Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 10h7. A movie with nasty food: The Substance (2024) I have wanted/dreaded to see this for a year. You know those jokes about Tarantino and bare feet? This director likes butts. Academy award for most butt shots. It's a colorful hyper-real fairy tale which is at odds with the nasty body horror. Fun? A. 010
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 07/10/20266. A horror movie with a man you'd DUMP: Festival of the Living Dead (2024) This Tubi original is better than it had any right to be, which is not to say it's good. Just that it's not hilariously bad. If does indeed include one of the most horrible men I've ever seen though! Basic zombie film. C. 120
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 05/10/20265. A Christopher Lee movie: Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) I love an anthology! There is much hilarious cheese here, but also better storytelling and tension-building than most modern horror. Props for including an explicit anti-colonialism story! B+ 120
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 04/10/20264. A King Kong movie: Ape vs. Monster (2021) (About coffee) "Black. Like the heart of the space program." I was supposed to watch a real King Kong movie, but I choose an Asylum rip-off! As usual, it starts off amusingly terrible, but ends up boringly terrible. Still a pretty fun time. C- 200
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 04/10/20263. A horror movie with a badass strut: Ready or Not 2 (2026) I loved Ready or Not, and was immediately bought in to this sequel as soon as it started. Not much horror-wise but just a real fun action comedy. A almost +. 100
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 04/10/20262. A horror movie with forbidden love: Lisa Frankenstein (2024) Fun, but the tone felt off. I was put off by the "hero" being gleefully evil in a movie with such a light tone. It took most of the movie to click into my brain that it has a Tim Burtony dark comedy thing where that fits. B. 100
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 04/10/20261. A movie with a cursed tape vibe: The Last Video Store (2024) 100% a movie about a cursed tape! This is a low budget goofy romp with some moments that are truly great, like the slow motion dive to put a tape in the VCR. Truly at its best when it makes no effort to make sense. B- 100
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I am sad that we aren't doing our horror podcast anymore (for now!), but I am following Haunted Hippie's October Watchlist: letterboxd.com/hauntedhippi...letterboxd.comHaunted Hippie's 2026 October Watchlist Challenge1. A Movie with a Cursed Tape Vibe 2. A horror movie with Forbidden Love 3. A horror movie with a badass strut 4. A King Kong installment 5. A Christopher Lee horror movie 6. A horror movie with a m... 120
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 12/09/2026He probably thought he was sharing Space Force uniforms. It's an easy mistake. 010
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I think vultures are awesome. We have a pair that hang out on our pool, and they will do fully underwater dives through the spa to cool off. They are massive and amazing to see. I wish they would let me throw them snacks. 050
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mani... This is just some global yikes about AI. I like to find the yikes and wallow in it. I liked the part where he said "there are even some companies still clinging to blockchain" to remind me that this isn't the first awful fad in global business.hermit-tech.comAI Mania Is Eviscerating Global DecisionmakingThe reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively. 010
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk3j... This is truly living a sci fi movieyoutube.comDon't Hang Up On AI Scammers. Do THIS Instead.YouTube video by Kitboga 010
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026BREAKING NEWS: Jojos are potatoes. HoJos are hotels. Mojo is magic. Tojo was prime minister. Jogo is game in Portugese. Mojo Jojo is a monkey. JOMO is a great song by So Good. JoCo is a musician. FloJo is an olympian. JoBlo is a movie website. Dojo is a martial arts studio. Yo Joe! is a battle cry. 040
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 20/07/2026So this flyer appeared on our door. First, I must note the incoherence: the first 3 bullet points are directly contradicting the last 3. Whirling, whirling toward the future! But more important is the 4th bullet point. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?! Where are you keeping them??? Is that them in the picture? 020
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Platners gonna plat. I am shocked, shocked I say, that the guy with a nazi tattoo was a bad choice. 010
Reposted by Mike HommelJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/ 7455231988
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I tweet rarely because I save it for the important stuff. And this - this REALLY looks like it's the second time the entire world has gone to war against Tom Hanks. 030
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The quaintest thing I have ever heard: streaming movie was buffering. My mom asks "why is it doing that?", and my dad said "well, it's an old tape". 020
Reposted by Mike HommelDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I warned you www.jezebel.com/do-not-wash-... 58125
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Dude has arrested FEWER than 10 badguys, and that's not a monthly stat, but that's total over his entire pope career! 000
