yo ho ho and im out of control

Imajuik (2022), 18min, Greenland - after the apocalypse, the last person in nuuk finds out she's not alone. very spooky, made me tense!!

Asema (2023), 35min, Suriname - while visiting his grandma for the summer, deon & his friend jimmy try to catch a vampire. fun & light-hearted but spooky at the right moments. the kids had great comedic timing.

Kindil (2016), 40min, Algeria - during a trip to the beach without her husband, a young mother is drowned by a group of men - but the violence of her death transforms her into something else. i wish this one was feature length, but it's beautiful & haunting as it is.

Guilt (2014), 29min, Faroe Islands - a nurse caring for an elderly woman finds herself haunted by ghosts from her past. really atmospheric little short that's both classic & just a bit fucked up at the same time.

ModRetro sells consoles made out of recycled drone parts.

This may give you a few negative reactions. If you're closer to the "What's the big deal about this?" side of things, I want to walk you through this.

Mod Retro is run by Palmer Luckey. You might know him first as the guy who sold oculus to Facebook/Meta. This is a red flag to me, but might not be to you, and I think we can reasonably just disagree with that, but I want you to stay with me here.

Palmer Luckey got rich selling out to what is essentially a surveillance propaganda factory, and while that alone just kind of sucks, and you might think "I'm broke. I'd take that deal", in 2017 he went on to open a defense contract business called Anduril (https://www.anduril.com/):

Anduril has contracts with the U.S. Military (https://tinyurl.com/4wh294vk) (and the Department of Homeland Security (https://tinyurl.com/5s2unffy). He makes weapons and surveillance equipment for ICE, DHS, U.S. Military, and U.S. Air force.

These contracts subsidize his production with American tax dollars and create weapons that have killed people in the states and abroad, and once the weapons and equipment are recovered and decommissioned Anduril sells the broken parts as loot boxes like a death trophy: (https://tinyurl.com/49kbc7yj)

as well as recycles them into console parts (https://tinyurl.com/ykfmm8xn) all while laundering their image with anime girls and old video game characters from the 90s.

Argonaut Games recently acquired Croc and Buck Bumble and have partnered with ModRetro to publish new copies of their N64 cartridges.

See also Throwback with Extreme G, Phoboslab with Xibalba64, and bitmap bureau with Xeno Crisis.

Palmer Luckey got rich selling to Facebook/Meta, invested that into the military to get richer profiting off of killing people here and abroad, recovers his equipment and turns around and sell it again to launder his image and his parts via old video game mascots and anime girls to then profit off of murder again. This is not hyperbole. This is simply what he does.

whoever has the highest number of endearing animal sidekicks by the end of arc 4 wins. 

you slowly build your Connection rating with the character you want to ship yours with. when it maxes and your character has the courage to ask their crush out, you’ve won. 

if you make another player at the table cry actual tears, you have won. 

if something so ridiculous happens in your game that the other players meme about it through drawn shitposts or photoshops, you win.

you win when you complete at least one arc of every color, creating a full spectrum.

if you bear witness to, participate in, or best of all, incite a battle between two or more kaiju or giant robots, you win.

whoever everyone agrees “would have died by their own incompetence in any other setting” the most by arc 4 wins.

Wedding Gown

c. 1877-1878

Silk faille, silk satin, silk organza, silk piping & cord

This movie is currently a huge meme in china. It came out of nowhere and inexplicably got a theatrical release, looks like ass, was animated completely by the director and his mother, and took several years to make. "Niu Lai" translates roughly to "The bull is coming" and apparently the film has several other allusions to stock market puns. The Chinese stock market coincidentally had an uptick the day of its release which added further fuel to the meme fire. After going viral Niu Lai began to actually turn profit at the box office, theatres unprepared for Niu Lai mania (the creators did not distribute any promotional material) had to improvise DIY posters: