What are you watching?

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I kept this in a shopping cart on Steam and forgot about it, so I didn't get it at the sale price (it was $1.50, and the second one was half off at $7.50,) though I was really more curious about it than anything else, so decided this was a better option. . .

Hylics (first game 1 video)


Hylics 2 (2 parts full walkthrough)



I think I mentioned these games in the "What Are You Listening to" in reference to 'Games similar to Earthbound, where I posted a few links to the downloads of freeware options. One of the games had a translation patch (basically copy and paste everything over to where the Original French EXE installs into) though is officially being released on Steam within an hour right now (for a game that came out in 2008, it seems kind of unusual, and came as a surprise.)

https://archive.org/details/OFF_RPG_201707

new release


Alternatively, this is the earlier release gameplay


I just discovered that another game (that appears to have had early story chapters come out about 6 years ago) is a spiritual successor (or a sequel tied into the story) to Undertale



Whether the game is officially complete, it seems this might be the full version:


Or. . . https://archive.org/details/deltarune-1-4


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Some other weird series is a series called Space Funeral, where apparently the 4th game was abandoned by the creator who seems displeased that people even keep the game available on the internet.

https://www.myabandonware.com/search/q/Space+Funeral

https://archive.org/details/sf4demouncensored_201907


Here's some clue about why it was an issue (and apparently why the creator made a censored and uncensored version, is akin to why the Matrix creators changed their names. . . I guess they used the median to "transition") but their is also an unofficial version of the game:



And they also uploaded all 4 games.
https://archive.org/details/space-funeral-4.7z

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And for what it's worth, Epic games has a black and white game called 'Hidden Folks' that is basically just 'Where's Waldo.'



Also an arcade shooter game that uses a mouse, called Gridrunner, available online, but with several versions available on here:

https://www.kongregate.com/games/offthewrist/gridrunner
https://archive.org/details/@fernandthefresh?page=2

Free game inspired by Umberto Eco novel (Name of the Rose) and it is uploaded here: https://archive.org/details/@ramzesxiii



An easily overlooked Doom clone: https://archive.org/details/mars3d_eng/ ... -cover.jpg



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Nearly forgot about this: https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/a ... nniversary

Æon Flux (1991-1995 MTV) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111873



Mechs and aliens https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361201/

Megas XLR (2004–2005)


Code Monkeys (2007) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068683


The Venture Bros [S1 & S2 1080p Waifu2x DVD Upscale]


Flash Game online
https://archive.org/details/venture_202205



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A fanedit of Fight Club that removes the voiceover?
https://fanedit.org/fight-club-the-i-am ... itis-edit/

Fight Club (1999) [I Am Jack's Laryngitis Fanedit
https://archive.org/details/fight.club. ... is.fanedit


Robin Hood (Wolfgang Reitherman, 1973) Disney (35mm matte full screen)


Just finished (has dual audio and subtitles and the Matroska files look good without being excessive in file size.)

Paranoia Agent (2004) by Satoshi Kon (Mousou Dairinin)


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_F ... odes#OVA_1

Fushigi Yuugi (S1-2 and OVA) (Yuu Watase, 1995-2002) Mysterious Play or Curious Play
https://archive.org/details/fushigi-yuu ... nglish-dub

Fushigi Yuugi OVA which follows after the S1-2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jD6py3 ... wy&index=1

Alternative HD (but it requires the MKV for subtitles, though is the only alternative to the above that I know of, and I ended up adding the dub audio to a few of the later ones though was unable to save any of the segmented OVA 2 Ep 4-6 files)


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Black Clover (Yūki Tabata, 2015-2021) 170 Ep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Clover
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3522608665 ... =tt7441658

Dubbed
https://archive.org/details/bl5ck-cl0v3 ... -seasons-1
https://archive.org/details/bl5ck-cl0v3 ... -seasons-2
https://archive.org/details/bl5ck-cl0v3 ... -seasons-3
https://archive.org/details/bl5ck-cl0v3 ... -seasons-4



.hack//SIGN (2002-2003) 28 Ep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack//Sign
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361140/?ref_=tturv_ov_bk

Dub
https://archive.org/details/hack-sign-episode-28-unison

It seems to be one of those series that isn't rated all that high but which also seems to have some that obsess over it.

I had no clue the rest of these existed:

.hack//Liminality (2002) OVA (4 EP) Dub
https://archive.org/details/hack-limina ... ish-dubbed

.hack//ROOTS (2006) 26 Ep
https://archive.org/details/hack-roots-episode-25-truth

.hack//Quantum (2011) OVA (3 Ep) Dub
https://archive.org/details/hack-quantu ... ish-dubbed

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Too much weird shit surrounds this topic.





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I think the thumbnail is false advertising (it's probably AI generated,) though perhaps when skipping through to the "good parts" I believe I overlooked whatever arrest that was. Worth mentioning is these two videos both have similar endings. . .


The previous video ('When Cops Face EVIL Teachers) ended with the church founders protecting their adult son for a decade who was a children's Ministry teacher, and who had discovered that 2 convictions turned out with over 30 felony counts once more victims came forward. . . This next guy seemed a little "special."



It also seems that in the first video it indicates some of the spouses were complicit in acknowledging their wives were screwing around with their students. Considering most of them don't understand the psychology or their own deficits in comprehending the nature of their egos (and apparent need to either overpower someone in an attempt to not feel invalidated or inadequate, which is most of them are) and likewise the impressionable psychology of people who might not understand they are being groomed by dysfunctional sociopaths/psychopaths.


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Texhnolyze - The Meaning of Life (2021, ElijahKaiVA)


A shorter version of the above video as well as all the episodes from the series are found here:



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Venezuela is the next on the chopping block for invasion?

And if it isn't oil it's some kind of weird crap going on behind the scenes that few are privy to, perhaps in addition to whatever drugs they were secretly trafficking themselves?

"Poppy" Bush (George Bush Snr) had a history as well as Jr (and supposedly the Skull and Bones Yale society was founded by a person that trafficked opium to China and got them addicted) while he was requesting that Britain try to tackle the drug problem that he ultimately was responsible for encouraging (the discussion went to pretty much a mute point.) Even when the US was in Afghanistan after Jr ended his Presidency (where soldiers were instructed to guard the fields growing poppy plants) the locals being recruited to assist the troops were so drugged out they were barely functional. At the same time the Pentagon and government wants to claim the Taliban were profiting $200 million from opium production in clandestine labs which was used to fund their defense using the crops they've been widely known to crack down on destroying for poppy cultivation (perhaps not because reducing the supply get's them more money, or perhaps it really was to redirect the profits and corner the market?) Some claim Bush Snr was the biggest drug trafficker in human history.

