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Posted by Jason Weisberger

Last week, Fortnite pulled the Peacemaker collab emote due to concerns that it may have been connected to actual Nazi references in the show. The emote has been redesigned not to imply any connection with Nazis of yesterday or today.

Days later, Epic Games issued a carefully-worded follow-up where it said it had subsequently "worked closely with our partners at Warner Bros.

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Posted by Mike Wilson

The day’s finally come after over three years of work for Little Sewing Machine, Chris Darril, and their dark fantasy adventure title Bye Sweet Carole. Inspired by the golden era of hand-drawn animation, the game is now available on PlayStation 5Nintendo SwitchXbox Series, and PC via Steam, the devteam has also put together the customary launch trailer for the game.

Bye Sweet Carole transports players into a hauntingly beautiful realm where dark fairy tales and nightmarish realities intertwine. Players will follow the story of Lana Benton, a courageous young girl on a desperate search for her missing friend, Carole, in the ominous Bunny Hall orphanage.

Explore a mesmerizing, hand-animated world inhabited by unforgettable characters, from Lana’s devoted companion Mr. Baesie to the sinister owl Velenia, the dreadful Mr. Kyn, and an overwhelming swarm of nightmarish tar bunnies. Every frame of this fantastical universe has been meticulously illustrated to bring its dark charm to life.

In addition to its digital launch, the game also launches physically on PS5 and Nintendo Switch in the Americas on October 21st. This special retail version of Bye Sweet Carole includes the following bonus items:

  • Reversible Coversheet with alternate artwork
  • Digital Original Soundtrack by Luca Balboni
  • Digital Artbook with exclusive behind-the-scenes elements

And if you need a little convincing, check out Harrison’s review.

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Suddenly, Marjorie is making sense

Oct. 9th, 2025 04:57 pm
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Georgia's hyper MAGA, super offensive, wildly anti-semitic Congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene wants her kids' health care to be taxpayer subsidized, bad enough to let everyone keep it, and is sticking to her guns on the Epstein files.

While this is likely more a callback to the adage, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, MTG is being a bigger problem for the Trump Administration and MAGA Mike than she is for Democrats this week. — Read the rest

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New UK hate crime figures, *sigh*

Oct. 9th, 2025 05:24 pm
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The new hate crime figures are out, apparently disability hate crime is slightly down. Am I being cynical in assuming that's probably because some of the haters are too busy committing hate crimes against muslims and/or jews and/or anyone who doesn't look like them?

Trans hate crime is also slightly down, but I'd presume that would be people feeling even less safe to report it, rather than an actual reduction.

The figures exclude the Met, the biggest force in the country because they're busy adopting a new crime reporting tool - so give us their figures as a separate entry, don't just exclude them entirely. *headdesk*

Somewhat embarrassingly for the police/Home Office, the Office for Statistics Regulation is still insisting they include a caveat to say their data is actually pretty crap.

What comes through when considering that the figures cover the period of the Stockport-related race riots is that the figures, even if recorded as intended, are utterly incapable of recording mass events like riots. If 300 people are chanting racist slogans and throwing bricks, but the police only arrest 3 of them, then only 3 crimes would be reported. It's definitely working as intended, but is working as intended what they actually intended?
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Posted by Jenn Adams

WARNING: The following contains mild spoilers for “Monster: The Ed Gein Story.”

On November 16, 1957, the world discovered one of the most disturbing stories in the history of American true crime. Shortly following the disappearance of local businesswoman Bernice Worden, Ed Gein was arrested on suspicion of her murder. Authorities searched his remote farmhouse and found a gruesome treasure trove. Worden’s mutilated body had been strung up to bleed in the barn, and his house was filled with scattered appendages and decor made from preserved human remains. Even more shocking, a series of masks had been fashioned from recognizable faces along with clothing sewn from human skin. Gein would eventually confess to two murders and nine counts of grave robbery, accounting for the appalling number of body parts found in his home. 

