teawrecks

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It Follows

I like that it's such a simple concept for a horror movie, but it's still highly engaging for the audience.

spoilerEarly on in the movie, it (quite literally) teaches you a set of rules that the monster operates by, and the rest of the film feels almost like an interactive game.

  • the monster is a shapeshifter
  • it has stack (as in the data structure) of targets
  • it's always walking straight towards the target at the top of the stack (peek())
  • the target can have sex with someone else to make them the new target (push())
  • if the target at the top of the stack dies, the previous target is the target again (pop())

Beyond that, the writing and cinematography just let the audience play along. The characters are deliberating their plans on how they would deal with the monster, letting you also think about what you would do in their situation. And the camera likes to slowly pan around the people talking so that all the while, the audience is scanning the background looking for the monster. It can look like anyone, and they constantly, and deliberately put extras in the background walking directly toward the camera just to make you go "oh shit! Is that it right there? Hey, pay attention, we need to move!"

It's just such a fun, unique experience. I don't know of another horror movie experience quite like it.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Yeah, on the one hand it seems pretty clear that they're trying to prevent competition/disruption and protect domestic car manufacturers' sales. On the other hand, I don't think I want China to end up with a monopoly on EVs.

Between a rock and a hard place, as they say.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

narrator told me there's a star—which might be a stone, which is also a goddess. A goddess of destruction, even! She's bad, but she was shattered, and some people have pieces of her, which could be good—but maybe only if you're bad?

Elden Ring sweats profusely

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

I think it's great to see forks of Godot start happening, so we can see what out-of-the-box additions the community can think of.

But I will be floored if this repo gets a single feature of substance submitted to it.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Make sure to check out the params on it. I noticed by default it disables the ability to switch tty via the keyboard shortcuts. Seems the main use for it is in "kiosk mode", so they don't want users to be able to escape the app easily. There's a param to disable that so you can still pop over to another tty (I forget what it is off the top of my head).

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've found cage to be really convenient when you want to run a single app from a tty. 5s to start gnome + ff is pretty good, though. Not sure how cage would compare.

https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What wayland compositor do you use for that? Have you tried cage?

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a creature that would have a lot of creepypasta written about it.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Best to wait until the last second and switch cold turkey. What could possibly go wrong?

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

It's only insane if you have them all running at once.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whole article? It's 10 sentences.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Haven't tried it myself but Tiny Glade just came out and looks like something that might fit that vibe.

Or Dorfromantik

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