It's been a rough couple of weeks. I'm going to enjoy a movie night (this time I'll be using more of my backlog, namely an ep of Sailor Moon Stars and two more eps of Aikatsu season 3) after I deal with all of the stuff I need to today.
I'm glad Wasabicon is next week because I'm tired and I really need a vacation.
@cb0f4660@b5f5fee8 Our story begins in the 1990s. During the 1990s, a man named Marvin Heemeyer of Granby, Colorado, owned a small welding shop in town, where he made his living repairing mufflers. He’d purchased the land on which his shop was built in 1992.
In 2001, the city approved the construction of a concrete plant, zoning the land next to Heemeyer’s for use. Heemeyer was furious, as he’d used the land for the past nine years as a shortcut between his home and his shop.
He petitioned the city to have the property rezoned to prevent the construction of the plant, but he was rejected on multiple occasions.
So, in early 2003, Marvin Heemeyer decided he had had enough. A few years earlier, he had purchased a bulldozer . Now, however, it would serve a new purpose as his weapon of destruction: the killdozer. Marvin Heemeyer customized his Komatsu D355A bulldozer for his rampage. He added armored plates, covering most of the cabin, engine, and parts of the tracks. He’d created the armor himself, using a concrete mix poured between sheets of steel. According to authorities, once he’d sealed himself inside the cockpit, it would have been impossible for him to have gotten out — and authorities don't believe he even wanted to.
He drove the machine out of his shop through the wall, then plowed through the concrete plant, the town hall, a newspaper office, a former judge’s widow’s home, a hardware store, and other homes. Authorities later realized that every building that had been bulldozed had some connection to Heemeyer and his lengthy battle against the zoning committee.
Though authorities tried to destroy the vehicle multiple times, the killdozer proved resistant to small arms fire and resistant to explosives. Indeed, the rounds fired at the tractor during the rampage had no ill effect.
For two hours and seven minutes, Marvin Heemeyer and his killdozer pummeled through the town, damaging 13 buildings and knocking out gas services to city hall. Such a panic ensued that the governor considered authorizing the National Guard to attack with Apache helicopters and an anti-tank missile. The attacks were in place and, had Heemeyer not wedged himself in the basement of a store, they would have been carried out.
As Marvin Heemeyer attempted to bulldoze Gambles hardware store, he accidentally got the killdozer stuck in the foundation. With the end clearly in sight, Heemeyer killed himself with a gunshot to the head, determined to leave the world on his own terms. In the years after the rampage, Heemeyer became a controversial folk hero in certain circles, with some believing that he was a victim of a town government that didn’t think twice about hurting a local business. As Heemeyer said in a note, “I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”
Two very epic people whose handle names are RequinDr and Loicfr adapted the original Tsukihime to run inside a web browser.
One nice extra feature of this is being able to pick which version of the Tsukihime OST plays in the Config section: Original (2000), Ever After (2002), and Tsuki-Bako (2003).
Disclaimer: this visual novel has NSFW material in it. I would strongly recommend against playing it at work.
https://holofield.fr/tsukiweb
@Tsuki 🌙@Shadowman311 I have found many of the older x265 rarbg torrents are still available at torrentgalaxy. I like those because inmo those relatively small videos look and sound good enough, and they play over my network in Kodi on my 4k firestick.
This will be the first time I've attended AWA in four (or is it five?) years. I've been out of the country and I did not attend during the covid craziness. I don't want to travel that far, pay that much money, and be miserably out of breath in a face diaper.
I hope this year's con is a ton of fun!
Saw Dragonslayer.
There were some things I liked about the movie. One is that the actors took it mostly seriously. The mossy and rocky landscapes reminded me of my long trek through Death Stranding. There was some crazy puppets a la Dark Crystal. The score was symphonic and adequate. It was shot on film in decent sets and properly lit. The script needed more work and the actor playing the lead resembled a mix between Slayn the wizard from Lodoss War and Janosz Poha from Ghostbusters II (and it turned out that it was indeed the same actor, so it is indeed a small world after all.) Yet I would have to say that I enjoyed it far less than Hawk The Slayer despite it ostensibly being a better film.
Hawk the Slayer, in the words of a different reviewer, has the unique quality of a first-time viewer reassembling and rearranging all its parts inside his head to transmute them into a superior version - dare I say, the Platonic aspatial and atemporal Higher Form of Hawk the Slayer which could never be realized upon this imperfect, accursed Earth.
My final score of Dragonslayer is about a C++. Still better than modern
Hollyweird movies but there are far superior 80s fantasy movies out there.
#review #movies_you_haven't_seen #dragonslayer
Although it wasn't a "good" movie I was very entertained by Hawk the Slayer. This evening I will see another early 80s fantasy movie called Dragonslayer for the Thursday Night Movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWVJr7JbJZc
I just bought my ticket for Wasabicon next month. If anyone else is going to it, I'd like to meet fellow anime-lovin' fedi users.
https://jax.wasabicon.com/
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