News of this bizarre house of horrors swept the nation, twisting into ever more lascivious forms each time it was passed along. Fictionalized adaptations sought to capitalize on Gein’s notoriety while seeking to understand the repellent nature of his crimes. Some are masterful pieces of genre art, while others have been mostly forgotten. A new season of Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Monster takes a deep dive into Gein’s shadowy life and the high profile films he inspired. But have any of these notorious texts captured an authentic depiction of this dangerously unstable man? The Ghoul of Plainfield looms large over the horror genre, but is it possible to accurately capture the strange essence and salacious crimes of this quiet man from rural Wisconsin?


Psycho (1960)

As the world was learning about Gein’s frightening acts, author Robert Bloch was working on a chilling new novel just thirty miles away. Published in 1959, Psycho mentions Gein by name while seeming to remix elements from his troubled life. Famed director Alfred Hitchcock was reportedly so taken by Bloch’s bestseller that he sent an assistant to buy up copies hoping to preserve the twist ending for his own upcoming film. Hitchcock’s Psycho jolted audiences and destabilized the horror genre itself with the brutal—and early—death of its marquee star while introducing new levels of intimate violence never before seen in a mainstream film. 

But Hitchcock via Bloch had no intention of telling an accurate story. Psycho is not a True Crime tale, but a fictional exploration of the hidden dangers lurking behind an innocent face. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is a genial hotel clerk and dutiful son, determined to please his overbearing mother. It’s she who murders Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) and the private detective who arrives in her wake. While Gein’s motives remain murky to this day, he had a famously abusive relationship with his domineering mother Augusta. Extremely religious, the Gein matriarch viewed all women as “jezebels” and made her sons vow never to “fornicate.” Constant emotional and physical abuse instilled in Gein a deep sense of internalized misogyny and hate-tinged fear of any woman but his mother. 

When Augusta died of a stroke in 1945, Ed was left all alone on the rural farm. With no friends or family, the lonely man attempted to bring her back from the dead, but was hindered by a cement vault surrounding her coffin. He settled for robbing nearby graves—always those of women who matched his mother’s size and age. He spent decades conversing with his deceased mother, seemingly unaware that she had passed away. Hitchcock similarly presents Norma Bates (Perkins) as a living presence in the house until revealing her decaying corpse. We learn that Norman has been committing murder while identifying as his elderly mother, punishing women who turn him on while draped in Norma’s self-righteousness.


Deranged (1974)

Seventeen years after Gein’s arrest, a more faithful adaptation was brought to the screen. Subtitled Confessions of a Necrophile, this Canadian gem is directed by Alan Ormsby and Jeff Gillen and stars future Home Alone star Robert Blossom as a terrifying predator. Fictional journalist Tom Sims (Leslie Carlson) introduces us to Ezra Cobb (Blossom), the infamous “Butcher of Plainside.” What follows is a thinly veiled approximation of Gein’s crimes that spirals into sadism as the plot unfolds. We meet the strangely empathetic farmer as he tends to his dying mother, known only as Ma Cobb (Cosette Lee). Unable to accept the fact of her death, Ezra brings her corpse back to the farmhouse and begins robbing graves to repair the flesh that keeps rotting away from her bones. He eventually sits, wearing a skin suit and mask, among a veritable tea party of putrid corpses posed around his mother’s table.  

Outside the home, Ezra’s concerned neighbors worry about the lonely bachelor and suggest he find himself a wife. This sparks an unexpected murder spree in which Ezra struggles to reconcile his physical attraction and desire for companionship with the overwhelming resentment of female sexuality learned at his mother’s knee. Each time he sees a beautiful woman, his mind is clouded by visions of Ma screaming about the womanly sins of “gonorrhea, syphilis, and death.” Ormsby and Gillen ratchet up the male gaze with each passing kill, abandoning historical accuracy in favor of a disturbing statement about objectification and dangerous misogyny. Jarring tonal shifts and gruesome special effects create a bizarre retelling of this complex story designed to shock rather than inform.


