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mpirnat

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Rational romantic mystic cynical idealist; counterpoints the surrealism of the underlying metaphor.

Senior backend engineer @ Zapier. d20 enthusiast. Helps with PyOhio. Opinions someone’s. He/him/his.

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snacktraces, to boardgames
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Is it just me, or are there two cameo appearances in the board game Distilled?

Bob Harris from Lost In Translation

Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure

(reposting this now that I have pics of the cards)

mpirnat,
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@snacktraces Yup, 100%, that is definitely what’s going on there. I’d be willing to bet that there are more references too in the other cards.

onelson, (edited ) to movies
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Background TV as I wind down my work day.

I'll work my way through the main 9 movies over the next few days, and starting with The Phantom Menace might be sacrilege to some, but who cares.

mpirnat,
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@onelson It’s really the second one where the green screen got out of hand. Phantom Menace has a remarkable amount of actual sets and actual miniatures.

mpirnat,
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@onelson The IMAX cut of Ep2 was really interesting. In order to fit the hard time constraint of the format, it got really trimmed down. Most of the stuff that really sucks is gone, and there’s a lot more focus on the noir detective story. The whole tone of the movie changes, and it’s really cool.

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@onelson Have you ever done Rogue One into Ep4?

mpirnat,
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@onelson Yeah, all the Drew Struzan poster art is so good.

mpirnat,
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@onelson Check out “A New Hope Revisited” by an editor called Adywan. His version is sort of a best of all versions take, incorporating SE changes that worked, reverting the ones that didn’t, adjusting esoteric things (like places the rear audio channels got accidentally swapped, making Vader’s chest lights blink consistently), fixing the color grading, and generally being what SE should have been. It’s great - clearly a labor of love.

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@onelson Ep5 is the least-wrecked of the SE films. I really miss Luke’s line to R2 about how “you’re just lucky droids don’t taste very good”. Otherwise I’m pretty happy with it.

mpirnat,
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@onelson I still have the sleeping bag; it’s so fucking great.

mpirnat,
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@onelson Lando’s not a system, he’s a man.

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@bitprophet @onelson I think it’s to do with the design of the Falcon being radically changed midway through production. The original design for it was basically the blockade runner body with the Falcon’s cockpit on the front.

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@onelson Heresy. “Lapti Nek” was waaaaay better than the godawful “Jedi Rocks” replacement.

mpirnat,
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@onelson I wish there had been more actual casino hijinks, though. They do that awesome homage to Wings and then the “yup, that’s them” guy shows up and wrecks everything.

mpirnat,
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@onelson I loved that. I thought all the endless speculation about Snoke was SO stupid. There were people who thought he was Mace Windu ffs.

mpirnat,
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@onelson A classic! I think the first Best Picture winner IIRC. At the start of the casino scene is an homage to this marvelous tracking shot: https://youtu.be/d1H699088FI?si=yJz97QQjcnMbC_su

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@onelson Which reminds me, I should watch Wings again sometime. Haven’t seen it in ages. It’s very, very good!

mpirnat,
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@onelson Carrie Fisher died after 8. Her Ep9 footage is from outtakes that didn’t make it into Ep7 that they built a story around. That’s a big part of why it feels off.

mpirnat, to random
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And now… the art of Duane Eddy. The noise of twang. The sound of Peter Gunn. https://youtu.be/9AYHInrhbzA?si=aUAKFGUpsAXAU1Rs

RIP. 🎸😢

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/duane-eddy-dead-twangy-guitar-hero-1235888165/

jhpot, to random
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The Three Body Problem on Netflix is very bad. I was going to write more but I think that’s most of what I have to say.

mpirnat,
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@jhpot That was kind of my reaction to the book.

mpirnat, (edited ) to random
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Inspired by a thing I saw on Reddit earlier today, I’m going to try listening to more complete albums this year. Maybe daily? We’ll see how it shakes out.

I’m starting off with the 2019 mix of Abbey Road by The Beatles: https://songwhip.com/the-beatles/abbey-road-2019-mix

1/366

mpirnat,
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122/366: Rage Against the Machine by Rage Against the Machine

Apropos of nothing at all…

https://songwhip.com/rage-against-the-machine/rage-against-the-machine

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123/366: The Seduction of Claude Debussy by The Art of Noise

A classic that I love to get lost in... 10 stars out of 5! And yes, that’s John Hurt narrating.

https://songwhip.com/artofnoise/the-seduction-of-claude-debussy

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124/366: Takk… by Sigur Rós

A nice choice for unwinding at the end of the week.

https://songwhip.com/sigur-ros/takk

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125/366: Unforseen Consequences by Morch Kovalski

Apparently futuresynthy covers of Half Life and Black Mesa soundtracks? I dunno, I did Portal but not Half Life. Anyway, this is cool; dark, driving, has a good edge to it. Satisfying listening for my post-D&D nightcap.

https://songwhip.com/morchkovalski/unforeseen-consequences

mpirnat,
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126/366: The Velvet Machine by Neal Acree

Meant to post this for Sunday. My friends who dig cinematic synthy instrumental stuff will love this, I think. I stumbled onto it by accident—turns out Acree has a TON of cool soundtrack credits (Stargate SG1, Vox Machina, WoW, Diablo 3, more), and this is his first solo album.

https://songwhip.com/neal-acree/the-velvet-machine

mpirnat,
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127/366: while(1<2) by Deadmau5

Yesterday’s selection is an evergreen favorite that I love using while I work. The NIN/How to Destroy Angels covers are cool too.

https://songwhip.com/deadmau5/while12

mpirnat,
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128/366: X by The Beloved

Doing this alphabet game with my album picks sometimes pushes me to try artists that I’m completely unfamiliar with; today is one of those days. I’m a couple tracks in and it seems all right — a mid 90s dance sound that I definitely harbor nostalgic affection for.

https://songwhip.com/the-beloved/x

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