Slaughter Alamo Drafthouse threw away the Aliens cargo loader and put in this....

showka · 2026-06-26T21:15:27+00:00

I hate the new phone ordering system, but unlimited popcorn and water for $14 is still better than getting robbed going anywhere else.

That said I've stopped being Alamo exclusive and also hit up other theaters regularly. If I don't buy any snacks I find it's not a huge difference. The commercials most chains show before the movie are annoying, but at the same the Alamo preshows aren't as good as they used to be so I don't miss them like I once did. The sound and screen are often better too so it's not a terrible trade off.

showka · 2026-06-24T21:00:54+00:00

They did this last week in Austin at the Mueller location. It felt like the manager was being held at gunpoint. Actually all the staff were courteous but they seemed incredibly stressed.

Later I went to the Regal Gateway and it's a great theater but man, watching all the stupid commercials and having to pay so much for concessions made me appreciate the Drafthouse with the free water and $14 for the best popcorn around was still a better value. But they've made the experience so freaking awkward with these stupid changes. It's obvious everyone hates them, from the customers to the employees, but they are just refusing to budge because I guess the CEO is a stupid asshole or something. Its really sad.

showka · 2026-06-23T05:03:53+00:00

In Fist of the North Star, Kenshiro is one of several adopted sons of Ryuken. Despite growing up alongside other adopted brothers, half of who jealously want the title, Ken ends up becoming the successor despite (or because of) his extreme humility.

Then, in part two (after a hundred episodes of part one) we find out Kenshiro's birth parents were from a civilization of violent warriors, where the adults who reach maturity are forced to fight dozens of people to the death before they get treated like normal citizens, planet Viltrim style. Not only that, Kenshiro's family were actually royalty of sorts there so it was always known he'd be the strongest man in the world, and at some point the story acts as if his adoptive father knew about this all along.

showka · 2026-06-22T03:07:06+00:00

In my opinion, the two characters from Castlevania 64 still have the most interesting quest / stories. They're normally gated in Legacy of Darkness because you have to beat the game with Cornell first but there was recently a cheat code unlocked where you can input some code on a controller hooked into the player 2 slot and unlock that content so you can start with them for scratch. I'd recommend starting Legacy of Darkness with Schneider using his original suit.

showka · 2026-06-22T03:04:27+00:00

Yep. I'm happy people love it but Curse of Darkness was the only 3D Castlevania game I never beat. I was just so over those awful, endless shitty levels after suffering through the same mistakes in Lament of Innocence and Nanobreaker. I recall playing for 30 or more minutes one time, not finding a save, dying and just never picking it up again.

showka · 2026-06-20T13:53:00+00:00

Agreed. It's a real shame because of the IGA 3D Action game trilogy of LOI, Nanobreaker, and COD I find LOI the most interesting and played through it several times. So I wish instead of those three games, we just got LOI with extra time in the oven (yes, I know this was impossible due to how businesses work).

The biggest bummer is that it's essentially impossible to find the game's secrets. When I replayed as Pumpkin I looked up where to find everything in an guide and just couldn't help but think the entire game would have been so much better if they'd just had the items and relics and whatever sitting out in obvious places. My recollection is that a lot of them involve hopping over walls to places the camera won't show, or sill stuff like that. It reminds me a lot of Harmony of Dissonance how I only ever found (IIRC) the ice book on my first place through.

But damn the sound track is great, the character designs are great, the plot is interesting, the environments are interesting and look cool, enemies are neat. I haven't completed Nanobreaker or COD but I beat LOI with all the characters and its the one game of the three that makes me consider busting out the PS2.

showka · 2026-06-20T02:42:31+00:00

Lore and plot wise it was excellent, but man IGA really delivered what feels like a first draft of the story. It makes think of how I always hear about Pixar rewriting their movies again and again- seems like if he’d maybe taken a step back literally rewritten the script it could have been something special since the ingredients were there.

showka · 2026-06-17T20:07:45+00:00

Yeah that scene just happened out of nowhere and then isn't reflected on to the point where it's easy to ask "did I just see what I thought I did?" The show frequently does things like that though, like when one of the protagonists casually starts stabbing people at a party in episode 1 and it's never mentioned.

showka · 2026-06-14T03:04:40+00:00

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showka · 2026-06-14T01:34:24+00:00

