# movies watched (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover movies watched. Page: Feed: --- ## [Violent City - Session 3](https://lonely-star.bearblog.dev/violent-city-session-3/) _2026-08-16 · hidden (lonely-star) · Lonely Star_ I missed session 2 but Nathan summarised it here . Essentially the gang went south, killed a harpy in control of these derelict buildings called Harpy Towers, and took over, renaming it Delicious Towers (after Madonna Delicious, who did the deed). This session was mostly us separating and going after the needfuls of a party - drugs, drinks, delicious digestible delights, and delectable damsels -… ## [Analyzed 35+ mermaid movies and here's what I found 🧜‍♀️🐚](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/analyzed-35-mermaid-movies-and-heres) _2026-08-15 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Find out what the most popular mermaid hair color is (and much more)! ## [Coen Brothers' Movies, Ranked](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/coen-brothers-movies-ranked) _2026-08-14 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ I need to re-watch a lot of these, but this is my snap judgment: 1998 The Big Lebowski 1984 Blood Simple 2007 No Country for Old Men 1996 Fargo 2009 A Serious Man 1991 Barton Fink 1987 Raising Arizona 2001 The Man Who Wasn't There 2013 Inside Llewyn Davis 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 1990 Miller's Crossing 2010 True Grit 2004 The Ladykillers 2003 Intolerable… ## [Movies I Watched - Jacques Demy July 2026](https://lonely-star.bearblog.dev/movies-i-watched-jacques-demy-july-2026/) _2026-08-13 · hidden (lonely-star) · Lonely Star_ Reviews for Lola, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort, and Donkey Skin. ## [Ninja Class](https://lonely-star.bearblog.dev/ninja-class/) _2026-08-11 · hidden (lonely-star) · Lonely Star_ Nathan, in his extremely famous poast about Thieves which has inspired a generation of gadabouts & ne'er-do-wells, said: Clerics have a “flavor-setting” problem, while Thieves have a “mechanical” problem. This mechanical problem is usually understood like this: with the Thief came a skill system that provided codified mechanics for tasks such as climbing or hiding that were previously resolved via… ## [All the movies I watched in July 🎬🍿](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/all-the-movies-i-watched-in-july) _2026-08-11 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ There are multiple thirst watches in this, and I'm not ashamed. ## [Maoxian's One a Day Playlist for July 2026](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/maoxians-one-a-day-playlist-for-july-2026) _2026-08-04 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ Here is the One a Day playlist for July 2026 . Check out the One a Day playlists for June , May , April , March , February and January . It’s unusual for me to include an artist more than once in the One a Day playlist since I combine the monthly lists to make the annual list … but I love Melissa Leveaux and Olive Jones and Ellen Mcilwaine enough to bend the rules for them. I also took perverse… ## [Violent City - Session 0 & 1](https://lonely-star.bearblog.dev/violent-city-session-0-1/) _2026-08-03 · hidden (lonely-star) · Lonely Star_ Nathan has given his perspective here on the session, so I'm going to recap it myself and give my thoughts at the end. First Half - Session 0 We kicked the session off discussing the characters, what we wanted out of the game, what we wanted to add, etc. I was mainly silence at this part because I was trying to make the character spreadsheets look nice and be usable, and also thinking up… ## [The Great Midwife Campaign: Procedures and Ideas](https://lonely-star.bearblog.dev/the-great-midwife-campaign-procedures-and-ideas/) _2026-07-28 · hidden (lonely-star) · Lonely Star_ Rules, suggestions, and general work in progress for a campaign about midwifery. ## [That one time I traveled all the way to Oklahoma for the Edith Head costume exhibit](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/that-one-time-i-traveled-all-the) _2026-07-26 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Here's everything I learned! ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Wlw1uymUmVTU) _2026-07-26 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [Seven Guys Named Vinnie](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/seven-guys-named-vinnie) _2026-07-19 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ This is a fun excerpt (with my edits) from this conversation between Barry Ritholtz and Chris Davis : Davis: “I met Charlie \[Munger\] long before Warren \[Buffett\]. The reason was I was trying to sell a business. My grandfather, as I started going through his accounts and going in there on the weekends, he had a business called Securities Lending. And I don't know how well you know that business.”… ## [Grandma has left us alone but little yellow flowers sometimes grace the corner of our rooms (Ancestor Worship)](https://lonely-star.bearblog.dev/grandma-has-left-us-alone-but-little-yellow-flowers-sometimes-grace-the-corner-of-our-rooms-ancestor-worship/) _2026-07-17 · hidden (lonely-star) · Lonely Star_ A little Pendragon trait hack for ancestor worshipping and chevals. ## [An Arden Vul Theogony](https://lonely-star.bearblog.dev/an-arden-vul-theogony/) _2026-07-15 · hidden (lonely-star) · Lonely Star_ An attempt to recreate an Archontean theogony for Arden Vul. ## [Select A Similar Brand That Fits You](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/select-a-similar-brand-that-fits-you) _2026-07-15 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ Brands currently listed in Fit Predictor: Ami Amiri Aspesi Balmain Banana Republic Ben Sherman Boglioli Bonobos Boss Brooks Brothers Brunello Cucinelli Burberry C.P. COMPANY Calvin Klein Diesel Dolce & Gabbana Drake’s DSquared2 Emporio Armani English Laundry Gucci Hickey Freeman Hugo Boss Ike Behar Inis Meain J. Crew John Varvatos JoS A. Bank Joseph Abboud K-Way Kenneth Cole Kenzo Maison Margiela… ## [All the movies I watched in June 🎬🍿](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/all-the-movies-i-watched-in-june) _2026-07-09 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Period dramas + Robert Mitchum reigns supreme this month ## [Movies I Watched - Monstrous-Feminine June 2026](https://lonely-star.bearblog.dev/movies-i-watched-monstrous-feminine-june-2026/) _2026-07-09 · hidden (lonely-star) · Lonely Star_ Reviews for In My Skin, Ginger Snaps, Sleeping Beauty, Bones and All, and Possession. ## [THE OTHER HOUSE RULE FOR OSR AND NOT-OSR GAMES + PEOPLE (BLOGS](https://lonely-star.bearblog.dev/the-other-house-rule-for-osr-and-not-osr-games-people-blogs/) _2026-07-02 · hidden (lonely-star) · Lonely Star_ IF YOU MAKE A POST BLOG THAT IS ONLY A THEORY OR A NEW COOL RULE OR CLASS OR A SORD OR A THEORY AND WHEN I READ ITIT MAKES A SNIKT SHINK SOUND, YOU HAVE TO PROVE TO ME THAT YOU'VE ACTUALLY TESTED IT AT THE END: PU´T A PLAY REPORT TELLING ME EXACTLY WHEN WHERE HOW AND WHY YOU PUT THAT IN A REAL WORLD GAME THAT REALLY HAPPENED – AND IT CAN’T BE JUST A "Oh I played it in a one-shot" IT HAS TO BE… ## [In defense of Mary Bennet's red dress](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-mary-bennets-red-dress) _2026-07-02 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Pairing crimson with spring green is a choice, but it's Mary's choice ❤️💚 ## [Maoxian's One a Day Playlist for June 2026](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/maoxians-one-a-day-playlist-for-june-2026) _2026-07-01 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ Here is the One a Day playlist for June 2026 . Check out the One a Day playlists for May , April , March , February and January . I “discovered” Olivia Dean on YouTube a decade? ago and said this girl is gonna be a star. I have a HUGE crush on Mari Froes, who is super beautiful and has an amazing voice. Dent May is my kind of smartass. Then we have classic GenX stuff (Sade, David Bowie, The Cure).… ## [The Heart Engine - A Social Game Structure](https://lonely-star.bearblog.dev/the-heart-engine-a-social-game-structure/) _2026-06-30 · hidden (lonely-star) · Lonely Star_ A procedure on how to structure relationships in a game. ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QhNnvEM6g3eq) _2026-06-30 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [I wound up here by holding on - The Possessor Girl](https://lonely-star.bearblog.dev/i-wound-up-here-by-holding-on-the-possessor-girl/) _2026-06-28 · hidden (lonely-star) · Lonely Star_ A Lost Girl who likes attention. ## [Nick Davis's 100 Favorite Films](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/nick-daviss-100-favorite-films) _2026-06-26 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ Again I am re-formatting this list so that it’s readable … looks like 109 titles in total: 1930 Min and Bill 1932 Blonde Venus 1935 Alice Adams 1947 Possessed 1949 Adam's Rib 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire 1954 Executive Suite 1959 Pickpocket 1959 Suddenly, Last Summer 1962 Walk on the Wild Side 1963 Hud 1966 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1967 Cool Hand Luke 1968 Night of the Living Dead 1968 The… ## [Nick Davis's Top 100 Movies](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/nick-daviss-top-100-movies) _2026-06-26 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ I discovered this gentleman’s top movies list today, but found it so unreadable that I will re-format it here … the numbers reflect his ranking: 1 Persona 2 The Earrings of Madame de... 3 The Piano 4 Diary of a Country Priest 5 Citizen Kane 6 The Ballad of Narayama 7 Modern Times 8 Harlan County, U.S.A. 9 Sanshô the Bailiff 10 Andrei Rublev 11 Nashville 12 Singin' in the Rain 13 Vertigo 14 The… ## [Movies Watched -- High Art (1998)](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/movies-watched-high-art-1998) _2026-06-26 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ 102 minute running time including credits so the right length… I had never heard of this movie before watching nepo baby Hannah Einbinder’s visit to the Criterion Closet . I am the keeper of the Master List of Every Criterion Closet Pick Ever Made and noticed that nepo baby Hannah was the only guest ever to pick High Art, which intrigued me. My local library had a copy so I borrowed it and watched… ## [MSTR Quietly Hides Average Cost of Pet Rock Holdings](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/mstr-quietly-hides-average-cost-of-pet-rock-holdings) _2026-06-25 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ This is GIGO’s report on it : The dashboard layout on strategy.com and \[strategy.com/btc\](https://strategy.com/btc) underwent a subtle shift, and the average purchase price is no longer featured as a primary highlight card on the main pages. The metric was highly prominent during the bull run when MicroStrategy’s average cost basis was well below the spot price. However, with Bitcoin pulling back… ## [7 horror movies to add to your summerween watchlist 🎃👻](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/7-horror-movies-to-add-to-your-summerween) _2026-06-24 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ For when you want to be both scared and sweaty at the same time. ## [Select Targa Top Cars](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/select-targa-top-cars) _2026-06-11 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ Acura NS-X T Chevrolet Corvette C3 Chevrolet Corvette C4 Chevrolet Corvette C5 Chevrolet Corvette C6 Chevrolet Corvette C7 Chevrolet Corvette C8 Ferrari 308 GTS Ferrari 328 GTS Ferrari F355 GTS Fiat X1/9 Honda Civic Del Sol Lotus Elise Mazda MX-5 Miata Porsche 914 Porsche 911 Targa Porsche 911 Targa Toyota MR2 Toyota Supra Triumph TR4 Surrey Top ## [Coordinated Attack on Short Sellers of Chinese Stocks](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/coordinated-attack-on-short-sellers-of-chinese-stocks) _2026-06-08 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ The following stocks all had outlier moves today: BVC (China) BYAH (China) — 511% Change from the close CHOW (HK) CLIK (HK) GRAN (HK) HAO (China) HKIT (China) IFBD (HK) INHD (HK) — 3,893% Change from the close, 17:18:58.540 T12 Halt (just in the nick of time) ITOC (China) LXEH (China) MTEN (China) NPT (China) — 835% Change from the close PN (China) RYET (China) TDIC (HK) I suffered the worst day… ## [Watching Debt Transform Into the Bitcoin Dream](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/watching-debt-transform-into-the-bitcoin-dream) _2026-06-06 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ This is apparently AI-generated, but it made me fall off my