Have you ever loved something, only to realize it’s a commercial flop or just obscure? What’s something that deserves more light than it got?
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There's this indie game called The Gap. It's about a man who is trying to find the cure to Huntington's disease to save his family. He discovers that déjà vu is one's own memories from a parallel universe. He uses this knowledge to search other realities to find the cure. It's a slow burn but it's so good.
This is actually one of my favorite games and it has the third place spot after Silent Hill 2 and SOMA. This isn't a horror game just to be clear. I haven't seen anyone talk about this game which is a real shame. I highly recommend it!
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Steambot Chronicles for the PS2. It's my favorite game by a wide margin. I almost never replay games, but I've played that one all the way through over a dozen times. It's just chock-full of so many choices of what to do and how to do it, and the graphics and music come together to make the perfect atmosphere.
PK. A Bollywood movie that really resonated with me.
They were mentioned in a post on Lemmy. Decided to take a listen and they are amazing!
They have a story spanning three albums: The Protomen, Act II: The Father of Death, and Act III: The City Made Us.
Found them browsing for new music and fell in love. The albums are all stories and wonderfully done.
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What if we took a British-style police procedural and made it not just a comedy, but a full-blown parody/spoof. And also it was created by Charlie Brooker, of Black Mirror fame.
Packed with wall-to-wall sight gags, terrible puns, and blink-and-you'll-miss-it jokes.
There are three seasons, each two 45-minute episodes.
Links (for those outside the US or EU): Season 1, Season 2, Season 3.
Relevant Mitchell&Webb
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Planet of the Apes - the French book that spawned all the films an shows.
Within a Deep Forest Freeware, came out in 2006, by Nifflas. You're a ball.
Love the soundtrack, love the controls, love the design. It's perfect.
Motherfucking
Centaurworld
Got massively slept on.
Somewhat off topic...
I think it was like last year or so I had a huge discussion irl about the word centaur and how it should be pronounced. Sen-tower is wrong, right out; sen-tarr is how I used to pronounce it; but it came to my and the other people's attention that I was discussing this with that the correct way to pronounce it is sen-torr, like Ford Taurus or a taurus demon. Like, "I tore that ugly poster off my wall".
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Triangle is an independent movie made in 2009 - so good. First found it on YouTube for free, I believe i recently saw it on peacock
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Very obscure 45-minute 1991 anime movie: Christmas in January. Rated extremely low (5.46 / 10) on MAL, it's absolutely one of my favorite movies. It's whimsical and melancholic and so so interesting. Reminds me a lot of the Ghibli movie Ocean Waves, which is also an underrated gem (and, while I'm at it, the Kimagure Orange Road masterpiece sequel movie from the same director as Ocean Waves).
I really love stories that are just miraculous/odd/interesting excerpts of people's lives that are otherwise inconsequential. There was nothing grand or life-changing about the events in the story, but I will never forget the delicate social interplay in the shoe store, or the only scene that actually takes place in January at the very end: just a moment of reflection.
Mr. Robot is one of my all-time favorites and my most recent favorite was Mr. Corman.
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Terriers - excellent 2010 caper-style dramedy series starring Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James, created by the screenwriter behind "Oceans Eleven". Relatable & endearing characters, compelling arcs, razor-sharp writing, wrapped in a noire detective plot set in sunny San Diego. Aired for just 13 eps on FX back in the day, only a couple of years before streaming platforms really hit big (and where it likely would have found its audience) and I've mourned "what could have been" ever since. Can't recommend it enough, despite the final ep having a bit of a "lady or the tiger" ending. I urge you to seek it out.
So far I've loved every tv show Taika Waititi has been involved with, and many of them I've only found out when checking "ok, what else has he done" on wikipedia. Most recently, Reservation Dogs and Our Flag Means Death.
Also, I think there are many canadian tv shows that are really good and deserve a wider global audience: like Heated Rivalry, 19-2 (the original one in French) and Happily Married (C'est comme ça que je t'aime).
Have you seen Wellington Paranormal? That's a fun one. Hunt for the wilder people is a good movie too.
Wellington Paranormal is hilarious. Didn't know about this movie though, will add to my watchlist, thank you!
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Bone comic book series by Jeff smith.
It is the perfect balance between Tolkien and Disney, had a influence in making comic books more popular in the 90s-00s.
Its mainly aimed at kids but its very enjoyable to adults as well, it has the topic of metaphysics front and center.
https://kids.scholastic.com/content/kids64/en/books/bone/books.html