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I didn't like the series, mostly because it was very vanilla. I would have much preferred if it was based on A Boy and his Dog, many of the 80s Italian Mad Max clones (2019, After the Fall of New York), Neon City and even something like Turbo Kid.

An arguement can be made that to make social commentary effective you need a bit more subtly.

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I tend to be perhaps less anti-AI than most here (albeit I am probably even more distrustful of the large companies in this space), but just from watching the trailers, I found the AI generated scenes to be extremely distracting.

The first association for me is some shitty YT video slop or scheme.

I haven't watched it though and I am not going to watch it.

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Can't speak for the youtuber, but even though Iron Long is a short game, I felt like it had a lot of potential for expending it's lore. Some of the console entries hint to a lot of things going on.

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I read that as Oscar Wilde for a second.

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I am surprised this is the first time I've heard of this film.

I thouI've seen most of the horror movies from the early 2000s (not only mainstream ones, but b-movies and below).

Will have to check this out!

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Side note: Just re-watched this, Carpenter predicted LLMs back in 1982!

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I am waiting for Dexter: Mysterious Murder in the Senior Citizens' Home

jbone ,
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Children of Men had much stronger dystopian sci-fi motifs. It reminded me of Brazil for some reason. One Battle, After Another was more of a mass market feature. That being said, I watched it in the cinema and I enjoyed it. It was a good movie.

I do think Children of Men (not to mention Brazil which is arguably a classic of cinematography by this point) is better.

The miracle cease fire scene really caught my attention when I first saw the movie in the late 2000s.

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I would argue it's not reductive to treat the current approach used to manage immigration in the US as almost comically stupid (not to mention being founded on mostly posturing and self-aggrandization "I support the law").

Managing immigration is one thing, but allowing your country to become like russia with security forces beating and killing people under the alleged pretense of managing immigration is definitely a sign of maliciousness.

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but if you assume motivations of those who supported them are the same for all of them then you’re only going to antagonise those that were misled

From my experience living in the US, that seems true.

I traveled extensively (~15 states minimum) and I believe I had a broad exposure to local culture (from provincial "hoods" with different ethnicities, very rich and "conservative" suburbs to more cosmopolitan experiences in NYC, Chicago, LA, SF).

That being said, there is a limit to everything. At some point intent stops mattering and the outcome is what counts.

My personal opinion (I may be wrong), is that US is a dead end. There won't be any any positive changes in the next 20-30 years minimum. The far right is committed to corruption, criminality and posturing around "freedoms" and "I support the law" and the centre-right voting public is too well off to rock the boat until it's too late.

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Wow, it's fascinating that they can still achieve double digit growth.

Great horror gems from europe

In Europe, we have Hammer films as well as Italian Giallo films. In the silent era, the German tradition of expressionist cinema with Murnau and Lang produced several classics, as did the swedes (Victor Sjøstrøm) and the danish (Benjamin Christensen). Later, some of these were remade, for instance Klaus Kinski played Nosferatu ...

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I real like 80s/early 90s Italian post-apocalyptic and scif-fi movies with strong horror elements:

'Rufus' - Five-Story Horror Anthology From Mars Roberge - ScareTissue ( www.scaretissue.com )

Breaking Glass Pictures proudly announces the worldwide release of Rufus, the daring new horror anthology film from Canadian-American director Mars Roberge that premiered at six film festivals, winning three awards (Best Horror Film at the Los Angeles IFS Film Festival and L.A. Punk Film Festival, Best Supernatural Feature at ...

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This looks fun, I love horror anthologies (except when one of the short pieces is so good that I wish it was a full feature :) ).

jbone ,
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I thought it was pretty good. Watched it in the cinema, I didn't regret it.

I don't think it was the best movie of 2025, but it was entertaining and relatively well made and somewhat original.

Experience on torrenting and hoarding with Raspberry Pi?

I'm taking a break from gaming and have been using my gaming rig for torrenting and hoarding. But no matter how much I try to tweak power settings through software or through the BIOS, I still hover around 80 Watts. Which isn't much compared to the 1000 Watts that were gushing into my PC every second when I played [some game] on ...

jbone ,
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It works great, I've been using a Pi SBC for torrenting for nearly 10 years now (in addition to NAS, a media server, Pi-Hole and more).

I would strongly recommend going with DietPi. It has a great set of custom CLI management tools, very active developers and a relatively large community (150K+ installatios active last quarter). It's based on Debian for ARM so it has a solid foundation.

jbone ,
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Oh, I've been updating the SBCs. Although my current Pi 4 has been running for over 5 years, don't see a need to update to Pi 5.

jbone OP ,
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Game was awesome! Minimalist but also very creepy and unnerving.

jbone OP ,
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I thought The Autopsy of Jane Doe was pretty good, I was expecting less. I thought I would like The Last Voyage of the Demeter more than I did. It started well, but then second part of the movie wasn't all that engaging.

I will be watching Passenger.

jbone OP ,
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Duplass make great horror.

Although I don't think they've been able to beat the OG Creep.

Bloody Disgusting’s 10 Best International Horror Films of 2025 ( bloody-disgusting.com )

Horror has seen remarkable success in 2025. Popular franchises have celebrated new entries, like V/H/S/Halloween, Black Phone 2, 28 Years Later, the Conjuring franchise’s swan song, and what might be the best Final Destination movie to date. Original films like Weapons, Good Boy, and Together helped open minds and get under ...

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Cheers! This looks really good!

jbone ,
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This is really good if you like sci-fi action b-movies.

jbone OP ,
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Sounds like a bad fit, even though I only want to share (it's some relatively rare content that took me some effort to procure in the highest quality that I believe is available).

jbone ,
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This is really good tech house!