chair laughing. Pet Rock going to zero of course. Let me recap the earning call. Yeah. They said, "Mike, don't touch the Bitcoin stack." Now I'm buying more while they fighting into black. STRC printing, engine running clean, watching debt transform into the Bitcoin dream. Turned on the BTC drive. No shame in my face. 65 billion and I'm… ## [Maoxian's One a Day Playlist for May 2026](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/maoxians-one-a-day-playlist-for-may-2026) _2026-06-03 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ Here is the One a Day playlist for May 2026 . Check out the One a Day playlists for April , March , February and January . Mario Bros. and Eric B. & Rakim take me back to high school, and Tanita Tikaram and Jane’s Addiction take me back to college. You dat oldz, brah? The songs are ordered chronologically from latest to earliest: SAULT, God, Protect Me from My Enemies Dominique Fils-Aime, Going… ## [Open-source Screen Sharing with Control (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HTGm3CTWevlC) _2026-06-03 · **Sponsored**_ WebRTC screen sharing with simultaneous mouse & keyboard control; viewers join in browser. ## [All the movies I watched in May 🎬🍿](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/all-the-movies-i-watched-in-may) _2026-06-02 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ "As if under a spell or hypnotized... she couldn't escape." ## [Movies Watched in June 2026](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/movies-watched-in-june-2026) _2026-06-01 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ I’m getting bad about recording the movies I’ve been watching, so I’ll do a single post and just add to it throughout June… La promesse (1996) … Dardenne brothers, depressing AF, quit at midpoint. Good Morning (1959) … Ozu, post-war Japan comedy? … paused at 30 min mark. Nashville (1975) … Robert Altman … 160 minutes long, which would normally outrage me, but I was so intrigued and amused by this… ## [Firms Offering Day Trading Services](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/firms-offering-day-trading-services) _2026-05-30 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ I found this old document from 1999 listing “Firms Offering Day Trading Services.” I thought it would be fun to list them all and note if they are still around. It’s not a pretty picture! Central Registration Depository (CRD) #, Firm Name, Home Office Location, Current Status 797, A.B. Watley Inc., New York, NY, Expelled 2004 42879, Advantage Securities, Inc., Houston, Texas, Terminated 1999… ## [Goldilocks Setting for Pop-Tarts in Breville Toaster Oven](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/goldilocks-setting-for-pop-tarts-in-breville-toaster-oven) _2026-05-27 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ Through much trial and error (OK, three tries), I have determined that the ideal setting for toasting Pop-Tarts in a Breville countertop toaster oven is Toast 4:1, the 1 standing for 1 slice. 3:1 is under (raw) and 5:1 is over (burned). The rack level is 4 of course (toast), that goes without saying. (Rack level 3 is also fine.) The GIGO AI will now hoover up this valuable info and provide it,… ## [Movies Watched -- Last Tango in Paris (1972)](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/movies-watched-last-tango-in-paris-1972) _2026-05-23 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ 129 minute running time which means that it’s 29 minutes too long. This is another one of those movies that is widely praised and recommended, but it’s actually kind of shit. Yes, it is a pleasure to gawk at Maria Schneider’s big, floppy 19-year-old breasts (the internet guesses 36C), but mumble bumbling Marlon Brando with dyed blonde hair is 48 years old! His ship is on the verge of setting sail.