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Talking about dead people, a game (v0.1)

Agree on a name and age. Everybody plays somebody in a conversation about the dead person. You don't have to say outright what your relationship with the dead person was. Take turns talking about the dead person. Before you talk about them, think of a topic or statement and make a prediction about a draw from a deck of cards. Draw a card. If it's within the prediction, the statement is true or the topic applies. Otherwise, it definitely doesn't. A turn can be very short. It needn't discuss the dead person directly. Others can interject with small details, ask or answer questions, or otherwise speak, during your turn. Stop whenever. 

Godzillas: Shin Godzilla (2016) and Godzilla Minus One (2022)

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Watched those two movies this week. Never saw any of the Godzilla movies before. Damn this post would be better with pictures but it's low-effort late-night blogging and you get what you pay for. In Shin Godzilla, the monster just walks. People say this a couple times through the movie, and it's a great line, so it's worth repeating. The monster did all that... and it just walks. It doesn't want anything. It isn't angry and it doesn't hate you. It's not trying to hurt you. It just walks. That's a fantastic(al), alien portrayal of a monster. Monster as natural disaster. (Everybody else has already made the comparisons with the tsunami and nuclear incident, which is intentional, but none of the reviews on wikipedia talk about how the monster just walks.) (Ok it smacks people and shoots lasers when somebody is attacking it, but that barely counts.) Still from Shin Godzilla; the monster's first form, adorkable! I love how fishy it looks The monster is to...