Everyone has their first experience with enshittification. For a lot of people, Reddit was their first.

it’s OK we got a whole community, tho only 2-3 of us post there. Here’s the playlist of songs I recommend: https://lemmy.world/post/45478547

It’s the sort of thing you have to be ready for, lel. Gimme a sec, I’ll figure out a playlist.

i’m just a nerd.

Truly, the highest qualification and a position of pride. I aspire to that but I’m still just a dork.

Dark Carnival

Woah! that’s a central concept in the mythology of Insane Clown Posse! I gotta find out more about that. Actually I’ll probably take a look at some of those movies first.

woah… I never heard of them before, on a quick skim looks interesting, I gotta do a close reading later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod_Browning

howcome you know so much about this? are you a film scholar or something?

“The film promoted itself as the Romeo and Juliet of the circus upon its release.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Flame

Maybe they will take us along as servants? Oh, no, they will build robots for that…

Let me know when the first colony is formed, then I can get excited.

It will only be open to billionaires. Or to people there to make money for billionaires. That’s why I’m not excited.

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” -Oscar Wilde

I don’t really like manga, but one of the best stories I’ve ever read in any format is the 7-volume Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. It’s post-apocalyptic fantasy about the nature of evil, the corruption of humanity, the extent to which individuals can fight against historical forces, and the fragility of civilization, for a start. Plus there’s a lot of action and world-building. There’s an anime movie which covers about one tenth of the story, if you want to get a feel for it.

Recently I’ve been thinking one of the best things Alan Moore has written is the original 12-issue series Top 10. It just has certain characters and events that stuck in my mind.

!confusingperspective@feddit.uk

I love this pic bc she doesn’t look like a diva R&B movie star like in her videos. She just looks like some kid in your math class who you think is really cool.

idk what about this pic says “STIs”, I thought it was nice bc it was relatively wholesome. Some of the other pics, sure I see what you’re saying.

Admitting you’re behind might feel bad, but it’s also sharing responsibility.

Yeah, there’s no shame in having problems with a project. A lot of times, as your manager sees that you’re competent, they’ll give you harder projects that nobody else could do. Not in a bad way, just because they’re trying to find the right performance level to manage your time.

Even if it’s an easy task that you just had problems getting with… that happens. Keep your cool, don’t make too many excuses, and keep other people informed.

Buck-toothed Melody, bespectacled Marci, and chubby Mickey are socially awkward sorority sisters. Desperate for some fun, they invite a trio of equally nerdy fraternity pledges over for a party. The party fizzles and the guys are on the verge of leaving when the girls try to liven things up by holding a séance. The crystal ball they use at the séance is cursed and causes the girls to become possessed by a succubus.

The suddenly sexy girls share some pie and a bath and then set out to seduce and murder their guests. The girls take on new personas to help them trap their prey. Mickey becomes a bikini-clad jungle girl, Marci transforms herself into a pigtail-sporting naughty girl, and Melody changes into a wild rock chick. The boys fight temptation and try to find help for the girls. The situation gets more complicated when the boys’ loutish fraternity brothers show up looking to score.

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Nightmare Sisters was filmed over four days in September 1987 for about $40,000 using left-over film, cast, and crew from the just completed Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama.[1][2]

The film was shot in the producer’s rented home. Set decoration largely consisted of different colored lighting and covering the walls with posters.

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The company distributing the film abruptly went out of business with the result that less than 2,000 copies of the tape were ever distributed.[4] The film became an instant obscurity.

Over the next decade, the popularity of the three actresses, word of mouth about the famous bathtub scene, and the scarcity of the film caused it to develop a cult reputation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare_Sisters

Somehow I feel more “represented” by VLC than I do by any of the astronauts.

Reminds me of the poem “Whitey on the Moon” (more timely than ever!): https://youtu.be/3nzoPopQ7V0?t=23

Last time we talked about this someone suggested there was an Area of Effect property to water blessing. Like you can’t just bless all the water in the biosphere so that all vampires in the world get killed by Holy Water Vapor.