I did a deep dive this morning because of Annie's comments about her friendship breakups. I found a few interesting things that point to them not being friends at all. I think the friendship ended long before we realised. I tried checking every theory or event but I left out stuff that I thought was too crazy.
Events and theories:
The name of Annie's last episode "See You Next Tuesday"
The exit interview nature of her last episode
Khalyla talked about Annie to Kathy Griffin about durian fruit and called her "People in the room" instead of "a co-host" or "a friend"
Esther liked all her friends comments on the first baby photo posted on Instagram but ignored Annie's comment.
The ayuascha conversation on tigerbelly with Neal Brennan.
The post birth pod where they talked about how much pressure Esther was put under by the new direction they're taking.
Annie talking about the amount of time it was taking (banking episodes for Esther) on the Jason Nash podcast
Annie didn't want to be there for more than a year, since Todd was moved to the forefront. She started showing up late and they started pods without her. She'd arrive halfway through.
The cluster headaches (she really had them) but Annie would still be at the comedy store and keep to her Anniewood schedule. (unconfirmed theory as it would take forever to check)
She also didn't react well to Esther's pregnancy. It was attributed to the nature of Esther and Annie's relationship back then. (also unconfirmed)
Annie announcing it on her own podcast instead of doing it on Trash Tuesday. Khalyla also eluding to big changes coming (everyone thinking ebb) but Bobby saying "Beep leaving" on Tigerbelly. Both these events happened two weeks before the last episode.
Did I miss anything?
I would like to thank podcast scripting apps and the search function for making this much easier than I thought it would be. Also to the fact that I finished all my work last night and have the day off to spend doing nothing. Nap time.
Edit: I said Annie's pregnancy, not Esther's.

Hello, I am looking for the actors script and the Director script of Annie Jr and Annie Kids. Thank you!

Introduction

In my humble opinion, the current Reddit discourse on Hereditary (2018) leaves a lot to be desired. In some ways, that isn’t surprising. The movie is extremely disturbing to watch, perhaps too disturbing for some viewers (especially those that may have suffered a family tragedy themselves). Such is the intensity of the performances and the overall directing that it should come as no surprise that some people would rather not discuss Hereditary at length. Being an avid fan of Aster and of this film, I have waxed lyrical on the topic, perhaps a little too much. I’ve written pages and pages of analysis, thinking about the various themes and ideas that are conjured up by this incredible movie.
Surprisingly at first, I encountered a lot of dismissal, sometimes even hostility, as if the very idea of taking someone through the film beyond what they can personally bear was simply too much. I came away from these attempts at discussion with the sense that those who didn’t want to talk (and yet, frustratingly engaged with me anyway) had the movie all figured out in their heads. That there was one dominant, straightforward narrative that explained away the movie (i.e. a literal demon named Paimon takes over the family one by one and emerges victorious at the end of the film). The vast majority of these people cited Ari Aster’s interviews and no amount of wrangling about intentionalism or death of the author could persuade them to consider other ways of looking at the film.
So where did all the friction with these people come from? Well, when I look at the film, I run into one pretty big problem (in the best possible way one encounters something problematic in a well crafted film) and that problem was Paimon (and I'm certainly not alone in this). Who or what is Paimon in Hereditary? What does he represent? How literally do we take his apparent “possession” of the principal characters in the film? I love thinking about this problem, mainly because I find that there are so many avenues of exploration you can take in trying to solve it (or at least, shed more light on the issue). For this reason, I will be making a few posts on Hereditary in the next few weeks and hopefully we can start to broaden the discourse a little beyond what is written on the Wikipedia summary.
I wanted to begin by bringing together as many of Aster’s interviews on the film together and synthesising them in order to better understand Aster’s vision of the film and how that intersects with (and distinguishes itself from) the popular discourse. A couple of these are paraphrased since I didn’t feel the need to transcribe them verbatim. Naturally, I’ll be responding to many of the points raised (in square brackets) and will do my best to fit them into the context of the film that we actually have.

Interviews:

TIFF
In response to a question regarding his direct influences [Peter Greenaway] is playing even more with artifice than I am here.
[Why would “artifice” be important in Hereditary? The dollhouses obviously call our attention to artifice but is that where it begins and ends? Or can we begin to see aspects of the plot itself as potential signifiers of artifice? Could Paimon himself be artificial in the context of the film? In reality Paimon is obviously artificial, he doesn’t actually exist. The real orchestrator of the events is Ari Aster of course, but how much of his directorial presence was he willing to acknowledge within the film itself? Can a case be made for this?]
I was very careful not to pitch Hereditary as a horror film when I was trying to get it made. The pitch was “it’s a family tragedy that warps into a nightmare”. In that extent the film owes itself more to domestic melodrama than to the horror genre.
[Aster has been somewhat torn on this issue, on the one hand, he is very proud to have made a horror movie, one that embraces all the tropes, conventions and clichés, but on the other hand, he seems to view the horror aspect as somewhat antecedent or incidental. The core of the film is its family tragedy. If we accept this, then the ending of the film should reflect that central preoccupation.]
I wanted to make a film that didn’t let people off the hook.
[A great line, one that will stand the test of time. At no point would Aster agree with anyone advocating for discussion of his film to abruptly end (something that certain individual are more than happy to do when the subject is Paimon). There are few solutions to the problems he imposes upon the viewer, he wants us to wrestle with them.]
I wanted the film to feel evil. Tied to the perspective of the cult, always on the periphery.
[Who else is “on the periphery” of any scene in any movie? The crew, of course. Is there a case for viewing a film crew itself as a cult following its leader?]
I wanted us to be with the family in their ignorance of what’s happening but with this sinister knowing quality to the movie.
Everything is inevitable. The film knows what it it’s moving towards.
[I believe this relates to a crucial theme important to Aster, which I have described as narrative determinacy. Narrative determinacy refers to the idea that everything in a story happens by design, characters in a story have no agency to determine their outcome. Aster is clearly interested in this idea, perhaps because it's possible to use this model to contemplate the inevitability of our own lives. See the opening tableaux of Midsommar depicting the entire film's events on a tapestry. Also: Beau is Afraid in which Beau is able to "fast forward" through the events of the film all the way up to the ending. Also the outdoor theatre set piece at the heart of the film in which the figure of the narrator in the play has absolute control over the production, events happen as they are foretold, characters recite their lines on cue. I firmly believe the same ideas are being presented throughout Hereditary and that the demon possession angle exists merely for the sake of genre, in order to get us thinking about these ideas].
I like building sets. I like the control it gives me.
[Another tacit suggestion of the omniscient degree of influence Aster wishes to exert.]
I conceived of the movie, shot for shot, in my head, it took me 3 weeks (5 hours a day) to go through that with my director of photography and my production designer.
[Overseeing control.]
We built everything on a sound stage. The interior the exterior. The house and the treehouse. 2 interiors for the treehouse. 1 in the beginning and 1 for the end because it gets bigger so it can hold a bunch of naked people.
[Another acknowledgement of artifice, the cramped set of the treehouse earlier in the film vs the comparatively massive space seen at the end of the film]
Building up a catalogue: a lot of broken homes, a lot of deep family trauma.
At AFI I was shown politically correct Oscar bait movies and I immediately thought “What’s the worst thing I can do here?”
With my thesis film The Johnsons, I was thinking to myself how far do I pull the tongue out of the cheek to confuse everybody.
[Did Aster’s intent to confuse dissipate upon his graduation? Or was it intensified?]
Interviewer suggests this film will be taught in classes one day.
I always figured we were making a really alienating movie that made people feel bad.
Cutting the room tone in the dream sequence between Annie and Peter was to achieve a very specific effect. Making it so that the only sounds you can hear are Annie and Peter’s voices (and your own sounds you’re making in the theatre).
[Anticipating Beau is Afraid: we like to blur the boundaries between the audience and the players here.]
I wanted to make a film about grief and trauma.
I wanted to subvert the classic family drama trend in which a family suffers a loss, things get hairy for a bit, there is a breakdown in communication but ultimately everything comes together and those bonds are strengthened by the end. Sometimes something horrible happens or a succession of horrible things happens and people don’t recover. Some people get taken down. I wanted to make a film about that. I could try to make that as a straight drama (but good luck financing that and good luck recouping costs when it comes out).
I wanted to make a mean spirited movie, with the sense that as these people are suffering, the movie is almost smiling.
[Because that’s what we intrinsically crave to see in a horror film?]
I was pushing for a sense of omniscience at the very beginning as we push in on this dollhouse. I wanted to convey that these characters had no will of their own, like dolls in a dollhouse, they had no agency.
[Determinacy, Paimon is an incidental force, paimon has nothing at all to do with the tapestry at the beginning of Midsommar or the video tape sequence in Beau is Afraid; it’s the theme that matters, not how that theme is communicated].
Lincoln Centre
Hereditary is a film that takes suffering seriously. Or at least one that hopes to, tries to.
The ending is pretty apocalyptic. Things do not work out well for anybody. Actually that’s not true. It is a success story in some ways. It’s a happy ending for somebody, for multiple people.
[A blunt, possibly tongue in cheek response. That is what overtly appears to happen, but could there be more to read into here? The “Oh look how awful it ends. Don’t the cult seem victorious?” feels like an attempt to stoke interest in the film, particularly its ending. He’s speaking to an audience of people that have mostly not seen the film, and perhaps knowingly catering to a handful of people in the room that have. Seems to be deliberately oversimplifying his own work just to make it easier to discuss in this context/less pretentious. I firmly believe these words are taken at face value too often, neglecting alternative avenues of thinking about the film.]
The movie ends up collapsing under the weight of that grief that they are trying and failing to navigate through and deal with.
[An acknowledgment that reality seems to break down in the film, warps into a nightmare, not to be taken literally].
The film is packed with horror tropes, conventions and clichés.
[Re: artifice]
We wanted to be able to remove walls and create space for specific camera movements. We were going for this dollhouse aesthetic.
I’m doing this because I love movies. I love being in dialogue with them.
[Case to be made that his film responds to others, engages with them. I.e. the film shouldn't just be taken 100% literally, there is more going on than a devil possessing people. The film means more than that.]
On family influences: when I endeavoured to write a horror movie ... I asked myself what are my fears what am I afraid of? Reflecting on my worst nightmares, they were usually around someone in my family dying or changing, becoming a double of themselves, someone I don’t recognise, or doing something inadvertently or deliberately to someone I care about.
[This fear can not, would not be established if Charlie was not a person of her own. She has been “displaced” but that clearly doesn’t mean her life didn’t have the potential to have some kind of value beyond being a sick pawn in someone’s deluded game.]
I wanted to make an existentially challenging horror film, one that addresses problems with no remedy.
Interview with Mr H
I hope it’s a very sorrowful genre film.
It’s a spoiler to explain why I needed Charlie to click.
[Is that because Peter “clicks” at the very end?]
Q with Tom Power
My family has been through some pretty rough years and the prevailing feeling we had was that we were cursed and I think a lot of people can relate to that.
[Almost an acknowledgement from Aster that the demon possession angle works as a metaphor for misfortune generally]
Yale MFA photography
Midsommar had a very clear ending in mind. Hereditary on the other hand, used to have an epilogue which was there from the beginning that was assimilated into the ending we have. A lot of people hate that ending but I’m happy with it. The ending to Beau was also very clear from the beginning.
[What is this epilogue? Was it in the original script?]
Martin Scorsese at Lincoln Centre on Hereditary:
The family is really what it’s all about.
Variety interview
I’m not a particularly superstitious person but what scares me is what people are capable of. The idea of witches has always scared me because of the idea that there are Machiavellian forces out there that conspire to hurt others. There are people who do not have your best interest at heart and are actively willing to do harm to you and actively sending energy in that direction.
In an early scene, the subject of free will is discussed. Are you saying this family has no free will?
Yeah, absolutely. I see the film as being very Greek in that sense. This is absolutely inevitable, the family has absolutely no agency.
There is nothing Annie can do to stop this from happening?
No, I don’t think so. That’s where the dollhouses came in. Annie creates these miniature figures and dollhouses and they served as a perfect metaphor for the situation; they’re dolls in a dollhouse being manipulated by outside forces. Any control they try to seize is hopeless.
Is that why she thinks she can stop it by burning the Charlie’s sketchbook – the first time she tries, she catches fire — but the second time, her husband Steve catches fire?
Exactly. Even that scene is meant to play as Annie’s big redemptive moment, she’s going to sacrifice herself for her son. It’s a beautiful gesture but part of the cruel logic of the film is it’s an empty gesture. Ultimately, it’s not her choice to make. She thinks there’s a design here and she can end things if she sacrifices herself. But there’s no design and there are no rules. There is a malicious logic at play.
Annie talks about how her mother got “her hooks” into Charlie at an early age. Are we meant to think Charlie is in on it?
Charlie is the first successful host for Paimon. It’s transferred from Charlie to Peter at the end.
Because Paimon wants a male body?
Exactly.
Is there ever a Charlie or is she Paimon from the moment she’s born?
From the moment she’s born. I mean, there’s a girl that was displaced, but she was displaced from the very beginning.
In an odd way, that makes me feel better.
(Laughs) That’s nice. See, it’s a happy ending. But obviously, there’s a boy who’s horribly displaced by the end.
[Another example of Aster making light of the ending, deliberately oversimplifying it. I don't take the "Paimon was there from the start" at face value. All that matters is that someone believed that Paimon was there. If the cult did nothing, "Paimon" would have no influence or presence whatsoever. In other words, what if Charlie was "displaced" by the idea of Paimon? She was told from birth that she was not herself, that she needer to die in order to become her true self. I'd argue that's more tragic than it simply being a demon.]
[If Paimon is “transferred from Charlie to Peter at the end” why don’t we see Paimon acknowledge his victory if this is supposed to be what he wanted all along? He seems to have no problem possessing Annie, why the hold up with Peter? Was that deliberate?]

