I recently rewatched Army of Darkness for the first time in forever and I was so charmed by all the practical effects. The eyeball in the shoulder still gets me lol. Practical effects aside, the whole movie was a lot of campy silly fun. It's just a gem of a movie.

What's your favorite movie that uses lots of practical effects?

Do you have a favorite practical effect of all time?

Any movies like Army of Darkness you'd recommend?

Have there been any technological advances in ~~boucey~~ bouncy ball technology in the last decade or two? What is the most dangerous ~~boucey~~ bouncy ball I can buy?

Edit: I will admit 3 things.

1. I don't spell good
2. I def forgot about newtons 3rd law of motion and that bouncy balls aren't magic or something. They will always have less energy than I throw it with after the 1st bounce.
3. Gonna have to think of new way to commit murder. I could shoot bouncy balls out of potato cannon but that feels cheap.
4. I don't count good either

A lot of people at my work, especially managerment, are very pro AI. I've haven't openly shared my opinion of AI/the fact that I don't use it, because the hype around AI seems almost cult like at my work. It was months before anyone brought up hallunications.

Part of me wants to share my reasons against AI at work. Some possible reasons I'm thinking of sharing are cooking the planet, you don't know when it is hallucinating so how do you trust it, critical thinking rot.

Any advice on discussing the negatives of AI at work? Or should I just keep my head down and let sloppers slop?

Is there an episode guide If I just want to watch the series for the large amount of lesbian stories on AO3? I tried watching it but the animation style in the first season were not to my liking. I hear the animation gets better tho. Is it worth to stick with the series?

Mine is this little tidbit about Khaki's from https://www.heddels.com/2019/05/history-khaki-anything-drab/

"Tried and tested by all the major powers, khaki-dyed, lightweight cotton twills became the de facto uniform for any colonizing power. If you were going to ship your boys abroad to pillage and conquer someplace in the Southern Hemisphere, khaki was your go-to color."

One of the legs of my sofa broke. Thinking about repairing but not sure the best way to do that. I have a very limited amount of tools

I'm thinking of unscrewing the other legs, then resting the frame on something. What should I rest it on? I'm thinking of just getting some wood form Lowes or something like that. Is that totally stupid?

Is there a way to check the strength of the frame? Am I just delaying the inevitable?

Appreciate any advice you can offer!

My desk is cluttered and I just found this thing on it. I'm worried it's some egg from a insect. It's extremely hard tho I try as hard as I can, but I can't squish it with my fingers. It's mostly see through which doesn't seem bug like. Looks more like a pill or a maybe a stone from some jewelry. But don't take any pills like this or have any jewelry with that color stone that anyone in the house wears really

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/bca2520a-0010-44ac-8401-d4ac3238a083.webp

I bought Armored Core 6 shortly after it was released on the PS4 (one of the few games I paid for full price for). I enjoyed it very much the 1st playthrough. Stopped during my 2nd or 3rd playthrough.

Its on sale now on steam. Thinking about getting it for my steam deck, but I was wondering how different of a game it is now. Have there been any cool updates? More build options? Multiplayer still active?

How easy is it to mod on a deck? I forgot about mods!!!

I think they attack us first, then they get mad and hold a grudge against us. Then we end up John Wicking dozens of their dogs until they are mad enough to come fight us personally. Then we stab them with our special knife. Then we repeat the cycle with more dog killing until we finally kill the sister for real. Or convert her some how.

May I just say what the fuck, and that is some top tier writing. Makes me want a final John Wick movie where he goes dark side and just starts shooting ppls dogs until he gets what he wants.

Is there a primary weapon that gets easy headshot kills from hip firing or with as little aiming as possible? I want lazy headshots to keep Evade up

Ideally moments where they felt embarrassed themselves, but moments where they embarrassed you or others are welcome as well.

My cat Bert was in the window behind the blinds watching this horde of crows chilling in the backyard. The crows were making a bunch of noise chatting. Bert's tail was going real good, he was locked in on these fucking birds. This went on for minutes.

Then I hear a real loud CAWWW! A big SLAM against the window, then Bert came tumbling through the blinds and thudded on the floor. As this happened the noises from the crows reached a new peak. I swear they were fucking laughing at Bert 😂 He walked away from their laughter with a defeated embarrassed look on his face, never to return to the window that day.

I think a crow baited Bert into lunging into the glass window, for the amusment of the rest of the birds lol

The appliance that elicits anger and frustrated at it's mere sight. The treacherous device that never worked right.