What are you watching?

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And I just started Sky: Children of Light and played for 4 hours, not knowing at first it was sort of a social MMORPG. The game seemed somewhat promising and exploratory but quickly became aparent the game was designed around a social exploitative paywall (so stupid shit like a $15 digital outfit puts to shame some of the more egregious aspects of modern gaming.)




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Perhaps relevant to the Disney phenomenon in the next video. . .

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The blonde resembles my step-mom.

Narcissism and the Disney Princess/Prince mindsets.
https://qr.ae/pYtWU0




The guy behind the above channel often comments on the subject matter he produces videos on.



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Apaches (John Mackenzie, 1977) British film



Hotel Room (David Lynch, 1993) Mini-series

https://archive.org/details/david-lynch ... ion-1080-p


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In reference to the movie, Rollerball by Jewison in 1973.






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I just discovered that you can watch a revised format of One Piece, to make it more accessible, online.

https://onepace.net/en

It even has the structure of the story arcs listed in order, as it was originally intended in the manga comics.

Since I had already organized all the episodes in a similar way, I might not use thsi website, but it would probably make it less distracting. A big problem with getting into the series is with how much filler exists, not just in the intro and ending, but the kind of show material that kind of breaks the story arcs up. It's frustrating because the show is really pretty stupid for the most part, but wouldn't seem as apparent if the show didn't consist of so much scatterbrained nonsense just to get into the material.


Manga in color (huge collection)

https://archive.org/details/mana-one-pi ... 7/mode/2up

It looks better compared to the anime.


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The entitlement bullshit is what makes me want to rage quit everything.

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Akira (1988) (English Dub - Streamline) [HD]


I think most DVD releases of the movie has a "censored" localization, such as when at the bar, the guy is buying "peanuts" and not "Bennys," which at other times you will find regular dialog and cuss words (so it wasn't really to sanitize the dialogue, and may have actually been more authentic to the manga.) It was referred to as the Pioneer dub, and the original dub was Streamline which would have been seen in theaters originally.

I have this streamline version already but also included a subtitle of the other English version overlapping it, which shows just how different the words are throughout the movie. The Manga is also very familiar but very different, in part because the movie only comprises a very brief part of the story, which takes many liberties to shorten it into the length of the movie. It still holds up as one of the best animes, and Otomo did Steam Boy which is as good if not better in animation though perhaps a bit boring for whatever reason (and I knew of that movie before encountering Akira, when finding the movie in a bargain bin at Big Lots around 2008.

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Tourettes Guy - Bob Saget by TourettesGuyCentral (probably 2007, though there are more videos https://archive.org/details/@peterslawn ... =tourettes )



https://vimeo.com/groups/823684/videos/180067392



A decade old documentary that will be relevant for some time still.




Richard Wolff




Heaven's Gate - Beyond Human (The Last Call) - Session 1 (1997)


Part 2-9 (You're welcome. . .) They can also be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@HeavensGateDatabase

Spoiler

Show

Alt (For some reason this one doesn't load) https://archive.org/details/youtube-imLrj7PVkg0

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I thought it was interesting this video makes a tribute to Kobe Bryant, only for Akira Toriyama to die not long afterward.






This European (German) animation was an early influence in Japanese anime culture, and would have possibly inspired the Dragon Quest series as well as other RPG games. Akira Toriyama would have watched this prior to making his debut as a manga artist.




Original Dragon Ball movies (the mp4 are sufficient.)
https://archive.org/details/dragon-ball ... -DL%5D.mkv

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Angel's Egg (1985) Mamoru Oshii, Yoshitaka Amano (Tenshi no Tamago)






Paranoia Agent (2004) by Satoshi Kon


Perfect Blue (1997) Satoshi Kon

Ricardo Lopez tapes mentioned in the review: https://archive.org/details/RicardoLopezVideoDiary


Haibane Renmei (2002) Tomokazu Tokoro, Yoshitoshi Abe



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Metropolis (2001) Rintaro
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ls4hm




I was aware of a cult that made music videos, but wasn't aware of the anime aspect of such:



Google Ryuho Okawa to find the list of animes.




