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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on March 31, 2025, 03:36:57 PM »

The Exorcism (2024)



Russell Crowe is one of my favorite actors. I don't recall seeing anything he was in that I didn't like. The Insider, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander, 3:10 to Yuma, some of the best movies ever.

But this thing... it's so bad. It's every cliche of every dime-a-dozen possession movie. It's like a 13 year old girl watched the Exorcist (1973) and then used the idea of the filming of that movie as a setting for a movie about an exorcism... or something. I can't even describe the plot on my own, because it's so stupid that I can't bring myself to recall it in such a way that I could type it out coherently. The story is dumb. VERY DUMB.  You'll have to read the full plot on wikipedia to know what I'm talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcism_(film)#Plot

 And it'll spoil the movie, but don't worry, there was nothing to fucking spoil anyway. There's no mystery, there's not much development, it's just a bunch of fuckin lights going out and loud bangs and stupid jump scares.

This movie was about 90 minutes long. I'd rather watch 90 minutes of rapid fire short-form commercials on Youtube than watch this movie. I downloaded this movie illegally... AND I STILL WANT MY MONEY BACK.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on March 15, 2025, 08:47:38 AM »

A little belated...

RIP David Johansen AKA Buster Poindexter. (Jan 9, 1950 - Feb 28, 2025)

He was singer for the early 70's glam punk band the New York Dolls. I'm sort of into punk, but New York Dolls were never my thing.

Clip of him on the Conan OBrien show back in the 90's talking about funny stories of times from when he was with the New York Dolls.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwMpn7EmXTY&ab_channel=ConanO%27Brien

He also had a big hit in the late 80's, one that practically EVERYONE knows either from just being alive at the time... or probably from hearing it for one of the 9000 different occasions that it was used as an advertising jingle for all sorts of products.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZba-P7R18&ab_channel=BusterPoindexterVEVO

Yeah, I wasn't a fan of his Buster Poindexter stuff either. 

But I did like him as a character actor, especially as the filthy obnoxious cartoony cab driver Ghost of Christmas Past in the Bill Murray Christmas movie Scrooged, one of my favorite Christmas movies. It's a classic!



Even though I was never really any kind of fan of his music, I still think he's one of the most interesting people to ever be in the music business. He's the kind of guy I would've loved to have chatted with about music and movies and such.

He passed February 28th 2025 from cancer of some kind, brain cancer I think. He was 75. 

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha watchin'/streamin'...

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on March 08, 2025, 11:47:36 PM »

Another thing I saw in my firefox feed...

How Streaming Is Making Us All Cinema-Illiterate

The oldest title available on Netflix last month was 1973’s 'The Sting.' Where does that leave the next generation of film lovers?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/streaming-impact-classic-fillms-algorithm-1236146209/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Yep. I think a lot of folks who are probably also my age (mid 40's now) are reluctant to give older movies a try. I'll admit that I think a lot of movies like the types they tend to play on Turner Classics aren't all that great. A lot of it has to do with the standard "Style" of acting that was just the normal thing at the time. Guys like Humphrey Bogart who are considered to be all-time greats in some of the most acclaimed films of the period... I don't feel like he was really all that good. And I think that peculiar "style" of acting that you find in all those old black and white 1940's movies probably turns off some people. Like I said, I don't really like it... but I watch some of them anyway.

I've seen a lot of older Westerns that I really liked. The older ones focused more on telling compelling stories. Can't go wrong with John Wayne movies, they all tend to be pretty good. James Stewart did a few good ones.

I'm just a big fan of movies, I like all kinds. I just want to encourage people to branch out more and dig into older movies. Some of them are really good. And considering the fact that a lot of the crap they're churning out these days are nothing but superhero movies, remakes and reboots,... might as well.

I'd highly recommend ANYTHING directed by Alfred Hitchcock. But in particular... definitely see Vertigo (1958), in my opinion, Hitchcock's best movie, and one of the best movies of all time. And he had so many really good ones. Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Rear Window (1954). But seriously, pick ANYTHING he ever directed, it's ALL good.