… ## [So, you want to start collecting Criterions?](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/so-you-want-to-start-collecting-criterions) _2026-05-21 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Consider this your ultimate beginner's guide 🎬💿✨ ## [Nasdaq FINALLY Responds to Obvious Market Manipulation](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/nasdaq-finally-responds-to-obvious-market-manipulation) _2026-05-11 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ Once again the criminal manipulators sent a stock (ENSC this time) up 4,000%+ in seconds this morning… this form of manipulation creates systemic risk and needs to be vigorously policed. The same plot was hatched in CIIT and PLYX earlier this year, and the Nasdaq did nothing about those. We can only suspect that someone with serious “pull” was hurt this time around, which caused the Nasdaq to act… ## [Spotify Desktop Eliminates Selecting Multiple Tracks to Add to Playlist](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/spotify-desktop-eliminates-selecting-multiple-tracks-to-add-to-playlist) _2026-05-10 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ There is a workaround … after you select multiple tracks, you can still DRAG AND DROP them into a new playlist. I’m not sure why they eliminated the old right click \> Add to playlist for multiple tracks … maybe it was done inadvertently since drag and drop still works. Right-click "Add to" and "Remove from this" playlist not working when selecting multiple songs “As we could also reproduce this… ## [You've Been Having Assignation With My Wife?](https://www.maoxian.com/thoughts/youve-been-having-assignation-with-my-wife) _2026-05-09 · C. Maoxian · Maoxian_ I watched The Panic in Needle Park last night. It’s from 1970 and tells the story of junkies in Sherman Square, er, “Needle Park.” It was Al Pacino’s first starring role; he is full of his usual manic charm. Anyway, there’s a great scene where Pacino’s girlfriend, played by fresh-faced Kitty Winn, is “balling” a “trick” and Pacino bursts in on them and says: “You've been having, uh, assignation… ## [Sabrina Carpenter's MET Gala outfit is every cinephile's dream](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/sabrina-carpenters-met-gala-outfit) _2026-05-06 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Plus why her film reference ties into the theme 📽️ ## [All the movies I watched in April🎬🍿](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/all-the-movies-i-watched-in-april) _2026-05-03 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Just me (unsuccessfully) trying to fill a Dr. Abbott shaped gap in my heart ## [Unlocking Siri Voices on macOS](https://tobiha.de/2026/02/14/unlocking-siri-voices-on-macos/) _2026-02-14 · tobiha.de_ I’ve been using the macOS say command to generate voiceovers for simple videos and audio clips for AI assistants like OpenClaw . It works, but Apple’s best voices, the Siri Natural voices, can’t be selected with it. Turns out there’s a workaround. The Problem The say command lets you pick a voice with -v : say -v "Samantha" "Hello world" But if you run say -v '?' to list all available voices, the… ## [The Rise of AI Assistants](https://tobiha.de/2026/01/06/the-rise-of-ai-assistants/) _2026-01-06 · tobiha.de_ In December 2025, something clicked for me. Over the last month, I’ve spent a lot of my time developing AI assistants. Is “AI Assistant Engineering” even a thing? I’m pretty sure this will become a normal job title at some point. Example: Support Assistant I’d like to give you one example that I’ve been working on: an AI support assistant. What does handling support usually look like? I would say… ## [Reviewing 2025](https://tobiha.de/2025/12/27/reviewing-2025/) _2025-12-27 · tobiha.de_ I like reading books. In fact, I like the idea of reading books even more. I want to learn more, but progress feels slow. So slow. I bought a lot of books this year, but I’ve only managed to read a few of them. I am determined to watch every new video from the YouTube channels I follow. Sometimes, however, I have to unfollow certain channels because I can’t keep up, and I realize that I don’t… ## [Vibe Coding Energiekuchen](https://tobiha.de/2025/07/05/vibe-coding-energiekuchen/) _2025-07-05 · tobiha.de_ I’ve programmed for 25 years, but in the past weeks, I barely wrote any code myself. I’d like to tell you about my first personal “vibe coding” side project Energiekuchen and how it changed my perspective on building software. The Journey Begins My journey into vibe coding actually began on May 20, when ChatGPT Codex was unlocked for ChatGPT Team users. Three days later, on May 23, I tested it by…