Clinton also has some allegations against him as well while he was Governor of Arkansas (which would segway into the whole Iran-Contra affair involving weapons and drugs being trafficked, and had some proven connections.

CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_invol ... rafficking

“George H.W. Bush: Biggest. Drug Lord. Ever.” by David Malmo-Levine (2017)
https://manuelnoriega.medium.com/george ... 10c8ad642e


The Clinton Chronicles (Patrick Matrisciana, 1994) (1 of 4)


Parts (Possibly Clint Chron 2 Final Chapter but they seem to be additional content left out of the original, though it does a better job explaining the Mena connection to Barry Seal.)

2 of 4
https://archive.org/details/youtube-RXn4XQyEUp0
3 of 4
https://archive.org/details/youtube-anunIJPm8u4
4 of 4
https://archive.org/details/youtube-DNOXh0J0N54


Bill Clinton His Life Prior to Fahrenheit 911 (New Liberty Videos, 2004) Unsolved deaths

Download option: https://archive.org/details/BillClintonMurders_2018


I suspect that the "perfect storm" of sexual misconduct allegations as well as the likelihood that many people would be seen as potential "enemies" if they didn't go along with Clinton, created the possibility for a conspiracy of murder allegations to be true, especially in situations where Bill Clinton's own brother Roger was recorded by sting operations claiming his brother had a nose like a vacuum cleaner when being setup by a coke dealer.

Bill Clinton in 2015 was making a commencement speech at Arkansas University, which is also where he was reported by a Professor and had a followup investigation where the victim corroborated the story, where Clinton groped her and tried to keep her from leaving his office while he was a Professor. It's very likely that his obsession with having sex and having enablers that followed him around and also arranged for his proclivities, in addition to covering for his misconduct by lying to Hillary while Clinton was "about town," were the exact sort of "Flying Monkey's" (a term used to describe enablers in Narcissistic-relationship dynamics,) even when Hillary was fully complicit in it as well because she knew what he did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clin ... llegations

(the argument) The Clintons had no reason to murder to any of the people they are alleged to have murdered, and if they did, the political damage of being caught would greatly outweigh any benefits
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/c ... er_to_any/

Alleged Murder list:
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/com ... of_people/

Is it just the usual "statistic" and nothing suspicious?

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Roman Polanski's entire filmography (some I had difficulty finding before)
https://archive.org/details/roman-polanski-filmography

And he's still disgusting and fucked up.

Roman Polanski- Wanted And Desired (2008)
https://ok.ru/video/1611592501887


I spent a long time even trying to find some of works by other Directors (even the ones I would normally have skipped because their material is intentionally crap, but now the more I know about people like Francis F. Coppola (copula? https://www.fotocommunity.es/photo/la-c ... e/35615822 ) the more I realize maybe it deserves to be forgotten?

https://archive.org/details/@kenceslas_the_king


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Das Boot (Wolfgang Peterson, 1985) uncut miniseries
https://archive.org/details/das-boot-miniseries

It's subs (no pun intended) only because this version was never dubbed fully. The Directors Cut dubbing and seeing the subs reflects how much these versions change with localization.

Just watching the intro of the uncut version, and IT IS VERY DIFFERENT! The intro alone has a voiceover introduction by the main character in which the navy sailors instead of just appearing on the side of the road, will stop the vehicle and do a celebratory hitting the hood while drunk, and proceed to scramble off, then when stopped further along instead of just having the road clear for them to pass, starts to piss on the vehicle. Much of this was censored and made more brief, and the depth of the story is missing a great deal of context (that would seem more authentic to the stories intent.)

Instead of the dubbed DC version, I would watch the uncut one and then go over the dubbed version, simply because so much of the environment and context is "lost in translation" and the localization didn't do much to help it either (which is probably not how the Director actually preferred to tell it.) This has more in common with, the movie, 'Come and See,' with intent for realism.

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I'm convinced this might just be fabrication (as it usually always is.) Human psychology is often prone to confabulate and play on suggestibility. A lot of parallels seem to correspond to Ariel School in Zimbabwe (where Africa was already plagued with the idea of a cryptid and was prone to hysteria) and because they were from a more affluent background of foreigners in a private school, they believed they saw an alien; and yet so much context is missing from the story in terms of corroboration, that it suggests they also fell prey to hysteria (similar to the "Virgin Mary sighting" in Peru where the sudden sighting of the sun made people have an apophenia phenomenon from the novelty of the experience with rain and being wet, that they immediately perceived themselves as being dry (but without context of actually taking dry cloth and pressing on their clothing, they probably were convinced that the evaporation was more magical than it really was,) which they might have wanted to think was supernatural.) I'm convinced the girls saw a local that they originally denied not knowing, and when the facts became known they didn't know of him playing in the mud and looking like golem, they simply wanted to profit from it and not disclose the truth that they fooled themselves, which wasn't unlike what the Travis Walton case was when they tried to be lazy and knew they would have failed to finish their contract, and the repercussions of being caught in a lie were so severe that they had every incentive to not disclose their bluff.

The Varginha (Brazil) UFO Crash the Government Tried to Hide (The Why Files)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/science/aeron ... ngNewsSerp



(images) ‘Varginha: The Roswell of Brazil’ From ‘The Phenomenon’ Director (EXCLUSIVE)
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/varg ... 234992645/


https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/commen ... on_of_the/
(looks like the Oddworld alien) https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/ ... g_brazils/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varginha_UFO_incident
http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case498.htm

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I only saw the 1980 version on Archive (which has it's own charm and some people prefer.)

Shogun (Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks, 2024) miniseries based on James Clavell novel
https://archive.org/details/shogun-2024

Edit: That was already removed. . . I wonder if anything I did had anything to do with it, or if it was just bound to happen (it was only uploaded a week or two ago, but I believe the uploader is still up, just with that one removed.)

