Thoughtful Sloth
LightNews LightNews
banner
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Thoughtful Sloth
@thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
980 followers 4.1K following 910 posts
Enjoyer of film, TV, books, comics, video games, sumo, science, streaming, scifi, fantasy, anime, manga, crosswords, mysteries, city pop, electronica, & other slothy things. Age: Old enough to remember restaurants w/ smoking sections & CDs were new media.
Posts Replies Media Videos
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Watching de Palma's 'Obsession' (1976) and the highlight so far is the dramatically scored shots of this very shocked cathedral.

#filmsky #movies #film 🎥
Image of the title shot for the film 'Obsession' (1976) in which the title is in blue text, and behind it is an image of a gate with stairs leading up to the front of a cathedral. The cathedral is mostly white with grey blue accents and some gold. Toward the top of the cathedral's slanted apex are two round features in the facade on either side and a larger rectangle in the middle and a bit below. The position of these features makes the front of the cathedral look surprised, with its eyes stunned and its mouth agape in shock. The sky behind it is white, it looks gloomy overcast and maybe it just rained.
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
"Unlimited power!" Meme featuring Darth Sidious from the Star Wars prequels.
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Really big fan of ACTOR3's work.
A photo of a movie's description screen on Amazon Prime with a focus on the "Starring" subgroup, which lists actors "Linda Hayden, Patrick Wayne, ACTOR3." Under that group is "Directors", which is "Piers Haggard." The text is white and the background is a black and white image of a young white woman's face turned to look behind her right shoulder. Her mouth is slightly parted showing her front teeth and we can see just the bottom of one eye which has her gaze fixed on something over her shoulder. Her hair looks lightly colored. All around her is black.
November 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Ball and hole. That red ball of hate took me a few hours to master. The well is a nice hilarious gimmick. Love it.

#babysteps #videogames #gamesky 🕹
Nate, a young man in a grey onesie with bare feet and scruffy brown facial hair and glasses, from the game Baby Steps stands on a concrete set of stairs among rolling grass hills behind him. Nate faces the camera on the bottom stair, behind him to his right is a large red ball that the player must walk on to reach the stairs. Nate seen from behind standing at the edge of a well's open hole. A small white bird is on the stone behind Nate at his feet. Around them is a white stone wall and rolling valley hills of dead tan grass. Nate is seen falling into the well, one hand our, feet just about to slip in. Nate is more in the hole, his arm and feet barely visible over the well's stone wall.
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
A short story of choice in four frames.

1) Oh, no. A temptation.
2) Do I dare?
3) Not today, Progress Satan.
4) Lookit my shadow!

#gamesky #babysteps #videogames 🕹
Nate stands at the edge of a broken overlook. The overlook has haphazardly aligned wooden boards for a floor and very skimpy thin metal pipes for guardrails along its edge at waist height. But the corner of the overlook directly ahead of Nate has missing guardrails, creating an open edge Nate could easily step over and fall. Nate was placed here after a cutscene in which another character contemplated falling because they would not be hurt in the video game world, but they would have to walk all the way back to this spot. It is implied Nate is also thinking about it, but the other character decides not to and walks away. Nate still wears his onesie and a knitted grey donkey hat that looks like a donkey head. We see the view of what's over the ledge of the lookout ahead of Nate. Nate and the view are seen from above. Down below is mostly a light blue haze that blocks a lot of details, but through the haze at the middle of the screen we can see two cliff edges disappearing into a hole further below. Two of the cliffedges nearly touch, looking like a thin strip of rock that formed a walkway but lost part of the middle of the bridge. Nate is seen from behind walking away from the edge on the wooden lookout. He walks toward a stable rock bed ahead. Thin metal railings are on either side as Naye walks in the middle with enough room to fall without falling over the edge. Nate still wears his grey knitted donkey hat. The back of his onesie is completely muddy with only the sides of his torso and legs appearing slightly clean. He is barefoot. Nate is seen from behind walking over a sand dune. Ahead of him is a dip in the dunes and another rising sand dune. Nate's shadow is cast on the side of the rising dune up ahead, it looks like a dark outline of his body in the same pose. The shadow is cast by the sun which lights Nate's back and lower body. He still wears the donkey hat and his back is still muddy. Farther in the distance we can see some palm trees around what looks to be water from a blue lake or oasis. Light blue fog starts to cover everything in the distance.
October 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Spent some time at this chill spot for a vibe with the soundtrack.