Hi everyone! I am giving a final presentation for my Italian class tomorrow, and I was wondering if anyone could help me with editing my script. The "Slide 1" and etc. are because I am presenting this with a slideshow. I am still learning my Italian, so I know this is not great, but I had a lot of fun (trying to) write it. Thank you so much! :)
Slide 1
Buongiorno a tutti. oggi parlerò dell'influenza di Dante sulla poesia di T.S. Eliot
Slide 2
T.S. Eliot è uno dei miei poeti preferiti. Era un poeta americano, vissuto dal diciotto ottantotto al diciannove sessantacinque. Ha scritto molti pezzi influenti, come The Wasteland e Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, su cui era basato il musical Cats. È noto per la sua influenza nel movimento modernista americano, che era definito principalmente da una rottura deliberata e radicale con l’arte e la cultura tradizionali.
Slide 3
Quello che forse non sai su T.S. Eliot è che era un appassionato di Dante. Ha scritto un saggio intitolato “What Dante Means to Me,” o "Che cosa significa Dante per me", in cui ha pronunciato la famosa citazione "Dante e Shakespeare dividono tra loro il mondo moderno. Non esiste un terzo".
Quindi, questo sembra un po' drammatico. Ma T.S. Eliot ha detto molte cose drammatiche.
Nel suo saggio spiega che legge Dante solo con una traduzione in prosa accanto al testo, e ha capito la Divina Commedia come un puzzle. Quando trovava un brano che gli piaceva particolarmente, lo memorizzava e per diversi anni poteva recitare gran parte della Divina Commedia. Dice di essersi “immerso” nella poesia di Dante.
Slide 4
Naturalmente, Dante era un’ispirazione significativa per T.S. Eliot. Fa frequenti allusioni a Dante nella sua poesia. La poesia “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” o “La canzone d'amore di J. Alfred Prufrock” è famosa perché si apre con un'epigrafe dell'Inferno di Dante. Questa epigrafe originariamente doveva essere sulla sua poesia The Wasteland, ma ha finito per usarla qui.
Lo leggerò:
S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma percioche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s’i’odo il vero,
Senza tema d’infamia ti rispondo.
Mi piace molto questo passaggio.
Slide 5
In origine si tratta di una citazione detta da Guido da Montefeltro quando Dante lo incontra nell'ottavo cerchio dell'inferno, che è il cerchio della frode, nel canto ventisette. Guido è in questo cerchio perché ha dato consigli a papa Bonifacio per ottenere il potere. Bonifacio ha promesso a Guido che avrebbe assolto i suoi peccati, ma non aveva il potere di farlo.
Slide 6
In questa poesia, l'epigrafe ha uno scopo profondamente tematico. La poesia stessa è spesso intesa come la coscienza di un uomo, di nome J. Alfred Prufrock, che cerca di trovare il coraggio di confessare a una donna per cui prova dei sentimenti. Ho appena scritto un articolo per una classe diversa sul motivo per cui penso che questa sia un'interpretazione superficiale, ma c'è un vero senso di paura ed esitazione in tutta la poesia. Qui si interroga: “Do I dare?” "Oserei?" "Oserei disturbare l'universo?"
Slide 7
L'epigrafe dantesca è perfetta per questo tema. Guido esprime paura ed esitazione a confessarsi a Dante. Quindi, letta con la poesia, è come se il lettore fosse Dante e Prufrock, l'oratore, esitasse a confessarlo al lettore. Ma Prufrock riesce a farlo “senza tema d’infamia” perché crede che non siamo in grado di comunicare con il suo mondo. Comprendere il contesto dell'epigrafe mostra un nuovo livello di vulnerabilità in questa poesia e un senso di intimità tra chi parla e chi legge.
L’epigrafe riflette anche storicamente la disillusione di Dante nei confronti della chiesa cattolica. Ciò è rilevante perché la disillusione di Eliot nei confronti del mondo moderno è un tema significativo nel suo lavoro.
Slide 8
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock è una delle mie poesie preferite di T.S. Eliot, e penso che abbia molta più profondità quando si comprende il contesto dell'epigrafe. Non so se il mio mondo è diviso solo tra Shakespeare e Dante, ma è molto chiaro che T.S. La scrittura di Eliot deve molto a Dante.