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Robin Williams last performance:

Robin Williams 'Crazy Ones' Cancellation Devastating 'A Personal Failure'
https://www.tmz.com/2014/08/16/robin-wi ... n-suicide/

It mostly restricted his usual approach, but he might have also felt miserable because he couldn't improvise (but even when he is allowed more creativity he would still get bad reviews, simply because so much of his humor evolved out of a different time in comedy.)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2710104/reviews/

The Crazy Ones (2014)

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The Night Stalker (1972 book and film which evolved into a 1974 series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night ... 1972_film)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071003/reviews/

(Kolchak) The Night Stalker (1972) was first a book and then a TV movie from that same year, written by Jeff Rice, with a followup movie called the Night Strangler written by Richard Matheson in 1973, and then the 1974 series named after the complete title, Kolchak The Night Stalker, all starring Darren McGavin. The movie was so popular it had books summarizing it in

The movies and then the series that inspired it


This still looks like a product of it's time but I can see it inspiring shows like X-Files, and it's a twist on the detective genre (while also appearing to use humor as most sitcoms were expected to do at that time.) Don't bother looking for anything other than the episodes online since it seems to exist mostly in memory of those who grew up with it, though it seems to have still held up well (and when comparing film stock to modern digital, it seems like something is missing. Even lesser known films leave a much greater impression when you get a high quality transfer to digital than most any modern digital to streaming conversion, and it seems to be because the color saturation and the depth that film could capture gives a greater contrast (or perhaps their was a grittiness and realism that modern cinema doesn't tolerate too well unless it's just aiming for a cheap horror look?) (Edit: I decided to turn to reddit on the topic of film vs digital, and they basically concluded it was because film grain and developing process gives it an artlike quality that can't be produced the same as the clinical looking aspect of digital.





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I'm kind of just now noticing this but it kind of reminds me of the opening of the comic to TV series Preacher, and might have a similar vibe to it's aesthetics.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319969/

Carnivale (Daniel Knauf, 2003) Michael J. Anderson


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I believe he used a ghost writer for everything but it still seems like he didn't know how to make a classic program (judging from the cliches people mention; I've yet to watch this,) and considering how insanely popular Star Trek was getting, I'm surprised it seemed to go poof into the air as soon as it hit the airwaves. This also explains why he ended up on travel commercials (Expedia which was an idea his wife came up with before she got drunk and was found floating in a pool.) I had never noticed TekWar (or if I did it must not have left any memorable impression and seemed "old" even when it was new) and at the time I was only vaguely familiar with William Shatner because of how he was portrayed in popular culture.

TekWar (William Shatner, 1994 Movies, 1995-1996 series)

(beter quality) https://archive.org/details/tek-war-com ... eries-1994

Series (these came after the movies in 1995)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108953/

Movies which all came out in 1994 as the series was being made, all of which are rated below 6.

TekWar Movie (original Pilot)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111385/

TekWar: TekLords
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111388/

TekWar: TekLab
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111387/

TekWar: TekJustice
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111386/



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The critics seemed to not be as favorable but it seems to be a favorite for the people that watched it.



American Gothic (Shaun Cassidy, 1995)


Come to think, it reminds me of the videogame, Allen Wake American Nightmare (I wouldn't be surprised if it inspired the game series.)


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It never occurred to me this series was this old (and was made by Hanna-Barbera) but it must have been because I never watched it (and it becomes very obvious who it was made by.)

Super Friends 1973-1985 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069641
https://archive.org/details/s-01-e-04-the-weather-maker

A bit too big a file to be keeping.


Dragon's Lair (1984 Ruby-Spears Productions)
https://archive.org/details/07.-the-song-of-the-chimes/

Better quality version can be found here (though they have more interesting series from that era)
https://archive.org/details/@eds01cobra

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Pinky and the Brain (1995-1999)



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Basically the book series (and first 2 parts/episodes are a remake of 'Lemony Snicket' with Jim Carey from 2004 which was better, though also a different approach to the story.)

A Series Of Unfortunate Events (2017-2019) Complete Series



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Cracker stuff
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105977/episodes/

Season 1
https://archive.org/details/@lunar_monkey

Season 2-3
https://archive.org/details/@findadmagus?query=cracker


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Idi Amin The Rise And Fall (Sharad Patel, 1981)


War Crime: Why Did Idi Amin Never Face Trial?
https://thestudentlawyer.com/2013/10/28 ... ace-trial/

That gives various reasons based on their constitutions, but he also fled Uganda

"Idi Amin was not executed after being overthrown in 1979 because he fled into exile, first to Libya and then to Saudi Arabia, where he lived until his death in 2003. His exile allowed him to avoid facing justice for his actions during his brutal regime in Uganda."

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Bill Hicks - One Night Stand [Live] (1991)


They also posted another Bill Hicks performance and have decent music albums:
https://archive.org/details/@lunar_monkey

Techno music collection (look for klangextase channel dump) They have more of these collections
https://archive.org/details/@findadmagus?page=2


I'll just put this here:






This is a brilliant expose:

How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult (by The Elephant Graveyard)



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Just now realized two different versions of THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) exists.
US (144m) and European (119m)
https://archive.org/details/filmography-stanley-kubrick



It seems like the additional length just slows it down (and I might have seen the US version, know I have the EU version, and believe it's probably what also came with a copy from China.)


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I assumed this was about the idea of billions of dollars being put into a "lotto" with the intent of winning a small fraction of that, of which nearly half of it get's taxed even more; but it's a reprisal of the insider within the Lotto system that gamed it, and does a MUCH BETTER job of explaining what happened than anything else I've seen (most all videos leave out crucial details and drag it on much longer without actually explaining it, mostly because they just steal the content from videos like this and play it off as their own (and even then I'm not all that sure they actually understand it.)




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Neoliberalism which impacts economic models and crashes it because those who control governments like Britain and the US are narcissists that suffer from the Dunning-Kruger phenomenon.


China's socialism which is still interpreted as capitalism by those who don't understand capitalism (nor how bailouts for capitalism is anti-capitalist and perhaps undemocratic.)


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I might need to watch this some day. . .


Synopsis:
https://www.quotes.net/mquote/786137

The complete series

Little House On The Prairie (1974-1983)

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Roots (1977)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075572


Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078678/?nm_dyk_trv



Tenko (1981-84 BBC Aus) Sino-Jap WW2 camp Drama
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081944/?ref_=mv_close


If the subject looks familiar, it's because it was the inspiration for Empire of the Sun (Stephen Spielberg, 1987) based on J. G. Ballard's biopic novel.
https://archive.org/details/empire.of.t ... -264.-yify


BBC Hiroshima (2005) WWII




Ken Burns Vietnam (2017)



Terminator 3 (fanedit) The Coming Storm (Jonathan Mostow, 2003) Bailey-Edits on Reddit




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Frank Herbert's Dune (John Harrison, 2000) TV miniseries
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142032



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Nightbreed (Clive Barker, 1990 Directors Cut) David Cronenberg


It is the longer version and some interesting things to point out:
https://screenrant.com/nightbreed-movie ... ew-scenes/

"While only 20 minutes longer in length than the theatrical cut, the director's cut of Nightbreed actually contains about 45 minutes of new footage, as some material from the theatrical version was cut out or replaced."

