Your Favorite Kevin Costner Movie

@JoshuaHedley Like yeah, there were a lot of people who hated these groups or pop punk specifically, but they were usually the people in the room off to the side packing bowls, talking about MF Doom and Bright Eyes or whatever. Good people, and they had taste, but they weren't the tastemakers

@JoshuaHedley As someone who went to a Big 10 party school in the mid 00s, I specifically remember people going nuts for Fall Out Boy and Panic at house parties. "Dance Dance," all that shit was extremely popular. That one Panic song had girls shrieking. These were Abercrombie people. Normies.

You can tell when people absolutely weren’t there, cause this band was a joke when they were current lol. Like nickelback levels of hate.

@KevinLamb74 The first part of your post reminds me, I'd always intently watch the Muppet Babies intro because it included approximately .5 seconds of Star Wars footage. That was all it took. 😅 Timestamped here for anyone curious: youtu.be/M9z9FcCRj3s?t=…

I remember going on the original Star Tours ride in the late 80's and being absolutely BLOWN AWAY because I never thought I'd see live-action Star Wars footage again. I think that a better way to have updated the visual effects for the Star Wars Special Edition would have simply been to insert new practical effects and miniatures shots like what is shown here in order to better sync with the rest of the film instead of redoing them with CGI.

@aakashgupta I helped build one of these in the 2000s! It was indeed a community effort, with most of my friends and our parents getting involved--lots of cordless drill battery swapping and screw tightening. Had a pirate ship, lots of cool little areas. Looks like it's gone now, sadly.

Those magnificent structures on the top were all over America in the 90s thanks to volunteers. Almost no one knows the name Bob Leathers but they should. He grew up in Maine, studied architecture at Rhode Island School of Design, and landed in Ithaca raising kids. In 1970 his children's elementary school needed a playground. He organized the parents to build one. That weekend reorganized the rest of his life. He founded Leathers and Associates a few years later. The product was a four-day community build. The town raised the money, the kids drew the design, and 500 to 2,000 volunteers showed up with hammers and built the entire castle. Materials cost $10,000 to $60,000. Donated labor was worth multiples of that. The Washington Post called it a "burgeoning movement" in 1982. Mister Rogers filmed an episode at one of his builds in 1986. Sesame Street did the same. The Chicago Tribune called him "the guru of contemporary playground design" in 1989. His firm coordinated more than 3,400 playgrounds across the United States, Israel, and Australia. An entire generation of American kids climbed turrets, crossed rope bridges, and disappeared into wooden tunnels designed by a guy in upstate New York who took his cues from their drawings. He never franchised the model. He never sold the firm. His son Marc runs it today, still in Ithaca, still doing community builds. The bottom picture is what the market built when nobody was there to organize the volunteers.

@ieatantz @sethmpk I thought that might be the case, but wanted to spread some tar pit love either way. I grew up well outside of LA and for whatever reason I remember it being used as like a puchline a lot in the 90s? 😭

@YourCostner @sethmpk It wasn't sarcastic La Brea, Lacma, and Academy Museum are all great.

Finally, you can take LA’s subway directly to the automotive museum in the background

@ieatantz @sethmpk I feel like this lands better if the stop weren't also right next to the LACMA, including the new Geffen Galleries hanging over Wilshire. And the La Brea museum is great!

@sethmpk And the tar pits, can't forget the tar pits

@mnolangray @El_Xico99 I was trying to include as much scope as possible, honestly. See my map for reference + a more zoomed out shot. And I didn't want to overdo it but fair, lets turn the camera toward the valley and then inland.

@YourCostner @El_Xico99 The parts of LA if you turn the camera in any other direction?

The bottom scenario exists, it's called Los Angeles.

@mnolangray @El_Xico99 Nah man, not even the valley looks like this. Where are the strip malls packed with kabob and donuts and lahmajun? Where's the flavor? There needs to be about a thousand more businesses packed in there. East side looking west here, where do you drive to find this "most of LA?"

@El_Xico99 Great bones for sure but most of Los Angeles still basically looks like this.

@Zingus5 It's crazy how the first five seconds of this video, literally my first impression of this guy's game, is just a rotating character model in order to chum the waters for incels.

