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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

“10,000 years a tree” sounds like an Ent wrote an autobiography.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

For when you really want some Illumination.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Oh god, it’s The Colonel!

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Sure, we had first collapse of Russia but what about second collapse of Russia?

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

It would have to have something like a VR mode.

Or the ENTIRE planet of Nirn that you can walk from one side of to the other.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Careful who you make fun of during the Clone Wars.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 125 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Wizard: “I cast detect on the bowl.”

DM: “it’s a bowl.”

Wizard: “I cast detect on the chair.”

DM: “It’s a chair.”

Wizard: “Fine, I eat the chowder.”

DM: “The spoon is a mimic. It latches onto your face and causes 35 points of damage.”

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

“One does not simply walk into Bandora’s Castle.”

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

One cat has a job, the rest have a hobby.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

“Shh! Nobody tell Mike, it’s a surprise.”

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

clappity clap

I’ve been meaning to rewatch this!

 

between March 1984 and August 1985, an unknown criminal — or maybe a whole group — extorted and terrorized some of Japan’s biggest snack manufacturers. Before long, a simple trip to the candy aisle had become a national act of courage — because one bite could’ve been your last.

The “Glico-Morinaga Case” is one of the strangest, most fascinating, and most unsettling stories to come out of 1980s Japan — a wild mix of kidnapping, ransom demands, mysterious letters, food poisoning and mass panic. And at the center of it all: One shadowy figure, or maybe several, who remain unknown even today, more than 4 decades later!

This… is the story of The Monster with 21 Faces — 1980s Japan’s biggest mystery.

Uploaded to YouTube by ANIKI.

 
 
 

Tono to Inu (The Corgi and the Samurai), episode 1.

 

A sequel is a great opportunity to capitalize on the potential of an original game. But if a sequel fulfills everything the original set out to do... what more is there to do? Let's explore sequels so good, they kinda ruin their series.

Uploaded to YouTube by i am a dot.

 

WARNING: This thread WILL contain unhidden spoilers for this episode and every episode before it. You are allowed to talk about future episodes of the series, but put ANY information that comes after this episode behind spoiler tags.

The Orville season 3 "New Horizons", episode 1 "Electric Sheep"

Written & Directed by Seth MacFarlane.

The Orville is docked at Earth for a complete overhaul of the ship and its systems. Commander LaMarr has to shut down Isaac's new science lab to allow for some upgrades, so Isaac decides to spend the time in the mess hall talking with the crew. Except that the crew now largely wants nothing to do with him, especially the new operations officer; Ensign Charly Burke (Anne Winters). She tells Isaac in no uncertain terms that everyone wants him off the ship. This includes Doctor Finn's older son; Marcus, who thinks Isaac is a murderer and tells him to his face that he wishes he were dead. After considering these candid remarks, Isaac does what he thinks is the most logical course of action - he intentionally shuts himself down and wipes his memory core with a focused power surge.

Originally released: 2 June 2022

Check here to find out where you can stream or digitally purchase The Orville in your country.

What did you think?

 

Modern TV shows take longer to come out with fewer episodes. Since the boom of peak TV in the 2010s, every show is trying to be a 10 hour movie, driving up production costs and leaving audiences starving for entertainment at a time they should have a wealth of it. TV shows have forgotten the strengths of the long-format, both in storytelling and in production.

Uploaded to YouTube by Rowan J Coleman.

Post-airwaves TV can be as long or as short as it needs to be, and there are many examples of new streaming series that have some short episodes and some long episodes because that's how long or short they needed to be. I don't think episode runtime or season/series length is a hard indication of how good they are. The amount of money spent per episode often is, though, especially with modern Star Trek.

The least expensive series (Lower Decks & Prodigy) are clearly the best, overall. While the most expensive series (Discovery & Picard) have managed to dig past rock bottom on multiple occasions. My favorite episode of Discovery (Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad) was a bottle episode made at the last minute on a very tight budget to fill the season, and those limitations clearly resulted in a neat little timeloop adventure reminiscent of original Star Trek.

But that's just my opinion.

If you haven't, watch Coleman's lengthy Star Trek Retrospective series. Some of the videos are indeed very long (irony), but they earn their runtimes with how well Coleman sizes up the franchise through the course of them all.

 

Slight (but necessary) edit of LadyButterfly’s post on c/comicstrips.

 

Sakamoto Days 2025, episode 11.

 

The GameCube delivered a ton of visually amazing games back in the early 2000s. However, there’s one aspect to these now retro visuals that continues to amaze me every time I revisit the system, which is the water. For whatever reason, Nintendo was absolutely obsessed with water during the 2000s. The GameCube featured a bizarrely high quantity of games with an extensive focus on water, yet somehow also over delivered on the quality of the water visuals and interactivity, as we’ll explore in this video.

Uploaded to YouTube by CryWolf Plays.

 

Due to an urgent family emergency, the weekly discussion threads are on pause until things settle down. I'm not dragging my drama into another community, but if you really want to know why you can read about it here.

I'm not abandoning this community. I will probably still be on and off Lemmy during this time, and the rewatches will continue eventually. At best, in a couple of weeks, at worst, a few months. Until then, thank you all for understanding and... there's cake in the mess hall. Bortus already ate all the corner pieces, though.

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