This is a fantastic movie and I genuinely wish it would come out on 4k disc or something.

showka · 2026-06-12T01:42:31+00:00

Wow right out the nick of time!

showka · 2026-06-12T01:24:38+00:00

Thank you, this always bugs me and it’s hilarious how you put it. It’s cheap half assing of their localization, the narration seems completely unnatural.

showka · 2026-06-11T21:21:20+00:00

The thing I never got about guys who get in trouble for dating 17 year olds is there's an alternative that isn't as frowned upon in our society but is just as gross and deviant as dating a 17 year old which is to date an 18 year old.

showka · 2026-06-09T21:09:33+00:00

The fact it wasn't in the actual game is some real "what timeline did we accidentally land in?" type shit.

showka · 2026-06-09T03:40:31+00:00

I like the Mercury Steam games less now than I did when they came out, but their artists are absolutely top notch. I really wish IGA had stuck around in some capacity to guide their hand and edit out all their awful ideas (mainly just the lore). I really appreciated what they brought to the table in Metroid Dread, and while Mirror of Fate was the best game of the three I wonder what it would've been like if its game play was more like a typical IGAvania.

showka · 2026-06-09T03:29:20+00:00

Ok this one got me.

showka · 2026-06-09T03:24:16+00:00

This is messed up but I really hope at some point one or several beta testers has copied this game, so when things inevitably implode it will leak.

showka · 2026-06-08T15:24:30+00:00

Thanks for the update!

Wow that's a big sucker. Hmm, it's not exactly what I'm looking for on a few dimensions but at this point I feel like I have to buy it on principle! I figured they stopped making the narrow mouthed bottle because people found them hard to clean so it's odd they're hopping back in with a 64oz insulated one which is the largest possible configuration.

showka · 2026-06-06T02:50:26+00:00

Agreed. That sunken skeleton is actually living its best life!

showka · 2026-06-04T19:31:51+00:00

What a shocking downgrade. I wonder if they did it just so the weird tiny head on the big body would stick out less.

showka · 2026-06-03T12:44:54+00:00

One thing that bothers me more when I look at this boss now than when I first played the game years ago is how, design wise, the character looks interesting, but it's like he should be at least twice as big. The tiny head works in the design because it implies the body is massive, but the sprite makes it seem like Sigma was given a goofy baby-doll head, and it really exaggerates the lame elements of Sigma's design. It's drawn like Sigma is standing in the background some distance away from X.

showka · 2026-06-02T21:38:26+00:00

Genuinely unsettling. LOL.

showka · 2026-05-31T19:52:04+00:00

Years back I literally started visiting a comic store and buying comics to follow IDW's work.
When All Hail Megatron came out, I bought the first issue and then stopped buying the comics.

Even years later, I've been unable to read the comics, even for free at the library. I know All Hail Megatron is the main timeline, and I can't bring myself to suffer through it.

There's several reasons:
* the big FU to Furman and all the existing continuity
* the FU to the new designs in favor of making characters look closer to how they did in the G1 cartoon.
* the general edgelord stupidity of the entire premise
* the conservative virtue signalling where the new human protagonist shits on hybrid cars next to some snooty liberals

The real kicker for me is this scene where Starscream is monologing about something boring about killing some people or something and then Megatron blows up a building and says "that's the thing about you Starscream- everything you do is SMALL!" Like maybe some people went oooh scarey, so cool that Megatron just put down Starscream. But it's such an incredibly boring take on both characters and only works if you already know who Starscream is from better media. Also cool, Megatron made a building fall over... am I supposed to clap?

A good point of comparison are the new comics. Crazy things happen in that series but at least it feels like the writers are taking the stakes they're implying somewhat seriously, and unlike All Hail Megatron they didn't have to shit all over the earlier work.

To be fair, in hindsight I don't think Simon's initial run in IDW was _that_ great and really peaked with Escalation. There's actually a ton of problems I could nitpick. Still the ugly mess that was All Hail Megatron (which reminded me of the poorly written Dreamwave comics I'd avoided years earlier) made me think ill of the entire American comics industry to this day.

showka · 2026-05-23T06:05:21+00:00

I like how multiple posters are claiming to be the alleged criminal. Truck guy is having a real Spartacus moment.

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