Other things


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This might seem a bit misleading when judged by the first video (as Mark Cuban was already actively involved in making business decisions that would be regarded as successful before the streaming idea; and more than likely he probably was able to propel the ideas into a different direction from the original inventor (much like Microsoft, Elon Musk, etc) that would not have happened had they not come along (but that's another aspect of privilege and self-deceptive optimism which acts like a cattle prod when the ego needs to hang onto something to feel complete, while undermine and evidently lying about something to propel guiible people into serving their interest.)

Mark Cuban is a hostile takeover parasite just like Elon Musk (that might explain why they "like each other" so much?)


Another video on the topic:


And his real last name is Chabenisky (so the conspiracy theories likely abound on that alone.)

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That's supposedly Stoner Cats Episode 2: High Score

https://www.stonercats.com/


Some famous Actors are voicing it, and it seems some NFT bullshit was connected to it:

SEC charges Mila Kunis-backed Stoner Cats NFT project
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/single ... ft-project

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The book:
American History X - Autobiography of A Recovering Skinhead (1998) Frank Meeink, Jody M Roy

More closely aligns with the final film edit, where the protagonist doesn't return to being a skinhead after his brother is shot by the brother of the person he killed (following his conversion to a neonazi/skinhead following the death of his father.) The idea was that, violence begets violence, and that the only solution is to break the chain as otherwise you will only perpetuate distrust; and that nothing good can come from it.

The debut of the first-time film Director, Tony Kaye, was convinced that Edward Norton was destroying the vision he had, and that it was after the initial filming that the filming was drawn out to cultivate a different narrative (arguably, that Edward Norton simply wanted to get more screen presence to serve his ego?) and which additional scenes were made (perhaps so as not to typecast Edward Norton as a fringe actor?)




I believe their is a reason that more of a non-teleological approach serves a better function, and ultimately made the film so much more regarded, than had it been cultivated more as a cult-favorite (or one where Neo-Nazis would then feel vindicated in some way, since they evidently wouldn't understand any deeper message to it?)








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White Boy (Rick) documentary 2017
https://youtu.be/G6xxmHeoboE
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5635638/



Dimorphous asteroid impact test followup (decent video 15 min long)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/articl ... Fw#details


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The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams, 1992,95, 2013 cuts) 28-31 year project (by the time it was first released)





And people continue to say that it's a rip-off of Aladdin, even though Aladdin had the influence of animators from his studio (hence a lot of similarities between the two films.)




Something similar is happening with:

The Overcoat, Yuri Norstein


‘The Overcoat’ Has Been In Production For 40 Years – And It’s Not Even Close To Being Finished
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/video-essay ... 09806.html

This is a 5 sample. . .



It's based on this book by Nikolai Gogol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overcoat

It undoubtedly is different from most animations



Some other projects he's worked on (which doesn't have CC)

'What are Yuri Norshteyn's "Hedgehog in the Fog" and "Tale of Tales" really about?'



Hedgehog in the Fog (Yuri Norstein, 1975) (10 min) Hardcoded subtitles


Resembles Hizao Miyazaki's 'My Neighbor Totoro,' as well as 'Where the Wild Things Are.'

Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein, 1979) (30 min)
https://youtu.be/Ts3Zfzg5rqM
Upscaled:



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Another animator worth noticing:

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (1936) by George Pal


He seems ahead of his time.

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57:00 is just another version of a Televangelist. . .



11 minutes in, a look back at how Amazon always had the same reputation



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'This Is Not Financial Advice' (2023) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14076326/


I actually had enough from $2,000 Dogecoin (bought around 2018) that would have been worth $7 million around 2022. I was telling people about it (knowing it would go up) that their indifference, as well as the absurdity of crypto in general, made me sell it off early (at a loss around late 2019, after I had squandered much of it to hedge against stock that I knew was not ready for IPO, only for it to have cult-like investors pushing it hyperbolic after closing day.)

Even if you are capable of accurately buying stocks that do consistently well, your apprehension and invalidation by others over time will make you intentionally make bad decisions just to spite the trends of how human nature as well as how the market functions.

Sometimes being "too early" can make you indifferent as to whether it rises or falls, and apathy sets in.

To note: The "Doge Millionaire" is now worth $50,000.

Dogecoin Millionaire's Fortune Fell From $3M to $50,000—But He Hasn’t Lost the Faith
https://decrypt.co/153563/dogecoin-mill ... lost-faith


I can imagine his visibility implies he would be hearing shouts of "Bro!," "Bro!" until his fortunes went to $0.