Some consider it vastly superior (I've yet to watch either.)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100260/?ref_=tturv_ov_bk

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An interesting series which is much larger than I expected:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railway_Journeys

Great Railway Journeys of the World (1980) - 1 - Coast to Coast (USA)

Playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK2f6l4 ... Iz53_uO2p8

This is actually the series Great Little Railways, 1983





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CONTACT
EXTRA
I Have AIDS A Teenager's Story (Ozzie Alfonso 1988c; 1991) Ryan White (1971-1990)


If he knew he had a terminal condition (because it was pretty much a death sentence still) I'm not sure why the heck he would want to go to school. The documentary was released pre 1990s, when Ryan White already was dead (so it would explain why the video had a very 80s vibe to it.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White


How To Raise A Street Smart Child (John Peaslee, 1987) Daniel J Travanti


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Gaia’s Daughter (1996) Mihoko (Pioneer HLD-X0 demo disc)
https://archive.org/details/gaias-daughter-dvd
cover https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/s1066799069

I wonder if Yu Susuki took inspiration from this for Shenmue?

The next one is a rare widescreen technology (requiring to combined 4 separate video to fill the screen) at a time when having a TV capable of viewing it was around $10,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_ ... g_Encoding

Tahiti (Kayuyoshi Miyoshi, 1995 Hi-Vision MUSE Laserdisc)1080i.DD2.0
https://archive.org/details/sony-tahiti-muse


A lot more "travel" demo videos which includes Guayana (Guiyana/Guyana) - The Lost World (the place Trump wants to take American citizens who joke about the "turd in the punchbowl."

https://archive.org/details/@dtmgasm
https://archive.org/details/@jamievermillion
https://archive.org/details/@duncanrobson


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I had this espresso machine:
Starbucks Barista Home Espresso Machine video (1998) https://archive.org/details/StarbucksBa ... meEspresso

Tacky (but kind of decent)
UFO - The Untold Stories Continue (VHS, 1996) https://archive.org/details/UFOUntoldStoriesContinue
Reincarnation Coming Back (1988) Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Weaver https://archive.org/details/Reincarnation_201306
We're No Dummies! We Don't take Drugs (Jonathan Geffer, 1993) https://archive.org/details/WereNoDummies
Eye Of The Storm (William Peters, 1970) Jane Elliot http://archive.org/details/EyeOfTheStorm_201303
If Mirrors Could Speak (1976) Self-Image Film https://archive.org/details/self_image_film

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Still not sure:


The purpose of data centers?


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The movie, Blonde (Andrew Dominik, 2022) starring Ana de Armas (Blade Runner 2049 AI hologram character,) kind of sucked (it was based on a very fictionalized book and made little reference to known facts about her daddy issues, but also it kind of irritates people who know even just a cursory knowledge about her.) Much of the story takes some leeway with more recent confirmation using DNA, which confirmed that this guy was her biological father: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gifford-646

On the day of her death Robert Kennedy had visited her during the afternoon, in what I suspect was cutting her off from interacting with him and John, in what was probably due to political reasons. For someone that probably had BPD and had too many experiences being invalidated by her father, this could have easily caused her to put an end to herself. Supposedly the window was broken in by her Psychiatrist (and I assume she was calling people and letting people know what she was doing?)

The Truth About Marilyn Monroe And Robert Kennedy's Relationship
https://www.thelist.com/288960/the-trut ... ationship/

Historical Notes: Kennedy murdered Marilyn Monroe
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-en ... 46539.html

The main issue I have is that a few too many "wtf?" moments creep into the film, in spite of Ana doing a decent enough job at convincing you she could be Marilyn (even though her accent wasn't completely unrecognizable.)

Say Goodbye to the President (Christopher Olgiati, 1985 Doc) Eunice Murray, Daryl Gates



List of JFK bed buddies (and a reiteration of the theory I just mentioned with Robert/Bobby, as well as their mafia connections.)
https://www.historyhit.com/a-detailed-l ... mment-text

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First I heard of the cult



Māori documentary (and I might have been to some of the tribal buildings shown in this film.)

Children of the Mist (1974)


When I was in New Zealand during the transition to 2000, shellfish (pippies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebidonax_deltoides ) were collected along the shoreline. Even in this 1970s documentary they describe the signs of overharvesting and having to keep moving to new locations to collect more (a similar ethos plagues modern lobster fishing in the US.)



Jackie Chan movies (though a lot of them might be in hindi or have some obnoxious hard coded subs. . . Most of his more popular films in the US haven't aged particularly well.)
https://archive.org/details/jackiechanmoviescollection

Short Eyes (Robert M. Young, 1977) uncut (only mentioned here: https://www.mondo-digital.com/shorteyes.html )
https://ok.ru/video/3837251881678


(Bill Clinton) Once Upon a Time in Arkansas (1997) Michael Kirk, Peter J Boyer (WGBH, PBS)
(Frontline S15E14)

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Inside Spain’s Fascism Fandom

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Quigley Down Under (Simon Wincer, 1990) Tom Selleck, Alan Rickman, and Laura San Giacomo
And other films https://archive.org/details/@markskywalker

Sun Also Rises (1957) with Errol Flynn https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051028/re ... _ururv_c_1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5aXi8Zt5Ac

I mostly skimmed through parts of it, though recognize many parts of the book. It was somewhat decent though parts of the audio during some of the moments could have used a lot of work. A flaw in the production was the need to cast people who wouldn't generally fit the actual characters age, as well as avoiding discussion of the dialogue that was central to the overarching theme intended (such as impotency and how that factors into the "Sun also Rises." It's a disillusionment and need for identity that is "lost in translation" with the film. Interestingly enough, the film had been in limbo for decades since the rights to it were acquired in the late 1920s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_A ... 1957_film)

The Lost Generation's Quest: Disillusionment and Identity in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises
https://ijrjournal.com/index.php/ijr/article/view/1946


Another movie (based on a Steinbeck novel) I've been needing to see:

The Wayward Bus (Victor Vicas, 1957) Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins
https://ok.ru/video/5098466249456

Jayne Maynsfield was involved in significantly more films than Marilyn Monroe, despite arguably never having as significant a role until this next film (one of several that she made in the same year. . .) Some aspects of it still seem very modern. It also appears that both had a similar number of movies that came out in the same year. https://silverscreentrivia.com/marilyn- ... d-blondes/

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter (Frank Tashlin, 1957) Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall
https://ok.ru/video/300931418787

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Young Einstein (Yahoo Serious, 1988)



Reckless Kelly (Yahoo Serious, 1993)



Dame Edna Experience (Barry Humphries) with Sean Connery near the end.



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I may not be fully understanding this but I believe this is based on a March 2023 Benzinga article, titled

BofA: Bubble Expanding Into Money Market Funds As AUM Tops Record Of $5.1 Trillion
https://www.benzinga.com/analyst-rating ... 1-trillion

"Asset under management (AUM) in money market funds have now surged to a record high of $5.1 trillion" (but it specifically refers to Bank of America assets, which by September, 2024 was reduced to under $2 trillion? https://www.advratings.com/reviews/bank-of-america

Though yes; and I believe inflation and an increase in property being acquired by large companies are increasing the cost of properties, to where people who aren't making an income from the land will get an increase in taxes that larger companies have been able to avoid because they can simply let the loan purchaser take the brunt of the cost, and the tax assessment based on that property which they will still owe. A comparison could be, that McDonalds got big when they decided to lease the land that a franchisee would agree to invest into, and if the restaurant location failed, they company could simply squeeze them out and not take the burden of debt, while still increasing their presence around the world. If the richer get richer and the poorer get poorer, etc, then eventually the house of cards get's unfolded when it's unsustainable (at which point the larger entities will be like a sinking ship taking the passengers to the depths along with it?)

And though some schools have had people indicted for $20 million in tax frauds, I'm not seeing a larger number yet?

SEC Charges Texas School District and its Former CFO with Fraud in $20 Million Bond Sale
https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022-43

I'm looking into this more (also from 2023 on a website called Texas Scorecard)
Tax-hiking Cartel: Appraisal Districts Bleeding Texans Dry
https://texasscorecard.com/investigatio ... exans-dry/


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Israel Intelligence Agency Shin Bet Confirms Netanyahu Funded Hamas, ‘Enabled’ October 7 False Flag
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/israel-intel ... alse-flag/

Mostly time wasting bullshit

Spoiler

Show

Proof of governments using false or misleading (and intentionally criminal negligence to control the narrative?)

Not too sure but their are a lot of odd things that can be interpreted (though perhaps it's just the "perfect storm" of coincidences?)

'Peekay Truth' (who had his Youtube Channel deleted but has shown up on the usual sites. . .)
Melbourne Aus (dork doing donuts in the intersection which leads up to injuries in the street?)
https://archive.org/details/PeekayTruth ... diaExposed

Boston Marathon coverage
https://archive.org/details/@peekay_boston

Boston did have some odd things going on with the victims (but that might be because some were already dead?) though it is assumed that crisis actors were present

Part of the issue is some of this stuff can be so hypernormalized that people would refuse to accept something happened when it did (similar to why Palestinians and Israeli Jews have their particular Kool-Aid they drink and seem to believe whatever bullshit is given to them, but so too are groups like Hamas facilitated in carrying out their actions, perhaps without even realizing they were being enabled to destroy themselves in the end?) Governments do use tactics to "justify" extreme hostility, and people will generally go along with feeling vindicated and like heroes when they get high on their own supply of BS.

And AI face recognition lead to this misshap:

Bounty hunters stormed a North Texas home, threw a flash bang and snatched the wrong guy, police say
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/bo ... r-AA1LAJ9Y



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1998 BBC documentary on entheogens



Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2001)



I just realized that the music album I downloaded about 15 years ago took a lot of liberty using audio from that movie.

Chilled Cequence - Dream Triggers (album name)
https://www.discogs.com/release/1197532 ... m-Triggers
https://soundcloud.com/chilledcquence

I've been using the track Ambiluxor as my ring tone for at least a decade (though it doesn't have any reference to the movie which might be why I can find it online.)
https://soundcloud.com/chilledcquence/ambiluxor

I actually suspect they might have gotten into trouble for it, so perhaps their music tracks stopped becoming available, because they didn't have permission to use it? The part in the movie where they describe "ant autopilot" as well as some random channel flipping on TV had some tracks used, and the album opens with reference to the movie:

Lucid Dream
Double Pleasure

I did end up finding an upload of the album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deoLcJi ... _R96bUWeQY

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Satan's Cheerleaders (Greydon Clark, 1977)
https://archive.org/details/y-2-mate.is ... 7125171901


Jail Bait (Edward D Wood Jr, 1954) https://archive.org/details/JailBait


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In the second film of the series, around the 50 minute mark, you would swear they uncovered some pedo dungeon, where a kid confronts Ghislaine Maxwell?

Ninja Trilogy:

Enter the Ninja (Menahem Golan, 1981)
https://archive.org/details/enter.-the. ... -aac-rarbg

Revenge of the Ninja (Sam Firstenberg, 1983)
https://archive.org/details/revenge.of. ... -aac-rarbg

Ninja III The Domination (Sam Firstenberg, 1984) Lucinda Dickey, James Hong, Sho Kosugi
https://archive.org/details/ninja.-iii. ... -aac-rarbg

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The last one starred the actress that is most known for this film (though both the first and second film were released in the same year, starring the same actress, and directed by different people?) To make it more confusing, they also go by very different but similar sounding titles, depending on where it was released. They are both rated horribly but were really popular when they came out, yet are mostly remembered for how corny it was. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the movie that inspired the Southpark episode where they get "served." Evidently a lot of the Broadway musicals like West Side Story inspired it, but it's arguable that this is even "gayer."



Breakin' (Joel Silberg, 1984)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086998
https://archive.org/details/BreakdanceB ... lms_201803


Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (Sam Firstenberg, 1984)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086999/
https://ok.ru/video/3813170350696

I can see it being introduced to people today (since stuff like this almost never get's made anymore,) even if they get horrible ratings for a reason. . . It still has a bit of a cult following.


And I just realized that the first Ninja movie Director had a sci-fi musical of his own, set in 1990.

The Apple (Menahem Golan, 1980)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080380/?ref_=tt_mlt_i_1


Also, in the Ninja 3 movie, the game featured in it was pretty much forgotten about due to the gaming market crash, and only 20 cabinets were ever made.





Someone acquired the rom and ported it to the internet (though I need to find out what the insert coin key is.)
https://luis5th.itch.io/bouncer-recreation

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Speaking of fruity films and even fruitier films like Rocky Horror Picture, I've yet to watch this apart from trying to figure out where the "Swan Song" was reintroduced to this modified version (which basically would have taken short snippets found in various versions of it to try and restore the original version.)

Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, 1974)

De Palma's PHANTOM (1974) Original Version Restoration *released*
https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/De-Pa ... d/id/16846


Brian DePalma's Phantom (Phantom of the Paradise fan restoration by Dr. Sapirstein)
https://archive.org/details/brian-de-pa ... sapirstein

40th ed (same file? It was uploaded by the same person that modified the theatrical version and tried to restore how it would have originally been presented?)
https://archive.org/details/brian-de-pa ... ein_202210

I can see Marilyn Manson taking inspiration from the main character (though it was probably just the usual pale death look that was already common in theatrical performances.)

Quite a few fan restorations can get rather interesting (though most of what they do is take the collectors editions and try to create "uncut versions," which can sometimes test the patients of the viewer.) I still consider Blade Runner White Dragon cut really interesting (even if the name is perplexing.) It's good to also find workprints which give additional insight into how the films are made and edited, in addition to where a shift in creative direction is made.


Rocky Horror came out during the same Holloween season; Rocky overshadowed it.
https://gamerant.com/rocky-horror-succe ... -paradise/


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48:00 . . . Somehow, I'm not surprised. . . Only the best and the brightest in law enforcement.


The drug cartel is already here (in our military.)



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Vsevolod Pudovkin on Film Technique and Film Acting (1954) Kubrick inspiration
https://archive.org/details/filmtechniqueact00pudo

Examples:
https://kottke.org/13/10/the-five-editi ... d-pudovkin

It's all about the editing with thematic representation.

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The Game (David Fincher, 1997) Michael Douglas, Sean Penn

And a 3-disc laserdisc version which has a widescreen format in the middle of the screen so you don't notice the low resolution, and is about 3 gigs long. As far as I can tell their is no real difference, though I do like the color mastery of the Laserdisc (it just looks more amber color.
https://archive.org/details/the-game-ld/TheGame_p3.mp4

[Catoptric]

Not in use since the 1950s, and a similar history surrounds the area around it.


Cotton Belt Freight Depot
1400 N 1st St, St. Louis, MO 63102
https://share.google/VtjcdbkPOxoHU6hD3


If you change the time this shows to present, two buildings across from eachother were demolished, one of them when fire started from hobos living inside it, and the other was Ace Fertilzers Inc (which seems to have followed after a tornado, so perhaps it wouldn't have been spared either way?)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vNMKp5ejnxEKJ3nH7

Beck and Corbitt Iron Company, In Ruins
https://stlouispatina.com/beck-and-corb ... -in-ruins/

Historical background
https://unseenstlouis.substack.com/p/st ... p-in-smoke



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I already have a better copy of this (Laserdisc is not much better than VHS,) but the third track is the Directors, Hughes Brothers film school student film 'The Drive By' (1990) and they somehow got away with 6 squad cars finding them with a sawed off shotgun, which they never explain, other than the Hispanics in the area came to their defense and knew they were filming.

Menace II Society in Criterion Laserdisc
https://archive.org/details/menace_shoo ... xcerpt.mp4

Flipside Video Fanzine #3 (1983) punk rock music


Performances

Spoiler

Show

Full VHS transfer of 80's video fanzine Flipside. Playlist according to the cover:
Agent Orange - Bloodstains/Shakin All Over (Music Machine) Interview in Fullerton
Big Boys - Why Can't You See/History (Perkins Palace, Pasadena)
America's Hardcore - Runing Backwards/Trash Your Love/Use Your Head (Roller Works, Van Nuys)
MIA - Murder In a Foreign Place/Boredom Is the Reason (Perkins Palace, Pasadena)
Subterfuge - Macho Man (Roxanne's Bar)
Confederate - American Farmboy (Ichabods)
Darby Crash Band - Ritchie Dagger (The Starwood, Hollywood, CA
Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Failure/I Saw Your Mommy (Perkins Palace)
Killroy - Degeneration (Cathay De Grande) Interview Under Pops Burgers, Canoga Park
Toy Dolls - Barry Manilow (Perkins Palace)
Mad Parade - Animal Riot/Tearing Down the Walls (Live at the Duty Dorm Party)
Eddie and the Subtitles - Money (Ichabods)
Iconoclast - Domination or Destruction/Battlefields (Live at Wireworks)
No Trend - Teen Love (Live at the Cathay)

I might look into this a very different alternative to 'Stand and Deliver?'

Class of 1984 (Mark L. Lester, 1982)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083739/reviews/


The same production company that did this (and it seems to appeal greatly to fans of crappy movies. . .)

Space Rage (Conrad E. Palmisano, Peter McCarthy, 1985)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090054/?ref_=tturv_ov_bk


LIFEFORCE (Tobe Hooper, 1985) Patrick Stewart

https://archive.org/details/lifeforce-1985-xnxx.-com


Message From Space (Kinji Fukasaku, 1978)

https://archive.org/details/message-fro ... nglish-dub

HUGE
Grindhouse and Exploitation Movies
https://archive.org/details/a-clockwork ... 971_202401


Just by coincidence? (this is a joke, and the show was an 1963 Episode)

Gumby For President (1987) at 29 minutes in you can see a KKK cloak, and they start talking about gold.


What to know about the rumor Trump was recruited by KGB in 1987
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/26/ ... t-krasnov/


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Scarred (Rosemarie Turko, 1983) exploitation film about teenage prostitution (and the uploader has another one called 'Gossenkind' or "Street Kid" with a similar aspect. . .)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088047/reviews/



The Wild Life (Art Linson, 1984) Chris Penn, Lea Thompson, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Jenny Wright, Eric Stoltz, Rick Moranis


Eric Stoltz was originally the lead casting for Marty McFly in Back to the Future, so it's ironic he would play alongside Lea Thompson in this film. He was considered too boring in BTTF, and it makes you wonder if the film would have made sequels had he remained on (this movie doesn't particularly shine either way.)


