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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Sword of Destiny (2016) poster

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2652118/

Something about a sword that’s a greenish, and some people who fight and think fighting is cool because of honour and all that.

I also think there’s a Princess Leia/Luke Skywalker thing happening, but I was too distracted by the terrible mixing of accents.

Like superhero movies, this genre has completely worn out its welcome. I’m no longer interested in the same old shit, and even the attempts at story telling have become bland to me. Its scenery and music have become samey and aren’t going to make up for the lack of captivating characters and a solid story. Overused wire-jumps are not exciting. And stop with that screeching sound when swords are un/sheathed.

Properly titled Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
- Don’t say that while chewing bubblegum.
Follows Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – (2000 movie)

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Terminus – (2015 movie)

2016-03-08

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3399896/

Meteors fall to earth, one of which survives and is seen to house a living creature by a local yokel.

Meh. For science fiction it’s barely okay, and as an actual movie it’s less than that. Good enough to recommend to bored half-fans of science fiction who want less science and more fiction.

Trailer 1 – Trailer 2

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Five Things – 2016-03-07

2016-03-08

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Five Things >

Did you know that “pointer precision” in Windows is actually mouse acceleration? That should be disabled for twitchy gamers.
- Start > Control Panel > Mouse > Pointer Options
- [_] Enhance pointer precision
Games – Noted Battleborn to check out one day later.
- A FPS from the creators of Borderlands – (2009 game).
SpriteMaster214‘s YouTube user icon is hilarious.
- It’s a mix of the classic Che Guevara image and a Gerard Butler image from 300 – (2006 movie).
Watched some more Andromeda – (2000 show)
Watched another episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. – (1964 show)
- This show is so adorable, I think I’ll continue watching it.
Hey Jude (1968), by The Beatles
- I found what is reportedly a remaster their first studio take.
- was youtu.be/D2qAj2XnLYo (dead, not archived)
The song of the day is Rave is King, by Fukkk Offf.
- I was introduced to it by Who Am I – Kein System ist sicher – (2014 movie).
- https://youtu.be/TYWLhuNTSNQ

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Who Am I - Kein System ist sicher (2014) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3042408/

A young, broken, man, enters an underground community of computer crackers, trying desperately to prove himself but with consequences.

An extremely good movie. While not quite mandatory, it’s definitely a proper advancement of the “hacker kid” movies that have sullied past movies. Highly recommended, even for people that “know their stuff”, as it doesn’t lay on the techno-babble which describes everything painfully wrong. Instead, it takes a reasonable middle ground, staying away from pop culture and fairly-firmly on the social side of storytelling.

Trailer
In English, the title is Who Am I: No System Is Safe
This movie is in the German language.
See also Fight Club – (1999 movie)
- And cross it with your choice of cheezy 1990s hackers film, like Hackers – (1995 movie).

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Five Things – 2016-03-06

2016-03-07

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Killed Path of Exile – (2013 game)
- Updated Path of Exile reviews 1 with old posts, and also with my farewell.
- Yes, I was (a?) the discoverer of the Cast on Critical strike abuse which prompted it, and Quill Rain’s nerf.
Watched a little more River – (2015 show)
- Even after just a few episodes, this show has a great feel to it.
Watched a little more The Blacklist – (2013 show)
Updated Windows 10 configuration
- Added notes in ‘Windows 10 cmd.exe configuration’ which apparently I forgot to do.
Implemented a simple alarm clock script on Windows via git-bash: alarm.sh
- This was a misadventure boiled down to two lines in a script, as prompted by a bookmark. Processing a single bookmark took me hours. Fuck my life.
- Well now I know some arcane shit.. which I’ll forget by breakfast tomorrow.
- Btw, toaster is a little popup application, which it turns out I don’t need to use. Maybe it would be useful in previous versions of Windows or for special circumstances, but I don’t care.

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Five Things – 2016-03-05

2016-03-06

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Five Things >

Television >
- The Blacklist – (2013 show) .. watched some more
- Agent X – (2015 show) .. watched some more
  – It’s turning out to be fairly good.
I’ve been lazy lately. =/

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The Crown and the Dragon – (2013 movie)

2016-03-05

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1913178/

Something about a coronation, a dragon, a prophesy, a paladin and probably some other stuff.

A solid story, executed well, but something about it seems off to me. Perhaps it’s a budget issue. I’d bet the high-budget films have spoiled things for the others. Recommended (only) for fantasy fiction enthusiasts.