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My friend dahmer movie showtimes near me12/11/2022 The movie shies away from easy psychoanalysis of the murderer, choosing instead to let the audience draw their own conclusions. “My Friend Dahmer” ends just before Hicks' murder, trying to get a fix on the 18-year-old who decided to take a stranger to his parents' abandoned house. There have been many different films (not to mention books and articles) about Dahmer such as “The Dahmer Files,” an intriguing, laconic documentary about his arrest, and David Jacobsen's “Dahmer,” which goes back through his history, eventually arriving at his first murder, the strangulation of Steven Hicks in 1978. It's that teenage self that occupies Marc Meyers' excellent and disturbing “My Friend Dahmer,” based on the graphic novel by cartoonist/artist John Beckderf, who knew Dahmer as a kid. He'd simply channeled his alienation into unspeakable mutilation and sexually charged murder. ![]() Dahmer never grew past his miserable, depressed teenage self. Anyone who knew Dahmer as a kid would have recognized the despondent body language. He didn't struggle until it was clear that there was no getting out of the situation. He shuffled around the apartment, unaware of the personal space of the officers whom he breezed past handing out bits of evidence they asked for in the room. ![]() He seemed ready for them, had made no attempt to conceal the evidence of his previous murders, nor the body parts in the fridge. It's perhaps unsurprising that Dahmer put up next to no fight when the arresting officers knocked on his door, accompanied by a would-be victim he'd let escape. The Milwaukee-born serial killer claimed 17 victims before he was apprehended by police in his hometown. We Summon the Darkness struggles to conjure any discernible themes beyond a lot of too-easy jabs at religious hypocrisy, as in a scene about church donations being misappropriated.Before he was killed in prison by another inmate in 1994, Jeffrey Dahmer's crimes captured America's attention through the seemingly boundless nature of his depravity. But if the film’s big twist seems to express the “fake fan” fears of dweeb gatekeepers the world over, even those anxieties remain underexplored. Viewers are meant to write off some of the early red flags about the girls’ true intentions only to remember them in hindsight, as in how Alexis needs to be reminded of a prominent guitarist’s death. There’s only Alexis and her friends, who are all Christian church girls killing headbangers and staging the scenes to look like murder-suicides, hoping to draw people to their congregation by scapegoating heavy metal. A satanic ritual ensues, except here’s the twist: It’s fake. Into this climate strides director Marc Meyers’s 1980s-set Satanic-panic thriller We Summon the Darkness, which drops its twist inside the first 30 minutes and then aimlessly limps toward a rote conclusion for close to another hour.Īlexis (Alexandra Daddario) and her friends (Maddie Hasson and Amy Forsyth) attend a heavy metal concert, where they meet a group of boys (Keean Johnson, Logan Miller, and Austin Swift) and head to a remote location for an after-party. Genre movies these days are rife with self-conscious subversion, and at the cost of cohesiveness. ![]() Editor’s Note: This review contains spoilers.
