In no particular order (and yes some are more well known in film circles, maybe I should’ve ommited them, but you never know what the reader hasn’t seen):

Jojo Rabbit, 2019 - a comedic coming of age in Nazi Germany. Jojo and his imaginary friend, Hitler, face a complicated and rapidly changing world.

The Mitchells versus the Machines, 2021 - animated family adventure for fun with the whole family.

Rise of Leslie Vernon, 2006 - mocumentary following slasher killer Leslie Vernon.

Bunny and the Bull, 2009 - an, in my opinion, gorgeously set film about two friends on a road trip in Spain.

Parallel Mothers (Madras Paralelas), 2021 - not a hidden gem if you know anything about Spanish cinema, but maybe you don’t. Penolpe Cruz is a new mother whose life becomes intertwined with another women’s when they give birth in the same hospital.

Hero (英雄), 2002 - again, if you know Wuxia film then this isn’t a hidden gem. A pinnacle of the genre, a Chinese Rashomon with wire fights.

Blow Up, 1966 - British New Wave classic. A photographer used to a free and casual 60s life becomes certain he has accidentally photographed evidence of a murder.

Berberian Sound Studio, 2012 - exploration of sound and feeling. A mild mannered amateurish British sound technician gets a big job working on the sound effects for a giallo film in Italy.

Martyrs, 2008 - the pinnacle of French New Extreme movement. It made a big name for itself at the time for being the sort of torture porn film that really gave it a point beyond vouyerism. Not for the faint of heart.

Rye Lane, 2023 - a romcom love letter to London.

The Day Shall Come, 2019 - an eccentric black preacher gets caught up in a web of madness that runs deep.

As a horror fan, I disagree.

The premise gets old fairly fast and then the twist doesn’t really add anything or accentuate the spoofiness, just makes the film more generic.

If you’re a fan of a certain era of teen slashers, sure go for it.

《Little Monsters》 and 《The Rise of Leslie Vernon 》are recent takes on horror films I personally prefer.

Not enough (any) in client tracking of match results and what the match up was.

No way to really combo off. Let me demonstrate a loop and do it X times please.

I think that your last though is right on the money.

The client should show you match histories against what sorts of decks, so it’s more overall and long term than just the one match.

Bo3 works well for this too and I find I enjoy playing it more. But don’t always have the time during my commutes to bosh it out each time.

An acidic heat

I live in a town of 220,000 in the UK.

I’m a 5 minute walk from a small supermarket.

10 mins from a corner shop.

5 minute drive from a huge supermarket.

10 minute walk from a doctors’ surgery.

20 minute walk from a dentist’s.

20 minute walk from an opticians.

5 minute walk from a park.

15 minutes walk from primary and 10 minutes walk from a secondary school.

But we don’t really do suburbs in quite the same way, and they’re much more walkable than the pictures I’ve seen of US suburbia.

In the UK we have smaller “urban supermarkets” that sell everything you might need at home but there’s not much choice in it, and there’s a lot of ready to eat meal options. Kinda like a corner shop plus.

And then there are the fuck off huge supermarkets that are like THE Wallmart on the interstate on, usually, the edges of urban areas which have foreign food isles, clothes, toys, and more types of toothpaste than you could use in a lifetime of brushing three times a day.

3.3ft (and that’s a decimal .3, not an imperial .3).

Probably made by a promising young man.

Two for you:

《The Wild Girls》 - Ursula K Le Guin

《Piranesi》 - Susanna Clarke

And if you read fast I reckon you could do China Miévilles 《The City and the City》 or Tade Thompson’s 《Rosewater》 in a day.

Edit bonus: anything by Douglas Adams.

Where did I claim that people did?

Thing is, he’s not really pointing an unexplained mystery.

We know 90% of about how a lot of these sites were built and a good chunk of their history. Some of the older/more recently discovered ones such as Gobleki Tepe, obviously less but still a fair bit. Claiming that Mesoamerican and Asian megalith sites are aliens/Atlanteans isn’t really helping work out that last 10%.

Pointing at what science has proven again and again to be a natural rock formation 25m under the water and claiming it’s the remains of Atlantean civilisation doesn’t advance much either, after all it’s been proven wrong before.

Meanwhile, ever since Europe was disproven to be the birthplace of modern humans in the 19th and early 20th centuries, people have suddenly been coming up with all sorts of reasons why non-White folks sites weren’t made by locals.

I will give Hancock credit that I don’t think he is actively racist, as he does correct himself when he implies that the locals wouldn’t have been able to do things like stack rocks.

I can use a drill, jigsaw, or circular saw and not feel pain; yes.

Don’t think this is just a me thing, as my family seem fine using them too.

I hadn’t heard Fire in the Booth 4 before as it never hit my music streaming services. Thanks for waking me to its being.

Dig Lowkey too, music was the only good development of the criminal “war on terror”.

Enjoy. They’re all classics in their own way (or will be in 10 years time).

Oh, not a comedy but Inside Number 9 is some of the best TV ever made. Well worth watching, too. Amazing tight stories unrelated except by show runners and the number 9.

Also, when made of moly-mod it can stand up and looks like a giant robot.

I’ll give you the story as I can recall it…

The trip was reliving the person’s life from top to bottom, and at various points hearing huge applause or boos or an emotional rection of some kind, and turning round and seeing that they were on the set of “This Was Your Life” with a huge studio audience. The presenter would give a prize, joke or something and ask some questions which led back to reliving their life and soon forget about the “show” until the next time the crowd went wild. It is said it felt like a lifetime, I don’t know how long the trip lasted in measured time.

Akala - Fire in the Booth 1 The flow, message, content. An artist with top skills, showcasing what he can do.

Supreme NTM - Le Pouvior Just always dug this track. Resonates with me.

This is basically what a DMT trip can be like I’ve heard. With infinite forgetting and noticing the being viewed conceit again.

Yes but also most of those films were bad at the time too.