2305 – Goobies (2023 video game)

Goobies is a top-down auto-shooter bullet hell hybrid with roguelike elements where you’ll battle endless waves of enemies. Take on giant bosses, swarms of smaller blobs, and everything in between. The game offers a wide variety of challenges, with procedurally generated levels and increasing difficulty as you progress.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (MINIMUM): Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system / OS: Microsoft Windows 10 / Processor: Intel Core i5-6400 / AMD FX-8320 / Memory: 4 GB RAM / Graphics: GTX 960 / R9 280 / DirectX: Version 11 / Storage: 1 GB available space

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2284 – Entangled Life (podcast General Intellect Unit)

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In which we read “Entangled Life” by Merlin Sheldrake.

The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.

They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster; they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature’s processes. In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into their spectacular world, and reveals how these extraordinary organisms transform our understanding of our planet and life itself.

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2109 – Love, Death & Robots Volume III (2022)

Love, Death & Robots (stylized as LOVE DEATH + R⬤BOTS, and represented in emoji form as ❤️❌🤖) is an adult animated anthology streaming television series created by Tim Miller and streaming on Netflix. Produced by Blur Studio, it consists of stand-alone episodes that contain different narrative and animation and are produced by different animation studios from a range of countries, exploring diverse genres particularly comedy, horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Each episode is connected to the themes of the titular subjects matter. However, not every episode includes all three topics. Miller serves as the showrunner and producer alongside Joshua Donen, David Fincher, and Jennifer Miller.

The third volume holds a 100% rating from 15 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 8/10, the website’s critical consensus stating, “A concise collection of memorable cybernetic fables, Love, Death + Robots’ third installment is its most well-balanced yet.” Writing for The Verge, Andrew Webster called volume III “arguably the strongest collection yet” praising the stories and various animation styles used in each short. (wiki)

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spacetime coordinates: 1992 / 2019 Cabrini-Green – Chicago

Candyman (1992)

Candyman is a 1992 American gothic supernatural horror film, written and directed by Bernard Rose and starring Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons and Vanessa E. Williams. Based on Clive Barker‘s short story “The Forbidden“, the film follows a Chicago graduate student completing a thesis on urban legends and folklore, which leads her to the legend of the “Candyman“, the ghost of an artist and the son of a slave who was murdered in the late 19th century for his relationship with the daughter of a wealthy white man. (wiki)

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Candyman (2021)

Candyman is a 2021 supernatural slasher film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and DaCosta. The film is a direct sequel to the 1992 film of the same name and the fourth film in the Candyman film series. The film stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, and Kyle Kaminsky. Vanessa Williams, Virginia Madsen, and Tony Todd also reprise their roles from the original film. (wiki)

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