, vich of us hasn’t shagged ein svine?”

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In the original thread there is a discussion of those numbers which suggests they are wrong, which would fit with the fact that all other metrics are trending upwards.

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