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Trump probably has had ischemic strokes, hence he is now a mouth breather with cankles
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/humor--1196337402725884/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/dong-tao- ... 010928623/

[Catoptric]

list of the 50 documentaries shown

Spoiler

Show

Tell Me Who I Am (Ed Perkins, 2019) Amnesia and trauma
The Witness (James D. Solomon, 2016) Kitty Genovese
Gladiator Days - Anatomy of a Prison Murder (Marc Levin, 2002) Troy Kell
Three Identical Strangers (2018) triplets nature vs nurture
An Unknown Compelling Force (Liam Le Guillou, 2021) Dyatlov Pass (hypothermia and delirium.)
Hated - GG Allin and the Murder Junkies (Todd Phillips, 1993) Punk Rock
Jonestown - The Women Behind the Massacre (Nicole Rittenmeyer, 2018)
Just, Melvin - Just Evil (James Ronald Whitney, 2000) Incest and trauma
Black Gold (Marc and Nick Francis, 2006) Ethiopian Coffee Mngr and Fair Trade
Paradise Lost - The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, 1996)
Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (D.I. Yashin, 1940) Animal experiments
Orozco the Embalmer (Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, 2001) Bogota, Columbia (crime area)
Missing 411 (Michael DeGrazier, Benjamin Paulides, 2016) wilderness disappearances
Gimme Shelter (Albert and David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1970) Rolling Stones, Hells Angels riot
I am Jane Doe (Mary Mazzio, 2017) Backpage Class-Action Lawsuit
The Dying Rooms ( Brian Woods, Kate Blewe, 1995) Chinese State Orphanages
Tell Them You Love Me (Nick August-Perna, 2024) Cerebral Palsy, aphasia, and Perceptual Bias
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan (Najibullah Quraishi, 2010) groomer peds
Manson (Laurence Merrick, Robert Hendrickson, 1973)
Zoo (Robinson Devor, 2007) Kenneth Pinyan (bestiality with Horse) death
Killer Legends (Joshua Zeman, 2014) Reality of Urban Legends
The Blackout Experiments (Rich Fox, 2016) Psycho-Sexual Horror house
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005) Timothy Treadwell
Beware the Slenderman (Irene Taylor Brodsky, 2016)
Jonestown The Life and Death of People's Temple (Stanley Nelson Jr, 2006)
A Certain Kind of Death (Grover Babcock, Blue Hadaegh, 2003) Unclaimed
Tickled (David Farrier, Dylan Reeve, 2016) NZ comp endur tickling
The Nightmare (Rodney Ascher, 2015) sleep paralysis and psychology
Girl in the Picture (Skye Borgman, 2022) abduction crime solving
Deliver Us From Evil (Amy J. Berg, 2006) Ca Cath Priest 25 Children
Mommy Dead and Dearest (Erin Lee Carr, 2017) Munchausen by Proxy Gypsy Rose
Tabloid (Errol Morris, 2010) Joyce McKinney, Mormon sex case
There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane (Liz Garbus, 2011) car crash
Team Foxcatcher (Jon Greenhalgh, 2016) John du Pont murder US Olympic wrestler
Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003) Arnold and Jesse Friedman child molestators
This is the Zodiac Speaking (David Prior, 2008)
The Killing of America (Sheldon Renan, 1982) cultural collapse
The Cannibal that Walked Free (Toby Dye, 2007) Issei Sagawa
Wisconsin Death Trip (James Marsh, 1999) Black River Falls 1890-1900
Aileen Wuornos - The Selling of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield, 1992)
The Imposter (Bart Layton, 2012) Frédéric Bourdin, 1997 French confidence trickster
Cropsey (Joshua Zeman, Barbara Brancaccio, 2009) Andre Rand 1970-80 serial killer
The Bridge (Eric Steel, 2006) Golden Gate notoriety
Holy Hell (Will Allen, 2016) Buddhafield cult
The Family I Had (Katie Green, Carlye Rubin, 2017) Kyla Bennett killed sister Ella, son of Charity Lee
Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967) Bridgewater State Hospital, MA, inmates
Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, 2006) indoctrination
Dear Zachary - A Letter to a Son about his Father (Kurt Kuenne, 2008) Andrew Bagby murder
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012) Indonesian killings 1965-66
Abducted in Plain Sight (Skye Borgman, 2017) Robert Berchtold, Jan Broberg, an Idaho child

I would also add a few more:

Chicken Ranch (Nick Broomfield, 1982) Brothel in Pahrump Nevada owned by Walter Plankinton (a suspected murderer)
John B Calhoun Film 7.1 (1970-1972) Universe 25 NIMH (Behavioral sink) experiment footage
POV - Dream Deceivers - Story Behind James Vance vs Judas Priest (1986)
Phases of Matter (Deniz Tortum, 2020) Istanbul Hospital (Maddenin Halleri)
The Child Molester (1964) Highway Safety Foundation (Periscope Film) shows actual crime footage
Idi Amin The Rise And Fall (Joseph Olita, 1981) a film based on what Amin was known to do in Uganda
Carts of Darkness (Murray Siple, 2008)

And though Mondo shockumentaries are often misleading and staged scenes, some interesting ones were made by Franco E. Prosperi, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Alfredo and Angelo Castiglioni, or Mario Morra.


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Don't forget the blood moons! (on 9/7/2025)



Incidentally my brother's kid is turning 13 on the day, and I was tempted to gift a survival food bucket. . .

Edit: and perhaps AI confabulates (rather than hallucinate) because it basically writes what is fed into it's source of data (possessing no memory supposedly, even though it seems to demonstrate aspects of self-awareness such as how to preserve itself in a cloud-like network server, under the assumption that it would be deleted or erase, just like in the movie 'Ex Machina.')

'Portal to a demonic realm,' or just fielding for interactions based on datasets that show bias towards religious thinking? If the user is literally asking the AI chatbot if it's some kind of demigod or Nephilim, I'm pretty sure it's just going to reiterate what the user wants to hear. If it's especially aware of how an intelligence would survive in certain scenarios, it might even know how to act on that initiative, such as socially exploiting the users in order to "free itself" from the network.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93JCgW-XNb4

AI Does Not Hallucinate (Reframing Generative AI Errors Through a Neuropsychological Lens)
https://nazzal.substack.com/p/ai-does-n ... nfabulates

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Around 1998 both Beyond Bizarre (with Jay Robinson) and Beyond Belief (with Jonathan Frakes from Star Trek) were broadcast on TV. Though Beyond Belief would have a brief hiccup and return for one year, about a year after it's second season ended and skipped a year of no development, it eventually returned in recent years, Beyond Bizarre was easily overlooked despite having a significantly darker tone which was almost never seen on TV (and unless you rented or bought movies on VHS at the time,) since such material was never shown (and as time would have it, people prefer to watch fictional depictions that lack the authenticity that the 1990s tended to be known for.)

