Sounds like maybe The Viewing episode from Cabinet of Curiosities?

I would add The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) to your Funny and Spooky list. I’ll also second the The Fog (1981) suggestion.

Yeah, it definitely looks a bit low budget, but I can forgive that if it gets everything else right enough.

!trailers@lemmy.blahaj.zone is excellent.

I think it’s still worth seeing if you like Caveat, especially since it seems to be a shared universe (the bunny has a brief cameo). I maybe just set my expectations too high going in.

I wanted to see this thing in motion, so I tried to search up the youtube video, but no dice. Every article on it is just copy-pasted from the original on the Express site, and I can’t get the embedded video attached to it to work. I did find an article on NIWA’s site about a species of sea pig, which looks similar.

Watched Oddity most recently. The writer/director’s previous movie, Caveat, had a super ridiculous premise, but some excellent tension at the end, so I was hoping Oddity would be a good evolution of that. Turned out to be kind of a mixed bag, imo, but I didn’t dislike it.

I thought the bones of the plot of Longlegs were cool, but found some of the execution (Longlegs himself, and the uh… method) to be jarringly goofy. Liked the first half and the atmosphere, though.

they added an element of authenticity and sheer terror

1. Longlegs - Longlegs (2024)

I can only assume the writer either has very different taste in horror from me/us, or we’ve been (not so) cunningly been sucked into engagement bait. Include the movie on a list of modern horror? Sure. I had some issues with it, but whatever. Longlegs himself, though? Oof.

That’s really cool (and involved)! Thanks for writing that up. I hope you get a chance to actually try it.

Iirc from my time on kbin, posts are for the “microblog” part, i.e. the part that interacts with mastodon.

True, but I think maybe you missed this being about additive and subtractive color mixing.

100% agree; I was so bummed Riddick was just inferior Pitch Black. The animated one, Dark Fury, was fun, though, iirc.

Not Gamescom-related, but there was a Nintendo Direct that showed off some indie/partner games on the 27th, and a CoD thing today (the 28th), if either of those were what you were thinking of?

Only other thing that comes to mind is maybe the Future Games Show, but that was last week (list of trailers here).

Oof, that sounds tricky, yeah. I spent some more time this morning poking around at references and testing ideas, but mostly it feels like going around in circles (no pun intended).

Do post how you end up going about it, or if you find a better solution; I’d love to know!

I mean, if you’re willing to cheat and use the length of your straightedge (assuming it’s long enough), or cordage anchored at one end, then you have a substitute compass, and the solution’s trivial.

For a variation on this with fewer tangents (from A. S. Smogorzhevskii’s The Ruler In Geometrical Constructions):

• Pick point 1 on the larger circle.
• Draw two tangents (2) on the smaller circle, such that they go through point 1 and intersect the larger circle on the other end (3).
• Draw one line segment from 2 to 3’, and one from 3 to 2’. **
• Draw a line that goes through both the resulting intersection and the original point (1) you made on the larger circle. This line goes through the center of the circle.
• Repeat steps 1-4 from a different angle to get the center point.

The issue, of course, is that any tangent you draw (without other circles, lines, or tools) is going to be approximate, and so the center will also be approximate. Every solution for this that I found just assumes accurate tangents, or parallel lines, or whatever, but I don’t see a way to get those (I say, having only browsed through the topic briefly) when these two circles and a straightedge are all you have to work with. If that’s not a big deal in your practical application, cool.

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** I’m shortcutting, here. The long version is to first draw two line segments, one that uses the smaller circle’s tangent points (2) as endpoints, and one that uses the intersections on the larger circle (3) as endpoints. Because the two circles are concentric, these segments are parallel and centered on one another, so you end up with an isosceles trapezoid. You then draw its diagonals to get its midpoint.