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2025-01-03 07:44:37 GMT

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can't go wrong with any of these! https://mstdn.games/@COMPU73E/113539365062515019

2024-12-29 18:41:12 GMT

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read the original 6 volumes of "Battle Angel Alita" before "Last Order"
I'm so glad I picked it up, the art is incredible, the fights are spectacularly brutal, the characters are great, and some of the ideas and sci-fi concepts are really clever
after a lifetime of reading 2000AD this is pushing allll my buttons

2024-12-29 18:09:23 GMT

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fuuuuccccckkkk, the first two chapters of volume 3, mind blowing, the big reveal of Alita's past, fuuuuccccckkkk :ablobcatcry:
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2024-12-29 10:37:35 GMT

Last Order volume 2 is amazing, it's like a cyborg kung fu movie in space
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2024-12-25 21:27:26 GMT

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and finally "Shaolin Temple" (dir. Chang Cheh, 1976) is a prequel movie to "Five Shaolin Masters" and tells the story of how the Five arrived at the temple and learnt their kung fu skills, and the events that led up to the destruction of the temple
another film with a massive training section in the middle, and a (really long) epic final fight scene. I do like a good prequel movie, and some of the foreshadowing for later events is really well done here
💥💥💥💥 /5
The Shaolin Temple (1976) original trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-N58ImflUM

2024-12-25 21:11:40 GMT

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"Five Shaolin Masters" aka "5 Masters of Death" (dir. Chang Cheh, 1974) tells the story of, erm, the Five Shaolin Masters who escape the destruction of the Shaolin Temple at the hands of the Manchu, who train their kung fu and wreak bloody vengeance in a really epic climactic fight scene
another really good film, with plenty of despicable bad guys, but there's something about the choreography in some of the films from the early 70s that doesn't look as good on screen as the later ones imo. Shaw really honed their craft throughout the decade, the fight are still great, but they lack some of the inventiveness from the later movies (eg. Gordon Liu's "Scaffolding Kung Fu" from Rtt36C) this film is more a straight-up brawler
💥💥💥💥 /5
Five Shaolin Masters (1974) - Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djAAO9uPJKM

2024-12-25 20:48:44 GMT

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"Return to the 36th Chamber" (dir. Lau Kar-leung, 1980) again stars Gordon Liu, but not as the same character from the first film, which is initially confusing. Instead here he's Zhou Renjie, a lowlife laborer with good acting skills who pretends to be San De to threaten the evil boss of a dye workshop into paying his workers proper wages
needless to say he gets beaten up and goes off to train, yadda yadda. the twist here is he's refused entry to the Shaolin Temple and they don't train him, instead he ends up assembling scaffolding around the temple for 3 years before he's thrown out dejected. oh no!
but it turns out he did actually learn kung fu by osmosis by watching the monks train while working, and he uses his "scaffolding kung fu" techniques to kick the bad guys arses anyway
this film is a straight up comedy for the first hour or so, and it turns out Gordon Liu is really good at comedy too!
another 💥💥💥💥💥 /5
Return To The 36th Chamber (1980) original trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOlwlSvK8Y4

2024-12-25 20:36:29 GMT

watched quite a few more Shaw Brothers films over the last week or so, so here goes:
"The 36th Chamber of Shaolin" (dir. Lau Kar-leung, 1978) Gordon Liu stars as San De. the plot is pretty cliché these days (guy gets his arse kicked, goes off to the Shaolin Temple to train, returns and destroys the bad guys with the power of his kung fu) but you have to remember these films were the ones responsible for creating the cliché in the first place
Gordon Liu is immense. he looks pretty gawky and awkward, so he's great as the weedy bloke at the start, and his martial arts are superb to watch. some of the shots go on for ages and the fight choreography is so complex
it's easy to see why this film in particular is so highly regarded, I remember watching it years ago but according to the booklet the version I would've watched has 20-30 minutes cut out of the middle! so there was plenty that was new to me
💥💥💥💥💥 /5
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) original trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5_d0d-9ajU

2024-12-20 15:43:30 GMT

one more hour to go and then no more work until 2nd January!
\watches clock

2024-12-02 20:12:56 GMT

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this is the good shit
The Human League - The Sound Of The Crowd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twG5mu6coOA

2024-12-02 20:06:57 GMT

Just watched "Synth Britannia" for the umpteenth time, probably my favorite documentary the BBC have ever done. The music of my childhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVljmH0yUw