I've never really made secret of how much I dislike the official deity stats. After tweaking the deity rules to my liking and taking into account all of 3.5's released supplements, here's the first of of hopefully many new and old deities updated to 3.5e, taking heavy inspiration from Faiths and Avatars and Powers and Pantheons.
MASK
The Shadowlord, Master of all Thieves, Lord of Shadows
Lesser Power of the Gray Waste (formerly Intermediate, then Demipower)
Symbol A black velvet mask, tinged with red
Realm Shadow Keep (Hades/Niflheim)
Alignment Neutral Evil
Aliases Ondoum, Vaeldraeos
Superior none
Allies Bane, Bhaal (dead), Leira (dead), Ibrandul (dead), Vergadain, Vhaeraun
Foes Cyric, Deneir, Erevan Ilsere, Gorm Gulthyn, Helm, Kezef, Oghma, Selune, Torm, Tyr
Servants Avner of Hartsale (Seraph); Drasek Riven, Erevis Cale (Chosen)
Servitor Creatures annis hags, cats (normal and fiendish in iron-gray or black colors), condors (normal and fiendish), crows (normal and fiendish), dopplegangers, dogs (normal in fiendish in gray colors), ettercaps, gloomwing moths, goats (normal and fiendish in gray colors), horses (normal and fiendish in smoke-gray colors), kenku, lycanthropes (werefoxes, wererats, werewolves), ravens (normal and fiendish), shadow creatures (as the template), shadow dragons, tenebrous worms
Manifestations a drifting, amorphous darkness that may or may not have or grow a cowled human head; whispery, soft, chuckling laughter; an utterly black, nailless human hand that can carry or wield items, point, emit dust and write in it, or grasp and strangle
Signs of Favor a shadow where there should be none; the appearance of vapor flowers, smoky quartz, gray chalcedony, gray and banded onyxes or rogue stones
Worshipers Thieves, rogues, bandits, criminals, shadowdancers, perfect wights, spellthieves, scoundrels, courtiers, diplomats, assassins, beggars, shades, shadow creatures
Cleric Alignments LE, NE, CE
Specialty Priests Demarch
Holy Days none
Important Ceremonies Ritual of the Unseen Presence
Portfolio thieves, thievery, shadows (formerly intrigue)
Domains Celerity, Darkness, Evil, Luck, Planning, Shadow, Trickery
Favored Weapon Stealthwhisper (longsword)

MASK
Male Rogue 20, Perfect Wight 15, Shadowdancer 20, Thief-Acrobat 5
NE Medium Outsider (Extraplanar, Evil)
Divine Rank 10
Init +33 (+25 Dex, +8 Superior Initiative), always goes first; Senses 10 mile-radius (darkvision, sees perfectly in all darkness); Listen +88, Spot +88; remote sensing (5 locations), portfolio sense
Aura divine (DC 68); Languages can communicate with any living creature; Dark Speech
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AC 97, combat 115, traps 117, touch 64, flat-footed 97 (+1 insight, +3 Dodge, +10 armor, +15 deflection, +25 Dexterity, +10 divine, +23 natural); Combat Expertise, Mobility; improved uncanny dodge; miss chance 60%
hp 1,350 (45d6 + 15d8 plus 960); defensive roll, divine shield (100 hp) 18/day; DR 30/epic, good and silver
Immune ability damage, ability drain, acid, antimagic, banishment, cold, death effects, disease, disintegration, energy drain, imprisonment, mind-affecting effects, paralysis, poison, sleep, stunning, transmutation, and turning
Resist electricity 30, fire 30; SR 72
Fort +52 Ref +67 (+ 85 in combat, +87 traps) Will +51; Dexterous Fortitude, Dexterous Will; improved evasion, slippery mind
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Speed 75 ft. (15 squares)
Melee stealthwhisper +97/+92/+87/+82 (1d8 +33 [+35 on 1^st round combat and surprise rounds]/18-20/x2 plus 43d6 + 60 sneak attack);
Melee touch +57 or
Ranged touch +70
Base Atk +35; Grp +48
Atk Options Acrobatic Backstab, Bounding Assault, Combat Cloak Expert, Combat Expertise, Deft Strike, Flick of the Wrist, Improved Combat Reflexes, Shadow Striker, Spectral Skirmisher, Spring Attack; opportunist, sneak attack +43d6 plus 60 plus crippling strike (Disemboweling Strike, Hamstring, Maiming Strike, Persistent Attacker, Staggering Strike)
Special Actions alter reality, divine blast (28d12) 21/day, improved legerdemain 3/day, hide in plain sight, shadow form 3/day (15 min), shadow jump (5,120 ft), shadow illusion 1/day, summon shadow (6 with 13 HD each), Shrouded Dance, Spot the Weak Point
Combat Gear stealthwhisper
Divine Spell-like Abilities (CL 60^th)
At will – aid, armor of darkness, augury, blacklight (DC 41), blasphemy (DC 46), blindness/deafness (DC 40), blur, break enchantment, cat’s grace, clairaudience/clairvoyance, confusion (DC 42), create undead, darkness, deathwatch, deeper darkness, desecrate, detect scrying, dispel good, discern location, disguise self, entropic shield, expeditious retreat, freedom of movement, greater blink, greater scrying (DC 45), greater shadow conjuration (DC 45), greater shadow evocation (DC 46), greater teleport, false vision, haste, heroes’ feast, invisibility, magic circle against good, mass cat’s grace, mislead (DC 44), moment of prescience, miracle (DC 47), nondetection, obscuring mist, planeshift, polymorph any object, power word: blind, power word: kill, protection from good, protection from energy, prying eyes, screen (DC 45), shades (DC 47), shadow conjuration (DC 42), shadow evocation (DC 43), shadow walk (DC 44), spell turning, status, summon monster V (1d3 shadows), summon monster IX (evil only), time stop, tree stride, unholy aura, unholy blight (DC 42), wind walk
Perfect Wight Spell-like Abilities (CL 20^th)
3/day – greater invisibility
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Abilities Str 36, Dex 60, Con 42, Int 48, Wis 40, Cha 46
SQ avatar, divinity, fast acrobatics, immortality, kip up, slow fall (30 ft), steady stance +5, trap sense +20, trapfinding
Feats Acrobatic Strike, Blind-Fight (B), Bounding Assault, Combat Cloak Expert, Combat Expertise, Combat Reflexes, Cunning Evasion, Craven (60 damage), Dark Speech (B), Darkstalker, Deflect Arrows, Deft Opportunist, Deft Strike, Disemboweling Strike, Dodge, Flick of the Wrist, Hamstring, Improved Initiative, Improved Diversion, Improved Unarmed Strike, Maiming Strike, Mobility, Persistent Attacker, Quick Draw, Rapid Blitz, Savvy Rogue, Shadow Striker, Spectral Skirmisher, Spring Attack, Staggering Strike, Telling Blow, Weapon Finesse, Weapon Focus (longsword)
Epic Feats Battle Dance, Dexterous Fortitude (B), Dexterous Will (B), Epic Dodge, Improved Combat Reflexes, Improved Sneak Attack (x2), Infinite Deflection, Legendary Climber, Legendary Leaper, Lingering Damage, Reflect Arrows, Self-Concealment, Sneak Attack of Opportunity, Superior Initiative
Salient Divine Abilities Alter Form, Battlesense, Divine Celerity (10 minutes), Divine Dodge (60% miss chance), Divine Glibness, Divine Rogue, Divine Sneak Attack, Free Move, Instant Move, Lord of Shadows (unique salient divine ability), Master of all Thieves (unique salient divine ability), Power of Luck (+/- 10), Supreme Initiative, Uncanny Presence (unique salient divine ability)
Skills Appraise +69, Balance +104 (+109 taking damage), Bluff +91 (+95 diversion to hide), Climb +86 (+91 taking damage, +92 climbing ropes), Decipher Script +92, Diplomacy +96, Disable Device +92, Disguise +91 (+97 while being observed), Escape Artist +98 (+104 with ropes), Forgery +92, Gather Information +95, Hide +98, Intimidate +51, Jump +92, Knowledge (arcana) +49, Knowledge (local) +69, Knowledge (nobility and royalty) +49, Knowledge (the planes) +49, Listen +88, Move Silently +98, Open Lock +98, Perform (dance) +91, Search +92, Sense Motive +65, Sleight of Hand +104, Spellcraft +55, Spot +88, Swim +46, Tumble +104, Use Magic Device +91 (+101 with scrolls), Use Rope +98 (+104 with bindings); skill mastery (Balance, Bluff, Climb, Decipher Script, Disable Device, Disguise, Escape Artist, Forgery, Gather Information, Hide, Jump, Listen, Move Silently, Open Lock, Perform, Search, Sense Motive, Sleight of Hand, Spot, Tumble, Use Magic Device, Use Rope)
Skill Tricks Acrobatic Backstab, Easy Escape, Escape Attack, Extreme Leap, Hidden Blade, Leaping Climber, Listen to This, Opening Tap, Shrouded Dance, Spot the Weak Point, Walk the Walls, Wall Jumper
Possessions +7 studded leather armor of freedom and quickness, cloak of shadows, stealthwhisper

