Perfect Blue (1997) is so intense.

I recently got a tv that can play 4k for the first time, so I've been slowly collecting 4k anime films, mostly retro. I saw Perfect Blue was an option. It's been years since I saw it and all I remember about it was that it was a cool psychological thriller about an idol, so I picked it up.

Holy shit. I completely forgot nearly all of the film. The >!stalker(s)!<, the psychological unwinding of the main character, the cruelty of the former fans, the complete indifference of grinding her under the wheels of the idol/model/film industry. The way you understand exactly how she's feeling at any given moment, all of her fear, shame, and anxiety and the pressures that make her do what she does.

Maybe because I avoid the horror and thriller genres generally, but I haven't seen a film this intense in a long, long time. I feel dazed after watching it. What a masterpiece.

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u/lulufan87 — 2 days ago
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Some shots of my 20-room livable castle as well as surrounding villages and farms.

I made sure when building that the castle's rooms are mostly 'houses'. There are twenty, so a lot more than shown here. Mostly bedrooms plus a cathedral, kitchen, dining hall, nursery, wizard's tower, conservatory, laundry room, and the like. I don't have anyone actually housed in there at the moment, I like them all in the castle town and farms so I can see them interact with each other.

The boat design was clumsily copied from LucidLumi 's incredible design.

Thanks to everybody here who helped with feedback for the fishing village. I still don't love it, but it's way better than it was. Still open to suggestions (other than 'lower it').

Thanks all for viewing.

u/lulufan87 — 4 days ago
▲ 35 r/Pokopia

Suggestions to fix my tiny fishing village?

I'm trying to put together a little medieval fishing village, but I can't get it to a good place. What would you change? I'm okay with doing a lot of rebuilding/block-swapping/whatever. Only thing I won't do is shorten the stilts... I wish the whole thing was two squares lower, but I'd have to destroy the entire 'floor' of planks that everything is built on. I'm committed now.

Ignore the patch of missing plank on the left side, that's been fixed.

Thanks all.

u/lulufan87 — 9 days ago
▲ 341 r/Pokopia

This event is soothing.

Pokopia is awesome, but the constant building can be overwhelming at times. The wish event alleviates that for me somewhat. Talk to pokemon, get wish, fill wish, repeat. It's mindless.

The only thing I don't like about it is placing furniture that doesn't match a pokemon's house. I'm so persnickety about how I make those interiors, it sucks to plunk an iron bed in the middle of a berry-themed room : /

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u/lulufan87 — 11 days ago

Movie that start out with intense action/high adrenaline but then become slow-paced, thoughtful, or melancholic at the end?

Not necessarily a downer ending, just intense movies that mellow out in the third act. Hoping for something fun, but I'll take any suggestion.

For context, I'm doing a movie night where one person in our group picked a high-octane film (the Wachowski sisters' Speed Racer) to start with, and another person picked an extremely low-key down-tempo film (Angel's Egg, a sort of philosophical, melancholic anime) to end with. They're basically opposite movies and the contrast will be jarring, so I thought for my pick something that starts high but ends low might help to bridge the gap. For the life of me I can't think of anything, though.

If the film is a bit surreal, that's a bonus, but it doesn't need to be.

Thanks all. I know it's a weird request, but people here seem so knowledgeable.

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u/lulufan87 — 15 days ago
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I wish magnet rise could destroy blocks more quickly

I'm building a tall structure. Sometimes I lay down a line of blocks, realize they were off by one, and then have to go back and remove them.

Laying them down takes a few seconds. Removing them with magnet rise takes forever, and with rock smash I remove them so quickly I accidentally remove the ones under my feet and fall into the water below if I don't slowly go one by one.

Rant over.

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u/lulufan87 — 1 month ago

I know it's a bit rough, but will someone please tell me how to say "Shut the fuck up, you're brilliant" in French?

My husband frequently insults his own intelligence by saying "I'm not a smart man" / "I'm an idiot" etc.. I respond "Shut the fuck up, you're brilliant." Now he's learning French and he insults himself in French. I'd like to respond in French.

Is there an equivalent?

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u/lulufan87 — 2 months ago