#gamesky #babysteps #videogames 🕹
The character Nate from the video game 'Baby Steps' is seen from behind, wearing a knitted donkey hat. In front of him is the sun toward the bottom left of the screen and Nate, the sun drifts toward the horizon behind some blue clouds and looks pink. To Nate's right, on top of a rocky cliff, is a street lamp with bugs flying around it. Small black bugs fly all around the screen. The sky is light blue and purple ahead of Nate. Nate stands in the same position but is seen from the front with rocky cliffs behind him and a broken cobble stone path leading to Nate's right (screen left). The front of Nate's onesie is soiled with brown mud showing where he has fallen and slid. Nate has a bit of a somber look on his face. The donkey hat is grey with floppy ears, red button eyes, and a tuff of black hair. The monkey's snout is white or light grey. Nate is a 30 year old white male with brown hair and beard, he wears wire frame glasses. Nate in the same position but seen from above. Nate's back faces the bottom of the screen. The donkey hat is closest to the camera as we seen Nate's body fill much of the lower screen. Ahead of Nate, filling the upper screen, a ledge a step away leads to a puffy slope that glistens slick in the setting sun. It looks slipper and steep, heading down.
October 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Case in point:
A photo of the Plex UI on the Home screen on the Recommended for You list. The film "Evilspeak" (1981) is selected. It's description reads, "The clumsy military cadet Stanley Coopersmith is orphan and completely outcast in the West Andover Academy. He is frequently..." The image to the right depicts an airbrushed looking man as he flies through what looks like cyberspace, his blonde hair is blown back I'm the wind, and his arms hang down below him. He has a look of surprise or amazement with his mouth open in a near grin and his eyes open wide below his raised eyebrows. Behind him are blue squars laid out like a crossword grid at an angle, but the squares are dark and light blue. Dissolved in with these squares are a pair of menacing eyes of red and orange that appear to be getting brighter colors of orange light, as if the eyes were about to shoot lasers. We can see the outline edges of a mouth on either side of the man as if he was blocking a scowl or howl. The eyes peer down at the man locked straight ahead at the face's center. It looks as though the eyes are after him in the grid of cyberspace. The genres of the movie are listed as horror and science fiction. It is 1 hour and 32 minutes long. It stars Clint Howard, R.G. Armstrong, Joe Cortese, and Claude Earl Jones. Who are these people? Oh, "who are these people?" is not text on the screen. I'm just asking you, person reading this alt text if you're out there, do you know these people? I've never heard of them or this film. Hope you're having a good day. Rock on.
October 11, 2025 at 8:04 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
I have not used Plex in a while. I started it up and saw this. I have no idea what this means. What has changed? Why is marketing writing the release notes? Just tell me what you changed like I'm a human, please. I just want to watch trashy movies.

#filmsky 🎥 #uidesign #plex
A photo of Plex's update screen on a television. The background is a gradient from the upper left corner in blue and the lower right in purple. In the center of the screen are two lines of white text, an image underneath, five blue dots beneath that image showing what number screen you are on, and a white "continue" button that says continue but you can't see the text in the image because of the photo quality and the white is too bright. The middle image is another photo of the new interface with a "Favorites" window selected. The favorites window shows a menu bar at the top where favorites is selected, the title of the selected movie, an image from the movie to the right, a description under the title of the left, followed by a line of movie and TV show box art at the bottom. The movie "Halloween" and the TV show "Mad Men" are among seven. "Out of the Furnace" is the movie selected. The image at the center of the UI has another small icon over it on its top left corner. Only the "Continue" button is selectable, you cannot click the center image to get more details on what has changed.
October 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Reminded me of this:

Source www.buttersafe.com/2008/10/23/t...
A comic strip with four horizontal panels. Panel one shows a demon towering over a small stick figure. The demon says, "You should not have come here, human. Why do you cross through my domain?" The next frame is a close up of the stick figure in a light teal blue shirt, they say, "I was on my way to the kitchen for a snack and I got lost." The next panel is a closeup of the demon's eye, it says, "You ended up in the twelfth plane of torment on your way to the kitchen?" The next panel is of the stick figure again, they say, "I am not a clever man." Source is https://www.buttersafe.com/2008/10/23/the-detour/
October 11, 2025 at 4:55 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
This is literally the plot of 'You've Got Mail' but with "mechanic shop" instead of "book shop."