2024-11-14 08:53:44 GMT

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this is what I mean: Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin on mstdn.games
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2024-11-13 23:16:02 GMT

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another thing I really like about this place, in addition to what you said, it's that nobody is trying to track my activity so they can monetize me being here. you look at Ublock Origin and it'll say "trackers blocked: 0"
I'm so used to not seeing any ads or promoted content now that it really stands out everywhere else, and I'm free to be myself without feeling like someone is watching everything I do

2024-11-10 07:59:31 GMT

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you totally should, Devil Survivor is AMAZING. imo it's the best game on the DS (which is a very high bar) and it's in my top 5 games of all time

2024-11-09 19:35:43 GMT

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neither have I, which is why I decided to play it again!

2024-11-09 17:59:23 GMT

Midori is so cool, I'm determined to save her #DevilSurvivor
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2024-11-09 13:15:22 GMT

well that's my Saturday afternoon sorted ❤
PERSONA LIVE TOUR 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGTYBArSypE

2024-11-03 07:18:33 GMT

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I know right! the whole film is stunning to look at, just gorgeous

2024-11-02 23:22:16 GMT

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"Daiei Gothic" box set from Radiance is two for two with one to go; "The Snow Woman" (dir. Tokuzo Tanaka, 1968) is another utterly fantastic film. Absolutely gorgeous to look at, the story of Yuki-onna is beautifully told here. One of those films where you could frame every single shot and hang it in a gallery
Shiho Fujimura is stunning as Yuki and delivers a very emotional performance
Wonderful
⛄⛄⛄⛄⛄ out of 5
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2024-10-31 21:40:30 GMT

tonight's spooktacular #halloween film was "The Ghost of Yotsuya" (dir. Kenji Misumi, 1959) from the newly released "Daiei Gothic" box set from Radiance. what a film. absolutely brilliant
the wife of an out of work samurai falls victim to the schemes of a local lord and is killed so her husband will be free to marry the lord's daughter. needless to say she returns to wreak ghostly vengeance
I hope the other films in this box set are as good as this
I rate "The Ghost of Yotsuya" 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 out of 5
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2024-10-19 18:50:57 GMT

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thanks, I'll check them out! 😃

2024-10-18 21:16:09 GMT

had friends round for our monthly Asian Movie Club night, and as it's spooky month we watched Park Chan-Wook's "Thirst" (2009) which was the first time we watched a film that I hadn't seen before
what a film, absolutely brilliant. very twisted, dark, and funny af in places. he really is a fantastic director
I rate this film 5🦇 out of 5
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2024-10-04 10:35:59 GMT

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thanks to Brexit I can't even sign this 🤬

2024-09-27 21:23:05 GMT

wow, the opening 10 minutes of Echoes of Wisdom are just magic. grinning like an idiot. Nintendo, man 😍

2024-09-17 06:42:17 GMT

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without doubt it's the ending of Persona 3, hearing "Kimi no Kioku" ("Memories of You") start playing as the credits roll. after everything that's happened in that game

2024-09-14 21:49:25 GMT

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thank you, that's really kind of you to say

2024-09-09 19:16:53 GMT

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it's suddenly struck me that I haven't played Reload since the day we scattered mum's ashes on what would've been her 82nd birthday back in March, and I finished the game when I got home 😥
this game will forever be entwined with dealing with losing my mum last year

2024-09-09 19:00:33 GMT

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all downloaded, and now we must wait until tomorrow

2024-09-09 18:50:51 GMT

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『Episode Aegis』配信記念イラストメイキング by 嶋田あずさ(『P3R』キャラクターデザイナー)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52oDy6VyI-I

2024-09-09 18:30:38 GMT

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nice time to have the rest of the week off work, using my annual leave the correct way

2024-09-09 18:26:58 GMT

let's goooooo! #Persona3Reload
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2024-08-22 23:38:38 GMT

I used to love tech

2024-08-17 13:35:03 GMT

i, uh, made a blog. this is new for me, please give it a read 😅
https://howdoyouspell.cool/hazardes/

2024-08-15 17:47:22 GMT

holy shit, what a shop. damn 😲
#GameCollecting #retrogaming
Inside The UK's BIGGEST Retro Games Shop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj5uinM33dw

2024-08-10 17:01:09 GMT

this looks incredible 😅 managed to get my preorder in the other day
FUTURE COPS "The Future Cops take on the evil crime lord The General" Movie Clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46-ixHyNErg