Mastodawn

Jason Bergman Nov 21, 2022

IMAX 3D ticket for Avatar: The Way of Water secured.

Bring on three hours of James Cameron water-based shenanigans!

#movies #avatar #cameron

Jason Bergman Nov 21, 2022

THE TIME KEEPERS HAVE SPOKEN.

https://gizmodo.com/leap-second-time-1849807606

International Time Keepers Scrap The Leap Second

The as-needed adjustment has caused decades of tech disruption. Now, by international vote, it's in its final years.

Gizmodo

Jason Bergman Nov 21, 2022

Dunno how it holds up, but Todd's Adventures in Slime World is legitimately one of my favorite games of all-time.

A friend of mine had two Lynx systems, and we played DM. You have no idea how tense it can be when you're halfway in a room, only to see a bomb fall from above.

#retrogaming #lynx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR47s1r7x8c

Todd's Adventures in Slime World (Atari Lynx, 1990)

YouTube

Jason Bergman Nov 21, 2022

A little disappointed by the Lynx lineup in #Atari50, so I did some googling, and apparently Pixel Games UK is a company that's re-releasing Lynx classics on Steam, including Gates of Zenodocon, Electrocop, and even Todd's Adventures in Slime World!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2130980/Todds_Adventures_in_Slime_World/?curator_clanid=38465691

#retrogaming #lynx

Todd's Adventures in Slime World on Steam

In this classic gross-out platformer from the early 90s, take on the role of Todd the space explorer, who lands on a planet made entirely from slime and goo, and teeming with disgusting life forms, to search for precious slime gems.

Jason Bergman Nov 21, 2022

Love & Rockets is still the best. If you've never read Love & Rockets, it's always a great day to start!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/books/love-and-rockets-hernandez-bros.html?unlocked_article_code=Ob9pjuMT4ykfMduQLeXPnKtmRpQ7xozJ7o5jJ3tnAxCXXjx1PuvL_W0r5ONMX7332Wp_eTXY-_hBMxiurYNegnUbu9g8RoeaN9KI1lON7wlYozLRrafzW99YAQv3mSOUNjtYRgnFvJyY2koLPtdtV9kSi4SqgzOzguVHrbOsVcTV_IoB9u8tD-vx9-3io6aUa39C30eHlGgPJAUJIGmRhxx0Vp3KFkHl888e75KL2aSoTdjmIJ4_TBvv3m0308YdWYXzjkEihV-p1NkCTbNYzqf_EHDK10cBhLEeSEVlp-mLXFCcMZHP79Sj0HSOf7sq1ChH2lRi7nLLBY9ZKDrB4qxzs5zW7oc&smid=share-url

#comicbooks

‘Love and Rockets,’ a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40

With its Chicana punk rockers and panels of untranslated Spanish, “Rockets” was unlike anything else — and, it turns out, just what the world of comics was craving.

Jason Bergman Nov 20, 2022

Monte Cook Nov 16, 2022

For a long time, when I'd read a comic with Lex Luthor in it, and he'd be... I dunno, conspiring with a guy who's super power is that he is mediocre at riddles, and maybe Solomon Grundy or someone like that, in order to launch their army of poison turtles into Metropolis, I'd scoff and say, "it's unrealistic that the world's richest man would waste his time and money on something that's only going to showcase to the world how incompetent he is."

I owe DC comics an apology.

Jason Bergman Nov 20, 2022

Because I'm perfectly willing to try any alternative to the bird site, I tried Hive.

I only checked it out for about a minute, but it's not for me. It feels a lot like Instagram. Photo-first, not text first.

I don't want to be inundated with selfies.

Jason Bergman Nov 20, 2022

Good production design and a cast of beautiful people make for a compelling trailer, but at some point the story needs to take over, and this one is a complete mess.

I'm all in favor of this kind of big budget, high concept film with something to say, but Don't Worry Darling needed someone like Ira Levin to actually make its screenplay coherent. As is, it's too half baked to recommend.

#movies #moviereview

My ★★ review of Don't Worry Darling (2022) on letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3s0bKv

A ★★ review of Don't Worry Darling (2022)

Good production design and a cast of beautiful people make for a compelling trailer, but at some point the story needs to take over, and this one is a complete mess. I'm all in favor of this kind of big budget, high concept film with something to say, but Don't Worry Darling needed someone like Ira Levin to actually make its screenplay coherent. As is, it's too half baked to recommend.

Jason Bergman Nov 20, 2022