I will not be watching it.

#filmsky #films #movies 🎥
Photo of the description for the movie 'Maintenance Required' which reads: "Charlie, the fiercely independent owner of an all-female mechanic shop, is forced to reevaluate her future when a flashy corporate competitor moves in across the street. Seeking comfort, she turns to an anonymous online confidant - unaware she's confiding in Beau, the very rival threatening her business. As sparks fly both online and off, the truth threatens to blow everything apart." It is tagged as a comedy and a romance. 103 minutes, from 2025, pg-13. The title of the movie is a red logo with a wrench shaped icon replacing the "i" in "maintenance." Behind the description is an out of focus image presumably from the movie which seems to be a neon sign with unreadable white lettering and green and orange colors surrounded by a white neon oval. The Amazon Prime logo is in the top left corner above the title logo. Green text says the movie is #3 in the US.
October 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Hmmm... reminds me of
Image of 'The Head' from MTVs Liquid Television, featuring a white man with a giant cranium that disappears off screen because it's so big, and a purple demon looking alien that sometimes lives inside the man's head. The alien holds a radio while clutching the man's shoulder. The man is pointing up into the night sky and they both look in that direction.
October 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
This is animal cruelty (toward me).

#babysteps #videogames #gamesky 🕹
A photo of Nate from the game 'Baby Steps' with a soccer / football at rest between his feet. Nate stares ahead toward a goal up a very slight incline in the short distance. We cannot see his face, but Nate stands with the slack disappointment that only a broken human can bear. Further behind the goal is Box Hell, where Nate's failure prevents him from ever going again, the shattered peices of his soul waft among the cardboard dust. It all reminded him of childhood and the disappointment that remained there as well. Maybe there is a therapist nearby.
October 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
It's Birdo!
An image of Birdo from Super Mario games. A pink dinosaur with a large open mouth in an O and big red bow.
October 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Posing, meditating, yoga, balancing on a bottle with a cute baby chick and a bucket hat. Just a little adventure to pee. Not pictured: falling, failing, losing my hats a lot.

#babysteps #videogames #gamesky 🕹
From the videogame 'Baby Steps', the character Nate poses at the edge of a stony cliff wearing a park ranger's hat, with a mountain's peak in the background. Nate is a young man in a grey onesie with bare feet, a beard, and glasses. Here much of his detail is in shadow. Nate from 'Baby Steps' stands in water with one foot raised to his knee and his arms out for balance. Behind him, a waterfall rushes down a rocky hillside into the pond Nate stands in. Nate wears a red plastic bucket with a blue handle as a hat. He stands on one leg, with the ball of his heel balanced on the lip of an upright glass bottle, his other leg raise to his knee, his arms out for balance. Behind him, we can faintly see the rocky edges of a cliff and a mountain peak in a light blue fog. Next to the bottle on the right is a small yellow baby chick looking up at Nate.
September 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
My suggestion when first getting acclimated to the controls of 'Baby Steps': Everybody dance, everybody dance! Footloo-oof!

#babysteps #videogames #gamesky 🕹
September 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Suggestion for your collection, was a personal favorite of mine growing up:
A Batman lunch box and thermos. The lunchbox is blue with a white handle. It has a graphic of Batman fighting The Joker on the front. Batman is in classic blue and grey costume, while The Joker is in a purple, green, and yellow suite. The Joker squirts a flower on his jacket at Batman and raises a large hammer that looks like Joker's face, ready to hit Batman. The thermos is white with a blue cap, it has a graphic of Batman's face and logo on it. The thermos sits next to the lunchbox on a table.
September 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Activision turning down Steven Spielberg is a special kind of big stupid move. I hope whoever decided to say no gets made fun of by their friends forever about it.

