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MIa Rodriguez is the most honest person ever

Part of me wanna to do stupid shit; gotta admit, I'm a hypocrite; I like it way better than being on the side of it -- I'm a psycho, loving it.

THE STARS PREDICT DISASTER IN HER BASTARD WAYS

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The Dutch angle is subtly introduced here but does its job well

Carl tries to reach Kat through the wall, the image canted about 30 degrees to the right for added tension

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This movie keeps reminding me of Hellraiser II: Hellbound. I feel like at the centre of it all is Leviathan.

The mazes of hell under Leviathan in Hellraiser II

This was a great example of the movie being incredibly good, I was freaked out and fucked up from what I saw in the tree room but also when he came in here I could SMELL the chlorine and the mildew on top of looking at this obscene and impossible face molded into the tile. Masterful. Absolute peak.

A tiled shower room or bathroom or pool room or something with a face sculpted into the corner. A black square of missing tile leads into blackness next to it. The individual tiles are sculpted to the shape of the face, impossibly, that is not how tiles work at all. It is very very wrong on a fundamental level

That long blood trail telling you just how bad it's going to be. But you won't see it. They won't show you. They know better. They HIDE THE SHARK.

A long trail of blood on the floor of the backrooms

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This scene is SO FUCKING TENSE. I want COMMENTARY. I want to know MORE. I want to know about how this was scripted and how this was shot and who made which decisions and why.

Bobby is trying to avoid being pulled down the shaft in the backrooms as Carl and Kat try to hold him

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I love this. I love it so much. So many "what the FUCK" moments and you never actually find out what the fuck. Like what the fuck is going on here. What the entire fuck is this. What does it mean. We never dig any deeper into it, we just see this shit and then it's gone and never mentioned again

A doorframe in the floor of the backrooms, filled with concrete, with dry dead grass sticking up through the edge

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There is a PERSON in the laundry and we just NEVER TALK ABOUT THAT

The pile of laundry in the backrooms, with a person's head half protruding from it

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Really appreciate how Bobby calls out the smell in the laundry room to make you think about it. Like I don't know about everyone else but once he said "it fucking stinks down here" I didn't just immediately get what it would smell like, I never STOPPED thinking about the smell wherever they went

I am not sure whether Kat is hot. I mean she's not NOT hot. But... am I just seeing the resenmblance to Huong Le? There certainly IS some, and I simp hard for Huong Le.

Lukita Maxwell as Kat in Backrooms, a pretty young Southeast Asian woman with black hair and dark brown eyes.

Huong Le, a strikingly gorgeous young Chinese woman with black hair and almost luminous light brown eyes

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 25/09/2026

I do not think enough people have distinctly and deliberately appreciated the passage of Kat into the backrooms at about 47:25

Lukita Maxwell as Kat in Backrooms, walking through the wall into the backrooms for the first time

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Well you know what I am doing this morning

An HBOMax banner over the entry for "Backrooms," labeled as "Streaming Premiere - R 2026 Drama"

Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 25/09/2026

Nick Beggs does not get enough love, the man could PLAY

Nick Beggs of Kajagoogoo with his insane smile under his insane floofy blonde hair

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 23/09/2026

Hey YouTube why the FUCK are hour-plus preroll ads even a thing in the first place

A "sponsored" ad for "Master Digital Printing" -- 2 of 2 -- showing the ad 37 seconds into a 1:01:57 runtime

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"24 skills people over 40 learned that nobody uses anymore" -- I think people still use this one

A screen clipping, "7. I can make a pipe out of a soda can (to smoke weed)."

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Wow even windowed mode doesn't play nice, but at least I can do something with it. I seem to have gotten farther in this game than I remembered

A "General Information" tab showing the character at level 129

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Time to try and figure this shit out again. I should have an easier time of it now, given that I've been playing the sequel a lot lately

A Steam "Download Complete" notification for Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

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I feel like I have to go back and replay the original DD:DA to speak intelligently on the second one. Look I am not like a professional game reviewer or anything but I do take my opinions on games seriously

The Steam library banner for Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, with a "PAUSE" button next to a status message saying "DOWNLOADING: 6% complete"

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I get to see my girl again ♥️

Huong Le, the homeless panhandler in the underbelly of Starfield's Neon, a stunningly gorgeous young Chinese women with ebon hair and strikingly beautiful almost-luminous light brown eyes.

I was thinking of a different movie, because this is totally what all those tech bros are doing every night

Sean Chapman as Frank Cotton in "Hellraiser," shirtless and sweaty in a square of candles, diligently solving the Lament Configuration

3-6-9, THE GOOSE DRANK WINE, THE MONKEY CHEWED TOBACCO ON THE STREETCAR LINE

A Starfield level up notification for level 369

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 20/09/2026

Well Yom Kippur is over and I have eaten and had a cup of coffee so you know what else I've been starving for all day

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I would go on to play Zork and Advent later, which were technically earlier games, but this was the one that grabbed me.

The Scott Adams "Pirate Adventure" game box

It's definitely not a game for EVERYONE, but

A Steam library entry for Starfield showing 5,425 hours played

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Also I think I am on the right track for the medusa's lair

The player casually regards a stone statue of a kneeling person at the side of the road

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Closing in on the end of the vocation grind, only Mystic Spearhand and Warfarer left.

A "Rank Max" notification for Jasper over the Magick Archer vocation icon

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Me when i want to play Starfield

A harlequin in festive Mardi Gras regalia, holding a flaming goblet of deep red liquor, captioned "Disappear in the heavy glare of neon"

Share a romantic horror film... 🫶🏻

The 1987 poster for Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" with Pinhead holding the Lament Configuration next to the line "Demon to some. Angel to others." The tagline for the title is "He'll tear your soul apart."

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Now my pawn is slutty tho

A young woman wearing a witch hat and a leather bustier with a black leather coat. Beside her stands a petite elven girl wearing less than Leeloo in "The Fifth Element"

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Unfortunately I don't look as slutty now. Still slutty. But not AS slutty.

A pale-skinned man with long hair and a neatly-trummed goatee in dark eyeshadow and bright red lipstick, wearing a fairly pedestrian dark green brocade doublet

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Back to a sensible vocation at last

A Steam achievement notification for Dragon's Dogma II, "Arrows and Incantations: Changed your vocation to magick archer."

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WELL THAT'S QUITE ENOUGH OF THAT SHIT

A Dragon's Dogma II vocation status display, showing Trickster at maximum rank

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That fight took OVER TWENTY MINUTES. Most of it spent reviving my damn pawns

A post-battle status report showing +7799 XP and +414 Dcp

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This fight is TENSE. I am a trickster with no advanced skills. I can do NO DAMAGE AT ALL.

A fight with a dragon, nearly concluded: all three support pawns are at less than a quarter maximum health, well into the red, and the dragon itself is on the last quarter of its last health bar

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