Agile Fighting (Ex) Mask is a devilishly difficult target. He has a +2 dodge bonus to Armor Class. When fighting defensively or using total defense, this bonus becomes +3. In addition, he takes no penalty to his Armor Class or on melee attack rolls when kneeling, sitting, or prone. This ability works only if Mask wears light or no armor and carries no more than a light load.
Divinity Mask is an embodiment of ancient divine power. As such, reality is his to shape as he sees fit.
Alter Reality: Mask may alter reality within the bounds of his portfolio. This functions as a wish spell that requires no XP or material cost. The limits of this ability are fully described in Deities and Demigods. He can additionally alter his size from Fine to Colossal and may additionally alter up to 100 pounds of objects in the same manner.
Avatar: Mask can have up to five avatars at any given time. Mask’s avatar typically appears as a sardonic, slightly built human male clad in soft gray leather armor, wearing a black mask tinged with red and a black cloak, although he may also appear as a soft-spoken human female with glowing pale skin, white starry lights for eyes, and floor-length, dark hair who walks barefoot and is always shrouded in shadowlike gloom. In public, Mask’s form is ever-changing: human, halfling, or dwarf; male or female; and of all ages, builds, and strengths. Whatever his form, Mask’s tread and movements make no sound and leave no trail.
Divine Blast: Mask can create a ray of divine power that extends for up to ten miles, dealing up to 28d12 points of damage, as a ranged touch attack with no saving throw. Mask can unleash a divine blast 21 times per day, and alter the visual, auditory and sensation-based qualities of his divine blast as he desires. Mask’s divine blasts generally take the form of faintly red-tinged rays of silent shadow.
Divine Shield: As a free action 18 times per day, Mask can create a shield that lasts 10 minutes and stops 100 points of damage from attacks. Once the shield stops that much damage, it collapses. Any damage Mask is naturally immune to does not count towards the shield’s limits.
Fast Acrobatics (Ex) Mask can avoid the normal penalties for accelerated movement while using his acrobatic talents. He ignores the normal —5 penalty when making a Balance check while moving at his full normal speed. He can climb at half his speed as a move action without taking a —5 penalty on his Climb check. Finally, he can tumble at his full speed without taking the normal —10 penalty on his Tumble check.
Kip Up (Ex) Mask can stand up from a prone position as a free action that doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity. This ability works only if he wears light or no armor and carries no more than a light load.
Lord of Shadows (unique salient divine ability) Such is Mask’s mastery over shadow that it is considered an extension of his own being. Mask can see perfectly in all forms of magical and non-magical darkness. Any creature that casts a shadow within the range of his divine aura (500 ft) is treated as flanked and flat-footed, and Mask can attack through any such shadow as though in melee range.
In addition, once every round Mask can spontaneously cast any mystery, any spell with the [darkness] descriptor or from the shadow subschool (with an additional +50% effectiveness), or from the school of illusion except for spells with the [light] descriptor, at caster level 60^th (70^th vs SR) with a DC of 48 + spell level.
Master of all Thieves (unique salient divine ability) Mask is thievery incarnate, the epitome of which every thief, rogue and trickster in Toril consciously or unconsciously desires to emulate. This mastery manifests in the following methods:
First, Mask is always aware of the value of every individual piece of equipment carried by everyone within 1 mile of him, or within 10 miles in any condition other than full daylight. He is aware of their most expensive items and their most beloved keepsakes. By succeeding at a Sleight of Hand check against his victim’s Sense Motive check, he can then attempt to steal any one item of his choice within the same area, or he can choose to afflict the item with soul’s treasure lost at caster level 60^th if feeling particularly vindictive.
In addition, Mask can steal metaphysical concepts in addition to physical valuables. When dealing sneak attack damage, he can forgo 1d6 damage per two spell levels of sneak attack dice to instead steal the highest-level spell, maneuver, psionic power or spell-like ability the victim knows and retains the spell for up to 10 hours later. Mask can cast the effect himself within that limit, using the original caster’s saving throw DC and caster level. He can also instead choose to steal an ongoing beneficial spell effect from a creature and enjoy its benefits for its full duration. Furthermore, Mask can steal knowledge of a feat and gain its benefits for 10 hours, although the creature retains the feat.
The touch of Mask’s bare hand against any non-magical lock or chain erodes it into dust. Magical locks must succeed at a caster level check against Mask’s touch (CL 70^th) or suffer the same fate.
Finally, as the deific incarnation of thievery, Mask’s skills exceed normal thieves; he uses the sum of his levels to determine his effective rogue level for the purpose of his rogue class ability progression and bonus feats. He can inflict sneak attacks on creatures normally immune to such effects.
Steady Stance (Ex) Mask remains stable on his feet when others have difficulty standing. He is not considered flat-footed while balancing or climbing, and he adds his thief-acrobat level as a bonus on Balance or Climb checks to remain balancing or climbing when he takes damage.
Uncanny Presence (unique salient divine ability) Mask’s dexterity and grace are nearly unchallenged. He has Dexterous Fortitude and Dexterous Will as bonus feats, and if he is subjected to a spell that has a partial or half effect on a successful save, he suffers no adverse effect if he successfully saves. Mask is additionally immune to all divination effects unless he wishes to be affected, unless an epic spell using the Reveal seed is used and manages to penetrate his spell resistance, which alerts him to the caster and their location immediately.
Mask’s presence also distorts creatures’ perception of reality. His divine aura also suppresses all forms of immunity to illusionary effects within its radius, although creatures naturally immune to illusions instead gain a +4 bonus to their saving throws against such effects.
Possessions
Mask carries Stealthwhisper, a +8 eager keen speed longsword of shadowstrike. Stealthwhisper’s blade is pitch-black, never reflects light, cannot rust or corrode, and makes no sound when swung. The blade is so perfectly balanced that it is considered a light weapon, allows its wielder to use his Dexterity modifier for damage rolls and adds its enhancement bonus to the damage dice of its wielder’s sneak attacks. Mask can resize the weapon to the shape of a short sword, greatsword, dagger or bastard sword when he desires. (CL 60^th)
Mask also sometimes wears the cloak of shadows, a black velvet cloak that allows him to become completely invisible as per superior invisibility that cannot be broken except via epic spells utilizing the Reveal epic spell seed that successfully penetrate Mask’s spell resistance. It also allows him to fly at his land speed with perfect maneuverability and shapechange at will, and he has been known to loan out his cloak to particularly worthy worshipers. (CL 60^th)
The Shadowlord also wears +7 studded leather armor of freedom and quickness with no armor check penalty, Dexterity penalty or spell failure chance.

Other Divine Powers As a lesser deity, Mask may take 10 on any check. Mask treats a 1 on an attack roll or saving throw normally and not as an automatic failure. He is immortal. Senses Mask can see (using normal vision or darkvision), hear, touch, and smell at a distance of ten miles. As a standard action, he can perceive anything within ten miles of his worshippers, holy sites, objects, or any location where one of his titles or name was spoken in the last hour. He can extend his senses to up to five locations at once. He can block the sensing power of deities of his rank or lower at up to two remote locations at once for ten hours. Portfolio Sense Mask senses any theft or criminal act, as long as the event in question affects at least five hundred people. He is similarly aware of clandestine goings-on that take place in shadows if the event is of similar scope. Automatic Actions Mask can use any action relating to thievery and shadows as a free action regardless of the prerequisites, as long as the DC for the task is 20 or lower. Mask cannot do anything as a free action if the task would be a move action or part of a move action. He can perform up to five such free actions each round. Create Magic Items Mask can create any kind of magic item that facilitates deception or theft, as well as any magic item tied to the shadows, as long as the item's market price does not exceed 30,000 gp.

Someone or some thing scripts this stuff, and it is not the conscious mind. Moreover, it is often exquisitely tailored to the individual, culturally insightful, luxurious in detail, and ethical.
It probably seems unreasonable to some people, perhaps even some experiencers, when I say that the NDE may not be “true” in a conventional sense. I am perhaps a little unusual among NDE agnostics in that I’m on record as saying that the nonlocality in the experience is probably real. Yes, we don’t have formal proof of it, but there are so many similar stories that after a while it begins to become anti-human to deny these. You are then not really healthily skeptical but a true debunker, even an outright cynic. This isn’t a matter of interpretation either. You either heard the doctor’s secret conversation with the family fifty yards away down a long corridor or you didn’t. There’s not much scope for a middle ground there.
But it’s exactly because I believe that nonlocality in the NDE may be real that my concern about the authorship of the NDE deepens. This nonlocal information drop is very powerful in giving the NDE its “truth-seeming-ness”. I mean, if Auntie Mildred (deceased) tells you that you had a secret sister called Annie who died at birth, but your mom never told you about her, so you go and research or press your mom and … lo and behold. So, Auntie Mildred MUST be real, right?
Here's the issue: if nonlocality is real, the author of the NDE may be a department of the human psyche that is expert at spoofing personae and can put convincing facts drawn from its nonlocal apititudes into the mouth of that avatar.
Yeah, sure, right?
But: it’s happened before. In fact, we have an awful short memory, and this has ALL in a sense happened before. More than a hundred years ago every drawing room and parlour in America and Europe was holding a séance and table turning, and wow, those “spirits” were sure not shy about talking, were they?
That is: UNTIL you asked them anything that we don’t already know (by way of knowledge, not just nonlocal factoid), and it’s the same with Auntie Mildred (deceased), which really does tighten the suspicion.
The cultural differences in NDEs should have been seen as a warning sign. Remember those “mistaken identity” cases from India? What’s particularly disturbing about those is that the “author” is fibbing there. It may be a white lie, it may be for the overall psychological good of the person, but it’s a fib nonetheless, or in less polite language, a lie. And if the author can lie about this one thing, in one place or culture, then it could be lying about many things, in many cultures.
Broadly speaking, I’m now at a point where this conjecture that the true author of the NDE is not really a straightforward “spirit world” would need to actually be disproved before I could be convinced. I see too many signs and have too many (legitimate) suspicions.
The top suspects are not anything malign. Rather they are secret departments of the psyche. This might be the individual unconscious, or (perhaps more likely) some shared social unconscious that can gather and manipulate cultural themes to its end.
My minimal hypothesis is this. The unconscious has sensed a severe existential crisis in the human condition. The NDE is a way of trying to alleviate this crisis or at least reduce it. To do this it makes currency of mythic themes to do with an afterlife, for which there are rich roots in almost all cultural histories (I mean, why create something new when you have all that material to work with?) Its main purpose is psychological welfare of the living species. In other words, to reduce the fear of death, whether or not we should ACTUALLY be trepidant about death. It’s main purpose is NOT literal truth. And to that end, NDEs may actually have little if anything to do with a life after death at all.
I realise that this is a challenging idea, as well as a not particularly welcome one, and certainly I could be wrong. It’s just that the arguments I have heard for why it may be wrong aren’t logically very good arguments. Now I am not saying that this psycho-social healing function is ALL there is to the NDE. Just the discovery of nonlocality, and its implications, is itself enormous, an enormous subject for future exploration, even without any other consideration. But I do think that the experience has “weaponized” this nonlocality to make it seem as if the NDE has greater literal truth than it really does.
You can put a more positive spin on this, as Jeff Kripal does. The afterlife becomes something we are sort of co-creating with this department of the psyche, at least as a mythic structure. But that has many questions: to what extent can a mythic structure cross over to become an actual sustained (lived) experience? There has to be a “physics” of nonlocality, and it’s a moot point right now whether we could even live there as individual beings.
But perhaps.

