xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@sim @coolboymew @why here's some movie-watching advice I can give you:

1. Watch a big mixture of movies. Old and new. Foreign and AmeriKKKan. Live-action and animation. Good and bad. Fiction and non-fiction. Fiction and non-fiction. Don't get caught in a rut.

2. Try getting lost in a specific sub-genre. Like, you can watch every Hong Kong action flick that Quentin Tarantino copied from. Or find a director you like and watch every single one of their movies to see how they changed over the years. Or look at your favorite actor's career from when they first acted in a candy commercial in 1976 to the current year where they can captivate you.

3. Read books about screenwriting. Robert McKee's was pretty good, and the 500 pages are more like 300 because half the book is pieces of movie scripts: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0042FZVOY/

4. Read books about the filmmaking process. Here's one I really enjoying listening to the audiobook of (mostly because the guy reading it did a great George Lucas impression): https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Star-Wars-ebook/dp/B008BM7M3C

5. Look at professional reviewers in print and on Youtube and find one you like. You don't have to agree with them all the time, but find one you like. For example, Roger Ebert's opinions are often wrong, but he was the best movie reviewer without a doubt. Read his original Star Wars review:

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/star-wars-1977

@freemo @icedquinn @crunklord420
this is a pretty good breakdown of the progressive libtard criteria for intersex. true intersex is actually far less common than progressives claim

https://colinwright.substack.com/p/intersex-is-not-as-common-as-red

@maxmustermann @Publius @pasture Gab is clearly made by techno-illiterates. The Fedi is not that big, to the point of it being impossible to moderate? Even if they hated anime porn, they could've just take that out of the "known network timeline" easily. They're just retarded.

@josh In a year or two, I'll release a report on the bankruptcy of the Mozilla Foundation.

@josh The whole war against "hate" is starting to remind me of the War On Terror.

Increase in valuations in past year:

Apple: +$873 billion
Amazon: +$615 billion
Microsoft: +$601 billion
Tesla: +$462 billion
Facebook: +$270 billion
PayPal: +$161 billion
Shopify: +$91 billion
Netflix: +$77 billion
Snapchat: +$71 billion
Square: +$70 billion
Zoom: +$67 billion

>meanwhile thousands of small businesses died

@TradeMinister @SteveTheDragon Yeah, it's almost like, as soon as Google became the main source of income for the Mozilla Foundation, they just completely started ignoring privacy for some reason. Probably a coincidence.

the antivax argument basically comes down to whether or not the government is worse than polio

Also anyone notice Mental Outlaw approaching 100k subscribers? Pretty impressive.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/516707-hogwarts-legazy-sjw-gamergate/

YouTube is really on a roll with killing channels this week, Eric Pettway got deleted. I assume because he has a lot of non-civilian full-auto firearms. I believe he owns a business renting firearms to the movie industry.

Now that I think about it, Phantasy Star IV was one of the games I succeeded in making my mum play during a particularly hard time, with me live translating. The other was Final Fantasy IX (which we played using its multiplayer mode). She finished neither but it succeeded in its task.
Great games, those.

@piggo @pea @moonman everyone hated Phil Fish because he was an arrogant prima donna who bragged constantly about his supposed genius, treated his fans like shit, said all Japanese games were trash, and canceled Fez 2 because people on the internet made fun of his criminal whore girlfriend

Fediverse friends and followers from around the world, I have a huge favor to ask!

If you are out for a walk or drive and you spot a payphone, would you mind sending me a photo of it? (DMs are always open) I will feature it on my #100DaysOfPayphone thread over on the birdsite and of course give you credit.

When I started this a couple of weeks ago I didn't realize all of my old photos from before 2018 are gone, which means the hundreds of old phone photos I had taken at one point are also gone. But maybe this opens an opportunity to see payphones from around the globe.

This could be a payphone that you spot in the wild that still exists (thank God there are still some of those out there) or it could be a photo you took in the past of a phone that may or may not be there anymore. But please, let me see your payphones!

If you have photos of other cool phone equipment or phones that aren't payphones, they won't work for the #100DaysOfPayphones thread, but I encourage you to send them my way as well. Phone related stories? I'd love to hear them! Please help me spread this around the world!

All payphones are acceptable, but I especially encourage you to send in any photos you have of payphones from countries other than the US or phones that are unique in some way. Also, PLEASE boost this toot and help me get this call for help out there! Thank you! 📞