_______ __ __ ___ ___ __ __ | _ .----|__.--| | Y .---.-|__| | |. 1 | __| | _ |. | _ | | | |. _ |____|__|_____|. \_/ |___._|__|__| |: | | |: | | |::.|:. | |::.|:. | Issue 20 `--- ---' `--- ---' 2021-10-04 ------------------------------------------------- NEWSLETTER: Bat Outta Hull City https://neozones.club/acidjaw/mail/issue20 https://wiki.neozones.club/index.php?title=AcidMail/issue20 This issue we have: * Dogs, I guess * ??? * Space Jam review ------------------------------------------------- >A BAD REVIEW OF: SPACE JAM (2021) : https://owly.fans/nightfall/003/ : https://owlyfans.neocities.org/nightfall/003/ Currently, on Letterboxd this movie has a sweet score of 2.1 and I can sadly see why this movie is so low on there. I saw this movie in a theatre with my friends, and when I went I was expecting it to be something on the lines of so-bed-it's-good, sadly this movie was just so bad and dear I say that it was my least favourite movie that I saw in 2021? This was just a drag to watch, even with a bunch of my mates who are normally able to bounce off a bad movie and make it entertaining, but even with a group of people who are good at making fun with each other, this movie gave us nothing to bounce off of, nothing interesting happened - it was just a slow slog of LeBron James (or "King" as the movie kept on calling them) doing nothing interesting, even when there was a whole selection of fun cartoon characters that would have made the movie a whole lot more fun. Sure, I can see if you like movies where the cast pat the back of one person, then this could be a lot of fun, but for me, all it was was just Warner Bros. showing off, practically telling me, the moviegoer, "Hey remember THIS? Yeah, that's right, you've seen Mad Max! Yo, look, it's Clockwork Orange! Crazy, lol, oh hey, it's Penny The Clown!" - who was this movie made for? A lot of this movie just sadly seems to me to be a shallow attempt to get a reaction from the viewer by showing them movies and IPs that they will hopefully have some attachment to. When the gang gets back together, there is a scene where Yosemite Sam is in the movie Casablanca - What an odd choice of a movie to pick; why make a reference to that movie of all things? Kids aren't going to sit there and get it, I can get a scene about Batman and Superman, kids know those two, they are those cool guys who punch baddies in the tits, they are cool, but are kids, who are sitting through a U for Universal movie (in the UK, as raised by the BBFC), really going to get a Casablanca reference? There's also a part of the movie that shows a clip of Austin Powers with Elmer Fudd inside of it, my God, is it the 1990s again? Both movies came out in 1942 and 1999 respectfully. In this movie, I just wanted to see some dumb action with the Looney Tunes acting like dumb cartoons, simply fighting and dicking around with each other like in the classic cartoons, not some boring scenes about LeBron James' family affairs, if I wanted to watch something to do with family affairs, I would turn on Eastenders and not pay £7.50 (10.43 USD as of 2021-08-03) on a crap sequel that shoves adverts, not only to do with other Warner Bros. IPs, but also other ones like Nike and Converse. One thing that I will give credit to is the animation, which I liked for the most part, and I rather liked how they would change it up every so often (I especially liked the comic book style that Lola Bunny had), as well as mixing in cartoons with the real-life at the very end (oh, if only there was more of that where say, Bugs and Daffy would get to react to our world and not be in a dull sequel), although that must have only been for less than a minute. Another thing that I didn't like about this movie was the whole game dev part of it, which was just bad and pointless. I don't know why it was even there, I can guess that it was put there as a way for children to project themselves onto Dom James (played by Cedric Joe), but it was just, again, pointless and did nothing but make the film even longer than it should have been. If I had full control of the movie, I think I would have given Dom James so much more of a smaller role. To sum the movie up in one word, and this really hurts to say, I think I would describe the overall vibe as just "boring". I was just bored throughout most of this film - I would not recommend this movie to most people, at most I would go on YouTube in a few years or so and find clips of the film that is of just the animation, but even then I would say that you should watch those clips with a person who is good at bouncing off of things and can bring out a good laugh in you. Sadly, you should avoid this one. ------------------------------------------------- >MORE ART - DOG ADDITION In the words of American poet Ogden Nash's 1941's An Introduction to Dogs: The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath. : WHIPPET BY WALTERNOODLES : https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36964089/ I currently own two whippets (or at least whippet is in their blood) so I can say with authority that whippets are indeed very long and indeed very fast little things that just love to jump into a warm bed with you when you're trying to sleep. This particular one is very nice looking, all purple and whatnot, plus the artist is selling the piece for $15, so I guess if you like it, you should support them. : BAD DOG https://sfw.furaffinity.net/view/42849593/ Cool MS Paint-like drawing - I always like stuff like this : BELLA BY NIMURE : https://www.furaffinity.net/view/37491408/ Sad reminder that nothing lasts forever and nothing can live forever - not even your darling