G-type

Arcade: Major Havoc alternates between space shooter sections and puzzle platformer sections) even has a mini breakout game and a lunar lander-type phase in between levels

I've mostly only played the first one, but I liked it a lot.

here's some of my favorites (not in order)

M (1931) Diabolique (1955) The Bad Seed (1956) The Fly (1958) Eyes of Without a Face (1960) Black Sunday (1960) Carnival of Souls (1962) Black Sabbath (1963) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) The Other (1972) Sisters (1972) The Wicker Man (1973) Don't Look Now (1973) Black Christmas (1974) Deep Red (1975) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) The Brood (1979) The Burning (1981) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Phenomena (1985) Night of the Creeps (1986) Street Trash (1987) Dolls (1987) Waxwork (1988) Tales from the Darkside (1990) Session 9 (2001) Dog Soldiers (2002) The House of the Devil (2009) Green Room (2016) Terrifier 2 (2022) These were the ones I hadn't seen... the bigger text are currently on my "to watch" list.

I would love to display that evil otto with my Berserk cartridge!

My kids went as One Piece characters.

That can be arranged.

Fortnight I think

The League of Nations (41 member states). After WWI, the areas once controlled by the Ottoman and German empires were put under the "tutelage of advanced nations" (yes, that's a direct quote), until they became independent. Britain was granted the mandate over Palestine, but the Palestinian people were never asked what they wanted or what independence would look like to them. Here's a direct quote from a correspondence between foreign secretary Sir Arthur Balfour, (the man behind the Balfour declaration of 1917) with one of his colleagues: "For in Palestine, we do not propose to even go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country." Instead, it was the Zionists who were consulted about what their vision for Palestine was... and so the mandate ended up incorporating not just the Balfour declaration, but several clauses requiring Britain to ensure the establishment of a Jewish home in Palestine.

All the Nintendo countries should declare it “Nintendo Day”

I couldn’t justify paying $20 for one of these. Just tie a string to one of your Nintendo happy meal toys. It looks exactly the same.

There's some similar drama around the DC Jumbo Slice: •March 2003: Guneri opens his Pizza Boli’s. He installs a neon “Jumbo Slice” sign in the window on the southern side of his store. It’s facing the Pizza Mart, where Chishti’s window holds a mere plastic “Jumbo Slice” sign. •July 2003: Guneri compounds the insult by installing two additional neon signs. These read “Original Jumbo Slice.” Chishti decides to respond the very same day Guneri’s new signs go up. He calls Xin Guan Signs near Chinatown, Guneri’s supplier, and orders a neon sign that reads “Real Original Jumbo Slice.” •July 2003: Guneri tells the Washington City Paper (“Pie Fight,” 7/25/03) he’s through installing the neon signs, which cost about $700 apiece. “This place is lit up like a whorehouse as it is,” he says. •August 2003: Chishti installs a final neon sign, designed by one of his regular customers on a piece of scrap paper. It reads “First Oldest Original Jumbo Slice.”

My fav's:

Here is the DC area, our most famous foods: Half-smokes: a smoked sausage chili-dog served at Ben's Chili Bowl or Beanie-Weenie. Mumbo sauce: to me it tastes like a spicy ketchup crossed with sweet and sour. Jumbo Slice: pIzza for the late the night drunk crowd... each slice weighs about a pound and they had to custom-build oversized ovens to cook them. We're also a very multicultural area, so we've imported a lot of foods. Papusas a very big here. Pollo a la brasa, Ethiopian cuisine, Thai,...

The Conjuring and it Follows are both fantastic at building up tension in the first 2/3 but they both make the mistake of turning into action movies at the end.

I’m sure I’ll play smbw eventually

Castlevania is one I’ve actually beaten.

SmashTV

Review in more detail. Not really spoilers, but put it in a spoiler box just in case you don't want to read any details. Now that I've had a little more time to think about, the bad probably outweighs the good, so I'm dropping my rating from a B to a C+

Also Poppy's Playtime, Baldi's Basics, and Bendy and Ink Machine

But it’s not as good as The Hug

I can safely say that FnAF is a million times better than Willy’s Wonderland or The Banana Splits.

I took my youngest kid to see Five Nights at Freddy's tonight. He was absolutely obsessed with FNAF for about 3 years...it seems like he's finally moved on from it, but he's still a fan. We both liked the movie. (didn't love it). I give it a solid B. It's not as scary as the game, but it does a good job of translating the story and the setting and animatronics all look great. Even had a few fanservice easter eggs that got a big reaction at our screening. One cool thing that the Alamo did for this was during the preshow, they showed a compilation of 80s commercials for pizzerias featuring animatronics (Showbiz, Chuck E Cheese, plus some lesser known places), as well as home video of various animatronic shows from theme parks, pizzerias, and malls.

This started earlier than that. This territory had previously been a part of the Ottoman empire and had a 90% Arab population. The Arabs allied with the British to drive out the Ottoman Turks during WW1 after being assured by the British that they would honor Arab independence. (Hollywood even made a movie about it: Lawrence of Arabia). Guess what? They lied. The British maintained military control over the area under the League of Nations "mandate system", and they decided they would support the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the region. Prior to this, Zionism had been a fringe movement, but it had gained support among many high ranking members of the British government. With the Balfour declaration of 1917, they oversaw waves of European Jewish immigrants moving into Mandatory Palestine. When it became clear to the Palestinians that the British would never grant them independence, in 1936 they went on strike. The British tried to break the strike with arrests, executions, mass punishment. This escalated into a the Palestinian revolt with fighting between Palestinian fighters and British and Haganah forces carrying out alternating raids that continued for the next few years. To settle the conflict, the British proposed a two-state solution, and drew a line down the middle of the map (The Peel Commission resolution) give one side to the Jewish state, the other side to the Arabs, and make the remainder part of Transjordan. But because the Arabs were a majority of the population, 250k would have to be removed by force. This proposal did not help calm things down. Fighting continued until 1939, by which point about 10% of Palestinian men had been killed, arrested, or exiled. Then the British proposed a one-state solution, which would have imposed limits on Jewish land purchases and immigration. The zionists violently rejected this. Then came WW2. With a large number of Jewish refugees trying to escape Europe, many tried to go Palestine. At this point Jews had increased from 10% to 30% of the population. By 1947, depleted by WW2, Britain announced they were leaving Palestine. The zionist militias now had modern weapons and officers with training and experience from WW2. November 1947, the U.N. voted to partition Palestine and set aside 55% of the country for a Jewish state, but did not explain how it would resolve that half the people in that territory were Palestinian. Arabs rejected this plan, but the zionists having the stronger military, used this opportunity to seize even more territory than what the UN had allocated to them, and drove the Palestinians out of the villages and cities in those areas out by force. Events were accelerated by the massacre at Deir Yeseen in April 1948, which set off a panic across the country. As news spread, people fled fearing their village would be next. Ben Gurion (the zionist leader) ordered evacuated villages to be razed to the ground, ensuring there would be nothing for them to return to. Ben Gurion announced the founding of the state of Israel in May 1948. Now dubbed the IDF, better equipped and organized, successfully fought off opposition forces and began pushing into more towns, driving out the Palestinian population. Over the course of the 1948 Nabka, 700k Palestinian Arabs were displaced.