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Carefully and thoroughly view every episode, including Australian and new zealand taskmaster, and you might take a side trip into Minnesota and Seattle taskmaster too. Every episode is completely necessary for the next, no exceptions. You need to know how you rank every series. This is important. 131
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I do like that all of these schmo shows find the kindest possible people to be their stars (probably because only the very nicest people don't sue you when you kidnap them) 110
Reposted by Mike HommelRetronauts @retronauts.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Live on the free feed: a pair of @stuartgipp.bsky.social interviews featuring @hamumugames.bsky.social and Dark Castle designer Mark Pierce retronauts.com/article/2494... 2226
Reposted by Mike HommelBΞN ROSΞ @benrosehsb.bsky.social · 06/03/2026art is all about drawing something to amuse 8 or 9 people in your favorite niche discord 56410
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I find sleepless hollow making the top 10 intriguing. I'm not sure why, but it feels like a weirdly specific pull (especially i am curious about that impact!). Whereas loonyland is obviously on every top 10. 131
Reposted by Mike HommelThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 03/03/2026I liked the Human Centipede, but I wish they'd gotten around to making the other films in the series, like the Human Asteroids and the Human Dig-Dug 1711511
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 21/02/2026A while ago I came up with the obvious answer: Lonnie 110
Reposted by Mike HommelEmoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake." 144104801787
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Hey that's a Dr. Deflector machine, which I only recognize because I saw the potion today. 120
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Deep thought: We keep hearing about how AI destroys peoples' brains and ability to reason. So who uses AI more than anyone else? The people making it. At the very least, they test it for hours a day. So we can surmise that the decisions around AI dev/deployment are the dumbest possible decisions. 030
Reposted by Mike HommelEmilius Duckberry @emiliusdraws.bsky.social · 17/11/2025#3157 A helpful tutorial 166384278561
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 07/10/2025There can never be enough said about what an awful thing GenAI is. 140
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Any suggestions for technology to assist in producing board game documents? I'm thinking of something to assist in repeating the same block layouts over and over with varying content, or a table of commonly used icons I can plop in as if they were text characters. Somewhere between Word and Canva. 000
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 09/09/2025You know what the world needs? A souls-like (mixed with about 30% Devil May Cry) where you're Wonder Woman. Lots of shield parrying, a limited-use lasso to lock guys down, bullet reflecting bracelets, hurling environmental objects and your opponents. Why is it always Batman when she's right there? 020
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 25/08/2025"If you accidentally used the AI website builder and wish to start over without AI, Wix does not offer a direct "turn off" option for the AI design feature once initiated." - the plot of Terminator 010
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 16/08/2025The easiest real food thing that we do all the time is: cut up broccoli, toss it in olive oil, salt, and pepper, and air fry at 400 for 7min! That's our side dish like 3x a week. 120
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 11/08/2025I get unreasonably happy each time I defeat AI in a program I use. And it feels like a battle to win. There's always an upfront option like "Disable Generative AI", but it turns out there's 7 other steps, most hidden. Well, for Adobe Acrobat, just go Menu > Disable New Acrobat Reader. Enjoy! 020
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Chrome perma-blocked uBlock Origins ad blocker, which would make youtube unusable (AKA 'functioning as intended'). So I gave Brave a try and now I feel dumb for waiting so long. Wow, every ad everywhere is gone! Seems like something the Megacorps won't continue to allow, but I'll enjoy it for now. 120
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I got this email (of course), and was absolutely gobsmacked to see the social security administration sending out literal propaganda. This is yet another massive red line crossed and it's all downhill from here. 000
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 23/06/2025They've been plenty weird before, but the flavor department at Oreo has seriously crossed a line this time. 081
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 18/06/2025I think this is suspiciously true, and I try to think of counter-examples, but I cannot. They can't resist tweening your rotation instead of just popping left to right. (referring only to side scrollers, that is. Many top-down 2.5Ds are very very lovely, but I think most people just call that 3D) 010
Mike Hommel @hamumugames.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I am currently enjoying a post-protest pizza here in Brainerd. Our protest definitely happened, and was easily 5x the size of any other rally I've seen in this little town. I didn't even know about this call to skip it until after it was over. 1498