cinema 4 gaza auction has ended and i thought it'd be nice to have a list of the industry people who participated
 
participants

• actone (theatre)
• adele romanski
• adjani salmon
• aimee lou wood
• aisha bywaters
• aisling bea
• aiysha hart
• aleksandra bilic
• ali selim
• alice lowe
• alison oliver
• amal al-agroobi
• amir el-masry
• amon warmann
• anders danielsen lie
• andrea riseborough
• andrew haigh
• aneil karia
• anna bogutskaya
• anna smith
• annemarie jacir
• annie lennox
• anjana vasan
• art mailk
• ashley clark
• asif kapadia
• asim chaudhry
• arthur darvill
• augustus prew
• ayo edebiri
• barry levitt
• ben sharrock
• bendik kaltenborn
• benedict wong
• bertie/katie ellwood
• beth webb
• bilal hasna
• bisha k. ali
• bonnie wright
• brian cox
• caitlin durante
• camilla blackett
• cara theobold
• caspar salmon
• cavan clerkin
• charlie brooker
• charlie shakleton
• charlotte hamblin
• charlotte regan
• charlotte wells
• cherian dabis
• christina newland
• christos nikou
• colin firth
• daniel pemberton
• danny morgan
• david hughes
• david osit
• des hamilton
• dolly wells
• douglas greenwood
• eliza hittman
• ella kemp
• ella jones
• ellen e. jones
• emma corrin
• emma duffy
• emma seligman
• eskil vogt
• eva riley
• frankie boyle
• garden cinema (theatre)
• george mackay
• giles terera
• glamrou/amrou al-kadhi
• grace barber-plentie
• guillermo del toro
• gurinder chadha
• guz khan
• hanna flint
• hannah strong
• harris dickinson
• harry macqueen
• harry mcentire
• helen o'hara
• helen simmons
• henry james garrett
• herbert nordrum
• hope dickson leach
• imelda staunton
• isra al kassi
• jack reynor
• jack wolfe
• jake cunningham
• jamael westman
• james northcote
• james wilson
• jamie loftus
• jeanie finlay
• jenna coleman
• jeremy corbyn
• jeremy o. harris
• jim carter
• jim wilson
• joachim trier
• joaquin phoenix
• joanna hogg
• joanna natasegara
• joe alwyn
• joe barton
• john oliver lyttelton
• jolyon rubinstein
• jon ronson
• jonathan glazer
• joseph quinn
• josh o'connor
• jourdain searles
• joy gharoro-akpojotor
• juliet stevenson
• juliette larthe
• julio torres
• kambole campbell
• kayvan novak
• ken loach
• kaleem aftab
• karen gillan
• khalid abdalla
• kiell smith-bynoe
• kirstie swain
• kit connor
• kristian petersen
• kyle turner
• lana wilson
• laura scrivano
• lauren dark
• leila latif
• lenny abrahamson
• lillian crawford
• lina soualem
• louis theroux
• lucy prebble
• lukas dhont
• luke rollason
• luna carmoon
• lynne ramsey
• madhi fleifel
• mairead tyrs
• maisie williams
• mat whitecross
• maxine peak
• melanie iredale
• melissa barrera
• mica levi
• michael leader
• mike leigh
• mikko makela
• millie brady
• miryam charles
• misan harriman
• molly manning walker
• morfyyd clark
• morgan lloyd malcom
• morgan spector
• mubi
• muslim international film festival
• nadira amrani
• najwa najjar
• naqqash khalid
• new wave films
• ng choon ping
• nia dacosta
• nicola caoughlan
• nicole ansari-cox
• nish kumar
• obioma ugoala
• olivia colman
• olly alexander
• omari douglas
• paapa essiedu
• paul dano
• paul mescal
• pearl mackie
• peter albrechtsen
• peter capaldi
• peter strickland
• phia saban
• prano bailey-bond
• rafa sales ross
• rajesh thind
• ramy roussef
• raven jackson
• rebecca hall
• renate reinse
• riz ahmed
• rosa robson
• rose matafeo
• rose williams
• runyararo mapfumo
• saima ferdows
• sally el-hosaini
• sam freeman
• sebastián silva
• shaheen baig
• shane meadows
• sheeba chadha
• sofia oxenham
• sophie monks kaufman
• spike lee
• stanley tucci
• stefanie martini
• stella corradi
• stellan skarsgård
• steph watts
• susan surandon
• susan wokoma
• suranne jones
• tavi gevinson
• tessa thompson
• tilda swinton
• timothy spall
• toby regbo
• tony kaye
• travon free
• yann demange
• yasmine kandil
• zawe ashton
• zeina durra
• zoe kazan

 
highest bid items

• £21,050 - annie lennox handwritten lyrics to "sweet dreams"
• £11,111 - tea with joseph quinn (zoom)
• £11,000 - signed the zone of interest and under the skin posters by jonathan glazer, mica levi, and james wilson
• £9,000 - olly alexander serenades you (zoom)
• £6,286 - get your portrait taken by misan harriman
• £5,555 - louis theroux (zoom)
• £5,310 - rugby ball signed by kit connor
• £5,050 - melissa barrera (zoom)
• £5,002 - signed vinyl of across the spider-verse and personalized score page from composer daniel pemberton
• £4,725 - discuss your favorite susan surandon movie with susan surandon (zoom probably?)
• £4,475 - close script signed by lukas dhont
• £4,175 - have a beer with tessa thompson (zoom)
• £3,600 - ayo edebiri's map of fave restaurants and rave about them (zoom)
• £3,500 - signed doctor who script with cover artwork by peter capaldi
• £3,100 - ticket to ramy youssef's live show, afterparty, and meet & greet
• £2,800 - malcom x poster signed by spike lee
• £2,500 - the worst person in the world poster signed by joachin trier and cast
• £3,000 - arthur darvill and karen gillan (zoom)
• £2,050 - doctor who clapboard signed by jenna coleman and peter capaldi
• £2,825 - house seats to long day's journey into the night, signed program, and meet & greet with brian cox
• £2,625 - under the skin screenplay signed by jonathan glazer, mica levi, and james wilson
• £2,250 - joker poster signed by joaquin phoenix
• £2,050 - signed romancing mr bridgerton book with personalized inscription by nicola couhglan
• £2,050 - be jeremy o. harris's date to the london premiere of slave play, afterparty, and signed copy of script
• £2,025 - tilda swinton reads you or your kids a bedtime story (zoom)
• £2,000 - abigail's party poster signed by mike leigh

Basically there's a charity auction hosted by Givergy (by the time it closes it will have been open 2 weeks) and one of the cast of my fav TV show donated a signed script. I have tickets to various events to meet a few more of the cast (an annual charity football match - last yr 3 of the cast were there alongside other celebs - a live 'in conversation with' hosted by one of the cast, and possibly a talk by 2 of the cast about the tie in book of the show. I know the exec producer of one of them, so I can get the final couple signatures too - they're a comedy troupe) so my plan is to win the auction and get the rest of the cast to sign it at various events.
When I came across it on the 2nd (possibly when it opened?) the bid was £400, and it stayed like that til yesterday when it went up to £410 (next min bid £420)
My absolute max would be £450. I don't think they do proxy bids so am happy to just bid my max.
But how close do I go to the end of the auction? I know at least like 30 mins, but any closer? 5 minutes? 1 minute? Scared if I bid too close it might not go through, and I'm not sure if Givergy allow sniping (prob not bc there's a minimum bid; for example, a set of Annie Lennox's handwritten lyrics to Sweet Dreams are currently at £16,000 and the next min bid is £16,025)
The auction closes tonight in 7h 40mins and tho I've used eBay before I've never bidded on anything high value so advice would be appreciated.

