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Nicol Smith
@ashenv.bsky.social
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Digital culture student, player of games, watcher of cat, he/him
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Some old and recent faves:

-The Crow 1994 movie for all its gothy angst & style.
-Too many games to mention but A Highland Song stands out for being 2d and about Scottish nature.
-Legion because its production design's deliriously extra.
-Blue Eye Samurai because ep. 5 had gorgeous storytelling.
Silhouette of Brandon Lee as Eric Draven standing in front of the large, oval frame of a broken window in the 1994 film "The Crow". Screenshot from the 2023 video game "A Highland Song", showing a sunny day with some light clouds over a green highland landscape and a small house by the foot of some hills. The lower half of the image mirrors it all in a perfectly still loch. Dan Stevens as David Haller and Rachel Keller as Syd Barret sit with their backs against the wall on opposite sides of a corner, in maroon track suits. Behind Stevens is a hallway bathed in orange light, while on Keller's side the light is blue. Screenshot from the animation Blue Eye Samurai, showing protagonist Mizu with a blood-spattered face and stained robes, scowling while standing in a snow-covered street lined with houses and pink paper lanterns.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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When the grade in my e-lit class for a midterm project is a B, but the feedback makes it feel better than an A.
Snippet of feedback text for a midterm project: Your choice of a metanarrative abut procrastination on this project has saved you. (The next sentence is highlighted) It is so inspired and comedic that I was almost instantly (and regrettably) won over. It's clear from the coding inside your piece and your inclusion of JavaScript--the only example I've seen in the class--that you know what you're doing and could've produced something incredible, had procrastination not gotten the better of you.
October 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Brad Pitt, best known for his role as Floyd, the stoner roommate, in Tony Scott's romantic crime thriller, True Romance.
Pitt, as Floyd, eyes closed as his face is bathed in sunlight, reclining with a lit joint or cigarette in his fingers, and an ashtray and remote on his belly. The table in the foreground has a smoking honey bear bong
October 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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A pause where we can see the mind of a man working in this retrospective on the notorious BMX XXX.

www.timeextension.com/features/the...
Screengrab of text from the retrospective, the passage: "... and never objectify any women. The writing, of course, was very juvenile. So there were definitely juvenile jokes, but I don't think there was any sort of… [pause] Yes, there was a pimp. OK. ..." is highlighted.
September 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Comic panel with Batman scowling in the rain and saying "This is where I watched my parents die, Raphael", behind him the ninja turtle exclaims: "Cowabummer!"
August 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Doing the steam challenge where you post your first five purchases.

It took me a while to get going on steam as I was a console kid for a long time, but I feel like this was an auspicious return to pc gaming.
A list of games purchased for steam in chronological order, starting in august with "Papers, Please", "Shadowrun Returns", "Kentucky Route Zero", "Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines", and ending in October with "Democracy 3".
August 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong Answers only. (a bit cheaty this one but w/e)
Richard E. Grant in a rumpled suit and overcoat, leaning back in a sofa with a lit cigarette in his hand, and a look on his face that has zero fucks to give. Still from "Withnail and I".
July 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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My first Nintendo since the NES! 😊 Quite the backlog to catch up on
A Nintendo Switch 2 in its packaging
June 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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It's not that it ain't shit, more that it's not the point. I dunno, maybe I'm failing the assignment.
A blurry highway at night with the central yellow lines lit up by the headlights of a car. Splashed in the upper corner are the names Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, and Bathazar Getty. At the bottom of the frame are the words "Lost Highway - A film by David Lynch".
May 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Yuri Lowenthal will return as Sandal the enchanter in Avengers: Doomsday
Image of the dwarven enchanter Sandal Feddic from Dragon Age: Origins Avengers: Doomsday title card in green on a black background
March 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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😁
Screenshot from my browser showing I also got today's framed on the first guess. The movie still shows the back of the head of a uniformed individual looking up at a blue hulled ship with the name "Petrox Explorer" emblazoned on the side. It's shot through a wire frame fence.
March 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Recommend 4 films directed by women
Paikea, played by Keisha Castle-Hughes, and her grandfather Koro, played by Rawiri Paratene, approach a beached whale as waves foam about them in a scene from Niki Caro's Whale Rider. Juliette Lewis as Faith, leans back, knees bent in a performative stance, as she's lit up by a green spotlight on a nightclub stage. A violinist and two guitarists share the stage with her in this image from Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days. Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg, and Peter Sarsgaard sit at a picnic table in a woodsy location. A bag of sliced bread and some toppings lie on the table as Fanning and Sarsgaard glance cautiously off frame. The image is from Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves. Brady Jandreau, as Brady Blackburn, sits on his haunches opposite a dark brown horse. The horse is leaning down with its head right next to Brady in the sunlit, yellowed field of this shot from Chloé Zhao's The Rider.
March 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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So nice to be able to put a word to that feeling. It has the jizz of AI all over it.
Screen grab of a skeet from user @gbbranstetter.bsky.social‬ with two Ai generated images. The text reads: "Can someone explain to me why I'm able to tell these images are AI even before I find huge errors (extra fingers, distortions, etc)? Like what are the aesthetic qualities that out these as creations of AI?"
March 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Name 4 games with a 10/10 soundtrack

Definitely would have taken FFVII as it's probably my all time favorite, but I'll do another since it's in the repost
FTL: Faster Than Light title screen Splash screen for the game Pyre Splash screen for the game Quake Silent Hill title screen
February 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Post a Robin Hood

(This one bummed me out as a kid. Now I look back on it fondly.)
Sean Connery sitting in bed, dressed in bloodied rags, with a drawn bow and arrow in his hands. Still from "Robin and Marian" (1976)
January 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Pretty similar to my little demon
Cat with tortoiseshell coat holding on to a yellow can of pringles
December 19, 2024 at 2:16 AM