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Kuroko no basuke extra game chapter 512/11/2022 This game is exactly what you would expect from this series, difficult, suspenseful, heart pumping, and fun. This was probably the most OP game in the series, understandably, since it's literally the Generation of Miracles vs. *Edit:* Yes, they've made this into not just an anime adaptation, but a movie!!! It comes out in Japan on March 18th 2017! So, fly over and watch it when it comes out I guess, lol. I was contemplating not reading this and just waiting for the anime adaptation (which I am pretty sure is actually happening and is not something I just made up), but that's going to happen in such a long time I said screw it, I'm reading this bitch now. ![]() ![]() All they ever gave us were tiny little snippets, but I wanted to see a game, damnit. Throughout all 75 episodes of the anime I craved to see how the GoM played together. If that synopsis doesn't make you need to change your underwear I don't know what will. For the first time since middle school they play together on the same team. After Team Jabberwock humiliates a team that consists of the graduated 3rd years during an exhibition game, the GoM (plus Kagami) are on the case. These guys are like the Generation of Miracles (GoM), and then some. But if you haven't finished the main series yet, I'd recommend doing that before reading these.Įxtra Game centres around a basketball game against the American street ball team the Jabberwocks. I recommend hopping on this bad-boy because it was a good time. Hey do you like the anime/manga Kuroko's Basketball? Yes? Well then why in the world have you not read this already? Because these volumes are not published in English yet? Okay yeah reasonable. This is a review for both volumes of Kuroko no Basuke: Extra Game. But if you haven't finished the main series yet, I'd recommend doing that before reading these. Questo primo volume tratta la prima parte della partita e se non lo sapete c'è anche il film basato su questa storia ma ci sono un paio di differenze che però mi sono molto piaciute, mi fanno preferire leggermente questa versione mangosa rispetto a quella cinematografica.more Questo primo volume tratta la prima parte della partita e se non lo sapete c'è anche il film basato su questa storia ma ci sono un paio di differenze che però mi sono molto piaciute, mi fanno preferire leggermente questa versione mangosa rispetto a quella c La serie originale è finita ma è tempo di una nuova partita nella quale la Generazione dei Miracoli unirà le forze con Kuroko e Kagami per sconfiggere i Jabberwocky, squadra di basket Americani davvero stronza (non si può dire in altro modo). ![]() La serie originale è finita ma è tempo di una nuova partita nella quale la Generazione dei Miracoli unirà le forze con Kuroko e Kagami per sconfiggere i Jabberwocky, squadra di basket Americani davvero stronza (non si può dire in altro modo).
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Moi3d quad mesh retopology12/11/2022 ![]() Well… I’m in the same boat as you… I have tried silo though, but 2 seems to have some large leaps forward for the app… From what I can tell though is how you like to model… sort of… Think of the way most of us started modeling… Cude… Edgeloop… Move CV… Move face… Thats silo, to start… Then you build up the resolution a bit then start modeling in in detail… With the new zbrush it seems reversed… Start a mesh with zspeheres… Detail it all you want… Then using the zspeheres rig to create new topology you can create your low res mesh with the topology flow you want… So as far as getting the shape you want… Same ends, just a opposite ways of getting there… But from what I’ve seen with silo its displacement brush can’t generate the detail that zbrush can, nor from what I read so far about it it doesn’t have 3d layers… Which is an awesoem feature I might add… A non-linear modeling workflow really frees you up… It almost seems silo 2 caught up with zbrush with creating wrinkles and what not, but not with creating pore level detail… Creating the colormap in zbrush seems more refined too… Although with silo I’m betting you have better control over uv layout… Although I keep seeing paint in 3d without uv’s… i would be if your taking the model out of zbrush in maya, xsi, max, etc… Your gonna need those uv’s… GUV and AUV are nice for quick jobs but limit you once you leave zbrush and need to work with the colormap… So, from what I can gather silo only has a few ups over z, uv control being one and if your used to the traditional modeling style… But with the new features coming it seems like you can do almost all your modeling in zbrush and only have to leave to animate… Heck, if your using a comprehensive package like maya… Make your model in zbrush, take the low res out, layout the uv cords and bring it back into brush… Then again silo is only a lil over 100… So thats my rant… I could be wrong on some thing since both aren’t out and I’m just going with whats been post in text and video.
