I've seen emo-themed nights advertised at clubs, for nostalgia. So they might just be called emo. Tho to bring in larger crowds they might use different terms, yeah.
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Looks like it's a lot more true to the novella than the Schwarzenegger movie was. The novella is awesome btw, some of Stephen King's best writing. (just don' t read the intro by King bc it contains a major spoiler.)
I couldn’t find that quote anywhere, and it’s very unlikely that Cicero said it, or something like that.
To find the quote that you seek,
You must first wash you're balls in the Baja Blast.
Dunno, I'm not very good at this sort of thing. I think he wants to convince Dracula to keep him alive and untormented. So maybe he could find some detail in the legal proceedings that require him (Harker) to present himself alive and untortured to a magistrate (or something) in London or else the Dracula deal falls through. If no such detail exists, he could put it in.
It kind of reminds me of a scene from the Daredevil TV show.
Daredevil's friend is in the ER of a hospital. A bunch of patients are in the same room. One of the patients is a gangster who is brought in with a cop who has a gun. The gangster sees a rival there and they start cursing each other, til the first gangster grabs the cop's gun and is just about to shoot his rival. Then Daredevil's friend (who is a lawyer) is like: calm down, buddy. What are you in for? Well I'm a lawyer and I can tell you that if you shoot him then no lawyer on the planet will be able to help you. But if you just drop the gun, you might get off with a couple months. And he basically convinces the gangster to drop the gun, just by thinking like a lawyer.
There's also this scene is Kurasawa's movie Sanjuro.
These young samurai are plotting against a local official who is corrupt. But they've been betrayed and are surrounded. They're about to go meet certain death by fighting when the ronin drifter who happened to be nearby convinces them to sheathe their swords and hide. Through bluff and skill he convinces the surrounding people to leave without searching for the young samurai, who thus survive.
Harker's trying to beat Dracula at Dracula's game, but Harker really oughta be trying to beat Dracula at Harker's game. Get inside his decision loop.
...Yeah I know, that's not the story that Stoker's telling...
Whole pages of it are filled with masses of figures, generally single numbers added up in batches, and then the totals added in batches again
kind of reminds me of the Hogarth plate "In the Madhouse" from the Rake's Progress in which one of the guys is writing stuff on the wall, while another is doing astronomical observations.
Napoleon III surrounds himself with yes-men before the Franco-Prussian War. Result: defeat.
Wilhelm II surrounds himself with yes-men before the Great War. Result: defeat.
Current US President surrounds himself with yes-men. [YOU ARE HERE].
By the looks of it, the ground floor and the first floor are going to be the same place pretty soon.
If you're in Europe, Castle Party is next week, Amphi Festival is the week after that, and then M'era Luna is in August!
If you're in the US.... uh... the Gathering is in August? I dunno, I've been posting tour info on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world as I come across it... (edit: see here for a collection of tour/festival dates)
"It was revealed to me in a dream."
Even then, it will just slow research down and set us back. Scientists won’t stop sciencing, and it certainly won’t lead to discoveries they want.
Well... that can be more serious that you suggest. Tenure-track faculty need publication-worthy projects and grad students; what if the only funding available is military- and surveillance-oriented? Big universities are going to expect scientists to bring in the money or leave.
https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
I don't even use Pixelfed, but its growth is kind of interesting to me:
- its recent rise
- its subsequent plateau
- its (expected) ebbing
The ebb lasted a lot longer than I was rooting for. But now it seems to have caught a recent uptick. Still slight in terms of its maximum peak, but respectable: 47K Monthly Active Users. (about the same as the total number of MAUs on Lemmy!)
Furthermore, it's also reflected in the half-year Active Users, meaning it's not just people who signed in a couple months ago who are now checking back in -- looks like brand-new active participants.
Any idea what caused this? Another "migrate" campaign? Did Instagram do something stupid again? Or is it just a data glitch?