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Aubrey Plaza's husband, Jeff Baena, died (who is most known for Directing 'I Heart Huckabees') and it was self-inflicted.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/entertain ... epochtimes

I believe he wasn't getting any movie projects while Aubrey Plaza was continuing to make big budget film roles (that ultimately bombed, just like Megalopolis, which made around 10 million on a 120 million budget, which is reminiscent of my last post where I mention animations that have been going on for 30-40 years; so too was Megalopolis a 40 year script in the making to become a movie.)

Megalopolis early draft
https://archive.org/details/megalopolis ... rd-coppola

When going over Francis Ford Coppola's films as well as Producer roles, the most notable of the last 2 decades is The Good Shepherd as well as Sleepy Hollow (and perhaps Jeepers Creepers 1 & 2 if you want to call those movies) where as most all other films barely made it over a million in sales. Films he actually Directed were some of the most iconic films of the 1970s, and he went low-key in the 1980s with The Outsiders (which didn't really showcase what he is known for and could easily have been Directed by anyone; and is mostly known as a cult favorite by midwesterners, and would probably appeal most to those with nostalgia for the 1980s, similar to The Goonies, which stands out more in memory as all I can remember of The Outsiders is the cover art.)

Adam Driver seems to be a preferred Actor for those who are regarded as 'The Greatest" film Directors (such as Terry Gilliam, et al,) while also creating "Swan Songs." When Coppola was writing the script to Megalopolis, he was doing so at the same time as Once Upon a Time in America (1984) by Sergio Leone, which was his most ambitious film that also required the audience to give it time to breath and keep them engaged with it (so a $30 million budget and $5 million in box office revenue, even though it was a very competent film.) The Man Who Killed Don Quixote by Terry Gilliam was $16 million budget to $2 million revenue.


So to "drive this point home" The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018) had a documentary in 2002 called 'Lost in La Mancha' which is how far back that goes. . . It's kind of crazy.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1699556216832236

Sometimes dead projects are better off dead (I don't believe Terry Gilliam was ever able to realize his initial film idea.)

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He Woke Up as a Bagel Girl by Studio Animal (2019)

Each part has 4 episodes


Part 2-4 (Final)
https://archive.org/details/he-woke-up- ... irl-part-2
https://archive.org/details/he-woke-up- ... irl-part-3
https://archive.org/details/he-woke-up- ... irl-part-4






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I didn't even notice Satoshi Kon died in 2010.



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Blow Out (1981, Brian de Palma)

Better quality : https://m.ok.ru/video/7036922759766



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More like, a former Nazi bunker (the 'Hitler Bunker' that he committed suicide in was destroyed so it wouldn't become a shrine, whereas some of these former bunkers were still in use up until recently.)



Also looking at the ancient Roman ruins, Emerita Augusta in what is now Mérida, Spain






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Possibly a good entry into his movies:

Tetsuo - The Iron Man (1989) Shinya Tsukamoto
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tetsuo-the-ironman

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The statement about a Speech Pathologist encountering more people with telepathy is pretty strange. I almost wonder if aberrant brain wiring or being self conscious might accentuate the process needed for developing "telepathy" (whether real or predictive to intuition and guesswork that might be misconstrued as "telepathy.")



Book:
ESP Enigma - Psychic Phenomena (2009) Diane Hennacy Powell
Discussed here: https://youtu.be/3-raeREHaKo?list=TLPQM ... CnlNMAV07g

Related to what she is talking about:


Telepathy Tapes:
https://shows.acast.com/the-telepathy-tapes/episodes
Alt - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2r8M-Y ... WcMDPc5Ey7

This book isn't something I would take very seriously though it also suggests autism is connected (and then again, I posted something prior that was making fun of the "Autistic superpowers" nonsense.)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203 ... n-the-game

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Book on precog:
P.M.H. Atwater - Future Memory (1996, 2013)

F Holmes "Skip" Atwater might be married to the above Author


Books by F Holmes Atwater -
Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul (2001)
Project 8200 - The original Remote Viewing Transcripts

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I assumed this was based on the fake interview that he later mentions, but it's potentially just a well-researched (based on the usual tropes involving EBE claims, which are almost always fake stories. It is a fascinating thought process about hypotheticals; whether it's real or not.