This is largely a useless post, but I thought I would share it just for fun, and to invite you into my frustration. I just woke up about a half hour ago and I remember that I had a dream about the background of Annie’s father and brother. And I remember thinking in my dream “oh wow, so that’s what happened!” But I can’t remember the dream! I know if I could, I could probably write a script! 😂🙄

HIDIVE REVEALS THE ENGLISH DUB CAST FOR THE MOST HERETICAL LAST BOSS QUEEN ANIME
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE MOST HERETICAL LAST BOSS QUEEN ENGLISH DUB
Synopsis: It’s one thing to get reincarnated as a righteous hero. It’s another thing entirely to get reincarnated as a villain! Our protagonist was just reincarnated into the body of Princess Pride Royal Ivy, the last boss and ultimate villain of her favorite otome game. But evil just isn’t her style, so she’ll use Pride’s powerful abilities to sow peace and love instead of discord! Can she change the fate of this vile villainess, or is her role in the story already rotten to the core?
Number of Episodes: 12
Release Schedule: Weekly
English Dub Trailer: https://youtu.be/W-SVV-HNsR4
English Crew
ADR Director - John Swasey
ADR Script - Kalin Black
Audio Mix - Brent Marshall
Audio Engineer - Patrick Marreo
English Cast
Pride - Karlii Hoch
Stale - James Marler
Tiara - Brittney Karbowski
Arthur - Adam Gibbs
Gilbert - Jay Hickman
Val - Jeremy Gee
Albert - Brandon Hearnsberger
Callum - Courtland Johnson
Carl - John Gremillion
Clark - Joe Daniels
Eric - Blake Weir
Hannes - Josh Swasey
Jaques - Nathan Wilson
Lotte - Annie Wild
Marie - Elissa Cuellar
Rodrick - Luis Gallindo
Rosa - Shelley Calene-Black
Stale’s Mom - Olivia Swasey
Additional Voices
Adam Noble
Alyssa Maerk
Annie Wild
Brandon Hearnsberger
Courtland Johnson
Elissa Cuellar
Heath Morrow
Jeremy Gee
John Gremillion
John Hallmark
Josh Swasey
Mark X Laskowski
Nathan Wilson
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Original Creators: Tenichi (Story) / Suzunosuke (Art)
Originating Work: Light Novel
Demographic: Josei
Rating: TV-14
Genres: Fantasy, Isekai
HERE’S THE EXACT DATE AND TIME YOU CAN WATCH THE THE MOST HERETICAL LAST BOSS QUEEN ENGLISH DUB ON HIDIVE!
Premiere Date: Wednesday April 10, 2024
Premiere Time: 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)
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Want to watch The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen dub early and happen to be in Boston at the end of March? You’re in luck: we’re hosting the North American premiere of at Anime Boston, so keep the following details in mind!
Date: Saturday, March 30, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM EDT
Location: Hynes Convention Center Meeting Room 210