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![]() You would struggle to be disappointed by Metal Gear Solid V. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain doesn’t just respect my intelligence as a player, it expects it of me, putting it in league that few others occupy. There have certainly been sandbox action games that have given me a bigger world to roam, or more little icons to chase on my minimap, but none have pushed me to plan, adapt, and improvise the way this one does. ![]() Its lack of story focus is sure to be divisive for the Metal Gear faithful, but the resulting emphasis on my story, my tales of Espionage Action, easily make it my favorite in the series. The Phantom Pain is the kind of game I thought would never exist - one where every minute gameplay detail has true purpose. The Phantom Pain may be a contender for one of the best action games ever made, but is undoubtedly the best Metal Gear game there is. When it comes to storytelling, there has never been a Metal Gear game that's so consistent in tone, daring in subject matter, and so captivating in presentation. The best elements from the past games are here, and the new open-world gameplay adds more to love on top. There has never been a game in the series with such depth to its gameplay, or so much volume in content. When defining the best Metal Gear game, things get trickier, but with The Phantom Pain, that problem is finally resolved. For some, it's the unique gameplay quirks, memorable set pieces, or specific plot points that dictate their adoration for one game over another. Media: Red Band Trailer | ( ) | Gamescom 2014 Gameplay | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | ( ) | TGS 2014 Gameplay | ( )Įvery fan of Metal Gear has their favorite game in the series. Genre: Tactical Espionage, Action-Adventure Developer: Kojima Productions | Official Website | Subreddit
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Adventure time the lich12/8/2022 The healing substance Finn tosses at the Lich “heals” the skeletal creature, transforming it into an innocent baby, Sweet P, who soon joins the cast of characters as another friend. While the Lich is essentially evil incarnate, a single-minded killing machine, planning to invade and annihilate millions of worlds with an army of ancient evildoers, he is stopped not by Finn’s blade, but by a blob of rejuvenating, life-giving … stuff. My favorite example of change within Adventure Time is the story of the Lich, Finn’s most frightening antagonist. People and circumstances change constantly purity leads to corruption, and redemption can arise in even the darkest soul. The characters are revealed to have past lives, different timelines, even gender-swapped doppelgangers that exist in fanfictions. While the direction of each episode can veer wildly, the theme of change is ingrained throughout. ![]() Watching Finn develop (even keeping the same voice actor), from a dumb kid looking for a fight, into an emotionally balanced pacifist, reflects their own personal growth into adulthood. Young children watching Adventure Time from the outset will have grown up with Finn, as the previous generation grew up alongside Harry Potter. It’s patronizing, really children’s lives are all about change, and they’re certainly capable of understanding it on screen. Which is interesting, perhaps even groundbreaking, seeing as most animated children’s series tend to deeply underestimate their audience, keeping characters static and resetting the story at the end of each episode. Through a series of flashbacks, the cold-hearted sorcerer was revealed to be a confused old man, the victim of an ancient curse, and at heart, an immensely good person.Įach character has evolved substantially since the series inception, as has the world of Ooo. The Ice King, the original antagonist, changed from a princess-obsessed aggressor into a deeply sympathetic oddball. Princess Bubblegum was no 19-year-old damsel-in-distress - she was an ancient, hugely intelligent lifeform that emerged from an irradiated lump of chewing gum, a mad(?) scientist who built an entire kingdom, populating it with subservient, simple-minded candy people.īut Bubblegum wasn’t the only simple-on-the-surface archetype who fleshed out into a complex character capable of supporting their own series - almost every character with a speaking role seems to have a story worth telling. The series gradually revealed that a nuclear war, known as The Mushroom War, almost destroyed the world, annihilating our current civilization and sparking a weird new one, the radiation seeding strange forms of life. The lore of Adventure Time would eventually unravel through multiple, seemingly unconnected episodes, some providing a tiny piece of the puzzle, others merely hinting, and multi-episode epics answering the really big questions. The Land of Ooo was clearly not their natural habitat, and seeing as Finn seemed to be the only human left alive, questions arose. While the creatures didn’t threaten Finn and Jake, they were an eerie remnant from a past age, only capable of understanding the world through a dull, corporate lens. One of the first signs that something was amiss in the Land of Ooo, was the appearance of humanoid zombies, frozen in blocks of ice, known only as the Business Men. ![]() Tolkien said of his epic, “this tale grew in the telling.”Īnd the tale of Adventure Time would eventually reach some very dark places, yet, somehow, never stopped oozing optimism and positivity, with friendship and love being the only constants in a chaotic universe. The creators of Adventure Time didn’t drip-feed the audience a pre-planned story - they crafted one as they went along. |