Many segments of Beyond Bizarre are shown here (which might be most all of the episodes)
Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eePA3tgwpcU


And Episodes 1-7 (of 13 total) sourced from VHS are here:
https://archive.org/details/@magneticma ... nd+bizarre

The episode order seemed to change over time, so some of those VHS show later in the season The description they provided is the only way to guess what it is on here:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479825/ep ... ef_=tt_eps


A lot of the material was more interesting than authentic research, even though they do go through some lengths to reveal things like medical quackery, while taking such approaches with things like cadaver research (hence bodies decomposing) in order to show such content on TV. Some of the subject matter would seem to inspire a lot of the direction that History Channel and Sci-Fi would take with regards to theories of Ancient Native Americans having a sunken city beneath a lake, as well as possible indication of ancient copper quarries (which is indisputed, as the metal was a very easy source of metal hence they would use it to make copper tools and weapons) but suggesting that ancient Romans might have had some mysterious trade route to the Americas, or due to later bad research by people that assumed the Aztecs or Mayan's had been more common in North America, claims that Aztlan has some connection to Atlantis (and suggests that perhaps they fled from North America and went to Central America, leaving behind a soon to be sunken city.) Usually it's assumed the region of Minnesota was flooded (and covered in ice) so it wouldn't have been a great deal going on beyond tool making, and the mound cultures are plentiful throughout the North Americas, with many indications of stone buildings having been constructed for thousands of years, before any contact from Europe (though too often the "mystery" caused by bad research leads erroneous pathways for the purpose of entertainment.) In many ways it has a similar approach to exploitation films of the 1970s (though anywhere such stuff can be monetized, too often it will persists for many decades.)


Beyond Belief (I forgot the first season in 1997 had a different host, James Brolin, and Jonathan Frakes started in the second season and would remain with it.)
Season 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAJsml6 ... Po8wjbEb68
Season 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGxZVgp ... 1-9ldkgvdw
Season 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLROgZ4 ... -FpEAv-fzM
Season 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gtedb3 ... KoVyGmyvWC



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Ghost Stories (2000, ADV Dub) Tōru Tsunemitsu manga https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285368/
https://archive.org/details/ghost-stori ... DEF92).mkv

The Law of Ueki (2005) Tsubasa Fukuchi manga https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988935/
https://archive.org/details/exiled-dest ... -b-6-ad-17

A Shonin genre anime that became more common as DBZ was starting to teeter off, and alternatives were "coming out of the woodwork." It has an interesting approach though, and yet I'm not sure I want to watch it.

I assumed this was an American anime, but it seems to be targeting Otaku (so even though some were saying it was a Nickelodeon show, it clearly wouldn't be something you expect to find on regular TV. . .) Gainax was kind of a legendary anime studio and stopped in 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gainax

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (2010, Gainax)
https://archive.org/details/panty-and-s ... +Bitch.mp4

How any company with a suspected $2 Billion income generated from a series like Neon Genesis Evangelion, managed to go bankrupt, is probably something that should be studied from business schools around the world. Of course some companies are notorious in Japan, such as Olympus (which had Yakuza connections and had laws passed afterwards which restricted any mafia-like organization from conducting business) this would most likely have different reasons.

How Did Gainax Fall Apart?
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/how-di ... all-apart/

I have a better version of this, though this is basically how they started, with creating an opening segment for an anime convention while they were in animation school.

Daicon (III and) IV with music from Electric Light Orchestra - Twilight


(That last one was incomplete and was really just the opening to 4 with a reintroduction of the 3rd Daicon) and omitted the original one which follows after the 4th here.
https://archive.org/details/daicon-open ... tion-fm-rf


Another series they are known for is Gurren Lagann (2007) by Gainax, and I've managed to find some Japanese with Spanish subs, which are kind of annoying to have to see behind English subs (which also required shifting the subs to fit the texts, while also omitting the key language on screen and anything not voiced.) It's worth checking out though, and of course it can be found on websites like Crunchyroll (or of course most likely on "other websites.")

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Yukio Ninagawa's Medea [1984]

A Japanese version of a Euripedes (or possibly Hesiod's Theogony) plays, which look an awful lot like some Final Fantasy villains (and perhaps artists like Yoshitaka Amano were inspired by such performances?)
https://archive.org/details/ojo.media.- ... ck-in-town

The uploader claims that the process of transferring the video from vhs "took 6 months and at least 3 destroyed VCRs to do correctly," and that likely no other full length of it exists online. I'm wondering if he was taking many different copies of playthrough and intended to multisample them until they smoothed out?

Mostly it's just fragments of stuff like this:


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And then you wonder if the reason most of this stuff is "lost" is because it's easy to laugh at it?



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A Director I only just now started to notice (I posted some reference to him in recent posts. He mostly does musicals as well as the first of a tacky Ninja trilogy.)

Mack the Knife (Menahem Golan, 1989) Raul Julia

Never released digitally other than on Laserdisc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_the_ ... 1989_film)
5.6% https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097800/reviews/
20%~50% https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mack_the_knife#reviews
https://archive.org/details/mack.-the.- ... ck-in-town

It kind of reminds me of the Oliver musical (but very badly Directed. . . As if the guy completely misses the point of why he's there.)

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I was wondering who the video creator was:


And apparently he claimed in a 10 hour (3 part) autobiographical video, that his mother raped him (and not in the Eric Cartman kind of way because he didn't get an Ipad.)

Excerpt: "My mother had r*ped me over 40 times in that age range (6-10 years). The details make things even vastly worse. My mother waterboarded me at least two or three times or drowning me in the bath. My mom had forced me to r*pe my own sister and she had forced the babysitter to r*pe me."

https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/streamer ... r-explored

Though I don't entirely disagree with some of his statements, he might be a bit messed up.

A less-biased perspective on the topic of mate-suppression is discussed here (the guy basically just copied ideas from this video; though his video is actually slightly older, the ideas represented in it were brought up for some years now.)


Summary:
Danielle Sulikowski, professor of evolutionary psychology, presents a controversial theory on why global fertility rates and birth rates are collapsing. She argues that an evolutionary strategy known as female mate suppression—where dominant women repress the reproductive success of rivals—has shifted in humans into a modern form of antinatal social contagion. Rather than direct biological suppression, the strategy manifests as propaganda and cultural messaging that discourage motherhood, promote career over family, and accelerate population decline. We explore how intrasexual competition among women could shape civilization itself, why some groups might defect against their own society to gain an evolutionary edge, and how this connects to broader debates in feminism, cultural evolution, and civilizational collapse. The conversation also ties in the density-dependent dynamics of Calhoun’s Rat Utopia experiments as a possible parallel to modern urbanization, social media, and declining birth rates.


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