This was mentioned 2 months ago but I spaced out on it last month so maybe if I post about it I'll remember. iirc the stream happens on Friday, it's re-broadcast on Sunday, then it's archived so you can stream "on demand."
- Friday Jun 6 at 9pm Eastern: https://www.ynotradio.net/
- archived: https://www.ynotradio.net/rodney.php
- who tf is that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Anonymous
(still haven't learned how to cross-post from Mastodon...)
Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) - is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- don't know how well things stream from archive, but:
- archive (Japanese AND English dub with English subtitles for Japanese speakers): https://archive.org/details/Godzilla-Final-Wars-Japanese-English-Hybrid
- archive (Japanese dub, English subtitles): https://archive.org/details/Godzilla-Toho-Classics/28.+Godzilla+Final+Wars+(2004).mp4
- archive (English dub): https://archive.org/details/godzilla-final-wars-2004-english-dub-1080-p
- tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?): https://tubitv.com/movies/100039783/godzilla-final-wars (looks like you need to enable DRM in your browser, so uBlock Origin adblocker might not work!)
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/godzilla-final-wars
when a mysterious race of aliens known as the Xiliens arrive on Earth, the Earth Defense Force (EDF) find themselves locked in battle with various monsters attacking cities around the world, leading them to revive the only chance to save their planet: Godzilla.
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of 12 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.8/10.[15]Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique called the film "utterly fantastic" and "a rush of explosive excitement."[16] Jim Agnew of Film Threat gave the film four and a half stars out of five, saying "the good news for kaiju fans is that Godzilla: Final Wars is a kick-ass giant monster flick."[17] Drew McWeeny of Ain't It Cool News remarked, "Godzilla: Final Wars earns a special place in my heart. It's fun. Pure lunatic fun, every frame."[18] Sean Axmaker of Static Multimedia said, "Directed by a true fan of the old school, it's lusciously, knowingly, lovingly cheesy."[19] Craig Blamer of the Chico News & Review called the film "a giddy and fast-paced celebration of the big guy."[20]
Conversely, David Nusair of Reel Film gave the film one and a half stars out of five, saying that "the battles are admittedly quite entertaining" but felt that director Ryuhei Kitamura "is absolutely the wrong choice for the material."[21] David Cornelius of eFilmCritic gave the film two stars out of five, calling it "the dullest, weakest Godzilla movie I've seen in a long, long time."[22] Ty Burr of the Boston Globe gave the film one and a half stars out of five, saying it focused too much on action and not enough on story, and calling it "35 minutes longer than is necessary."
https://www.deviantart.com/editor-gothink/about
The artist mentions a "gothink" web site but looks like he let that domain expire. I think this cartoon is from the early 2010s, late 2000s.
This came up during a discussion on "unnecessary" quotation marks.
Tina the Troubled Teen is "fourteen, listens to Switchblade Symphony, cuts Geography class, and smokes cloves when no adults are around.”
Character created by Lore Sjöberg (who is active on Bluesky!) and Lori Matsumoto (not active online?).
- First of all, a lot of the videos that have been linked to during the tournament will probably be removed sometime in a week or two. Don't know why they do this but they do. So take one last look, while you can!
- According to The Mainichi, the JSA's Yokozuna Deliberation Council unanimously recommended that Onosato be declared a Yokozuna. That is expected to be ratified on Wednesday.
- Here's a nice video story from NHK about internal refugees (kids) in Ukraine who are training in sumo
- finally, after the March tournament I posted some movie/show suggestions, some amateur sumo links, and some sumo-related exercises that you might want to check out.
Image: Onosato with the May tournament cup.
Awright! See you next tournament!
A bunch of bands I gotta look up sometime... looks like some good stuff there. A lot of different "dark" genres.
I like seeing all the people's "looks" in the video... everybody seems really cool. Mix of dark costuming, club wear, cosplay, historical outfits, etc. Good to see cybergoths are still out there!