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Today's Seal Is: Unlimited Scraggliness

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I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

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Monkey Man studies

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Found a new brush and spent a while testing it out. The entire movie is visually stunning but there are specific scene I want to so redraws of, so I've got a few more of these in the can still!

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i'm not a doctor or a nutritionist, but sometimes i hear women talking about their diets and it takes all i have to not be like "this is not normal. you have an eating disorder and you are in a cult."

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I went into monkey man with pretty high expectations and Dev Patel exceeded every single one of them. Like I knew it was gonna be a good action revenge film that has a good political motivation to it but what i am in awe of is that he is that as a first time director this movie is so visually stunning. the shot compositions. the weird fun angles he comes up with in the middle of action packed scenes. Director Dev Patel has entered the chat and he is not fooling around

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nothing more embarassing than when you develop personal beef with a piece of media thats entirely petty. like sorry no i cant talk about that show it. bit me.

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MONKEY MAN 2024, dir. Dev Patel

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The pain… It will leave you once it's finished teaching you.

MONKEY MAN (2024) dir. Dev Patel

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Kathleen Jennings

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Another thing about Monkey Man that's not really important to the story itself but is simply a testament to Dev Patel as a director is the fact that the entire movie was shot on a budget of $10mil, which sounds like a lot but is a pittance in hollywood for the sort of film he was trying to make.

It's frankly a wonder the film got made considering the fact that netflix dropped it in fear of repercussions from Modi's government but ten years ago John Wick came out as a film with half the artistic ambition and allegedly three times the budget. Monkey Man was so strapped for cash that they had to shoot some scenes of GoPros and iPhones but you wouldn't be able to tell just looking at it.

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You know I was thinking more about why it is Alien: Isolation scares me more than any other horror game but it wasn't until I saw this video that I figured it out.

None of that was scripted. 99% of Alien: Isolation's horror happens totally organically within the context of gameplay like that. There are very rarely scripted jumpscares, no mandatory combat encounters at all and no set path the Alien follows. The game just drops you into a relatively open ended area with an objective and says "it's in here somewhere and the only way out is through, good luck." Because the Alien is unpredictable and highly adaptive there's no 100% safe route to take or reliable place to hide so you live or die based solely on your own moment to moment instincts. This creates an extra layer of pressure and uncertainty that is genuinely paralyzing.

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honestly reading and hearing about how hard it was to get Monkey Man made infuriates me so much

like Dev Patel is one of the most talented and hard working actors of the last 15 years studio execs should be THROWING money at him there are actors turned directors spanning the entirety of film history and it is blatant racism that him and his team had to fight so hard for a third of the support white man actors turned directors get

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Monkey Man fan art by Entei Ryu | Instagram

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google search how to stop experiencing anticipatory grief when this world has taken so much from me already