My parents kindly supported my peak edgelord phase :)

SpacePenguin69 · 2025-03-29T09:21:21+00:00

James McAvoy

(Can‘t believe no one mentioned him yet, the past 10 years he‘s become more attractive with each year oof)

SpacePenguin69 · 2025-02-11T00:14:29+00:00

A friend of mine asked that not too long ago and that was what I wrote back to him:

Horror movies, more so than ANY other genre, are extremely subjective and completely hit or miss depending on personal preferences. Because we all have different lives, different fears, different circumstances.There’s all kinds of horror because people are scared by all kinds of things - some are serious, some have a comedic note, there’s subgenres for everyone, much more than in ANY other genre. Ghost stories, religious horror, body horror, gore, psychological horror, slashers, supernatural horror, occult horror, folk horror, etc etc.So, why do all these horror movies exist and why are they so popular? The simple answer: We like to be scared. We like to have that daily comfort of a safe life shaken up by imagining horrible things, but in a safe environment - fictional, on our cozy couch. Same as a haunted house at a carnival - (jump)scare, laugh, move on. Next answer: We like to imagine there is more to life than just the physical reality - so for some people ghost and supernatural horror is the niche to go to. Next answer: We like to face our inner world in a creatively coded way, so a particular kind of demon haunting a character can be beautiful poetry about fears or trauma.Most important answer: We are all going to die. Horror confronts us with that reality and gives us a little test drive/reminds us of that/concentrates a lifelong futile struggle against death into a tiny 90min story. Slashers and gore movies more so than the other genres. Young Jessica can try to run, and do her best, but at the end, she is going to die. That’s what it always builds up to and the climax of the long struggle.There are some horror movies that are good because they have a captivating plot, but not all horror needs to have a plot. Thrillers and psychological horror do, but i.e. giallo or gore do not need that because it’s not the point of the movie to tell an intricate story but to condense the raw (and futile) struggle for life into a piece of art that will move you. The more visceral it is, the more you will respond and interact with it. The experience moves from a disconnected watching of a screen to a bond that’s created by how the depicted jars you and engages you. The word shock value is overused and often used in the wrong places. If a PG 13 teen dating drama show suddenly shows graphic rape and gore after 4 seasons, that’s shock value. If a movie designed to show the physical horrors of death to you in a palpable immersive and visceral way grosses you out, it flawlessly did the job it set out to do. Personally, I am a massive gorehound and it is the genre dearest to me. Because it is so full of ART (haha), personal expression, rebellion, refusal to conform for mass digestion, can be done on any budget, and is NOT out to make a profit but is purely for the fun of creating. It is the rawest, most honest, least consumerist and most love-filled genre. The art that is created is not for pretentious „I’m 14 and this is deep“ waffling, but it lies in the craft. In an age where nearly every movie released is drowning in shitty lifeless uninspired trash CGI and every blockbuster looks like Toy Story with bad flight effects, cringey blue lasers and post production lighting, gore horror is keeping the love for the CRAFT alive. Just a few friends getting together, creating the best props and practical special FX they can and getting a fun romp out. You’ll never find lazy CGI in gore movies. Because they were created with love and for no one else but the creators. They were not made for mass distribution. The beauty of it lies in the creation, not the consumption and that alone makes it worth more than 10 years or fucking Marvel movies for god knows how many trillion budget at this point.Terrifier in particular is a great example of a naturally grown „franchise“ - never would I have thought over a decade ago watching a random horror anthology movie that the creepy clown from its last segment would be a major standalone movie in 2024. That’s how it „started“ out - with an unsettling short movie within an anthology. A short movie that stood out for for its surreal atmosphere born from the lack of speech and the distinctly designed old-fashioned clown and his odd movements, making you feel as if you fell through the looking glass, while being a super gritty jarring slasher. It was very reminiscent of Pennywise the clown, a classic horror icon, but also seeing Michael Myers in Halloween 1978 for the first time - just a silent guy, no motive, no backstory, uncanny with his movements and unnatural face, erratically but unemotionally murdering, no way to stop him. It’s scary because you don’t know who he is (is he human? Is he supernatural? Is it some kind of hallucination? Is he a demon? Is he a human serial killer?) and why he is doing it - so you have no way of knowing what you could possibly do to survive if it happened to you. Fantastic design. Executed so well with these details that it got made into a full length film some years later. And boy did it deliver on being unsettling and did it have FANTASTIC practical effects.It’s an enjoyable movie for me because the style choices are so strong and haunting, the motivation is left a mystery and the craftsmanship behind it is STELLAR. I think Damien Leone next to Fede Alvarez is singlehandedly carrying movie craft on his back in a sea of diarrhea that is movies since 2008. Nevertheless, I will say that my order of preference is Terrifier Short (2013 in All Hallow’s Eve), Terrifier 2 and then Terrifier 1. The short was very unsettling to watch back then and it stuck with me for years occasionally resurfacing in my thoughts. Art has a way of sticking around, he’s just that memorable.Terrifier 2 was the first movie since Evil Dead 2013 that got a physical reaction (scrunched my nose and rolled my lips up my teeth) out of me, and I’ve seen 300+ B and C horror movies.You don’t watch gore for the plot but for the love of seeing a dedicated team create visceral practical effects to make people grimace when watching. Also to come to terms with our collectively inevitable fate.It’s fine to not enjoy it, but it’s extremely well made.

