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Phantasm II,my side of the mountain

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 Was pretty awful.  Ran it almost entirely at 2x.      A more amusing failure was how they set up booby traps in the commandeered house only to have the tall man just casually smash through a window without triggering any of them.      Surprised how cozy those boarded up houses were on the inside.    It's entirely staffed by just our fearless hero from episode 1, the ice cream man & 2 love interests.  Ice cream man & kid had some bonding moment where they just drove around looking for tall man.       Some nifty monsters. There were some shots of Valencia in 1987.    Heroine kills goon.  The balls got lasers & bigger grinders.   Tall Guy got an inner alien. But his death by acid & exploding eyeballs wasn't very satisfying.   Because tall guy just came back in the last scene & 1 of the heroines was a reanimated corpse.  The foreshadowing was someone like that would never...
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   Baby it's hot inside. Another record high & another sale of S&P 500 to manetain constant asset allocation.  Thus, a small migration of cash from taxable to tax advantaged happened this year while stonk weighting moved from S&P to BRK.  Lions still don't think Warsh is ever going to raise rates but having dry powder during a dip has become more appealing than being all in on the bottom.  It's not possible to be all in on the bottom because new cash is always coming in & cash must always be taken out to pay bills. Media said it popped because of a positive Iran headline.  Another headline said US was out of missiles.  What if it only popped because treasury interest was paid today & it was reinvested.  The mane thing on lion minds is how all these humanoid robots propping up Tesla's valuation are going to create any value if they've already gone the way of quad copters & been banned everywhere.  They're only going to ...
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  The tall bar was a lot easier than 7 years ago.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq6yz_QRMBo Final waterfront run was probably finished today. Pleasantly surprised by some random shots, letting the camera drift sideways & the lion move out of frame.  Another trick was letting it drift in & out during a diagonal shot.  One that wasn't done was running towards & behind it.  Definitely looks better the farther away it is but the drogue just isn't practical for sideways shots or crowded areas.   Based on how long ago the last waterfront run was, lions don't expect to do it again.  It was Dec 2024.  Manely a time limitation, among other things.  ------------------------------------------------------------  Tried getting across the bridge in RC & got bounced in short order.  Was so frustrated, cut the power instead of doing a power button shutdown.  The pro lost the file & wrote over the sectors. h...
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  Lions get nostalgic for dreary days of long ago, during extended heat waves.  Stroads worked when there wasn't a lot of traffic.  Not so much in today's extremely crowded world.  Most of the stroads existed before lions drove.  Crow Canyon was the local stroad.  It's manely shuttered now.   A lot of lion childhood was spent on Newark Blvd, Santa Rita Rd.  Lions would live on a stroad in Titusville.  Ocala has similar rents, for now.  The best deals are all low income but not age restricted, so they only show up on apartments.com instead of after55.com.  The income limit is $40k.  Upon retirement, it'll probably be $60k.  The object of the game is to distribute enough IRAs & make enough interest to get above the ACA minimum, below the ACA maximum & below the rental maximum.  Of course, full price might be a better experience.  FL*rida now has joined Calif* in rent inflation. Reviewing weather d...
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