Ashley

Not that you filthy animals The general movie thread brought up the conversation of going to the cinema alone and then moved onto other things like holidays so thought it would make a good topic by itself. I often go to the cinema alone and quite enjoy using it as a place to relax and switch off unlike at home. I have a friend who may come but aligning availablity is what it is. Likewise I'll often go out to eat alone. Sometimes it's "I can't be bothered to cook" but I often travel alone so it's a necessity. I tend to just listen to a podcast while doing so. And when it comes to travelling, well let's just say a year ago today I arrived in Sydney for the first day of nearly 5 months of travelling alone. In fact, going anywhere with someone else now just doesn't work for me. Too much hassle. Travelling alone forces me to get out of my shell a bit more and try and chat to strangers. Sometimes in another language which is a challenge in itself.

This is also why I travel alone and to a lesser extent eat alone (I enjoy going out for dinner with a friend, but if I want dinner I'll just go do it if I can't find anyone). My chronic single nature and lack of friends (in the same country at least) may also be a contributing factor. It is nice to have the post movie chat I'll give you that.

This is wild to me given I went to the cinema by myself twice last week, yet alone the number of times I've gone in my life.

They've stolen the froggy chair too! https://www.polygon.com/gaming/24054816/palworld-froggy-chair-animal-crossing

I knew it was going to be weird going in but nothing can quite prepare you for how weird. Sometimes leans into the worst excesses of art house cinema too much, but it's certainly unique and Emma Stone puts in one hell of a performance. Had no idea it would be so explicit either. Second weekend in a row I've watched a film about grief and loss. Let's not get too Frasier about that. But again, it's got good performances and really punches you in the emotions.

I've heard it's good but also feels like it would be very stressful given the narrative and also full of meat so I've not bothered.

One game about pirates and one game made by pirates.

You're thinking of this

Apparently my role in this thread is to focus on the unimportant things but Oreo isn't even the original. It's a copy of something called Hydrax or something as equally unappealing.

Part of me hopes that if they were instructed to just plagiarise someone will blow the whistle about it.

Not to be that guy but the character of Mickie is still copyright protected. The short Steamboat Willie is in public domain and you can use that version of Mickie in relation to that public domain story. No gloves, normal size shoes (at least for a cartoon mouse) and the eyes are different. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if the hat has to be included. Just a warning if you were planning to make anything 😋 But if you want to see Disney characters with guns check out their World War II propaganda output. (And my phone wouldn't let me delete that Pokémon video, obviously it's a fan of Mewtwo). As for this game it looks like American teen edgelord nonsense. The kind of thing I imagine Elon Musk financing after being refused entry into the Pokémon café because he was drunk.

He finally gets his own film!

getemoji.com And to clarify for others: emoticons are the ones you see in the reply box between quote and spoiler and are from about 1996. Reactions are responses to posts and are custom to N-E designed by @RedShell hence why there's a specific one in there... Wouldn't get rid of either, but could potentially add some more modern emoticons alongside the old ones.

That's a nice shade of pink but why not do one in a peach colour?

Yes we can. But you can also just use your phones keyboard which I think is why we've not bothered 🤷‍♂️

I can remember getting Golden Sun 2 for Christmas one year and I don't wish to look up the release date to figure out what because I do not want to feel old right now. Happy memories of playing it on Christmas Day though.

Watched this last week. Turns out the Alps are beautiful, who knew? A good film about friendship, generational trauma, "finding yourself" etc. Some really interesting narrative work done; the way it threads the stories of the two main leads, how their lives echo that of their fathers etc. Straight away the female lead character is really annoying. Like "why would anyone be friends with you" annoying. And I put up with that for most of it but there's a bit towards the end of the film where both the friends are just absolute dicks to the main character and helping someone through grief is difficult, but it felt so self-centered that I felt really put off in that moment. Did eventually pull it back but still, difficult to get past the feeling of "this would be much better with some character rewrites". Still, a good exploration of grief.

Don't know if it's coming here but this is pretty neat

Which begs the question which is worse; locking a butler in a fridge or dropping a baby penguin off a cliff?

Theoretically no. But that is in an ideal world where you could access what you want without fear that it'll be taken away.

Well they've already said it will be coming out in one shape or another on Switch 2

I've got Prime, Netflix and Disney+. After really shitty service from Amazon over Christmas I'm getting rid of that because I can't remember the last time they hit next day delivery. I did recently watch Upload and given my monthly renewal was yesterday and I didn't realise I'll check out the new Donald Glover Mr and Mrs Smith when it drops next month, but the fact they're shoving adverts in there makes me want to leave more. Might get rid of Disney+ too once I check that my nieces aren't using it.

This is Nintendo though. Once the Switch successor is out they could pull something like this on us again: