Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 3

"What about the radiation? The radiation isn't an anomaly, it's the clue."

(That's... that's what clues usually are. Just for the record.)

#monsterdon

*EASTERN SEABOARD - UNITED STATES*

omg Godzilla is about to take down `us-east-1`

Give the people what they want, Godzilla

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Slur count: 1

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Why... are the planks of the dock that old many is running away on _exploding_? Being shoved aside makes sense, but the pneumatic cannon effect is a bit goofy.

MONSTER CHOMP

oop Godzilla got a truck! Good for you, big guy.

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Oh right, we're supposed to know that these characters are French and villainous because they are smoking terrible cigarettes and expressing disdain about American pastries

ha ha ha hilarious

moar giant lizard plz

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This movie would be so much less stupid without a "old sweetheart romance rekindled" subplot. It would also be better without 9/10 of the characters to which we've been introduced so far, and all of the jokes. And most of the musical lines. Godzilla can stay though, and also the fish. They were perfectly fine fish.

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"Evacuate Manhattan? That's over three million people. Has that ever been done before?"

"I don't think so."

Look, there's no _additional_ dishonor in just having your characters face the camera and start reeling off facts. It would still be stupid but then we could get to the end credits a little faster, and in no worse shape.

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YAY FISH

The fish and the lizard are fine.

"That's a lot of fish!"

*two characters stare at each other for a moment*

*you can practically see the filmmakers count to three to leave time for audience laughter*

😑

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I'm sorry. A giant lizard, I can believe. This many helicopters in formation without _any_ mechanical faults? Get the fuck outta here. Just have the soldiers start casting spells at this point

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Godzilla: 2/3

Heckilopters: 0

*MONSTER CHOMP*

Update: three of three. (Of course the third helicopter was referred to as "Echo 4".)

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The music in this scene definitely implies that we're supposed to be rooting for our hero Godzilla to destroy all of Manhattan and every one of these military personnel. This is weird. Usually Godzilla is supposed to symbolize the inescapable weight of aspects of humanity's folly, embodied in the form of a foe we cannot hope to overcome. But in this one he's apparently our scaly hero?

For a movie that aligns with the #monsterdon perspective it's a damn shame that *cups hands* IT SUUUUUUCKS

MONSTER REVEAL

oh jeez they got the shape of his head just so wrong in this one, that's so embarrassing

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@cks ah, sorry, I should have guessed you'd be all over it already!

@ricci psst @cks , ya gotta see this thread if you haven't already.

@dalias Plextor, or Philips..?

@Infoseepage @RainofTerra there's a realtime thread over on the TUHS list where folks are posting updates: https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-December/thread.html#32854

Hmm, I'm starting to get some fan noise from the previously silent Noctua air cooler on the household server. It's been in roughly 24/7/365 service since 2022-03-24: I can't really begrudge it anything for gradually failing. I'll have to book some time and schedule an outage window to replace it this week. Or maybe early January.

@Gargron @Ameboid pe(ACH)es !

Ad: "Office girl. Easy work, good pay."

"How much experience do you have?"

Doing _what_? There was no job description! You haven't described any duties!

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We are ready for #monsterdon tonight! Probably more watching and less yelling online about it tonight, but we're here.