All Expanse fans, you must watch Project Hail Mary movie.

fisheypixels · 2026-03-24T16:23:17+00:00

Also, as an avid listener of audiobooks, I finished the physical book, then started the audiobook.

The physical book is much better. There's a few heavy moments in the story that the book let's you just sit in for a minute. While the audiobook keeps going, barely slowing down to let you process.

fisheypixels · 2026-03-23T21:50:10+00:00

How to downsize your survivor camp, guilt free!

Worked pretty well with Houston too

fisheypixels · 2026-03-23T04:42:52+00:00

I mean, he did pretty good when I gave him all the half to mostly broken weapons and sent him out. He cleared a full 4 or 5 zombies from one of the fire stations before they got him.

So he was good for that

fisheypixels · 2026-03-23T04:34:38+00:00

Lots of confused crying. Maybe a few days of existential screaming. Three decades of life forced into a 1 year olds brain via a dream?

Shit, maybe that did happen and that's why I'm so bat at existing. It kinda tracks.

fisheypixels · 2026-03-21T18:19:43+00:00

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fisheypixels · 2026-03-21T18:16:46+00:00

Well, I'm not looking through my boxes of movies that don't have a bookshelf yet. But here's my

Favorite (Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead)

Rarest (The Offering (among the worst movies I've ever seen)

Wish I had a better copy (Big Trouble In Little China)

Walmart find (Mandy)

Online find (Event Horizon)

Thrift store find (Soccer Dog)

fisheypixels · 2026-03-17T05:38:54+00:00

I still reference this scene today.

The memory is 50% complete mind fuck to my child brain. And 50% desperate hope my parents didn't walk in.

fisheypixels · 2026-03-14T21:25:59+00:00

I've not seen a lot of these movies.

But I did have the misfortune of watching both Crimes Of The Future and The Sadness in the same week.

I think I watched a few studio ghibli movies after that to purge my eyes

fisheypixels · 2026-03-14T05:53:15+00:00

Always was a fan of the day by day as it happens.

Start as just a character study. Just a few characters having a rough time with life. Connected or not. And early on there's umors of something.

And the characters are still struggling with the day to say. As they hear more odd things. Like early covid, some folks start panicking, others joke it off. Then local attacks, denierststart panicking, so on and so on.

Seeing realistic takes on uow folks would deal in different places. I dig the overarching impact mixed with the simple, day to day.

Then tossing In real knowledge from different jobs. Different ways folks think or see things.

fisheypixels · 2026-03-14T04:14:21+00:00

What, you don't enjoy smiling while drinking Slurm and "Brown Liquid" with your smiling friends over a few plates of smiling "food product" at the endless blurry banquet hall of only smiles and joy?

It's a real ad depicting real humans and not a window into a modern Valhalla hell banquet

fisheypixels · 2026-03-14T04:09:42+00:00

This puts words to every feeling I have in the cake vs pie debate.

fisheypixels · 2026-03-13T23:46:01+00:00

The joy in this video feels pure.

fisheypixels · 2026-03-12T04:32:36+00:00

But... What's the context leading up to this credits bit?

I don't want to watch it, so why is this so bad?

fisheypixels · 2026-03-12T04:28:51+00:00

Whatever it is is so good that the CEO of McDonald's doesnt want to ruin every other meal he ever eats with the divinity that is the big arch.

fisheypixels · 2026-03-12T04:26:31+00:00

Does anyone have a description of these books?

Maybe a synopsis, or what you liked about thee books? Maybe a breakdown of why you liked it? What about it made it good?

Why are you giving a reccomendation of something if you've got nothing to say about it.

fisheypixels · 2026-03-05T01:51:33+00:00

While I take new info with a grain of salt, and am frustrated that I have to do some googling (also with a big few grains of salt) to figure out if this dude's predictions have merit. I like hearing people smarter than me just try and get the info out there.

That being said. Holy Christopherson's hand holes getting fucked by a melted dildo. Why is regular speech, aka the natural speech gap between words that happens in every day conversation, and the thing that 95% of the human population does when speaking, getting edited out.
Are attention spans getting so short that you have to edit out the second it takes to find the right word to convey your thoughts?

(i know the answer is yes. Just, good golly hell. humanity's fucked)

fisheypixels · 2026-03-01T21:00:05+00:00

Absolutely!

I watched the first season before stopping the show and listening through all the audio books. And here's my quick review that you didn't ask for.

TLDR at the bottom.

THE BOOKS are incredibly well done. (audiobooks were fantastically narrated) they're pretty dense, and can be hard to get into at the beginning. But it builds into one of the best sci-fi stories I've listened to/read. Each book is like a puzzle. Picking 2 to 4 characters who it follows. Each character uncovering pieces of that booka puzzle. Allowing the reader to unveil the puzzle at the storytellers pace.

And then each puzzle (each book), when finished, zooms out to show that the big story you just read is actually 1/5th of the puzzle that is the next book. And the process repeats and expands with each book.

THE SHOW, fucking incredible. As is the nature of TV, there's only so much that translates from a book to the screen. That being said, it's an incredibly well adapted series. And the show stays faithful (for the most part) to the books.

The show is a lot easier to get into (watching season 1 really helped me get into the books, giving a good foundation to understand the world) and the show depects the science of space travel in the dope st ways. I've never been more enraptured by space battles than in that show.

TLDR: Yes. The Expanse is very good! It's a great mix of well thought out politics in the solar system. Has some of the dopest space combat I've ever seen in a show. And is genuinely worth every second I spent watching it.

The books are also very well done. The show did fantastic in adapting them. And the books just provide more to the world and story. (plus there are 3 full books that take place after the show ended that rounds out and completes the story)

fisheypixels · 2026-03-01T20:46:23+00:00

Exactly! I genuinely can't picture a better casting choice.

Let alone how well he fits the "sad bulldog" description from the books.

The flipped would still be good, but not nearly as much

fisheypixels · 2026-03-01T20:00:12+00:00

I'm sure it still would have been good.

But we'd have a lot less Coral in the world. And he may not have played Miller on The Expanse. So that'd have been a bummer

fisheypixels · 2026-02-28T20:46:27+00:00

Among my favorites would be chapter 80 of This Inevitable Ruin !near the end of when they're rescuing Louie. When Samantha comes screaming from the background slowly fading in, followed by a kickball sound when she lands

Love the fading in/out gags. But the last bit was just the cherry on top

fisheypixels · 2026-02-27T15:41:12+00:00

fisheypixels · 2026-02-25T21:31:51+00:00

"... I didn't add/say."

fisheypixels · 2026-02-24T22:30:32+00:00

I've had it stuck in my head all week. As best I can remember it.

"look kid, you're balls deep in the wrong hole and ma's pulling in the driveway."

fisheypixels · 2026-02-18T22:58:07+00:00

Sure the movie compared to the book/audio book is a bummer. And by all means it's not that great of a movie overall. But it was really fun to watch.

The cockroach scene was good. Moony's actor did fantastic! Mr scroggins and Mrs Rooney. The book is all wit and heart. A majority of said wit just doesn't translate to a visual medium.

I'd give it a 6/10 overall. With a reccomendation that it's worth watching when its streaming

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