#filmsky #film 🎥
Clown putting on makeup meme with the text: 1) "Man whose films print money is big fan of your game." 2) "He pitches his vision of a film to you with reasonable caveats." 3) "You get spooked and turn down his proposal." 4) "You sell the film rights of your game to Paramount thinking you can do better."
September 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Truly the stupidest timeline.
Clown putting on makeup meme with the text: 1) "Man whose films print money is big fan of your game." 2) "He pitches his vision of a film to you with reasonable caveats." 3) "You get spooked and turn down his proposal." 4) "You sell the film rights of your game to Paramount thinking you can do better."
September 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
All of Bluesky right now:
Poster for Marvel's animated TV show, 'What If...?' based on the comic book series. The poster features The Watcher Uatu, his arms outstretched toward the viewer, with rings of various realities behind him.
August 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Movie poster for the film 'Idle Hands'. Not worth your time to watch, but if you've seen it already, I'm sorry for reminding you.
August 30, 2025 at 5:00 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Can't fool me, "Gavin." I know who you really are...
Mac Tonight advertisement from the 90s for McDonald's. Mac is a man with a large half-moon head with a grin and sunglasses, wearing a loosened tie and black frumpled blazer. He is posing on a rooftop with his arms bent like chicken wings and his hands at his shoulders pointing outward to either side of him. Behind him is a city skyline with a sunrise on the horizon. Above this scene are the words: "Make it Mac Tonight ... Breakfast Tomorrow". Mac is modeled after a lounge jazz piano player with a giant white half moon head and is largely seen as creepy and a failed ad campaign.
August 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
"I think Gammy might be dying. Yep. Yep. Okay. Good-bye, Bobby. Don't call anymore. I'm dead now. Gotta go."
Elaine from 'Seinfeld' sitting on her yellow couch next to her phone with the receiver to her ear. She says into the phone, captioned below in yellow text, "I'm dead now. Gotta go."
August 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Found this haunting as a child ... and an adult.
Still image from 'Neverending Story' in which a white horse (Artax) is pulled by the reins by a boy (Atreyu) as they both struggle in the Swamp of Sadness.
August 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
Damn, they really are making the end of every episode into an epic conclusion. Still loving the direction of #Foundation with S3 E4 (I'm a week behind and perfectly OK with it).

Another sequence of visual parallels showing the growing divisions and their direction. Can't wait for the payoff.
A photo of a TV showing a paused scene from S3E4 of 'Foundation,' in which a blue-green scene of a distant light traveling up a river winding through a forest toward a relic of a destroyed city out on the horizon. This photo shows another scene in which the character Demerzel is shown from behind as she sits studying the mural of a robot. A scene showing a spaceship flying away from the camera through a futuristic city. The lights of a hover bike disappear in the distance as the bike heads down into the depths of a futuristic city with traffic flying vertically further ahead on either side of a city block, also vertical ahead of the bike.
August 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
thoughtfulsloth.bsky.social
S3E3 of #Foundation ... this show has gotten very good.

Major props to the writing team, cast, directors, and production who put this sequence together.

Love what they're doing with the dynamics of the characters and visual dramatics. Space opera indeed. #tvsky #scifi #spaceopera 📺
Photo of a scene from Season 3, Episode 3 of the 'Foundation' TV show in which the characters Dawn and Dusk sit on the throne room stairs with Day behind them sitting on the middle throne. Dawn, Day, and Dusk maintain their seated positions, but have all naturally fallen into the same pose, with their right elbow on their knee and their right hand gently resting at their chins, their left hands hang slack off their left knee, a matching position of repose, stating into the distance of their thoughts. After sharing in an ascension ritual passed down from a previous Cleon, the clones have come together, sitting next to one another at the center, laughing in the distance as the camera moves away. Day meets an unexpected surprise, alone, at night in a garden. He arrives alone at the center of the shot, half his face in shadow, but we see enough to know he's not happy. His eyes are cast above him at something behind the camera.
August 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM