RocketPunk84

Video-gaming, comic-reading, pop-culture quoting sci-fi obsessive with the odd dabble in pro-wrestling and rocket punching robots.

[RocketPunk84 @RocketPunk84]

Bit late but my favourite games I played in 2025 #TheToPlayList

10. God of War: Ascension
9. Frostpunk
8. RoboCop: Rogue City
7. Helldivers II
6. Phasmophobia
5. Killer Frequency
4. ARC Raiders
3. Oxenfree II: Lost Signals
2. Balatro
1. System Shock (2023)

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The “Marcus Brody cut” in Indiana Jones is a masterclass in comedic editing. It works flawlessly because Spielberg isn’t just subverting the scene, he's weaponising our own knowledge of his filmmaking style against us.
Happy heavenly birthday, Denholm Elliott

[RocketPunk84 @RocketPunk84]

Blog update in which I continue the countdown of my all time favourite video games...

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[Bernard McEldowney @BernardMcEldown]

Bob Monkhouse was simply a fantastic all round entertainer

Sad to see that so many other great entertainers in that video clip, are no longer with us!

😥

[Hollywood Gump @FirstNameJ0hn]

Will Sasso and Dan Soder are Macho Man Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rodney Dangerfield, and Robert Deniro reading Andy Rooney quotes. 😂😂😂😂

(🎥@ChrisVanVliet)

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

That time Leslie Nielsen brought back THE NAKED GUN's Frank Drebin for one of the best beer commercials of the 1990s.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Michael Mann couldn't shoot Collateral on film. The cameras couldn't see Los Angeles at night the way he wanted. So he picked a digital camera no other major Hollywood movie had used. The crew was still building parts for it during the shoot.

Mann was chasing a specific look. Around 10 or 11pm in LA winters, a low cloud bank drifts in off the ocean and settles about 1,200 feet up. The orange sodium streetlamps below light up the bottom of those clouds and turn the whole sky into a soft, hazy glow. Mann said it looked like winter in England.

Movie film couldn't see that. To shoot a single downtown block clearly, the crew would have had to bring in massive lights and brighten up entire streets just to make the buildings visible. Even with the lens open as wide as it goes to pull in any available light, almost nothing outside the foreground would stay in focus.

The camera Mann picked was the Thomson Viper, brand new and not really ready for production. There was no memory card or storage inside the body. It had to be plugged into a separate hard drive with a cable.

About 80% of Collateral was shot digital. The other 20% on regular film was mostly the Korean nightclub shootout, where the bright club lighting gave the crew plenty to work with.

The coyote scene only exists because of the digital camera. Mann didn't plan it. A small pack of coyotes wandered across an empty street between takes, and because the camera could see in near-darkness, the crew just rolled. On film, that shot would have required lighting up the whole intersection first.

The helicopter shots over the city work the same way. Palm trees against the night sky, the downtown skyline lit only by the city's own light. On 35mm film, none of that would have shown up.

The movie cost $65 million to make and earned $220 million worldwide. It won Best Cinematography at the BAFTAs, the British version of the Oscars, and helped push Hollywood toward digital cameras for night shoots.

One catch. That orange light Mann chased is mostly gone now. Starting in 2009, LA began replacing its sodium vapor streetlamps with white LEDs. By 2013 the city had swapped out 141,000 of them. Today the lighting system is 98% LED. The Los Angeles you see in Collateral doesn't exist anymore.

[Michael | Arkham Dreamer 🔻 @ArkhamDreamer]

Just found an old 1998 E3 interview showing an early, never released build of Prey, and my mind is completely blown. They were showcasing seamless, real-time portal tech a full NINE YEARS before Portal came out. Looks like straight-up witchcraft.

[Simpsons Daily Glavins 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @simpsons_DG]

Could Homer Simpson BE a communist?

His father spoke out on his behalf!

[Hollywood Gump @FirstNameJ0hn]

The time Dave Chappelle hosted SNL and they put on an all-time great sketch.

The one with Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, The All State Guy, and Count Chocula. 😂

[Simpsons Daily Glavins 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @simpsons_DG]

"That is some outfit, Scoey. It makes you look like a homosexual."

"Boooo!"

"Oh. Maybe you all are homosexuals too!"

"BOOOOOO!!"

[Dante retro dev 💾 @dantemendes]

Alone in the Dark (Infogrames/1992) for MS-DOS PC is widely considered a cult classic and the true father of 3D survival horror, establishing the formula of fixed camera angles and resource management.
Pioneered 3D character on pre-rendered backgrounds, influencing Resident Evil, and is praised for its atmospheric Lovecraftian horror and inventive puzzle-solving.

[Old Media @oldmedia]

How Batman Beyond uses the 60:30:10 rule for visual magic

[Scarred for Life @ScarredForLife2]

The second series of brilliant kids' supernatural anthology SHADOWS (1976) had one of the spookiest title sequences ever. It still blows my mind that Toast of Tinseltown did a direct homage for its titles. Talk about a deep cut. Knows his stuff, does Matt Berry!

[Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel]

If you're heading to #RecordStoreDay this Saturday for the 12” zoetrope picture disc of Sledgehammer, here’s what you need to know.

[GrappleClips @GrappleClips]

FULL MATCH ALERT:

Sid squashes Hercules in his final WWF match at Madison Square Garden!

*Hercules no sells the Powerbomb

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First teaser for ‘SPACEBALLS: THE NEW ONE’.

In theaters on April 23, 2027.

[yoshimi battles video game addiction @nise_yoshimi]

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault