 The moderately-interesting spider-dork
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948470/
https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/theamazingspiderman
A breakthrough in rapid genetics-alteration has unintended side-effects.
I’m fond of the earlier ones, but I think they get classed as “nostalgia”. This is a very good movie, and that’s likely enhanced by Emma Stone, who is incredibly attractive in dress, appearance and action.
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https://www.kingdomthegame.com/
A fauldschool resource game that would have made for a fine free Flash game, but is instead for-pay.
Fair.
Properly titled Kingdom: Classic
Also Kingdom: New Lands
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(https://web.archive.org/web/20120504005225/http://www.homefront-game.com/ |archived home page]])
The Koreans invade the United States, and you are a freedom fighter who hides behind invulnerable cover in an on-rails playable cutscene.
alt-F4 as soon as I was placed in a “home base” which forced me to RP-walk everywhere. Inexcusable.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2234222/
https://www.bbcamerica.com/shows/orphan-black–1010578
An underclass punk, returning from a ten month flight from the country, happens upon a suicide that reveals that she is part of a larger picture.
The lead actor is particularly good, as is all the acting. The story is poor in a number of places, and it is particularly jarring to have literal-faggotry forced into it. I don’t mind there happening to be gay characters, but when they’re gay characters being gay because gayness yay gay gay as opposed to just being people who happen to be gay, it’s so obvious and so insulting as to taint the whole fucking show.
I’ll flag this as liked and lightly-recommended. It’s really not all that awful, but it rubs me the wrong way. It’s like girly science fiction drama-whatever.
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https://www.yacy.net/
A self-hosted peer-to-peer search engine.
Aborted because openjdk-8 is not available to me.
 Nerd.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1677720/
http://www.readyplayeronemovie.com/
In a dystopic future akin to Brave New World – (1932 book), by Aldous Huxley, everyone is lost in a virtual reality, playing a game to take control of the world’s largest corporation.
This movie is parasitic to the childhoods of old men and permanent-children. It’s worth a watch if you’re over 40, otherwise it’ll be a fairly confusing mess of references.
Inspired by Ready Player One – (2011 book), by Ernest Cline
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http://nullwise.com/volumeicon.html
A simple volume icon for your taskbar’s tray.
Works great, no dependencies for me, and does more than what I want.
I got this working, because fbpanel‘s volume plugin decided to not show up again.
