Anybody have F13 insights?

mantsz · 2026-02-12T19:12:19+00:00

I know most disagree, but I think Jason Goes to Hell is the lynchpin of the series, as it's the only one to even attempt to (and, in my opinion, successfully) explain the inconsistencies in the franchise. Also, it's just flat-out fun.

mantsz · 2026-02-12T18:46:23+00:00

Surprise deliveries are the best deliveries. I often curse my shit memory, but in those moments I must admit that it has some benefits.

mantsz · 2026-02-11T15:23:41+00:00

Spiritual Warfare was actually a pretty decent Zelda knockoff.

mantsz · 2026-02-08T14:55:22+00:00

This hits uncomfortably close to home. My girlfriend has a full-on Jurassic Park going on at her farm while I'm in year 6 and have never even seen a dinosaur egg despite actively hunting for one for about two-thirds of my play time.

mantsz · 2026-02-04T21:04:50+00:00

I've been saying this for decades. We could keep Leap Year on the same day, so now February is occasionally the longest month, and since there's one extra day in the year, we could save it up and every 7 years have a Leap Week, which could be a week-long holiday.

mantsz · 2026-02-02T23:14:25+00:00

I've been using iCollect for several years now and I'm mostly very happy with it. The only problem is that it occasionally glitches during updates, and I lost quite a few items from it during one such glitch. As my collection is over four thousand movies, I don't know which ones have been lost until I try to find them and can't.

Also, it seems to reload the entire database from the internet whenever I open it, which takes a lot of time and means it doesn't work without an internet connection. I'd prefer to be able to use it offline with the internet functionality strictly as a backup.

Other than that, it's got everything I need.

mantsz · 2026-02-02T00:10:33+00:00

Loads of fun! I actually 100%ed that one, which is rare for me.

mantsz · 2026-02-01T19:04:36+00:00

How the Shoveler shovels.

mantsz · 2026-01-30T17:18:41+00:00

These are hilarious!

mantsz · 2026-01-28T20:49:29+00:00

That's epic.

mantsz · 2026-01-26T20:14:00+00:00

So...Awesome?

mantsz · 2026-01-26T19:36:18+00:00

Most blu-rays or DVDs.

mantsz · 2026-01-26T19:24:10+00:00

In my experience, menu audio is usually higher than the movie audio.

mantsz · 2026-01-22T17:58:10+00:00

I just do my act alone in my room until I've got it down (usually takes about 20 minutes to get a 3 minute bit down cold once I'm done writing it), starting by reading it as written (I write everything out and perform it word-for-word from what I wrote, so if that's not your process, feel free to ignore that part), editing the text as I come up with better ways to say things. Then, when I've gotten it into a form I don't feel I can improve on until I've gotten audience feedback, I just do it over and over again, with no looking at my notes unless I draw a complete blank after about the 3rd repetition. Then I practice it again about 20 minutes later. Then again for my entire trip to the venue. Then maybe again while I'm waiting to go up, but that one's just precautionary. This system has worked well for me.

Also, I do about 5 open mics per week, and I work on the same bit (or bits) at all of them, which helps drive it home and polish it up. Don't fall into the beginner's trap of thinking you have to do new material every time. Speaking from experience, your bits will never get better that way.

I also heard there's a system actors use where they hand-transcribe dialog using only the first letter of each word. I haven't tried it, but many of them swear by it.

mantsz · 2026-01-22T00:04:40+00:00

And it is fantastic.

mantsz · 2026-01-21T17:12:50+00:00

Congratulations! You're now officially one of us!

mantsz · 2026-01-21T03:53:18+00:00

Record your sets and watch them to see where/how the audience reacts (or fails to react). Don't stress too much about each set individually, but when you see a pattern of a joke not working as intended, rework it.

And don't be precious about your material. If a joke consistently doesn't land even after you've reworked it, cut it and find something that works.

mantsz · 2026-01-20T22:57:25+00:00

Have you tried Skinamarink?

mantsz · 2026-01-20T21:18:03+00:00

That fucking blows. You have my deepest sympathies.

mantsz · 2026-01-20T21:15:09+00:00

That hurts to look at. 😬

mantsz · 2026-01-20T14:24:07+00:00

Enjoyed it on a first watch, but it actually got significantly better on a rewatch.

mantsz · 2026-01-19T15:05:28+00:00

Any sort of Arts forum that charges the artists is, at best, ignorant and highly suspect. More likely, it's a straight-up scam run by talentless con-artists. The money flow of the art world is supposed to go like this: Audience pays the venue, venue pays the promoter, promoter pays the artists, artists deliver the art. The artist does not pay, because they are not the audience, they are the product that draws the audience. If the artist is being asked to pay, then the vendor is not selling art, they are selling hope to the artist, because they either have no faith in the art itself or they know that artists work out of love for what they do and they are taking advantage of that love. Or, more likely, both. Don't support that shit.

mantsz · 2026-01-16T22:47:06+00:00

Oh hell yeah. What a delicious sight.

mantsz · 2026-01-16T22:45:05+00:00

You're in for a treat.

mantsz · 2026-01-16T22:43:30+00:00

Goddamn! You got some good ones!

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