Love when a game tries to purposefully use culture war talking points to advertise itself and then you actually look at the game and it's the most soulless UE4 asset flip survival crafting garbage ever made

@timeproofgames I remember thinking this one looked rough in the magazine screenshots and the like, but damn this looks pretty smooth for a GBA doom-like.

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (Game Boy Advance, Crawfish Interactive, 2002)

@PaoloStudi15770 Dawg this video auto-played for like 10 straight minutes while I drafted an unrelated work email just now

Star fox Switch 2:

@RealEmirHan My favorite movie. An absolutely wild ride in the best way. Been to multiple screenings. But director's cut or no, calling it "one of the most disturbing films ever" is absolutely hilarious. Never change, blue checks.

The Wicker Man (1973) is one of the most disturbing films ever. It’s so intense that it turns Midsommar into a joke. The film was heavily butchered by the studio for its initial release. Studio head Michael Deeley disliked it so much that negatives and outtakes were allegedly dumped as landfill under the M3 motorway. It was later rescued partly thanks to a print found by Roger Corman. Restorations (including the 2013 “Final Cut”) pieced together a longer version.

@Watchman_motto Clockwise: Castaway in Burbank, Griffith Park in Los Feliz, Glendale looking toward the Verdugo Mountains, and Santa Monica. Coincidentally, I was just in San Diego last weekend. Little Italy, Old Town, Coronado. Beautiful. $60 round trip by train, if you don't mind the view:

@Watchman_motto It's lovely. Every weekend a vacation.

Seriously what happened to California?

@bumbadum14 It's clear you know nothing about LA or how many of its people see themselves. In LA you'll come into contact with 50 people from 50 different countries in about a half block walk. Many of them will identify as white. In my old Chicago neighborhood, things were monochrome.

California has “diversity” in the same way Yugoslavia had diversity

You can’t imagine it because you live in it dude.

@menonfilmpod Man I wanted to love this movie, but even as a kid I couldn't shake the feeling they got a little too hokey with it. I'm sure it was to soften/pull in larger audiences, but it never quite felt like Mad Max to me. Fun to to revisit as an adult though!

New Episode MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (1985) dir. George Miller

@la_dorkout Love driving on the 134 west from Pasadena into Glendale for this reason. There's a patch where you're in the foothills with downtown gleaming in the distance, it's magic at the right time of day.

I've always thought one of the coolest stretches of freeway is the 134 West thru Eagle Rock, with views of DTLA, the ocean, and Griffith Observatory on clear days. Just north of the freeway, Scholl Canyon Trail in Glendale is a higher perch of the view with a bit more quietude.

@CollinRugg @MishaTurtleX @AshtonForbes Why isn't anyone pointing out this is exactly how someone sounds when they are dealing with a schizophrenic episode. The paranoia, everything. This is literally a video of her raving about her dad being involved in some kind of anti-gravity suppression plot. Are you a crank too?

@MishaTurtleX @AshtonForbes It sounds like he is pretty deep in this too. Here is what she had to say about her dad.

NEW: Researcher working on anti-gravity technology, whose death was ruled a su*cide, sent a text just one month before her death saying she would never kill herself, according to the Daily Mail. Amy Eskridge was found with a gunshot to the head in Huntsville, Alabama. Eskridge told a friend that she had been the target of multiple physical and psychological attacks, including being a victim of an “energy weapon,” before her death. “If you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not. If you see any report that I overdosed, I most definitely did not. If you see any report that I killed anyone else, I most definitely did not,” she reportedly said in a text in May 2022. In an interview before she died, Eskridge said she was getting scared and said she needed “to disclose soon.”

@Darren373737234 @TheChrisLambert I was a big Fast and the Furious fan and there was like a two year period where I missed one of the movies entirely because I thought I'd 'seen them all,' didn't realize it until I did a series re-watch. I was smoking a lot of wax.

@YourCostner @TheChrisLambert People like you are what’s wrong with the world

How could this even happen? You’d look up “Interstellar” and somehow get Gravity, ignore that it says Gravity, start the movie, then would watch 30 minutes of Gravity, pass the title card that says “Gravity”, then turn the movie off and once again ignore that the page says “Gravity” and not “Interstellar”

@MAGA_X_Times Los Feliz!...Anyway, this is legitimately terrible acting.

😂 Well that went well, I guess some guys are just used to BSing their way through, this lady decided to do some homework before her meet and greet and according to this guy that’s not allowed🤣 good on her🙌🏻