Notices by David Zaslavsky (diazona@techhub.social)

@anildash It's so nice to see someone saying this! I am definitely in that majority.

One little thing I'd chime in from my perspective: there's some portion of tech people (or is it just me?) who aren't talking about this view not because we're afraid to, but because nobody (ish) listens to us average tech people, so it wouldn't matter.

#tech #programming

@RamenCatholic @_L1vY_ I'm not even sure I'd still be on Mastodon if not for @Taweret

#Monsterdon

"skipped a chapter of evolution" oh dear

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #RevengeOfTheCreature

When trying to lift up a piece of wood I would generally suggest not parking a boat on it

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@RamenCatholic @nazokiyoubinbou @Taweret P.S. The closest I have ever come in my life to experiencing what I imaging being wasted feels like is after watching Turkish Star Wars

@Lazarou @nazokiyoubinbou @RamenCatholic @Taweret 😂

I guess I see where you're coming from there

@Lazarou @nazokiyoubinbou @RamenCatholic @Taweret yeah fair, I can see how modern special effects could kind of ruin the vibe

But I'd like to think something like that could work if it had some awareness of being a parody

@Lazarou @nazokiyoubinbou @RamenCatholic @Taweret oh Star Trek 😢 you might be right, but I haven't watched any of the recent ones

@RamenCatholic @nazokiyoubinbou @Taweret Asking the most important question, I see 😀

As much as I like to cite https://xkcd.com/653/, I think the Star Wars Holiday Special actually has better production values than Turkish Star Wars, but makes for a worse viewing experience because it has just enough elements of a legitimate movie (well-known actors and characters, fully decorated sets, and a pinch of plot) to lure you in to trying to take it seriously, but it winds up being inane and pointless. Whereas with Turkish Star Wars, there's nothing for the logical brain to get a handhold on. It's just completely bizarre nonsense through and through. Without having even the slightest pretensions to being a legitimate movie, you get to turn your brain off and just laugh at it.

@RamenCatholic If so I am totally down to make this an unofficial special-edition #Monsterdon

@nazokiyoubinbou @RamenCatholic Technically all you'd have to do is ping @Taweret. I rarely see suggestions show up on the polls, though, so I'd imagine there's already a long list of candidates.

(It wasn't Turkish Star Wars, was it? If so that's already been suggested a few times)

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@nazokiyoubinbou @RamenCatholic @Taweret oh no you do not understand the depths of brain-melting terrible reached in Turkish Star Wars

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182060/

But yours looks like it could be in a similar class of so-bad-it's-good 😁 I'll have to watch it sometime!

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If the bear chomps the helicopter before we end at least I can leave happy #TeamMonster

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@RamenCatholic Choosing people over swamp monsters? What is the world coming to these days 😂

(enjoy!)

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@Fragglemuppet Personally I tend to ignore that line of thought during #Monsterdon ... it makes it more fun for me to experience the movie "organically" than to try to reconstruct how viewers in its day would have thought of it

Though it's very rare that I've seen any version of a #Monsterdon movie before

@_L1vY_ Sometimes they add sugar at the factory though

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"Don't bless me, pay me!"

Good life advice

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wait you can stop them with a cross?

...and this conveniently never came up until an hour into the movie

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@RamenCatholic I think I know which someone 😛

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The official anthem of planes running people down is Ride of the Valkyries

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