#NewFeature: Multiplayer Games

Not exactly new, but an improved version of the casino games that used to be on here, and a few more. Also included is the return of the infamous shoutbox, but only for game lobbies, and the chats only retain the latest 20 messages. I'm calling you out, @VincentPriceIsRight.

The games include the following:

#Battleship: Position your ships and alternate attacks on coordinates to sink each other's boats. Just like that stupid game, but simple games are good coding practice.

#Blackjack: 1 to 4 players with the lobby host as the dealer. Same as before with a few fixes and "splits" work now.

#Checkers: Regular checkers with a few visual updates.

#Chess: A game I originally put up on TE years ago, but now it's more efficient and probably coded more accurately.

#Connect4: I remember znep mentioned we should have this, and he never played it when I put it up. Not once.

#GoFish: 1 to 4 players. Ask a specified player for a card to get the most books. I don't hate this game.

#GuessWho: This is a pretty stupid game, but I made it somewhat more interesting by adding custom character sets. You can guess characters from Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. First to win 5 rounds wins the game.

#WheelOfFortune: Another returning game where the host can input a custom puzzle or have it selected at random from a few themes: It's Always Sunny, Trailer Park Boys, Rickyisms, and Terminator. Feel free to recommend more.


I have a few more complicated ones in the works, which I'll probably forget about. I've tested these games, but there may be bugs here and there. If you encounter any errors and you're on desktop and familiar with developer tools, report the console errors to me so I can fix it.

#RIP James Van Der Beek. I never watched Dawson's Creek because I'm not a chick, but he was great in The Rules of Attraction. Cancer is a bitch. It also got the singer of 3 Doors Down Brad Arnold. A two or three hit wonder as far as I'm concerned, but still good songs.

@Tromafreak, what's the verdict on Marshmallow? I saw it streaming somewhere and had a vague interest.

#Kickboxer5 (1995)

The subtitle is "Redemption", but it's hardly that. The movie begins and already, we killed off the protagonist of the last 3 movies off-screen. WTF is this shit? This franchise seriously has no integrity at this point. Just because the star isn't able to come back doesn't mean you have to demean all their progress. I'm electing to ignore that plotpoint and assume he faked his death or some such nonsense, because he was already working for the government in some capacity in the last film.

Anywho, Mark Dacascos takes over as the lead character, but there's never any real kickboxing tournament. They talk about one, the guy refuses, they decommission him, so Dacascos seeks revenge on his behalf. He's actually a martial artist in real life, so he seems more legit than David Sloan, who never fully had me convinced that he knew how to fight. But again, no real kickboxing here, and did I mention how DTV this movie felt? The full frame, grainy video, and small scope don't do this movie any favors.

I just watched a movie called #Terminator2. Perhaps you've heard of it? Well, I read an interesting theory not too long ago in regards to people nitpicking that T2 shouldn't exist based on the events of the first movie, particularly Reese's line about them sending, "just him... and me".

When T2 starts, that idea is thrown out the window when Sarah says Skynet sent back two terminators. One could argue why they didn't send the T-1000 back to kill Sarah when she would be less prepared for it. The solution to this dilemma was actually pretty simple. Most people assume they were sent back in the order of the films: The T1 characters sent first, then the T2 characters. It actually makes sense to think of it the other way around.

Skynet sent back their best prototype to kill John directly, so Tech-Com sends back the best bet against it, a reprogrammed T-800. Then, Skynet has nothing better than a T-800, so they try sending that after Sarah as insurance, and Tech-Com has no time to set up another T-800, so they send back Reese. That could explain him not knowing about Uncle Bob.

First Look at John Waters, Bill Moseley, Lloyd Kaufman in Horror Anthology ‘Baltigore’ [Exclusive]
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Baltigore: Maryland Horror Anthology showcases historic Baltimore through a series of peculiar tales that each tackle a different horror subgrene in a different time period. We have your first look at the iconic John Waters, Bill Moseley, and Lloyd Kaufman from the indie film below. Waters stars as The Broker, a Rod Serling-esque host who guides […]
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#Kickboxer2, #Kickboxer3, & #Kickboxer4 (1991, 1992, 1994)

Following Kurt Sloan's (Van Damme) victory over the villainous Tong Po in the first movie, Tong Po kills Kurt between movies, forcing the third brother David to take his place in a quest for revenge.

David is a chill dude in LA who trains people his own gym. He even mentors some asshole kid who you want to punch in the face for acting tough all the time. People try to coerce him into fighting again, which he's mostly indifferent to at this point. But when Tong Po forces his hand and does the world a favor by killing the kid, David seeks revenge and does what a kickboxer does best.

It's a decent film despite the dumbass act of demeaning the outcome of the first film, but what are you gonna do? It was the 90s when shitty DTV-esque sequels ran rampant. Sasha Mitchell didn't strike me as a great fighter, but I grew to accept it after a while and had fun with the movie. It didn't hurt that Xian Chow (Dennis Chan) came back to mentor him, reminiscent of that Miyagi type figure that makes this into one of those Karate Kid / Rocky type stories.

When the third movie rolls around, we throw a lot of that out the window and have David and Xian head to Brazil and get caught up in a child slavery sex trafficking ring. They make friends with another asshole kid and have to save his sister from a bunch of rich pedos who force him to fight. This escalates into some forced super training that doesn't seem to make David break a sweat, because he's pretty much superhuman at this point. He turns into a terminator and stops using his feet and starts using guns after a while, but it's still pretty entertaining.

When part 4 happens, things start to go a bit downhill. Sasha is back as David Sloan, but he's the only one. Tong Po is recast by a guy with prosthetics to make him appear more Asian, a bald cap that's all too obvious in certain scenes, and an evident stunt double. David start off in jail, having been framed by Tong Po, until he's let out under an alias to infiltrate Tong's Mexico fight ring to rescue his kidnapped wife.

If Tong finds out Jack Jones is actually David Sloan, he's a dead man. Yet hilariously enough, henchman Thom Mathews introduces him in a fight as "Sloan", but the filmmakers conveniently forgot about the secret identity part and Tong Po never seemed to notice. Probably because he can't see so well with those prosthetics covering half his eyes.

There's also a 5 foot girl with juicy melons that's supposed to be depicted as a good fighter, but that's just laughable. In the end, Tong Po gets away, never to return as this era of Kickboxer sequels ends abruptly.

I feel like I'm getting afflicted with the Tromafreak syndrome in saying, "These movies are great! 6/10!"

Bruce Campbell’s ‘Ernie & Emma’ Trailer – The Horror Icon Wrote & Directed a Heartfelt Comedy
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After decades in front of the camera, horror icon Bruce Cambell made his feature directorial debut with 2005’s Man with the Screaming Brain and followed it up with 2007’s My Name Is Bruce. Nearly 20 years later, Campbell has returned to the director’s chair for a heartfelt comedy titled Ernie & Emma. Watch the trailer […]
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‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ TV Series in the Works from A24; New Film Also in Development
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A24 has emerged victorious from a months-long bidding war for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film and television rights, Deadline reports. Strange Darling filmmaker and The Long Walk screenwriter JT Mollner is spearheading a TV series based on the iconic horror property. Glen Powell will executive produce with Dan Cohen via Barnstorm, alongside Spooky Pictures’ Roy […]
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I've been messing with styles and themes again and I re-added the "retro" theme. It looks pretty shitty on light-mode, but dark mode is pretty cool if you want to check it out.