pets. Everything _will_ die in the end and there is nothing that anyone can do about it at all. It would be in vain to even try, mortal. Nimure, the artist, writes "One of my family members had to say goodbye to a much beloved family pet, so I did a quick little portrait for them. Bella was a good dog. <3". Everything that is alive will die, so make the most of it, I guess. : SNARL BY BERNERI : https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36454078/ I have been aware of Berneri's art now for sometime, but I never _really_ had a change to fully share it apart form on places like the NeoZones Discord Server (as linked at the bottom), so now that I get to show-off some of their stuff, I am quite happy. This particaler one fuck fuck fuck fuck : DOG BY WUFFE https://www.furaffinity.net/view/33029745/ Yo, the DOG is a ROYAL?? Nice. ------------------------------------------------- >ASCII OF THE NOW The ASCII of The Now (remember that?) is a... a... ""weekly"" thing that we do that shows off some (mostly) old art from the WWW that people might not fully know or care all that much about. Please enjoy at your own risk. /// //////// //////////// ,-' __`\///// /_ <_/ \//// (_> ,-. |/ \ (_ \ ``-. . `-,_`--' `. /| `^^""=, \ /`/ _ % | | < | ) __,="` \ \ `-' `--, ,-" "-. ,/ \ / \ ,/ ,-`\ | | | > > | / | / / \ `-._ \ / \ | / `-.__ \ /\ |.-` | \k | `` /.-| | /\ \ ,` |_ \ \ | \ | \ `-.`-` / | \ \ ____ ) | / \ /`--.__ | \ | / | | /" \_ \ |/ / / / / \ \_// ,' | | | `-./ _/ / / \ __/` | | \__ /` / | `\_ /` | / S-v `\__/" `\_ \ \ / `-._/ The ASCII of this week is... is, um... I do not really know _what_ it is meant to really be >:-S https://owlman.neocities.org/ascii.html#S-v,%20s-v https://www.angelfire.com/ab/ascii/ascii2.html ------------------------------------------------- >LINKS OVer the past however lomg, we have been collecting loads of links that you should view while browsing the WWW. : BBC CULT - ROOBARB (AND CUSTARD) : https://web.archive.org/web/20030704093744/https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/roobarb/ : https://web.archive.org/web/20010124052600/http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/simpsons/ Ages ago, the BBC used to have a part on their website called the BBC Cult Site, where a small team would write mini-bios for many cult TV shows like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ghosts of Albion (???), and Farscape (???), as well as other very-non-cult shows like Blue Peter (the longest-running children's TV show in the world, being broadcast since 1958-10-16), Doctor Who (well, I guess when the website was made, the show _was_ kind of cult), and also The Simpsons (I made this the second link as I know that more people will take interest in this). Another show, that I suppose _would_ be cult that is indexed on the BBC Cult site is Roobarb and Custard, a charming, now-former, BBC program running from October to November 1974 (short-run, huh?). The show is worth checking out, if not for the charm of the slightly (weird) vibe old children's TV gives off, IDK man, just the overall feel of some shows is... _off_, but hey, at least it has a mean intro tune. ANYWAY, check out BBC Cult :> : BOOBIES.ORG : https://www.boobies.org : https://web.archive.org/web/20011125133341/http://www.boobies.org/ While on Discord one night, myself and my friends were typing in random website names, and well, one of them we decided to look up was boobies.org, a website, that according to WHOIS, has been around since 2000-01-16 - and no, for those ScArEd of clicking on it, all the website shows is just someone holding up a piece of paper that says "Boobies please! Thanks! ☺". And you know what? It just tickles me funny that over 20-plus years of the web changing, here we have a single website that has just stayed the same, hell, it even looks exactly the same way as it does now on its first save via the Internet Archive! : MINECRAFT BACK TO BASICS : Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doi_wDdR64c : Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRTEwxTk0Xo : Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFMEm1QMt4 : Part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl5M1BwW4IU : Part 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzHkh10bCzU : Part 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzkne4SjPec You know, sometimes you just gotta sit your arse down and watch a series of videos where a bunch of people make their own Minecraft 1.0 server (circa 2011) with the aim of trying to slay the pandragon - it's a simple playlist, but it's a joy to watch the little progress that the players on the servers make and the rather simple world that they manage to make in the time that the world was up. : WHAT'S NEW IN UNICODE 14.0 : https://blog.emojipedia.org/whats-new-in-unicode-14-0 Are you ready? ARE YOU READY FOR NEW EMOJIS TO DROP? YEAH? YEAH! But anyway, the Unicode Consortium has announced a bunch of new emojis that will be seen in your dumb little iPhone, idk, I'm like 60-years-old, shut up, kid. Anyhow, some emojis that we will get will be ???, [enter emoji here], and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ------------------------------------------------- >UNTIL NEXT TIME You can feel free to contact us by going to our really, really, really super amazing Discord server, located over on at https://neozones.club/discord where you can feel free to send in any of your terrible ideas for our perfect newslatter that millions of people love to read. The text on this page was written by Cass 'Owly' Python and is released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Have a nice night.