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I think I love this list, suddenly want to re-watch pretty much everything in it except maybe The Rocketeer (just don’t like superhero stuff much, or Disney). Actually did re-watch The Arrival not long ago, still one of the best “they’re already among us” movies that isn’t They Live (and also Charlie Sheen’s best role) as far as I’m concerned.

Far as I remember, this used to be the online side of the secret shop for The International (Dota 2), then generalized a bit to sell Portal t-shirts and whatever. The company that actually ran it changed hands & names a couple times until Goodsmile bought it, and I doubt Valve care too much to find another vendor at this point.

Terry Gilliam’s Brazil always does it for me. Depends heavily on which version you watch though, they’re polarizing enough that you can play emotional Russian roulette with both versions.

Beneficial yes, practical no.

Beneficial because Reddit captured a ton of niche communities that used to exist on forums/usenet/etc, and there’s a lot of actual unique, useful content buried under all the noise. Ideally that content would be able to filter back into places that aren’t tied to some startup that never figured out how to be profitable.

Impractical because I imagine quite a few servers would have to defederate because they simply wouldn’t be able to manage mirroring the constant stream of stuff coming out of Reddit. It’s a bit early to tell how long any of the general interest reddit-a-likes can sustain on donations or whatever, and turning on that firehose would transform some hobbyist servers into money pits fast.

Here’s a positive: cigarettes make a great mosquito repellent, because nicotine is a natural insecticide and the smoke/odor repels them. It also repels girlfriends and other humans, but still.

Some of these border on drive-in schlock or worse, but that’s exactly what I look for in sci-fi movies of that era:

• A Boy and his Dog
• The Omega Man
• The Last Man on Earth
• The Terminal Man
• Futureworld
• Dark Star
• Laserblast
• Starcrash
• The Alien Factor
• This is Not a Test
• Mission Stardust
• Countdown (1967)
• Starship Invasions
• Silent Running
• Fantastic Planet
• Fantastic Voyage
• The Visitor / Stridulum
• Children of the Damned
• most Planet(s) of the Apes

I’m about due to rediscover that game soon, character movement feels so nice I’d often hop on just to zip around and bounce off some walls for a bit.