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Kaidantonio

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Kaidantonio@kaidantonio.bsky.social · 5d ago

Bit of a lighter vent here. When I want to go someplace that isn't within the immediate neighborhood, my mother always whines and asks why do I go, and questions if there's anything personal to gain/benefit from [that isn't money or work, as is obviously implied]. Museums, concerts, film premieres..

Kaldrenon@kaldrenon.bsky.social · 7d ago

The wild thing about Bsky is that the company didn't wait until it was trying to turn a profit to make the experience worse. Countless social platforms have collapsed because they started out free, then enshittified in an attempt to make money and people left because it sucked. Bsky didn't wait.

Win98 SPOOKY support@win98tech.bsky.social · 7d ago

Bsky is so funny dude the administration genuinely fucking hates its users who genuinely fucking hate the administration but neither is willing to leave fucking boomer marriage website i cannot wait for social media to completely crash

Steven Sheil@scsheil.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Taking the opportunity to repost this story (from John Boorman’s book) about how shooting the last shot of Zardoz caused Sean Connery to fall into so fierce a rage it led to a man changing his identity

Zed eventually destroys the Vortex, giving the Immortals the gift of death. He survives with Charlotte Rampling and they have a child together. The final sequence is done in a single shot with a fixed camera. Sean and Charlotte are sitting side by side in a cave with the baby. The baby becomes a child, the child becomes a youth, gets up and leaves them without looking back; they get older, then become ancient, and finally just their skeletons remain, which eventually crumble to dust. Only then does the camera move. It tracks in to a handprint on the wall of the empty cave, like the cave painting of primitive man in Lescaux, suggesting that this future world could have been in the past, and that as that civilisation ended, ours began. This shot took an entire day to shoot. The actors had to be removed and make-up applied incrementally to add the years. Sean has a delicate skin and hates make-up. He had to endure it all day. He became more and more irascible. This was the last day of shooting. We had the wrap party that night. Sean had a golf tournament to go to the next day. I had to hold him until the morning for the laboratory report. The call came at 6 a.m. There was a fault in the film stock. It would have to be redone. Sean was apoplectic. He stormed and raged, but it had to be done. We reassembled with our hangovers and started again. A long day, hours of make-up, Sean smarting from his suffering skin. Finally it was done. The clapper-loader took the magazine from the camera to prepare1973: ZARDOZ it for the lab. A few minutes later he came to me, trembling and ashen-faced. He looked so devastated, I thought someone had been killed or that the Third World War had started. I was almost relieved when he admitted that he had opened the can by mistake and exposed the film to daylight. Sean would not believe me. "Is this your idea of a joke?' he fumed. Finally convinced he would have to do it for a third time, he erupted. It was a terrifying sight. He roared, he ran amok. He went after the clapper-loader. He tried to kill him. It took four strong men to subdue him. Twenty years later I was drinking coffee in Starbucks in Venice, California, when I was approached by a man with a familiar face. I couldn't place it. He reminded me that he was the clapper-loader who had exposed the film. He had fled the country immediately after this catastrophe, changed his identity, and was now a cameraman shooting commercials in LA. As we parted, he said, with an ironic smile, but also with a trace of fear, "Sean's not in town, is he?'
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you've seen Zardoz, you already know it's a wild ride; it you haven't seen Zardoz, strap in: it's time to talk about the highs and lows of John Boorman's film, featuring false gods and failed utopias, and Sean Connery in thigh-high boots

Kaidantonio@kaidantonio.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is honestly the sweetest thing to do, plus it denies RE4 the throne, so doubly special. youtu.be/BSsfjHCFosw?...

Doom OST - E1M1 - At Doom's Gate

YouTube video by Jim DarkMagic

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Win98 SPOOKY support@win98tech.bsky.social · 4mo ago

GOATEST GAMES SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT IN HONOUR OF THE PASSING OF BOBBY PRINCE WE ARE DECLARING THE 2026 WINNER AS DOOM 1993 THE CLASSIC THAT RUNS ON ANYTHING, AND STILL GETS NEW CONTENT 30 YEARS ON THIS IS DOOM Vote in a special 3way for the honourary runner up! forms.gle/XQwjRjLu4c5B...

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