Incidentally, he also mentions the Telepathy Tapes at around 37 minutes in. Several things in this don't really seem to make any sense (and just sounds absurd, such as auctioning a spacecraft, as if a defense contractor and not some foreign government would bid for it, when it would more likely be a compartmentalized government project that silently leaks things out; ergo at around 20 minutes in he refers to materials within the craft as being like some bioengineered material that is able to be changed to adapt to specific purposes, mich like how animals can camouflage or change material density to serve some purpose, only in this case it has some psychokinetic influence with the occupants of the crafts, though that also echos some frauds that have claimed to be interacting and intimate with so-called EBE.) I suspect the story is fake but I will read over it:




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Note: It's obvious that Roger Morneau was full of shit.





Manuscript (not previously published?)
Charmed By Darkness (2015) Roger Morneau (1925-1998)

An earlier one
A Trip into the Supernatural (1993)

I believe he is a big time bullshitter, and this Reddit post has some belief he is similar to grifters that claim they were in Satanic groups but get debunked pretty quickly by those who are in those groups.




A guy claims he is the grandson of Roger Morneau and goes by Enlitened1 in the comments of this video:



He strikes me as one of those guys that just makes up a lie and starts to run with it, or perhaps he was hoping to get on the lucrative grifter bandwagon?

It seems like the Forbes magazine, where people pay to be in it, where (usually self)publishing a book and going on tours through various churches or televangelist channels, can make you really wealthy. The more dumb the people in attendence who never question the authenticity of the statements, will generally buy it up. It's a similar phenomenon to why shitting movie franchises like Saw can continue to turd out movie after movie, and usually make many times over the budget. A really expensive and (hopefully) well thought out movie can be the swan song of someone who had once produced greatness, and people will ignore it in favor of the shitty crap that is far more accessible to them and what they prefer to have an emotional response to (because thinking is hard, obviously.)



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Note: Probably BS but their is some odd irony in how the movie get's released and eventually people wise up to Bill Clinton's sexcapades, and the inspiration for the Producer was likely one that had stepped away from his position around 1980, who they felt was akin to being called upon on short notice for such a purpose.

Wag the Dog was a book that had the main character's name changed to Stanley for the movie, who was a Director who was to be killed for revealing a conspiracy of a psy-op, and it was released during the time Eyes Wide Shut was being filmed (or at least during production.)



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Stoners drinking immortality water on Mt Shasta from grifter's claiming visitations from late renaissance fraudsters like "St Germaine"


My dad mentions visiting the location and seeing some kind of spiritual phenomenon, but he might be a bit off and was imagining it.


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Keith Haring seems like a likely inspiration for most of the early Microsoft clip art. . . He died around the same time as Basquiet who also became famous in part because he like to be a troll in public spaces with graffiti.


Some documented subway poster blank graffiti art
https://www.haring.com/!/selected_writi ... in-transit


Mural bathroom art which pretty much demonstrates how he died of AIDS/HIV
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kei ... room-mural

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6:40 They dissed him back. . . and 12:10 . . . 29:25 36:25 46:28 1:00:05 1:09:09 ("oh, ohh" etc)

(looking for more; though I wouldn't be surprised if the pizza incident was an accurate translation I'm not sure about the rest since they couldn't have been speaking so many words in some of the translations, even if he claims to have taught Chinese to children for awhile, despite it being his first time there.)

47:40 as he's being followed by a Police man he says, "no bad vibes."




https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/3 ... _Adelstein



Pharma doc (Big pharma was afraid of generic pharmaceuticals becoming available to poorer countries, because it would undermine the hiked up prices they wanted people to pay in the USA.)
It's mostly about this guy who owns a generic drug company, and whose net worth is now 2.9 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Hamied
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fire_in_the_blood


Steve Jobs secretly had AIDS and probably died in part from it's complications to his immense system. He might have been concerned that his medical treatment would be recognized to address that, so he ate nothing but apples and consulted quacks.
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_p ... ults,_2008


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Why drugs are important. . .

Klaus Kinski Jesus Christ Saviour (Berlin 1971)



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AI orders a Darkweb Hitman?