It’s a way to help ourselves understand reactions that go beyond regular stress. Often we talk about this sort of thing when we’re trying to get a handle on addiction or self-harm or some other type of damaging behavior. Sure, there are technical terms, but the idea is to give people an easier term to remember: “I’m starting to spiral, I need to [do whatever I figured out with my therapist].”

It’s when you feel bad, then feel bad about feeling bad, then feel bad about feeling bad about feeling bad, etc.

Here’s the problem: Kraa! isn’t gloriously inept like Plan 9 from Outer Space, and it isn’t stylishly wild like Starcrash. It’s self-aware bad. It winks at you. And nothing kills camp faster than a movie begging to be in on the joke. It’s the cinematic equivalent of the kid in high school rehearsing comebacks in the mirror, never realizing that trying too hard is the least cool move of all.

Yeah, I felt the same thing when I was watching Balls of Fury last week. It has all the elements of a good camp movie, but something just wasn’t working. Aspiring comedy writers might profitably compare Balls of Fury to the contemporary Blades of Glory , and consider why one fails while another one thrives.

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!

It looks like a pretty inventive cross between a Baja and a Poncho . It definitely uses Baja-like cloth, and it has a hood like a Baja. But it apparently has no sleeves, and is long like a poncho. And the hood looks more like a collar, which I think is rare for Bajas. And it has an additional blanket attached around the shoulders in a style which I kinda associate with north-american-Natives. It’s a great piece. Pairing it with moccasins is a visual pun. But I’m not crazy about the pants.

@frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml is right that it’s runway fashion, and the Dsquared2 web pages identify themselves as “alternative luxury”. But this community’s about “Fashion rooted in youth subcultures”, and the Baja is traditionally a youth item. Plus, there’ll be cheap knock-offs, and those’ll have influences on fast fashion variations, and all of this is inspiration for people doing DIY.

Just listening to that one now, never heard it before either. Wait, is this a trick to get me to listen to the entire Radiohead catalog?!?

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.

Just listening to it now. Never heard it before.

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.

the Hagbulbia album by Portal

thanks, I’m listening now, gonna have to dig out my best headphones!

drone

Dunno much about drone, but I’ve recently started listening to noise and dark ambient that’s sometimes also labeled drone. Any recommendations?

Radio head is like THE indie band everyone knows.

Yeah, but everybody only knows “Creep.” (Source: I only know “Creep”.)

It’s easy to make jokes, but if I was starting a gang of super-villains, I’d want at least one person dressed like this.

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

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The sweater’s nice again. But if it’s like the others in their collection it goes for around $1.5K. That’s the sort of thing that argues for the value of DIY.

C’mon, museums in developing nations still have good stuff, don’t shame em.

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…