Redoomed
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- Comment on This Week in Privacy (#1) 11 months ago:
What RSS is recommended?
- Comment on What were your top favorite video games as a kid? 11 months ago:
3D Pinball Space Cadet
Pokémon Blue
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Hades, and Portal
- Comment on Privacy friendly authenticator ? 1 year ago:
2FAS which seems recommended for data privacy.
By whom?
There is a discussion in the Privacy Guides forum on 2FAS that you might want to read.
Also, you don’t specify which platform you’re using. As @I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world mentioned, Aegis for Android is great. For iOS, the pull request to include ente Auth in the Privacy Guides recommendation page for authenticator apps is already merged. It will reflect on the live website once the Privacy Guides team decides to release v3.17 of the site.
- Comment on What were some movies you had to look up explanations of after watching? 1 year ago:
I completely agree with the last sentiment you shared! I think of Cloud Atlas as a flawed gem, but am glad to have watched it at least once.
- Comment on What were some movies you had to look up explanations of after watching? 1 year ago:
Cloud Atlas (2012)
I didn’t think the plot of the film was too confusing, but trying to keep track of which cast member played which character in each respective time period while watching the film was challenging.
- Comment on What were some movies you had to look up explanations of after watching? 1 year ago:
I didn’t grasp the implications of the final scene with Aaron in the warehouse until I checked the plot write-up on Wikipedia.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What is the best movie you watched last week? 23 September 1 year ago:
I watched The Maltese Falcon (1941) for the first time yesterday. The story was super engaging and Humphrey Bogart absolutely crushes it as Sam Spade.
- Comment on Curated Watch Lists? 1 year ago:
If you’re up for another recommendation, something that I’ve been enjoying that fits your request is the podcast, “Four Play,” hosted on the Last Free Nation Culture YouTube Channel. Here’s the premise of the podcast quoted from the video description of one of their most recent episodes:
Four Play selects four iconic films from a theme or genre to meticulously analyze and place in their proper historical context. Hosted by veteran esports commentators Richard Lewis, Duncan “Thorin” Shields, and Christopher “MonteCristo” Mykles, Four Play showcases both legendary Hollywood movies as well as hidden gems outside the mainstream.
What this description doesn’t mention is that episodes drop once a week and the theme of the month, as well as a list of the four films selected, are announced in advance on their YouTube community page or Twitter page.
To address specific aspects of the Criterion Channel in your post that Four Play also provides:
put together a list of 6-12 movies
After they review the last of the four films of a selected theme, they recommend a list of films of that same theme that did not make the four, but are worth viewing if you’re interested in that theme. For example, here’s their list of cosmic horror films at the end of their review of From Beyond (1986) [timestamped Piped link] [timestamped YouTube link].
overview of the theme
Whenever they begin a theme or genre, they give an intro to the genre and the historical context. They provided an overview of cosmic horror in the inaugural episode of the podcast in which they discussed The Thing (1982) [timestamped Piped] [timestamped YouTube].
the curated list for a given theme gets me to branch out from what I may typically watch in that I know it’s generally going to be a good movie
For me, at least, I generally enjoyed the films that were introduced to me through this podcast. I think what they excel at is recommending these lesser known films that you might find are underrated bangers. In their month of cosmic horror, for example, they reviewed The Thing and Annihilation (2018), two well-known movies that have been in the cultural conversation, but also Event Horizon (1997) and From Beyond, two lesser known movies that are, if not severely underrated, worth watching at least once for the experience.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What is the best movie you watched last week? 9 September 1 year ago:
I watched The Dark Knight (2008) for the first time just now. It was a film that I wanted to watch for a while.
Aside from the Two-Face scenes, which get old very quickly, I think that the Dark Knight is an absolute banger of a film.
- Comment on [What is the best movie you watched last week?] 26 August 1 year ago:
Jacob’s Ladder (from 1990)