Damn good movie. Such a trippy mix of sci-fi and body horror.

Chu Ishikawa is amazing! Also, if you haven’t heard it yet, Nine Inch Nails did the theme song for the third movie.

Isn’t that the thing? We’re introduced to them at a young age and they scare the shit out of us, but then we get to enjoy those movies and appreciate some of the schlock. (The penis gun, for example.)

Derail away, it’s all good. Great explanation. I’ll have to visit Tolstoy sometime.

I’ll concede that books can offer a whole lot more to disturb you. There are some stories that would probably be worse off as film adaptations.

Clive Barker’s novels had me taking a lot of breaks. Nothing like a blood orgy of Mortal Kombat fatalities to make you put a book down.

I saw it a few more times because I loved the filmmaking surrounding the movie. The acting is really good, and Wayans really surprised me. The mother-and-son relationship was tragically beautiful.

Also, go watch Satoshi Kon’s (sp?) Perfect Blue and you’ll see some very familiar scenes.

Okay, cool ☺️ I see there are some more on here now, but I’ll give you a few of mine.

TL; DR: The Hellraiser movies scared the piss out of me as a kid, but my curiosity to know more got the better of me, and I ended up really liking it down the road.

I’m a horror fan, but some genres shake me too much. Body horror is one of them, but I knew there were some classics in the category that I was missing. So I gave Hellraiser a shot.

I couldn’t stomach it at first. The opening scene horrified me.

But, it stayed with me. I thought about the movie more and got curious enough to continue it. My disgust was overtaken by my desire to know more of the story.

I ended up finishing the movie and came away with an interesting thought: yeah, it’s body horror, but it’s also cosmic horror. One of the tropes of cosmic horror is that the entity is beyond our understanding. What was clever about Clive Barker’s story was that it gave you a closer look at what it could be like to experience the unknown at a physical level. It was Lovecraftian, but not in concept. Barker gave it shape.

I ended up binging the original films, reading the books, and watching the reboot. It was off-putting on a physical level, but the execution, the details, the artistry of the stories really impressed me.

Would you like an example to carry on the conversation in good faith?

I don’t know how good of advice this is, but I’ll share what I’m doing.

I believe in “don’t be scared; be prepared” and “I’m not paranoid; I’m ahead of the curve.”

TL; DR: make a hobby out of your fear.

Basically, there’s some comfort in learning about how to secure your well-being, whether it’s by having safe places to turn to, learning how to protect your home and family, securing your tech from spying, having a “kill switch” for your phone, etc. (like GrapheneOS’s duress pin).

Join like-minded communities. Do things that give you back peace of mind.

Edit: I don’t mean to make it an obsession, though; I’m saying that you can turn what frightens you into your motivation to seek positive outcomes.

Your feelings of dread are legitimate, but they should pick you up, not push you down.

I have a NAS for storage. The pi sips power, doesn’t make any sound, and runs what I need.

I can respect that, especially if the sweat is from some fun.

• Watch: ghost-hunter shows (they put us right to sleep)
• Listen to: post rock (a lot of The Album Leaf and 65daysofstatic)
• Do: recline with a blanket and cuddle

My SO’s skin and hair after a shower.

You you could do most of that with a raspberry pi5, 8GB. With a whole kit, you can get it for under $250. I’m running 3 at my place: 1 for media (servarr stack, JF, Navidrome, Invidious), 1 for the Fediverse (Mastodon, Piefed, Peertube, WordPress), and 1 for anything else.

Edit: I also missed the part about truenas, but you can still run containers on any other OS just fine.

I mean that, when I’m talking with people from different walks of life in the LGBTQ community, I’m pretty much a basic bitch. And although I’m sympathetic to the struggles of some of my friends in that community, there’s an experiential limit to what I can understand.

Out of those two, I would go with Navidrome. Jellyfin is more monolithic of an app, and navidrome (more specifically, subsonic clients) is more Unix-like (or modular). You can’t edit the tags as easily as with Jellyfin, but beets works really well for tagging and embedding everything from album art to synced lyrics. Beets has great plugins to do all this, including a web app plugin and an auto update plugin.

Edit: I forgot to mention all the frontend choices. Many frontends work for both apps, but I believe subsonic clients have more options.

I’ve used Funkwhale, and I really enjoy it for what it can offer (multiple radios, playlists, and libraries for different types of users) but if you’re not really willing to share your music in the Fediverse, I’d go with JF or Navidrome.

If you don’t really care about an all-in-one media player with a GUI, you could serve your music on gonic and then pick the frontend of your choice. It handles podcast subs, online radio, scrobbling, etc. it also plays well with subsonic clients and beets plugins.

I thought I didn’t fit a stereotype, but being a light-skinned male making conversation with the LGBTQ community makes me feel like a basic bro. There’s a little imposter syndrome with it, too.

Kudos for sharing. Before it was called the Man-O-Sphere, I used to listen to Dave Rubin and Joe Rogan. That was over a decade ago. Once Trump came onto the scene and they pivoted hard to the right, I couldn’t listen to them anymore.

Most people don’t know that I left the Marine Corps an expert rifleman and sharpshooter with a pistol. I really miss hitting the range. It’s kind of therapeutic for me.

You sound like someone who wants a good beer and tickets to Whitechapel. 🤘

This is perfect, thanks for sharing.