Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 4

"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.

#monsterdon

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*

😑

#monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

Godzilla: 2/3

Heckilopters: 0

*MONSTER CHOMP*

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

#monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

@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!

#monsterdon

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

What the heck, the police officer is just going to leave the woman alone with a man who she accused of a crime??

#monsterdon

This feels less like "Attack of the Puppet People" and more like "Desperate Attempt to Survive Horrifying Circumstances of the Puppet People"

#monsterdon

Ah yes, cats _famously_ are fine with standing still in front of weird things making weird noises.

#monsterdon

That is one hundred percent a kitten crawling out of that matchbox, not the full-grown cat that got shrunk down!!

#monsterdon

Egads, more giant rats! Flashbacks to The Food of the Gods (1976)

#monsterdon

OK, so the guys are shaving... which implies that hair grows during this state of suspended animation they enter when they're bottled..?

I have a great many questions

#monsterdon