oooh, I kinda like the toot flood on Sunday #monsterdons… ofc we’re gonna miss some good stuff, but I feel like I’m constantly busy (in a good way!), with watching, reading, typing, etc.

Oh, awesome! Too bad I have a weekly gym meetup at that time…

The whole licensing thing kinda reminds me of being a kid in Central America during the 80s. We bought cable TV from this company, it was a legit company, had a store in the mall, had ads in the major papers, etc. But it was only one channel and I think they were grabbing satellite signals - they alternated between showing HBO and CNN and Showtime and WGN out of Chicago - whoever was running the place musta been a Cubs fan bc they showed like every Cubs game. I don’t remember the name of the company or the technology, but I think a set-top box was involved. I think this musta been before the US companies realized they could make a lot of money selling in Latin America…

Eureka have apparently done a high quality Bluray I might have to put in my cart.

tbh I don’t think it’s worth owning unless you’re really into TaeKwonDo or something…

An old-school martial arts movie, the kind where the actors are clearly all martial arts experts but the choreography’s cinematic rather than realistic. (the bad guys attack one at a time, the hits are clearly not hitting hard, when someone gets hit they go flying across the room, etc.)

Some really interesting people in this movie:

• Jhoon Rhee “the father of American taekwondo”
• Angela Mao, hapkido practitioner and actress in a lot of films
• Sammo Hung. You know Sammo Hung.
• Carter Wong.
• a bunch of guys doing Karate, including Kenji Kazama
• and others. Like, there’s this European-American woman Anne Winton who was a black belt in TKD and she only made like 2 movies bc unfortuntely irl she was horrifically murdered at a young age.

The version on tubi was dubbed, in that way where everybody’s emoting like they’re reading newsclips or something. You don’t really see this for the acting tho. I was gaming while I watched this and only closely watched during the fight scenes. Anyway, it’s pretty entertaining.

oohhh… you know what I just realized? I usually do PiP in full-screen (bc then the “back arrow” is only 5 secs instead of like 30?!? on the web interface). then if I want to screencap, I pause, go out of full-screen, and if I wait like 3 seconds the UI goes away. (rarely it sticks around then I have to do the tab thing that you say) I have to trim the image then, so maybe my way isn’t the most efficient…

Looks like it. TIL that character’s name is Jim Sting: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/fullcredits/

As you can see, I still need to improve my screenshooting skills without triggering Tubi’s interface.

On Firefox you can do the “picture-in-picture” mode and the interface usually goes away when paused. Dunno about chrome.

Looks like in WarGames he played the guy who pulled the pistol (at the beginning of the movie).