The Planet

... Cross stitch (style) mural :o https://youtube.com/shorts/KDylttIuX-o? ... AqQifJX_vK

Someone built a StumbleUpon replacement: https://cloudhiker.net/

Saw friend playing Planet Zooand thought of @Kieran's obsession with breeding games, specifically because it has a genome/breeding tracker. Though looks like most of it is setting up enrichment and enclosures for the animals and maintaining healthy, behaviorally-friendly populations.

In my personal obsessions, my friend Storm got me Blue Prince a while back and it has become a fixationnnnnn. Though it frustratingly doesn't let you save in the middle of a Day, so I keep having to leave it running on my computer, which my computer doesn't like much.

Gumbusaur! https://youtube.com/shorts/xJM4IVcRq_Y? ... 8L-sztsxmS

Swofford continues to make very good videos about early cinema and tv history:

I think his biggest video is The Real Reason Silent Film Actors Looked So Strange, on how orthochromatic film dictated the actors' makeup in the silent era. He later followed up on how early TV technology required completely different makeup, too: Following a 1933 Guide for “Television Makeup”.

More recently, there was When Hollywood Fell Apart in the 1950s, about the impact of televison on cinema attendance in the US, and therefore the whole industry. Can you imagine going to the movie theater every week? (I'm not asking you, @Alex)

Every single person I've said the words "I go to the cinema 120 times a year" to has said "Wow" and then been unsure what to do with that information.

My cinema history fun fact is cinemas didn't used to have set start and finish times for what they were showing, and just played what they were showing on a loop. You'd buy a ticket to go in, probably in the middle of the feature, catch the newsreel and the cartoon, and then the first part of the feature, and leave again.

This really only changed with Psycho when Hitchcock made a point of asking cinemas to enforce a no-late-admissions policy.

Alex wrote: ↑

Wed 08 Apr, 2026, 8:38 pm

My cinema history fun fact is cinemas didn't used to have set start and finish times for what they were showing, and just played what they were showing on a loop. You'd buy a ticket to go in, probably in the middle of the feature, catch the newsreel and the cartoon, and then the first part of the feature, and leave again.

This really only changed with Psycho when Hitchcock made a point of asking cinemas to enforce a no-late-admissions policy.

I wonder how that affected movie storytelling for those years, if at all :O

Alex wrote: ↑

Wed 08 Apr, 2026, 8:32 pm

Every single person I've said the words "I go to the cinema 120 times a year" to has said "Wow" and then been unsure what to do with that information.

TBH I'm just happy you get to enjoy it

Does anybody have a favorite one-person YT show? I love them Casey Dressler's Neon Girls is my current obsession -- so much so, I've been watching the shorts in upload order! I'm only about a year behind...

TLDR, she writes about the people in a small town in Anywhere, USA, in the 1980s (and sometimes 1990s), and it's absolutely fabulous. It feels super cozy, too!

Alex wrote: ↑

Wed 08 Apr, 2026, 8:32 pm

Every single person I've said the words "I go to the cinema 120 times a year" to has said "Wow" and then been unsure what to do with that information.

Wow. *squeezes and flexes his hands uncomfortably and starts rubbing one of his arms*

Well, gotta go.