Wandering Adventure Party

@strangefour Here comes Mothra:
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@KatyElphinstone Being unambiguous is not “black and white” nor is it limiting. One can have a huge rainbow of clearly defined colours. Blue is not red, yellow is not green. But there are limitless colours. I suspect sometimes people mistake a strong desire for clarity to be a refusal to accept complexity. Sometimes it’s just a stubborn effort to understand or organise the complexity.

I love the phrase “pattern-seeking missile.”

@CactuarJoe Sadly, it is not 1:00am UTC. It is 2:00am UTC. It's a 5-hour time difference. The UK and US do daylight savings time at different weeks, so there are some weeks when it's a 4 and some weeks when it's 6 hours. But for now, it is 5.

Anyways,
@steggy and I are in Dorset this weekend, so we are going to bed soon and setting an alarm to get up and watch!

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@Sempf You nailed it: remember? No one doing this shit is old enough to remember any of these lessons. And apparently we, as a society, did a terrible job of passing the lessons on to subsequent generation.

@stux

Few #monsterdon films have such a perfect final frame.

It's just missing the WTF.

@CactuarJoe "Hello ladies and gentlemen."

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@mdiluz What do you meant “no web app” for mattermost? I just did a 3-way call tonight with 2 other folks using mattermost. I was using Firefox. I had video, audio, and screen sharing. They also have a mobile app.

@CactuarJoe This is the correct result. #mothra was 0% the worst #monsterdon

Here are the graphs!

A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 18 Jan 2026. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 90.2 minutes long. There were 2022 posts during the event with an average of 22.41 posts per minute.

The busiest moment was at 50:00 from the start with 36 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 41:00 from the start with 12 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.

The word cloud for Sunday, 18 Jan 2026. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 7266 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. The top 10 most frequent words were: mothra: 756, mothradon: 383, mothra1961: 126, will: 79, time: 76, think: 69, giant: 61, island: 60, really: 55, tiny: 55,
These words were excluded from the word cloud:
movie, movies, film, films, watch, now, one, guy, got, going, good, well, see, know, monsterdondoublefeature, ack, mothra1962, marsattack, marsattacks, monstermiru, and the hashtag monsterdon.

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@CactuarJoe Is that a mouse in your trousers or are you just happy to see me?
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@vkc I totally agree. I'm trying to be extra nice to the n00bs. If we want them to feel happy and welcome, then we need to do things that make them feel happy and welcome.

Stunt dude's face briefly comes into frame. You can catch a bit of nose and a bit of hair.
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@CactuarJoe What do you think of buckets? Maybe give us 5 options?

• Top 20% best #monsterdon films, evar
• Next 20%
• Middle 20% of Monsterdon films
• Not quite the bottom 20%
• Bottom 20% of Monsterdon films

It's different from "stars" because someone could assign the same number of stars to every film. In this way we are thinking about what bucket it belongs in. Everything can't be in the top bucket.

Might be fun to let us rate old movies during a one-off, catch-up poll. Gives the field more info to work with.

@moira

New Peanuts movie dropped this holiday season.
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Thanks for all the fun commentary everyone. See you next week

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@CactuarJoe I wonder if we could use a 2x2 grid scoring system. Good film to bad film, and fun to comment on to not fun to comment on. Some films were good (eg invasion of the body snatchers) and were not so much fun to comment on because they weren’t bad. And some are good bad, like Clash of the Titans, where they’re super fun to comment on. And others are bad bad like Invasion of the Star Creatures where there’s not much fun commenting.

Give it up, ladies and gentlemen, for The Vampirettes
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Here are the graphs!

A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 26 Oct 2025. Each bar represents one minute.
The event was 90.8 minutes long. There were 2314 posts during the event with an average of 25.49 posts per minute.
The busiest moment was at 71:00 from the start with 41 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 77:00 from the start with 12 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.

The word cloud for Sunday, 26 Oct 2025. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts.
There were 6951 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent.
Top 10 most frequent words were:
thehowling1981: 321, werewolf: 209, werewolves: 99, think: 74, time: 60, wolf: 55, back: 54, gonna: 54, howling: 54, really: 50,
These words were excluded from the word cloud:
movie, movies, film, films, watch, now, one, guy, got, going, wrongfrogs, monsterdondoublefeature, good, well, thehowling, see, know, monsterdon, and the hashtag monsterdon.

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I mean, I've heard some violin players that made me want to strangle them. But I never did it.
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Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.