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Lexa Black
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · 9h
It's not the easiest to make a remake of, as it's kind of a special movie that walks a fine line of a very particular kind of horror comedy.

That version may be worth checking out, yes. That said, I do prefer the original. Certain added things felt more typical than what made the original so good.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah, I'd also love a Unimog (among others I want). I hadn't even seen that one. They're not just cute, they're really good at what all they can do.

Never been in one, but might scratch that itch of tractor adjacent and farm truck practicality. That or locate fond childhood memory era trucks.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · 25d
"In a world...

Where pee-dom is a distant memory...

When any piss-take could be your last...

The world wanted a hero...

What they got...

Was PISS COP.

Officer Kathy Dar is on the case, flushing crime down the tubes. When urine trouble, PISS COP will be there."
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Sep 14
Could even be a ghoul-ash gore-age.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Sep 6
While the struggle with early trucks does help learn the fundamentals. Sometimes, ya just want to get the job done. So, certain trucks will let you buy better tires earlier, rather than being stuck with highway tires tires that are awful in sticky mud.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Sep 6
Can also download the free Anniversary DLC, which will give them two free trucks in the garage (unless playing hard mode, which I don't recommend first time).

Those Anniversary DLC trucks aren't great to start due to level unlocked equipment, but by selling them, can get other trucks.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Sep 6
For a few tips and examples... New players should absolutely try the tutorial first time.

But if it's so frustrating they wanna quit before out of the tutorial, there's an option to skip it. Pause menu, Settings, and select Skip Tutorial, and they can then recover to jump to the garage.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Sep 6
This is a solid suggestion. There's *tons* of DLC for this. Base game (Michigan, Alaska, Taymyr) is fine to get your feet wet, and decide if it's right for you.

And if you're really struggling, there are absolutely things to make life easier, early game.
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Android Lust @androidlust.com · Sep 5
“The Damned” is here. Written for the upcoming horror game Tormentor. The 2nd single will drop when the game comes out later this year. music.androidlust.com/track/the-da...
Cover image of “The Damned” single by Android Lust.
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Cool as hell and wishing it was done more.
I know, l'm sure there are plenty of charitable organizations and efforts that movie studios partner with and do things with, but it's worth noting that The Toxic Avenger didn't have to do that. It wasn't baked into their movie's release plan. They chose to do it because it felt like the right thing to do for a character like Toxie. Superhero stories should inspire the better angels of our nature, and actually doing good in the world with your superhero movie goes a long way in making that statement. So yeah, I'm gonna go see The Toxic Avenger in theaters and you should too so we can get it up to $3 million at the box office and get another $1 million donated to Undue Medical Debt.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 31
Another that sprang to mind (of many)? John Sykes song Cautionary Warning. It was the opening to the anime Black Heaven (aka 課長王子, Kachō-Ōji, opening shown in the link).
Cautionary Warning OP
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 31
The problem with narrowing it down is that I love music of all sorts. So my taste in anime openings kinda runs the gamut too. I'll start off with this one.

Just some amazing music in Stand Alone Complex, aside from being a great series.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 28
It's been truly excellent, so far. Someone asked me to give my take on it before they watched it. And without spoiling it for them, the one word that came to mind was "unsettling." And that's a good thing when it comes to anything related to Alien.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 26
And better check to see if there's load removal at least and autosplitter. Because when you're beating OFF, want your hands free, and not fumbling with Livesplit to make sure you got accurate times.

Also don't wanna accidentally spill something on the keyboard tying to hit keybinds at the climax.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 25
It's definitely the nostalgia of a past that never was. Just like it is for the 1950s too. It's an idea of the thing, from a child's past, generally via the lens of family friendly media. A sense that things were better, less complicated, due to rose tinted glasses of a (hopefully) good childhood.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 25
Will be giving the demo a try.

Just from the trailer, makes me think of a trippy version of classic Outrun.

And I mean that in the best way possible.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 19
Same reason as anywhere else, probably. Because they're awful people, want attention, want to feel powerful by shitting on someone else, and a block still probably feels like some kind of win.

I'm realistic about how much people, in general, probably suck. Even while trying to hope for better.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 19
But since I do know, it's just not something, if I were a parent, I'd do. There are other, better stories, with richer worlds, to enjoy, without the awful baggage of that particular author.

So, basically, going to wait, and not pay much attention as the series probably falls flat on its face.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 19
I can almost guarantee, most kids, with short attention spans, and very little patience, are going be squealing for the movies.

Next thing ya know, the whole family is dragged into a nearly 20 hour movie binge, probably over the end of a week. Food, drinks, comfy blankets, the works, as a family.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 19
Say, hypothetically, I'm a parent. Let's pretend I don't know the author's present obsession.

So, my imaginary kiddos go, "Mom, please can we watch that series?" I'd say, "Ok, kids, you wanna wait years to see that story finish? Or read the books? Or, you know, all the movies are already out."
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 19
Those movies are going to be the best version of the story and world, period. Why would a fan of [Franchise] wait however many years waiting on a new season, for a story already told in numerous already released movies? Movies (and books) that are probably dirt cheap second hand, and streaming.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 18
Okie dokie. Maybe not exactly what you were thinking, but...
Pre-cropped Adobe stock photo found via an image search, of a white, long haired, blonde woman in a white t-shirt and blue jeans. We cannot see her face, hands or legs much further than below her waist and top of thighs, upon which her arms rest. The t-shirt has been edited in an image editor as follows. There is text on the top half, and bottom half, with space in between left for pasted in artwork. The text reads (at the top-half), "I am so mother loving tired." The word tired preceded by an asterisk. And the lower half text begins with an ellipsis, and says "of consensually loving your mothers." The very bottom text, preceded by an asterisk says, "I'm lying. More please." There is a painting of two women who appear to be from roughly around the 1940s or 1950s, sitting on a yellow couch, intimately close. A blonde on the left seems leaning in, whispering, to a smiling brunette to her right. The original art is credited to Austin Briggs.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 17
Maybe she's looking for a... stable... income.
a horse 's head is sticking out of a stable door that says viralhog on the bottom right
Alt: A horse standing inside a stable, with the stable door closed, appearing to be bobbing its head up then down. A ViralHog watermark is in the bottom right corner.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 17
Yup, I'm another who legitimately didn't enjoy the writing (and pacing/structure, good grief).

It's a cycle of violence/revenge bad morality tale, set in a game whose primary gameplay mechanic is pew pew with all the guns we pick up and mod. And no option to spare people (or pupper) in cutscenes.
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Lexa Black @thelexablack.bsky.social · Aug 17
Another great example? The Crow (1994). Irredeemable baddies that revel in it. No tragic baddie backstories, or "but the cycle of violence." Or two sides of the same coin, both sides stuff. Innocent couple about to marry on Halloween, senseless violence. Eric is brought back for vengeance.