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- Dirty Scanner
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Creative Colour Presets:
- BEACH BRONZE
- CLASSIC COLLECTION
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Alen Palander Presets:
- New York Pack
- Spring Pack
- Summer Pack
- Fall Pack
- Winter Pack
- Seasonal Preset Bundle
- Ultimate Preset Bundle
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HVNTER:
- Chrome Template 01
- Chrome Template 02
- Chrome Template 03
- Chrome Template 04
- Chrome Template 05
- Chrome Template 06
- Chrome Template 07
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- Y2K ICON PACK
- Gradient Maps
- Gradient Maps 2
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CELSIUS MARKET:
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- BLUR MACHINE
- GRAPHIC ELEMENTS PACK 01
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Dvlop Presets:
- FOR THE LOVE OF FILM - KODAK by JOSE VILLA
- For the Love of Film - Fuji by Jose Villa
- EMOTIVE by THE KITCHENERS
- SUNLIGHT by CHRIS BURKARD
- ROAM by GABE MCCLINTOCK
- HARIBO by VÍCTOR LAX
- FOR THE LOVE OF FILM - ILFORD by JOSE VILLA
- PPASSAGES by DAVINA + DANIEL
- BASESETS WORKSHOP + PRESETS by SHORTSTACHE
- INDIA EARL ACTIONS by INDIA EARL
- HONEY by INDIA EARL
- TWILIGHT by CHRIS BURKARD
- WE ROAM THE EARTH by GABE MCCLINTOCK
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- VISBONS by FER JUARISTI
- DESTINATION by JONAS PETERSON
- KODACHRONIES by NESSA KESSINGER
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- MYSTICAL POTIONS by TWO MANN STUDIOS
- TWEAKS AND LEAKS by DVLOP
- PARKERISMS by KRISTEN MARIE PARKER
- THE PASSPORT SERIES by CHRISMAN STUDIOS
- ZAUBERCHROMA by JIDE ALAKIJA
- SUNSET by CHRIS BURKARD
- AFFOB - DVLOP Photos Go To College
- India Earl - India Earl Actions
- SAM HURD - SIGNAL FLOW
- Nirav Patel - Lotus
- Shortstache - Past and Present
- Visual Flow - RETOUCHING TOOLKIT
- Visual Flow - THE MODERN PACK
- Visual Flow - The Pastel Pack
- India Earl - Honey Preset
- Subtle Art of the Sauce by Shortstache
- GAINSTAGE – Sam Hurd Preset
- Joao Guedes – Diaries Presets
- Eric Floberg – 606 Presets
- Two Mann Studios – Mixology
- The Kitcheners – Majestic Presets + Video Guide
- RGB by Shortstache
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Gpresets:
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- Salt Pack
- JANELLE ELISE PRESETS
- G-PRESETS PACK 02
- CAMPFIRE PRESETS
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- THE LIGHTNING PACK
- MOON PACK
- G-PRESETS PACK 04
- G-PRESETS PACK 03
- Annie Ruby Presets - G Presets Collab
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- Blake Hogge
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- Beba Vowels - Pack 02 - G-Presets Collab
- G-PRESETS PACK 05 MASTER
- PACK 01 Lightroom Presets
- BUNDLE PACK (Pack 01, Pack 02, Pack 03, Pack 04 and Pack 05)
- Grace Troutman - Golden Presets
- Olivia Markle Presets
- From the Daisies
- Pack 03 – Mark II
- Summer Grace Presets
- Dani Purington Presets
- Beba Vowels Pack 03
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Flyerwrk:
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- Anomaly Template
- Artistic Toolkit
- Epic Artist Promo
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- kolor
- Krotine
- phenomena
- plastik 3.0
- schrill
- Shapez
- tribes
- Vinyl Record (Mockup)
- Urban Poster Wall Mockups
- Milch
- Plastic & Torn Paper Bundle
- CD MOCKUP BUNDLE
- OFFSET PRINTER
- Chromatic Toolkit
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Blkmarket:
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- Edges
- Thrash machine
- Chroma Textures
- Holo Stickies
- Holographic mailer
- Plastic zip
- Posters
- Prism
- Ransom
- Rubber Mockup
- Scratch Dust pack
- Sealed PNGs
- Shiny
- Shrinkwrap Record Plastic Sleeve
- Sticker pack
- Tape
- Vintage record sleeve
- Vinyl Record plastic sleeve
- Wow
- Editorial spread
- Record plastic
- angled cd case mockup
- bagged poster mockup
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- Bubblewrap
- Cd case
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- Grunge
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- Killer tape
- Plastic poster
- Skate
- Stickers
- Wringled plastic sleeve
- scratches
- Monitor
- Collage
- paper
- Vintage-tee
- Record-sleeve
- grunge brushes
- abstract x patterns
- hardcover
- gas
- chrome bag
- Sticker Vol.2
- tiedye
- streets
- zipped-bag
- scraps
- foil-shrinkwrap-poster
- Inklab
- Stickers Vol. 2
- HOLO STICKIES
- COPYSCAN
- Bureau
- Exograde
- RETROGRADE
- PRINTMARKS
- Case Files
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BOLDERAJA1:
- Sticker Pack Mockup
- Gold Bag Mockup
- Contact Sheet film Roll mockup
- Horror Script Brush Font
- ZipLock Bag Mockup
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Photonify:
- Soft
- Model
- Bokeh
- Lomo
- Newborn
- HDR
- Pastel
- Landscape Vol 2
- Landscape Vol 1
- Monochrome
- Duotone
- Wedding
- Matte
- Food
- Cinematic
- Skin Glow
- City Nights
- Light Leaks
- Vintage Film
- Pastel Vol 2
- Portrait Vol 3
- Portrait Vol 2
- Portrait Vol 1
- Ultimate Bundle
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Forrest Mankins presets:
- FM 01
- FM 02
- FM 03
- FM Presets 3 Pack: 01, 02, + 03 Packs
- FM 04
- FM 05 Vintage
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Album Art Archive - AAA:
- 100 Halftone Overlays
- Fabrics
- Sprays
- SPECTRUMS
- STOREFRONT STICKERS
- Neon Dashboard
- Cyber Vectors
- Mandala Vectors
- Abstract Gradients
- Large Layer Styles
- Cheat Codes
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SPORTS TEMPLATE:
- BASKETBALL BALL PHOTOSHOP MOCKUP
- ICE HOCKEY UNIFORM MOCKUP TEMPLATE
- GOLF BALL MOCKUP
- SOCCER SHIRT BUILDER MOCKUP
- SOCCER BALL TEMPLATE
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GFX Database:
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- Social Media Templates V1
- X1 Neon Text Layer Style
- X1 Chrome Text Layer Style
- X5 Artwork Edges
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MiksKS:
- Crosshatching Procreate brushes
- VINTAGE ENGRAVING PROCREATE BRUSHES
- GLITCH PROCREATE BRUSHES
- Procreate grain brushes
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- Halftone Procreate Brushes
- Ink and paint Procreate brushes
- Procreate Ink brushes , set of 36
- Ink Splatter Procreate Brushes
- Ink splatter Procreate brushes v2
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- Procreate Inking brushes - set of 20
- Lens flares Procreate brushes
- Lights Procreate Brushes
- Set of 9 Neon Procreate brushes
- Procreate paint brushes
- Pattern Procreate brushes
- Pencil & charcoal Procreate brushes
- Sketching Procreate brushes
- SMUDGE PROCREATE BRUSHES
- Space Procreate brushes - Set of 24
- Stippling Procreate Brushes
- Watercolor Procreate Brushes
- Black Paper Textures
- Entropy Volume II Photoshop Glitch Effects
- Ink Brushes - Photoshop version
- Noir Glitch Textures and Shapes
Kindred:
- ESSENTIAL
- NOIR
- BLACK & WHITE
- FALL
- TECHNICAL
- Fuji 400 (Spring)
- The Mary Costa Collection
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Inartflow:
- Holographic Backgrounds
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Henry Tieu:
- HD Preset
- Preset Pack II
- HD Presets Pack III
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NOVOCAINE.PSD:
- Evangelion
- Ex Machina
- Mega-GTR
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Ingo Fonts:
- Biró Script Standard
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KAZUHIRO AIIHARA RMAW Fonts:
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- QIGONG Regular 1.0
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Fuller Moe:
- Mega Bundle (Vol.1)
- Selective Rap Color Pack
- 15 Vintage Textures
- 15 Vintage Textures (Vol. 2)
- Bootleg Bling Text Style Pack (Vol. 1)
- Bootleg Rap Text Styles Pack (Vol. 1)
- Future Chrome Text Style Pack (Vol. 1)
- Heavy Metal Text Style Pack (Vol. 1)
- Modern Bootleg Rap Text Styles Pack (Vol. 1)
- Vintage Heavyweight Hoodie
- Vintage T-Shirt Mockup
- Everything Bundle (Vol.1)
- CUSTOM BLEACHED T-SHIRT MOCKUP
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- Triple Threat Mockup Pack (Vol. 1)
- Master Bundle
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Design Syndrome:
- Distressed VHS Sleeve Mockup
- Holographic Sticker Generator
- Distressed Generator
- MiniDisc Mockup
- Translucent Plastic Bag
- Metallic Mailer Mockup Pack
- Plastic Wrap & CD Mockup
- Chrome Style Template Pack
- Ripped Paper Texture Mockup
- Yu-Gi Card Mockup
- Holographix Texture Generator
- Vinyl Centerpiece Mockup
- Metallic / Plastic Vacuum Packaging
- Design Syndrome - Game Boy Cartridge Mockup
- Design Syndrome - SD Card Mockup
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- julius kahkonen - The Complete Brush Bundle
- Mango Street Grid Collection
- FIXTHEPHOTO - HIGH END RETOUCHING ACTIONS
- Jorge Salazares - Gradient Thermal Camera
- PIXELBUDDHA - RISOGRAPH GRAIN EFFECT FOR PHOTOSHOP
- CRZJZU - Gradient Map Kit_001
- A. Samolevsky - Futuristic UI • 200 design elements
- Dude Clayy - Tokyo Angel (GFX Loopkit)
- Billelis - 3D Skull Model Pack Vol 1
- Imagenomic Portraiture for PS 3.5.4.3546 [TNT]
- Marie T — Grunge Artistic Toolkit
- Film Set Objects Kit
- Studio Yorktown - Honbako Book Design Template
- Dawn Charles - DC Lightroom Toolkit
- SPECTRUM IMAGE FX KIT by The Visual Tailor
- Exposure Software - Eye Candy 7
- RetroSupply - ColorLab for Photoshop
- Archipelago Quest
- PlayGround - Acid 1.0
- Pratik Naik - Infinite Color
- Wedding Photography Contract - The Lawtog
- Photography Print Release - The Lawtog
- Product Delivery Contract - The Lawtog
- Second Shooter Contract - The Lawtog
- Camera Bits Photo Mechanic 6.0 Build 5404 (x64)
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- Fred Pelle / fredpelle.tv - Rollback8 - PRO
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- Digital Anarchy - Flicker Free Plugin
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- Fred Pelle / fredpelle.tv - CRT-Sounds
- Lumenzia 9.2.0 (Win/macOS)
- LUTs Color Grading Pack
- Retouch4me Plugins (Heal 0.997 / Dodge Burn 0.998 / Eye Vessels 0.993 / Portrait Volumes 0.998 / Clean Backdrop 0.997 / Skin Tone 0.998) (Win)
- CreativeMarket - Film Frame Mockup Template Bundle
- Set.A.Light.3D.Studio.2.00.15
- Beauty Retouch Panel – Plugin for Photoshop [Win/Mac]
- Preset Power By PixImperfect
- Retouch Pro – Retouch Panel for Adobe Photoshop
- FCPX Color Finale Pro 2.2.8 [TNT]
- Infinite Color Panel Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop
- Retouch4me Eye Vessels 0.9.9.3
- Retouch4me Skin Tone 1.006
- The LawTog – Office Organization for Photographers
- Dehancer Film 2.3.0 for Photoshop & Lightroom
- Photolightpro – Photoshop Retouching Pack (without the masterclass)
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- Retouch4me Plugin Complete Bundle
- [Win+Mac] Tamara Williams – AI Retouch Panel
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HIDIVE REVEALS THE INITIAL ENGLISH DUB CAST FOR YURI HAREM ANIME THE VEXATIONS OF A SHUT-IN VAMPIRE PRINCESS
Are you just as excited for The Vexations of a Shut-in Vampire Princess (Hikikomari Kyuuketsuki no Monmon) English dub as we are? We hope so, because we’re dropping the English cast list so you can be prepared when the dub starts Monday, April 15, 2024 at 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC). Grab your snacks and sign up for HIDIVE because this is one vampire comedy you don’t want to miss!
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE VEXATIONS OF A SHUT-IN VAMPIRE PRINCESS ENGLISH DUB
Synopsis: After three years as a shut-in, a vampire known as Komari awakens to find she's been appointed as a Commander in the Mulnite Imperial Army! Unfortunately, her new unit consists solely of belligerent ruffians who revolt at the slightest hint of weakness. Although Komari hails from a line of vampires as powerful as they are prestigious, her refusal to drink blood has made her the picture of mediocrity. Can she recluse blunder her way to success, or will she rue the day she left her room?
Number of Episodes: 12
Release Schedule: Weekly
English Crew
ADR Director - John Swasey
ADR Script - Kalin Black
Audio Mix - Brent Marshall
Audio Engineer - Patrick Marreo
English Cast
Komari - Brittney Karbowski
Villhaze - Donna Bella Litton
Armand - Brandon Hearnsberger
Bellius - Andrew Love
Bucephalus - Cyrus Rodas
Caostel - Scott Gibbs
Karen - Kira Vincent Davis
Melca - Annie Wild
Mellaconcey - Greg Ayres
Millicent - Natalie Rial
Yohann - Jack Stansbury
Additional Voices
Andrew Love
Annie Wild
Brandon Hearnsberger
Courtland Johnson
Cyrus Rodas
John Gremillion
John Hallmark
Josh Swasey
Kyle Colby Jones
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Original Creator - Kotei Kobayashi (Story); Riichu (Art)
Originating Work - Light Novel
Rating - TV-14
Genres - Comedy, Fantasy, LGBTQ+
HERE’S THE EXACT DATE AND TIME YOU CAN WATCH THE VEXATIONS OF A SHUT-IN VAMPIRE PRINCESS ENGLISH DUB ON HIDIVE!
Premiere Date: Monday, April 15, 2024
Premiere Time: 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)
BE THE FIRST TO WATCH THE VEXATIONS OF A SHUT-IN VAMPIRE PRINCESS DUBBED AT ANIME BOSTON 2024!
Want to watch The Vexations of a Shut-in Vampire Princess dub early and happen to be in Boston at the end of March? You’re in luck: we’re hosting the North American premiere of episodes 1 and 2 at Anime Boston, so keep the following details in mind!
Date: Friday, March 29, 2024
Time: 10:00 PM EDT
Location: Hynes Convention Center, Meeting Room 210

So this is a list of cast albums I’ve listened to and how I feel about them, separated into 4 different categories. Let me also say that this is on the merits of the cast album alone, not the show itself. For example, I think the Beetlejuice score is terrible but the script is otherwordly, or I love the Hamilton score, but not a fan of the show itself. Also, unless specified otherwise, the cast album will be the Original Cast Album or the most recent revival/production.
Loved: Hadestown, Great Comet, Parade (Donmar), Floyd Collins, Sweeney Todd, Spring Awakening, Cabaret (1998), Octet, Preludes, Falsettos, 36 Questions, Into The Woods, Ghost Quartet (McKittrick), Myths and Hymns
Liked: Hamilton, Ragtime, Bonnie and Clyde, Chicago, Fun Home, Pippin, Alice By Heart, Come From Away, Jesus Christ Superstar (50th Anniversary Remastered), Les Misérables (10th Anniversary), Company, The Last 5 Years, Rocky Horror Picture Show, A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder, Lizzie
Neutral: Phantom Of The Opera, Six, Heathers (Off-Broadway), Bridges Of Madison County, Sunday In The Park With George, Assassins, Next To Normal, Merrily We Roll Along, Hello Dolly, Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde, In The Heights, Gutenberg, Matilda, Man A La Mancha
Disliked: Dear Evan Hanson, Be More Chill, Mean Girls, Wicked, A Strange Loop, Sister Act, No No Nanette, Little Shop Of Horrors, Beetlejuice, Bye Bye Birdie, Shucked, Kimberly Akimbo, Annie, Evil Dead, Avenue Q, The Sound Of Music, Guys And Dolls, Oliver
Feel free to post similar lists in the comments and I’ll try to give you my recommendations!

