May 2022 – Two Nerds Sitting On A Couch

Halloween Kills

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on May 24, 2022 1 Comment

Posted in horror, movies, podcasts Tagged Final Destination, Halloween, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween 5: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Halloween II, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Halloween: Resurrection, Halloween: The Revenge of Michael Myers, Highlander 2, John Carpenter, Laurie Strode, Michael Myers, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Scream, slasher films, Terminator

Michael Myers wearing his iconic white mask and black clothing stand on the porch of a building engulfed in flame

Slogging on through the Halloween movies, Two Nerds watched the most recent Halloween (which brings the count up to three whole ass movies titled Halloween), and its sequel, Halloween Kills. These two movies dispense with every single Halloween sequel so…

R U 4 Robots?

Posted by Ceridwen Posted on May 3, 2022 0 Comments

Posted in end times, movies, podcasts, steampunk Tagged A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Alien, Aliens, Ancillary Justice, Annalee Newitz, Automata, Autonomous, Blade Runner, Chappie, Doomsday Book, HAL 9000, Half a Soul, Kazuo Ishiguri, Marvin the Paranoid Android, Measure of a MAn, Murderbot, Never Let Me Go, Prometheus, Short Circuit, skynet, The Heavenly Creature, The Island, Turing test

A robot with a white casing sits cross-legged in a room of monks all bowed down touching their heads to the floor. A man in a business suit stands behind the robot, angles and looking toward the robot. Prayer flags hang from the ceiling, and a stylized lotus flower in woven into the floor mat.

Two Nerds got a request we watch Automata, a steampunky short about a human private detective, his robot partner, and a murder mystery. This made us consider what robots do, as a trope, and what questions narratives with robots tend…

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