Sergio

Critters 2: The Main Course is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?; uBlock Origin adblocker on firefox works): https://tubitv.com/movies/100001410/critters-2-the-main-course
• someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/critters-2

The plot takes place two years after the first film, as a batch of planted Critter eggs begin to hatch and resume their carnivorous appetite upon the town once again.

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Rotten Tomatoes reports that 38% of 13 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 4.7/10.[9] Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 1 out of 4 stars: "It lacks all of the style and sense of fun of the original Critters (1986) and has no reason for existence".[10]

Discussing the film several years after its release, writer David Twohy said in an interview with Starlog that "Critters 2 is something I'm still not terribly pleased is on my résumé".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critters_2:_The_Main_Course

Industrial / EBM

caught this on one of my fave twitch streams, https://www.twitch.tv/djalayt

A lot of us are in tech and we come across these problems and just troubleshoot our way around them and don't really think about them, so I figured a "case study" might be helpful. ~~Image unrelated.~~

Anyway, yesterday I tried making an alt account on lemmy.world. When last we left the situation, I had been notified that my registration application had been denied, but I'd been asked to confirm my email and https://lemmy.world/u/sergio had been created. A couple helpful commenters suggested my account might still be under review.

• Today I tried logging in again. But when I entered my username and password, I got a popup that said "incorrect login credentials". Maybe I needed to verify my email again? I went to my email, clicked the "verify your email" link, and just got a page with text that said "verify email" and nothing else. Maybe it didn't like me using my username to log in? So I tried logging in with my EMAIL and my password, and still got that "incorrect login credentials".
• Maybe something's wrong with my password? I'm using a password manager but OK, let's just try changing my password. I clicked on the "forgot email" link on the login page. I entered my email address and clicked "reset password"... and nothing happens. No feedback, and I don't get an email. (10 minutes so far).
• maybe I should check https://lemmy.world/u/sergio ? Hey, that's no longer there, I just get an error! I check the user page of another lemmy.world user and it works, so it's not a server problem. Maybe my application really was denied? Was it really reviewed? What do I do now?

(my intuition is to try again with a different username, email address, computer, and browser from a different location at a different time of day...)

Dark electronic

Link to song: https://deathlovesveronica.bandcamp.com/track/burn

So I post a fair number of links to youtube videos on [email protected] and [email protected] and sometimes a couple of movie-related comms. Anyway, recently lemmy.world updated their server software and the way that they handle youtube thumbnails. So I wanted to check it out.

So I went to create an account on lemmy.world. So I entered my email info, and where it asked for an explanation I explained that this is [email protected] wanting to post to those communities.

• First of all, their captcha is really difficult. I could not figure out the first 3 that it presented so I kept hitting the icon to get a new one. The 4th one I thought I knew so I entered it.

• So I tried to log in and it said "did not verify email." OK, so I go to my email, find the link, click it and enter my password and it says "registration application denied"

I'm not complaining about either one. I don't really mind having a tough captcha if it keeps out bots. I guess I don't mind having my registration application denied, though I wish it told me why. Did I get the captcha wrong? Did I say something wrong in my application text? Should I try again later? Weirdly enough, https://lemmy.world/u/sergio does exist and it was created at the time that I signed up for that account.

Anyway, that's one example of the problems a new user can have trying to join lemmy.

Darkwave

Translated Lyrics:
Ruh / Spirit

Half an angel, half a monster
I will sleep in your bosom again
Half an angel, half a monster
I will roam to where you are

Secretly, with the shadows of the night
I will sidle to your side
Like a snake circling around a hole
You.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ruh-spirit.html

song link:
https://shepastawayofficial.bandcamp.com/track/ruh

Industrial rock

The song link: https://kmfdm.bandcamp.com/track/free-your-hate

Hi, I'm on slrpnk.net and yesterday I made a weekly announcement post to [email protected] I think you can see that post here:

• https://slrpnk.net/post/19513116

However later I noticed that if I looked at the community in private mode, my post wasn't there! I just now reposted it with a slightly different title and now if you look at the community it is there:

• https://lemmy.world/c/bmoviebonanza
• https://lemmy.world/post/26877690 Though the first post still never showed up.

So I'm thinking... the first post didn't federate? Is that the issue? If so, why? Or is it just a bug and if so who do I report it to? Thanks for any feedback.

Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

How to watch the movie:

• tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?): https://tubitv.com/movies/585867/yeti-giant-of-the-20th-century
• youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgn2Uc6sL6I
• youtube (with Portuguese subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywr1316LeME
• youtube (with Romanian subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=311lhBXmTeg
• youtube (WARNING low-res / clipped, only watch if nothing else available): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh7rKslDbb4
• ADBLOCK NOTICE: uBlock Origin on firefox works on the youtube and tubi versions above
• someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/yeti-the-giant-of-the-20th-century

an industrialist's orphaned grandchildren and their collie befriend an awakened Yeti.

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While RKO and Universal Pictures battled over King Kong's rights, Dino De Laurentiis—the producer of the 1976 King Kong remake—announced another giant monster film which would be filmed in the Himalayas, entitled Yeti. Although his version ended up not being made, this film was a low-budget cash in on De Laurentiis' project, which aimed to beat it to theaters....

In a contemporary review, Maurizio Porro of the Corriere della sera was most negative, writing that "[t]he film was shot on such a low budget (the rudimentary effects are accomplished through obvious image superimpositions) that in comparison, the Taviani brothers look like Cecil B. DeMille. But it is not the only issue: [...] the story and screenplay are completely missing. Mystery and suspense are absent, whereas ridiculousness is in full effect, dominating the proceedings."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti:_Giant_of_the_20th_Century

Reposting bc the original post didn't federate for some reason?!

EBM / industrial

info: https://www.discogs.com/release/44994-Front-242-Tragedy-For-You

video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-qI7nxFWXI

The March 2025 top-tier sumo wrestling tournament is currently going on in Japan. Most of the sumo wrestlers are Japanese, but there are some foreigners and for the first time there are two Ukrainian guys there.

They had to fight their way "up the ranks" to get there, and had fought once before in a lower rank, but last night was their first meeting at the highest level.

If you want to see more sumo, follow the daily postings at [email protected] for videos with English commentary!

Link to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-bAqwZau-k

Cross-posted from [email protected]

I was looking for something else and came across this. I'd heard of Japanese Kappas and the Mexican La Llorona before....

But were you aware of Empusa? Turns out she "is a shape-shifting female being in Greek mythology, said to possess a single leg of copper" who "feasted on blood by seducing young men as they slept (see sleep paralysis), before drinking their blood and eating their flesh". Then one day she tried that on Zeus who was in disguise as a normie and... well it turned out like you'd expect.

Then there are the Nepalese Kichkandi who are "a spirit of a woman[1] that is latched to an uncremated part of her dead body, usually a bone". Apparently they appear as "an alluring and young female, who lures a lonely male traveler[2] and saps their life force."

Anyway that's just a couple, check out the full list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampiric_creatures_in_folklore