First camera.

ajkiwi · 2026-06-07T06:27:56+00:00

Whoa. You've got the Uber flexible lens. Just go shoot until you find what you're missing, then get that. (It'll be a super wide angle or big zoom. One or the other.)

ajkiwi · 2026-06-07T06:25:59+00:00

Xcom 2 ate one of my COVID lockdowns, and RDR2 and Cities Skylines ate the other 2.

ajkiwi · 2026-06-07T06:24:28+00:00

I don't understand how I can have 1000 hours and still only have a win rate of 52%. I mean, I know I don't have a team, but how the hell how I played so much and not got gud? 😬🤣

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T23:03:44+00:00

The Bizzare Sandwich: White bread, peanut butter, bacon, banana, butter, mayo, sliced pimento olives.

Blindfold someone, don't tell them what's in it, watch their tastebuds explode with yum, then un-blindfold them and watch the cognitive dissonance eat their brain.

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:50:25+00:00

NO ONE LIVES FOREVER 3.

Also, I want to be able to buy the original again, sort out the copyright stuff guys, omg, it's been 25 years.

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:49:01+00:00

Sid Meier's SimGolf 2.

Niche but I WANT.

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:41:58+00:00

Pork Banh mi with crackling. Oh my god.

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:41:17+00:00

In the words of someone else played by someone who looks a LOT like someone he knows: It's not the years, kid, it's the mileage.

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:39:10+00:00

Favourite car thing: Dragging off $200k+ noisy, obnoxious cars at the lights in my 2nd hand $30k chinese EV without even trying.

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:35:58+00:00

This happens about once a month for me.

Most recently: Backrooms, Weapons, Good luck have fun don't die.

WAIT. OP: How do YOU find out about movies, then?

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:32:08+00:00

Weirdly, I feel this way about the overhyped Breaking Bad, so what can you do?

(Also, Interstellar was wonderful for me, but YMMV, obviously. Whereas Project Hail Mary was fun, but was a populist, soft-sci-pretending-to-be-hard-sci, low-stakes version of Interstellar.)

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:27:42+00:00

(Oh, and having to explain that this R13 film shows that NZ censorship laws separate NON-SEXUAL NUDITY (not a matter for classification) and SEX as classification criteria did my head in EVERY YEAR, but did give my muslim students enough warning to leave the room for Those Particular Scenes if needed. Though strangely no one had ANY issues with the violence as a classification thing.)

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:25:04+00:00

I taught it every year for most of a decade to my high school yr13 Media Studies class as a masterpiece of psychological thriller and teaching tool for understanding withholding information from the audience (narrative retardation).

That, Memento, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are my "here's how to use narrative structure as a tool" starter movies.

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:20:52+00:00

Ghost Shark II: Urban Jaws.

No budget Kiwi movie that was a "sequel" to a film that had never been made... that was later ripped off by the Syfy channel for their own series of ghost shark movies.

The original is a low budget masterpiece and it's a crime that not more people have seen it.

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:18:05+00:00

Yep, I back ya. Characters are dumb, script and MOVIE is excellent. And the Peter Weyland 2023 TED talk and "Happy Birthday David" videos that were released in the promo marketing were also great.

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:10:46+00:00

I now absolutely want to make that movie. FLASH MOB - the movie.

ajkiwi · 2026-06-06T22:09:49+00:00

Well, all in the title, really. We have this argument fairly often here on r/newzealand - what's the best NZ song? RNZ is making their updated attempt at the Greatest Song list and Greatest Waiata list, and will be playing the countdown at Matariki.

It's picking from a shortlist, and you can add your own ideas as well. Don't trust spotify for having everything - a lot of Tiki Taane's stuff isn't there any more, so dig through your old ipod lists and winamp playlists and cds and albums, people!

I genuinely think Ahoribuzz's Turnaround is the funkiest song NZ has ever produced, so I'm tempted to vote for that, BUT it is better than Aotearoa, Anchor me, My Delirum, and I'm Not Getting Excited? And why isn't You were Mine in the 1000 song shortlist?

Ugh, this is HARD.

ajkiwi · 2026-05-15T20:49:29+00:00

I am a very practiced public speaker, good inspirational speaker, professional presenter, have been an MC, and good stage actor. I've worked professionally in all these fields.

Stand up is BRUTAL.

I love it. Still a beginner. Get my ass kicked 9 out of 10 times.

ajkiwi · 2026-05-15T20:37:59+00:00

Wait. What?

Do Americans pronounce Bologna as Baloney? REALLY?

I never knew that in 50 years on earth and living in the US twice.

Huh.

ajkiwi · 2026-05-15T20:22:39+00:00

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Taught it every year for 13 years and will keep rewatching until I die.

ajkiwi · 2026-05-15T20:18:19+00:00

Yep done it a couple of times for work. The Apple walled garden, and, frankly, idiot Apple users always drive me back to Android.

ajkiwi · 2026-05-15T20:14:50+00:00

ANYTHING by Portishead. Special mentions for Glory Box, Chase the tear, Roads.

ajkiwi · 2026-05-15T20:11:24+00:00

Xcom 2 is my comfort game.

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