And I'm always looking for something new. If anybody knows of any decent older movies I should see, please make a recommendation.

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Quake / Re: Animated HUD icons? Which Q2 client can do this?

« Last post by AmpLiF1eR on March 05, 2025, 12:19:46 AM »

About month ago i coded a fork of q2pro (client/server/gamedll/custom mods) with an additional HUD (switchable to default/new), but looks like no one was interested, so, i just removed it from moddb 
How it looks:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tIxBYcqyiD4reip1dvRdcODeo6HKCo3M/view
You can download it from gdrive, just unpack to your quake 2 and open manual (HOWTO).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KN2ZVZNTzZs2XyuAAYvB1QwHaIwQcRLS/view?usp=sharing

sick! thanks.... can't believe the interest was so low :p

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tastyspleen.net / Re: 10 years

« Last post by Zeppelin on February 25, 2025, 06:11:25 AM »

wow.
I just opened this after a loong time and saw a recent post from you!
Im glad i was the first on your list 

I cant believe Alpha is still here crying about hacking. What a sad virgin loser you are Orbisson/ Alpha!

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Quake / Re: The FUTURE of Quake 2.

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on February 24, 2025, 04:08:01 PM »

Remember the Toxic Monkey cartoons? The website changed names years ago and they were lost.

HAHA! Yeah I think so. If it's the one that used video clips from old Indian/Bollywood and Kung Fu movies where people added their own subtitles. Although you said "cartoon"... that sounds vaguely familiar too. Good times.

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Quake / Re: The FUTURE of Quake 2.

« Last post by The Dreaming Dragon on February 23, 2025, 05:13:11 PM »

I'm finding it amusing that games sitting on my hard drive are being given documentaries about their cultural and technological significance in their historical context in YouTube videos. Diablo 1,Quake,2,3. The late 90s sinking out of reach,out of sight for all these youngsters. My room mates and I playing a cat and mouse death match on home made DukeNukem3d build engine maps,on dial-up!

And the joyful absurdity of coming home from a long night's work tossing boxes around, filling a bowlful of good weed as my computer boots up,and with coffee in hand,it was time to spike the caffeine with adrenaline. All the strange models,the ability to change the .wav files to anything you'd like,so each model had it's distinctive sound,often intentionally silly. I even made my own skin and it's floating out there on the server.

Remember the Toxic Monkey cartoons? The website changed names years ago and they were lost. I still pop here and read stuff,but my gaming console of choice is my smartphone, and it is also my IP,and playing Quake 2 through it is possible but pointless. I poked my head in Quaketown,and appreciated the work. But my long commute leaves me little time for it. I play some Mech game on the bus,and my favorite weapons are dual BFGs,the developers definitely copied the mechanics. So every bot I vaporize I think of you guys.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: 10 years

« Last post by XANA on February 22, 2025, 11:34:21 PM »

I'm happy to report that after much discussion and a very lengthy heart-to-heart, beaver and I have reached a mutual understanding. I'm glad that we were able to break the barriers between us and see eye-to-eye. We've learned quite a bit about each other and will only become better people because of this.

Thank you for your time, beaver. I look forward to listening to your debut full-length hip-hop record, "The Beaver Inspector".

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha watchin'/streamin'...

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on February 21, 2025, 08:11:50 AM »

HEY! DO YA ABSOLUTELY HATE WHAT DISNEY DID TO THE STAR WARS FRANCHISE!?!

Yeah me too. So I can't wait to see how Amazon ruins the James Bond franchise.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd35zm5zl4o?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

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tastyspleen.net / Re: 10 years

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on February 13, 2025, 07:29:17 AM »

We should play some GTA5. Raid the army base and steal a tank

If you need someone to do GTA5 with, I play it on PC. If you ever get on discord, find me in the Tastyspleen channel and gimme a holler. I got headphones with a mic. Probably have to schedule a time though, I can't always just impromptu jump into a game.

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