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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 11h

Drove to town and ran a bunch of errands today. Almost every place I went, looking for specific things, they were out of those specific things and had to order them. So I guess I'm going back to town next week sometime.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 13h

I wonder where the expression "cake walk" came from. One does not customarily walk on cakes, after all, whether it's easy or otherwise.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OK, last one, then I gotta crash. "I'm not following you, Jonesy."

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"We're fine, we're all fine here now... how are you?"

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"You want a Pepsi, pal, you're gonna pay for it."

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Too fast, Vasily, too fast!" (often with "fast" replaced by some other adjective appropriate to the situation)

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Don't fuck with me! I'm a doctor of journalism!"

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't really keep track of which films have or have not won Oscars, so if I were to speculate, I'd be liable to name a film that actually did win one and be held up as the Philistine I am for all to see. That said, TRON. Those visual effects were outstanding for their time.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I dunno! That was, like... 35 years ago. If bootlegs count, probably DIRTY PAIR: THE FLIGHT 005 CONSPIRACY or the first episode of BUBBLEGUM CRISIS. Unsubtitled, on a VHS tape typewriter-labeled with the title and "Laser Disc Demo Tape". Legit... hm. Proly something from the early AnimEigo catalog.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Poking nostalgically around on Google Maps looking at old haunts, I found myself virtually outside the building in Marlborough where UltraNet used to be. There's the side door I had to wheel the generator out of when that huge storm knocked out the power and I was the only person in the office...

The side of a two-story office building. It's all windows on this side, apart from an alcove containing a blank steel door that is clearly meant only as an emergency exit. It doesn't even have a walk leading to it across the lawn.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Oh, man, this isn't happening, it only THINKS it's happening."

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I'm surprised you haven't heard about me, you know, I got a bad reputation, I mean sometimes I just go nuts, like now, haha!"

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Excuse me, sir, but seeing as the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PV on the QT? Because if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP."

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Information Society, "Ozar Midrashim" "Because I am a suspicious person report... and it's time to go shopping." Information Society, "Seek 300" youtu.be/0OUATlTmsDQ?...

youtu.be

Seek 300

YouTube video by Information Society - Topic

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Man or Astro-Man?, "Complex 34" "Cape Kennedy, Launch Complex 34. The Saturn 1B rocket contains no fuel, and the test is not considered dangerous." youtu.be/fzUGxTTZPbU?...

youtu.be

Man Or Astro-Man? - Complex 34

YouTube video by MMCMHC

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern dreadnought battleship My armor is the equal of a dozen tin-can cattle ships I know the admirals of yore and quote the fights historical From Tsushima to Leyte Gulf in order categorical;

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The most tiring thing to me about gacha games isn't the psychological manipulation in the gameplay loop or the perpetual treadmill of novelty, it's the constant friggin' surveys. I'm looking for entertainment, not a relationship.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. For the next hour we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to

block text over an oscilloscope sine wave: THE OUTER LIMITS

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am the most vanilla '70s-born kid imaginable. Therefore, "Smells Like Teen Spirit". (I like the riff, sue me. I also knew a guy who used to play at pub shows and sing a version with all the words replaced by "blah", which changed nothing about the experience of the song. :)

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was more into arena rock in the '80s. Didn't really take an interest in metal until I got to college in the '90s. That said, "Master of Puppets". Some college friends and I got the mother of all noise complaints discovering how well it matched up to one of the battle scenes from Robotech. :)

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE I've still never seen any of the movies past the first one, after what those fuckers did to Jim Phelps.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

DALEKS: INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. (Gordon Flemyng, 1966). Peter Cushing, Roberta Tovey, Jill Curzon, Bernard Cribbins, and a lot of brightly colored Daleks.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Multitasking is a myth; the human brain is a single-thread processor. What people who think they're good at multitasking are actually good at is multiPLEXING.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

REMINDER: Earth's most powerful soldiers are Earth's last chance against the Spiral Zone.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is like asking me to name my favorite brain cell. Can't do it.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Cole Porter number in TANK GIRL, because it made my friend Derek (RIP) laugh so hard his movie theater seat collapsed.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bonus fun fact: The original suit from GOJIRA (1954) weighed more than 220 pounds. Stunt performer Haruo Nakajima, who portrayed Gojira throughout the Shōwa era, could barely stand up in it. So they made a lighter version for the action scenes, in which he could stand up and walk around...

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It could be argued that my first pick was a stunt, not an effect. By an odd coincidence, my second, definitely-an-effect pick is also from a film starring Harrison Ford: melting Nazis.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

BLUE STINGER for the Saturn is the only survival-horror-adjacent game I've ever enjoyed enough to finish.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

double feature: BATMAN (1989) and LETHAL WEAPON 2 (also 1989).

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good & Fruity (the ORIGINAL version, before they redid it into a Mike & Ike clone). Zero consideration required.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The bus/train crash in THE FUGITIVE (1993). When Harrison Ford appeared on The Tonight Show to promote the film, Leno asked him, "How did you guys do that effect?" Slightly bemused, Ford replied, "Well, we took a bus, and we hit it with a train."

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Ah, Jesús. I know him. A great teacher! But he no help with curve." "Are you tryin' to tell me Jesus Christ can't hit a curve ball?!"

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think it's time we blow this scene. get everybody and the stuff together.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"plant-based butter"? is that what we're calling margarine these days?

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As far as the ones I've actually played, my sentimental favorite from Back In the Day is the old TSR Marvel Super Heroes RPG. The one where everything was a percentile roll and the dice roll outcome chart looked eerily like the Body Mass Index table in my doctor's office.

The Universal Table from the 1980s TSR Marvel Super Heroes roleplaying game, which shows what the outcome of a FEAT roll at any power level in the game will be.

A photo of part of a cork board in a doctor's office, dominated by a brightly colored Body Mass Index table.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't think I would ever want to try playing it, but I respect the weirdness and the snark of HŌL: HUMAN OCCUPIED LANDFILL a lot.

Kitty Kitty Bang Bang from HŌL: HUMAN OCCUPIED LANDFILL. It's a cat with a bundle of dynamite and an alarm clock strapped to it.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The heist in the original THE ITALIAN JOB. And it might have, we'll never know. Charlie DID have a great idea to get the bus off the cliff, after all.

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

if audiobooks count: Alistair Horne's A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE: ALGERIA, 1954–1962

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

flew in from Miami Beach BOAC didn't get to bed last night all the way the paper bag was on my knee man I had a dreadful flight

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm not as strong as I was told It feels too long since I was bold you can lie in sheets of gold if I walk the hill touch me and I understand we only write our names in sand I can stand where legend stands if I walk the hill

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Benjamin D. Hutchins @zgryphon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If we're talking real people, technically he was an MMA fighter, not a wrestler, but the industries present themselves similarly: Genki Sudō.

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