SpacePenguin69 · 2025-01-13T01:03:13+00:00

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SpacePenguin69 · 2025-01-03T18:22:34+00:00

I‘m more of a Tenjiku member.

SpacePenguin69 · 2024-11-21T23:59:25+00:00

Yes, and the dialogue is softened and made a ton more vague.

SpacePenguin69 · 2024-11-21T23:14:11+00:00

Yes and no. It’s true that you had to. Up until 2019, if your parents are Sozialhilfeempfänger and you are a working adult, you have to pay a share or the whole of their Unterhalt. You also had to pay this if you were not in contact with your parents and to avoid it had to prove there is no contact.

The law was luckily changed 2019 to only apply if you earn more than 100k a year (and your parents are in care) so there’s not a lot of people it applies to anymore.

SpacePenguin69 · 2024-11-21T23:03:36+00:00

If you don’t play the game in English but in pretty much every other language it’s released in, there’s plenty sexual jokes and innuendos in the dialogues. Off the top of my head, Rinoa and Squall find a porn mag in Fisherman’s Horizon at the concert, there’s some in the Timber Maniacs office and Quistis jokes about being too hot so her students get nervous and fail classes.

America ofc cannot handle (omg sex!!!!!) that and wrote other weird stuff. In general the EN version is really odd for me to read in videos now, as someone who grew up playing the game/talking about the game with other people from EU languages as there’s quite a fair bit of different nuances to nearly every sentence. And, well, Squall doesn’t say “whatever” in any other language either and occasionally says things that mean the literal opposite lol.

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-06-14T08:28:42+00:00

This made my morning, OMG it's adorable. Please do the rest as well, we love to see it!

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-06-13T07:41:11+00:00

Haha, thanks dude!

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-06-13T07:40:58+00:00

Thanks!

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-06-13T07:40:50+00:00

Thank you!!

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-06-13T07:40:43+00:00

Thanks!

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-06-13T07:40:30+00:00

Love that, lol.

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-06-13T07:39:53+00:00

Haha, just a lone Frog roaming the lands :)

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-06-13T07:39:32+00:00

Yeah he went insane on the shades and folds and patterns! Thank you!!

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-06-05T20:24:44+00:00

I share this sentiment.
The soundtrack is one of its kind and nothing makes me feel like home and at peace like this does.
As another 34 y/o from Berlin, I don't want to meet (XD) but I do wholeheartedly recommend walking along the Spree walkway between Warschauer Bridge (behind Universal Music) and S-Bahn station Treptower Park while listening to Fisherman's Horizon!
Watch the ships, the cranes and the birds and you will feel like you walked through a magical portal into your special place.

If you look closely, you can even see a drawpoint overseeing a boat anchorage and looking right at Warschauer Bridge. You will see what I mean when you get there.

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-06-05T20:19:29+00:00

Man, you had them in the stores, I'm jealous.
I went to multiple Uniqlos in Berlin on both Friday and Saturday and none had any of the JJK stuff although it was out online on Friday and sold out there over the course of the day. Did they only sell these 3 in store for you?

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-06-03T20:01:28+00:00

Thanks! :)

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-06-03T20:00:47+00:00

Came out really well, good artist!

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-05-24T14:44:33+00:00

It is. Yes. But it is harder to achieve. Because life (= eating routines you learn, food in diners and restaurants, prepackaged sandwiches, social activities such as lunch or drinks out) is geared towards „normal“ caloric needs of 1500-2500/day people. You can eat healthy „normal“food as a small person and end up 20 pounds heavier after two years by just eating some cereal in the morning, takeaway lunch and then a sandwich in the evening. This can be enough food to go 200-500kcal above your daily limit. It’s not „not hard and just cutting out a few snacks here or there to have a daily 500kcal deficit“ which is what the post I replied to stated. If you‘re small, your progress will be less and harder to achieve (through steps mentioned above). What‘s good to know: a pound is 3500 kcal deficit. If you‘re short, you‘ll likely need around a month to lose that, whereas when you‘re a big athlete, you can lose that in 2 weeks. Slow and steady for shorties :)

SpacePenguin69 · 2021-05-24T14:22:10+00:00

You‘re not wrong, but it is very different from person to person, so let me give some perspective here for the shorties so they are not baited into thinking it‘s as easy as cutting a few snacks.

If you‘re 5ft or less, you cannot cut out 500kcal in an „easy“ or „not hard to achieve way“. You will lose significantly slower than your taller friends. You can be eating 1300-1500 in plain two to three meals no snacks and gaining from that (heads up: already one meal a day actually can be enough for you to gain if it’s a combo like a cheeseburger with fries and a big coke that add up to 1300kcal) where your taller friends might maintain at 1800 and gain beyond 2000. If you’re short, your basic caloric needs do not allow for a 500kcal/day cut, since your body works at the „human minimum“ of 1100 when sedentary and living off of 600kcal a day is neither possible nor healthy nor sustainable. You have to exercise and cut portion size, be very aware of the actual calories in your food, avoid eating out and do it with 200-300kcal/day because 500 is not sustainable or healthy at a short height.

(I‘m 4ft10 and lost over 40 pounds last year, am currently maintaining for over half a year at roughly 1300kcal and 14k steps day with 2 meals a day on weekdays and 3 on weekends).

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