why Troma didn’t choose to distribute it

It kinda makes sense. It’s got Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, and Elijah Wood, and it’s got a health-care theme. So they probably figured it had a chance at making some money in theaters, or at least getting a better deal in streaming even if the theater run isn’t that long.

Wow your VR movie-watching setup is astounding. A cousin showed me “VrChat” (I think?) a couple years ago, and in grad school some of my thesis work involved avatars in 3D environments. I haven’t messed with it since then, I never had a headset or anything. I’ve thought about it, but my career’s in freefall so I should probably take care of that first.

Yeah, the comments are all in text. You can access the comments through a web browser, like here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon The movie synchronization isn’t as sophisticated as in your setup, basically the organizers just says “GO!” and everyone starts watching and commenting. Naturally, those with ads get kinda off-sync but there’s always an ad-free option, like the https://miru.miyaku.media/ stream. Usually that miru stream shows the movie, then there’ll be a brief interlude, and then the second movie (Grizzly 2 in this case) will be streamed. Anyway, I’m “Terencio” on mastodon, I shout out Lemmy towards the beginning, klu9 and a couple others from bmoviebonanza are usually there too!

Your watch party sounds awesome. Monsterdon is constrained by the twitter-like character limit, so “deeper” conversations can be harder to have. Mostly we do wisecracks, but everybody keeps it positive, if you’re going through a hard time it might be good.

Yes, there’s usually a “formal” organized monsterdon, then often the person who does the livestream on https://miru.miyaku.media/ will follow it up with a related film which sleep-deprived stragglers will discuss. This time I believe they are indeed planning to show Grizzly II: Revenge.

I feelz ya, fam! I’m totally into sumo and the top-tier matches in Japan start at 3:30am in my time zone.

Anyway, if you want to replicate the Monsterdon experience:

• you can “re-play” the comments for past events here: https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/
• and find sources for the movies here: https://lemmy.world/search?q=Monsterdon&type=Posts&listingType=All&communityId=2154&page=1&sort=New

Aw yeah, if you already know your rolls and breakfalls, Aikido is a great thing to check out. At lower levels, the “attacks” are basically two-person katas, usually involving escaping from grabs. At upper levels they do have something called randori but even then it’s all very structured. Aikido gets made fun of sometimes for not having a “live” adversary who’s actively trying to beat you. I’ve read there are some dojos that do competitive Aikido, but I think that’s rare.

When someone asks you questions, it’s also an opportunity to ask them questions back, to find out if you’re heading for an environment you don’t wanna be in.

• THEM: Is work/life balance important to you?
• YOU: So, obviously my family’s important to me. I always do my job, though. What kind of expectations to you have here?
• THEM: Well… (look at each other nervously. look up at the cameras monitoring them.) We’re expected to make work a priority…

In the martial arts, Tai Chi is the obvious answer.

Consider Aikido. It’s generally more like choreographed exercises. A lot of dojos are very understanding of physical constraints. Check with your doctor, it might be good way to gently test your limits. Plus, it’s important to know how to fall safely.

They were bringing coconuts to England because the swallows weren’t big enough to do so.

This cartoon deserves a Pulitzer.

Evil Genie: “Granted.” It starts to rain. It never stops.

This isn’t really my area, but afaik…

• the French bankrupted themselves for a number of reasons, one of which was indeed the global Ango-French War (which resulted in the creation of the USA) and the earlier Seven Years War. This wasn’t the only cause of the French Revolution.
• the American and French Revolutions were both products of “the Englightenment” which took part in Europe. To their credit, several of the American leaders saw the value in it and adopted those ideas, but America was pretty much a backwater at that time. Of course American independence was a topic of discussion, much in the same way that the war in Ukraine is today. No doubt some people were “inspired by” the distant foreign war, as an example of ideas that had developed locally.
• I think the 1648 treaties of Westphalia are generally considered the beginning of modern nation states. I think it’d be tough to argue that German and Italian nationalism were “implanted” by the French Revolution.

I had a brilliant concluding paragraph but I accidentally deleted it. Something about how this period of history has many relevant lessons about balancing domestic vs international policy, updating antiquated systems of economic and representation systems, and the interplay between popular movements and individual leaders. But this is, after all, a shitposting community, so no great loss.

a lot of the ideas from the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.
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Since the French Revolution have rise to the idea of the modern nation state and Napoleon, we’d not have a lot of countries.

At first I was like: wtf? Then I remembered we’re in the shitposting community

The ghosts are the game. The cats are game-masters. That’s why terrible things happen to us if we displease them.

You know how cats are sitting still staring at something, and you’re like “how can that cat sit still so long and stare at something?” It’s this. The entire world is a game to them.

!thrashmetal@lemmy.world

I dunno. Better report them to !fuckcars@lemmy.world

thx for the memes/shitposts in spanish, fam, every day I see posts in other languages but so few in spanish for some reason dunno why.

You’re on another level, fam!

• Theme of ONE PUNCH MAN ~Seigi Shikkou - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBxzqne_gWg
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