The other day this weird science fiction series 3 Body Problem dropped on Netflix that was deliciously delirious and endlessly entertaining. It's got super-advanced space tech, aliens whose form you anticipate till the very end, and a cast that would put an Oscar ensemble to shame.
Before you even go through this review I want to save you the time to tell you - you NEED to watch this Netflix series. It is deep, meaningful, and thought-provoking in a way that most content is not.
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The name of this show is based on a problem in classical mechanics. If three (astronomical) bodies that are similar are considered, it is impossible to predict their motion over some time. This might make you understand the problem that astronomers faced on Kalgash in Isaac Asimov's Nightfall with their Six Suns.

The Plot of 3 Body Problem

This is a great series with a lot of intriguing concepts that put things into perspective. I would say go into 3 Body Problem without any expectations, but it wouldn't make much of a difference. This isn't your average science fiction series. The concepts explored in this series are used wisely to tell a story that isn't predictable on most levels and aspects.
A Chinese scientist during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966) is killed in front of his daughter by a few rebels on a stage. This leads the troubled daughter Ye Winjie on a journey that has her joining Chinese researchers on a secret mission to contact aliens.
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She is picked up from a labor camp to work for the secret research facility that sets in motion events that change the fate of the world.
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Fast forward to the present day and renowned scientists are killing themselves for no apparent reason at all. Also, scientific experiments all over the world such as the super-collider at CERN start failing and showing absolutely absurd results. These events seem to have no connection with each other but as the episodes go on it all falls into place.
Read Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg's Nightfall Novel
Don't go by the disclaimers that tell you that you will have to Google a lot to enjoy this show - you don't. The details that you need to Google are not central to the plot which is great writing according to me. The story is the star here, not the actors which is my favorite kind of content.
The questions that this series goes on to answer in its episodes - why is science failing across the world? why are scientists killing themselves and are we alone in this universe?

Fictional Technology

The fictional technology that they cover in this series is really fascinating, as Spock would say. The concepts explored in 3 Body Problem come from a place of logic and reasoning even if it seems far-fetched which is the hallmark of great science fiction.
We have already seen from technological advancement that science fiction inspires scientific innovation, making this premise intriguing.
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My favorite fictional tech is of course the Sophon which is a computer that is embedded within a proton that is more powerful and advanced than all the computing power available on the Earth to date.
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A distant fourth would be the VR headset which is hyper-realistic and conceptually stale. A close second and third would be how the aliens communicate with humans - through thought.
You might like Forbidden Planet: Futurism at its Best

The Cast

It was jarring to see Rosalind Chau who played the Japanese exo-botanist Keiko Ishikawa on Star Trek TNG aged so drastically in this series. She plays the current-day Ye Winjie. It is also fun to see her swear, considering most of Star Trek TNG was PG-13. Zine Tseng plays the young version of Ye Winjie and does a great job of the same.
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Eiza González plays Oggie Salazar a scientist on the edge of bringing nano-fibers into production for commercial applications. Jess Hong plays an accomplished scientist who reminds me of an aesthetically enhanced version of Annie Chang in DC's Peacemaker.
More scientists include John Bradley of GoT fame playing Jack Rooney and Jovan Adepo playing Saul Durand.
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Marlo Kelly does a great job of portraying a cultist psychopath named Tatiana while looking startlingly young for her age in real life.
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All actors in this series do a fantastic job of playing characters who are way in over their heads. The graphics here are on-point, but the plot does all the heavy lifting in 3 Body Problem along with a good script and editing.
Benedict Wong looks like a potato with eyes and bad hair in this series which has no bearing on his amazing acting. It did however remind me of his cameo in The IT Crowd as a spelling bouncer along with his role in The Martian.
The cinematography is tasteful as hell with snapshots of Inner Mongolia shown with what I would assume is at least good context if not great accuracy.
You might like Types of Sci-Fi Movies: Take Your Pick

Should You Watch This? Yes!!

This series is content that comes once in a few years, regardless of the format (series/movie) and the platform (OTT/theater).
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3 Body Problem makes you think not just about our planet but about the nature of existence and how close we are to understanding it.
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
By Mike Likes Stuff
Nostalgia is a powerful feeling, one increasingly weaponized by the movie industry in the last decade. Whether it be taking us back to Tatooine, or the Sanders Sisters casting spells on the unwilling; it’s been used over and over again to diminishing returns. Something is weird and most definitely doesn’t look good in the latest iteration of the beloved Ghostbusters Franchise. Somehow the film is able to ‘jump the shark’ in this the 4th film in its franchise. Dunno who but someone thought they were making a sequel to Ghost, not Ghostbusters, which is a bummer, would have been great to see Whoopi in there. The script is a mess, the acting is rough, the censoring is clearly a play to make money in foreign markets; this movie doesn’t seem to attempt to have structure and is a far cry from the fun films that came before it.
I know the Jason Reitman Directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife was a success and I understand the knee jerk reaction from Sony to order another film for the franchise immediately but something here is lost in translation. I’m sure part of the issues here lie in Ivan Reitman’s passing in 2022, but I believe the major problems can be attributed to two things: the film being directed by Gil Kenan as opposed to Jason Reitman like the film prior, and Dan Akaroyd. Quick note to my readers: if you thought this wasn’t going to be me pointing out all the Akaroyd induced problems (ghost directing [see what I did there], bad acting, and obvious script tampering) you are sadly mistaken. Gil Kenan’s credits include films that should make him a layup for directing choice, yet somehow don’t seem to connect to the audience. Its clear he knows where the camera should be, but I argue the heavy lifting of that task can be attributed to Eric Steelberg the DP. Not sure if Kenan knows who to give the actors the perceived pathos necessary to move our plot along; when it comes to the older cast, I’m not sure he was even allowed to. McGuffin based, and without merit, we move into magical power territory and are told of impending doom that once it arrives, does almost nothing. All this doom and gloom for no pay off. The movie is a mess and no number of re-writes (especially by Akaroyd during filming) could save this nothing plot that goes absolutely nowhere.
Dan Akaroyd was a fantastic actor from the late 70s to early 80s. He’s partially responsible for breathing life into the Blues Brothers, the aforementioned Ghostbusters, and was one of the best parts of Trading Spaces. Then cocaine and not being told no morphed him into something unrecognizable. I’m not certain who told Akaroyd he’s a great writer but whomever did so owes us all time and money. Seems like Mr. Akaroyd only works on the franchises he had something to do with from the beginning. His role in this film breaks up the flow of the movie, seems shoehorned in, and doesn’t add anything. The worst part is I’m certain he was paid a significant amount more than the rest of the first cast.
Speaking of the cast: because of the older cast reprising their roles, the new cast (who’s phenomenal for the most part) has almost nothing to do. Bill Murray feels like Bill Murray often does: like he was calling the shots and only there for comedic effect (which honestly kind of works) but is responsible for an number of continuity issues throughout. Ernie Hudson is given even less time than Bill Murray, making him a fringe character at best, really only utilized to serve the aforementioned terrible Akaroyd plot. If you came to see Annie Potts, guess what: you’ve already seen all of her scenes in both trailers and commercials. Paul Rudd is given almost nothing to do as a would be Stepfather un-respected for his grounding of the family. Let’s talk Kumail Nanjiani. Why does Kumail take these projects over and over again where he is both under utilized and only used for comedic effects? He’s a fantastic actor; we’ve seen him crush before. Between Welcome to Chippendales and The Big Sick, we know he can act, but he’s placed into these films where nothing happens and he’s treated like a sideline bit part when he could carry a project.
I have no clue how this film cost 100 million dollars, perhaps it was the fee of the older cast; but the money is assuredly not on film. The CG is terrible, and at this point we’ve seen what can be done on a shoestring budget, thank you Godzilla Minus One. Clearly the actors were told where the eyeline should be and the VFX team chose to ignore it, moving some added assets far further into frame past where they should be. Don’t get me started on the blunder of the opening scene, where the added building look worse than things we see on TV. Not to mention all of the edits in post to either clear the rating or for foreign markets, leaving a C plot ambiguous to the point where it shouldn’t exist. If we can’t be honest with the sexuality of our characters at this point, why bother? Full frames of shots seem missing, which may have been attributed to my projectionist, but why would I take the time to see this monstrosity again and figure it out.
All in all this is skip even streaming. I get Sony wanted the money, but what terrifies me is a brand-new section of the company for Ghostbusters sequels. With a lack of continuity, care, and writing, these movies should stop here. Avoid this film at all cost.
My regular readers will know that we pair these films with Beer, and this is Natty Light Seltzer of beers. Flat and flavorless with way too much thrown in. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
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Can someone tell me which episode of Community had the Dean getting Annie to work as a script supervisor while he directed a commercial? I'm attempting to do a report on the sunk cost fallacy in TV shows, but can't seem to pin down which episode it was.