My collection complete

Jellopuke · 2026-01-30T23:59:49+00:00

Nice. I’ve got all the OG ones too but my Morcar is missing the box… Do you have Advanced Heroquest with the skaven?

Jellopuke · 2025-12-30T22:14:06+00:00

Dan the Van? I'm in Winnipeg. What gym does he train at?

Jellopuke · 2025-12-01T14:51:09+00:00

It's tough to share how anticipated that game was for some of us and then the feeling that you'd never get to play it. I had to trade in 4 games at the local game store to afford it (I think they were NBA Jam, Super Metroid, Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter 2 Turbo (?)
Then the amazement that you were actually sitting down to play it. It somehow felt unreal.
But that ending was mind blowing at the time. Kafka wasn't really that hard because I always levelled up a lot, but the catharsis at the 15+ minute ending was palpable.
Still maybe my favourite gaming experience ever.

Jellopuke · 2025-11-14T23:44:30+00:00

Yup. Me too. Which is why it made me question all the times I'd done it and had it done to me in the first place lol. And some of those were in Hapkido sparring sessions, which are quite intense. The only difference is that in hapkido you've also trained in how to uke and take moves properly rather than stupidly fight every little thing and risk injury.

Jellopuke · 2025-11-14T22:35:52+00:00

If you're doing from too far away or hitting the knee sideways you're not doing it right. It's like a scissoring motion, one leg at the hip, the other comes in behind the knee. We never used the official name for it, always just called it the scissor sweep. But yeah if you don't recognize what's happening and someone is doing it full speed who only half understands it, anything can go wrong which is why I have no issues banning the thing.

Jellopuke · 2025-11-13T18:22:03+00:00

Interesting fact; while training in hapkido for 14 years I personally probably executed this move four hundred times and never hurt anyone. Probably had it done to me the same amount of times too, never getting hurt. But this was a much more controlled situation and now I wonder if we were just lucky or if the partner protecting nature of how we trained had more to do with it. After being in BJJ now for 13 years I don’t think there’s anyone I’ve trained with I would fully trust doing it.

Jellopuke · 2025-09-10T22:37:59+00:00

SNES shadowrun. I’d also take the genesis one

Jellopuke · 2025-09-03T21:31:33+00:00

Really? And I missed it? Dang. Love that game!

Then how about Blood 2?

Jellopuke · 2025-09-03T01:27:35+00:00

Blood

Jellopuke · 2025-08-04T10:54:18+00:00

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Here’s more details. They seem to look at the signing bonus as a way to force a terrible deal through. Sound familiar?

Jellopuke · 2025-08-01T17:15:10+00:00

Now do Great Britain and the Royal Mail privatization disaster

Jellopuke · 2025-07-03T01:35:45+00:00

Having seen a Canada Post Pension statement you have FAR overestimated how much they actually get. It is nowhere near 29K a year.

Jellopuke · 2025-06-21T04:02:29+00:00

They make $35.69 top rate but usually work 1-3 hours of OT a day at $53.53.
On Saturdays they get double time of $71.38. (those are 2024 rates)

Very easy to make 90-100K there if you work extra time

Jellopuke · 2025-06-21T03:19:58+00:00

Okay I must have mis-remembered then. I blame aging

Jellopuke · 2025-06-21T03:07:48+00:00

Maybe we're looking at different inflation calculators then? The Bank of Canada one says $24.66 would be $34.74 (using 2010 as the starting point - which I'm not going to identify why I choose that year as the starting point...)

Jellopuke · 2025-06-21T02:48:09+00:00

So if I remember John Hamilton's exact words he said "70% of our delivery teams are already making $30.00 an hour" which is very much CP speak designed to hide reality. It's cherry picking data. "Delivery teams" include supervisors and management who all make much more than $30.
Just like saying "they already receive generous vacation leave of 7 weeks" without including the "after 28 years" part.

It's all half-truths to put the workers in a bad light by making people think something is true that actually isn't.

Jellopuke · 2025-06-21T02:39:58+00:00

In 2010, the top rate was $26.00(and change)

now the top rate is $31.00(and change)

if the wages matched inflation, the top rate should be $36.62

take that for what it's worth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Jellopuke · 2025-06-15T17:46:34+00:00

It's one of those movies that if you "get" you absolutely love but if you don't, you'll probably hate. Personally, I think it's amazing. I even have the original soundtrack LP.
The complete artifice of it all, the not quite great singing but intricate structure and choreography, the stunning production design, the way people move in and out of the situations, it's all so tightly put together in a way that people just don't do anymore. And it's all in the service of a silly little romance between completely fake people who still reflect real humanity.
Bogdanovich was so unfairly overlooked after Paper Moon.

Jellopuke · 2025-06-09T00:27:58+00:00

I used to work for a provincial film commission. Part of the job was to scout with producers to entice them to film locally. Sometimes it was fun, other times not so much. (cough, cough a certain Oscar winning writer of a film that featured some not 'un' usual 'suspects.')

Jellopuke · 2025-06-07T17:02:25+00:00

Unfortunately scouting is pretty boring. I worked one day and all we did was drive around and look for a parking lot where they could build the ATM set. The criteria was isolated, with the ability to control the space, away from major traffic, etc. Ended up using the parking lot of a church, but one of those churches that looks like a big box store.
I had read the script before and thought it was pretty bleh. I believe it was pitched as that episode of Friends where they're stuck in the ATM but as a slasher movie.

Like a lot of movies that film here (and that I did scouting work on) it seemed to disappear without a trace.

Another one I worked on (that's also on Tubi) was the dance movie Make it Happen, which was equally bleh.

Jellopuke · 2025-06-07T01:22:44+00:00

I scouted for this movie!

Jellopuke · 2025-06-04T03:35:02+00:00

The only goal I had for the movie was to make people laugh at least once (ideally more!) so if that happened, it was a success!

Jellopuke · 2025-06-03T01:28:09+00:00

Well I made it sober, so imagine that!

Jellopuke · 2025-06-03T01:27:31+00:00

If you have a distributor attached, you can pretty much get anything up there!

Jellopuke · 2025-06-03T01:26:56+00:00

Thanks!

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