The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Released just eight months after Deranged, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre revels in the macabre elements of Gein’s crimes. This disturbing film pulls us immediately into darkness as we join an unseen graverobber plundering the dead followed by an appalling installation of oozing corpses perched on a tombstone in the morning sun. Tobe Hooper’s grimy reimagining follows a group of five young friends on a road trip through rural Texas. We meet Gein’s proxy, Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) when they stumble into his dilapidated home. This butcher does not live in isolation, but among an equally depraved family. The house is filled with sadistic killers who survive the broken U.S. economy by butchering humans and selling their meat. The doomed road trip’s sole survivor, Sally (Marilyn Burns) is forced to attend a repulsive family dinner and served sausages likely made from the flesh of her friends. 

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre bears little resemblance to Gein’s own life. The film’s titular weapon stems from a frustrating moment Hooper spent in a crowded shopping mall. But the renegade filmmaker does manage to capture the most sensational aspect of the story—masks created from human skin. Police found nine such masks in Gein’s home, including one fashioned from the face of confirmed victim Mary Hogan. Leatherface, like Gein, seems to wear these garish face coverings to embody the persona of someone else. More or less disconnected from the facts of Gein’s life, this iconic film perhaps best captures the grisly state of Gein’s shadowy home and the gruesome feel of his atrocious hobby.


The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The most celebrated film on this list also has the most troubling legacy. Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs swept the big five Academy Awards, sending shockwaves through the genre world. Based on the novel by Thomas Harris, Demme’s adaptation introduces us to an active serial killer named Jame Gumb (Ted Levine), known by law enforcement as Buffalo Bill, who hunts for a specific purpose. Denied gender affirming care, he preys on women of a particular size intending to flay and dry their flesh. The amateur tailor is constructing a woman suit made entirely of human skin. A similar vest and leggings were found in Gein’s farmhouse and witnesses claimed to see a strangely garish figure dancing in the moon’s eerie light. Demme nods to this disturbing report in the film’s most notorious sequence. Preparing to kill his latest captive, Buffalo Bill dons makeup and a curly blond wig then dances nude to Q Lazzarus’ moody “Goodbye Horses,” his skin suit draped on a dress form nearby. 

Gumb’s MO may nod to Gein’s own nighttime revelry, but this is a distortion of actual fact. While Gein was fascinated by the story of Christine Jorgensen, one of the first Americans to undergo successful gender reassignment surgery, he would not have had the language to identify as transgender and there’s evidence to suggest he was a straight cis male. Gein’s habit of wearing women’s skin was likely a way to cope with the disturbing symptoms of untreated schizophrenia and a misguided attempt to connect with his mother rather than a desire to transition. His crimes also point to a deep need to punish women, likely stemming from Augusta’s cruel beliefs. Gumb’s outrageous characterization led the mostly uninformed audience to conflate transgender with villainy and view trans people as dangerous deviants. Along with Psycho, Demme’s undeniably masterful film has caused incalculable harm to the queer community that can still be felt to this day.


In the Light of the Moon (2000)

The next film to tackle this troubling crime would fully lean into accuracy. Also known simply as Ed Gein, Chuck Parello‘s understated adaptation begins with young lovers disturbed by a moonlit graverobber. What follows is a more or less accurate recreation of the notorious killer’s tragic life and his abusive relationship with mother Augusta (Carrie Snodgress). In adulthood, Ed quarrels with his brother Henry (Brian Evers) over Mother’s cruel limitations, leading to a violent death. Official records note that Henry died of asphyxiation while trying to extinguish a brush fire, but suspicious bruising was found on his corpse. Though Ed was never formally charged, many believe Henry to be his first victim, a crime of passion that opened the doors to years of violence and depravity. 

Parello’s film is the first cinematic adaptation to attempt authenticity regarding Ed’s confirmed victims. We see the bawdry Mary Hogan (Sally Champlin) delighting male customers with scandalous talk at her neighborhood bar. Hogan likely scandalized Gein with her barroom language and audacious demeanor, triggering memories of Augusta’s disdain. Parello’s Collette Marshall (Carol Mansell)—a proxy for Bernice Worden—is a matronly widow dutifully managing the family hardware store. It’s her death that leads to Ed’s capture and conviction, a process we see play out on screen. Parello’s admittedly slower-paced film is a character-driven family drama with occasional dips into terror and gore.


Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)

With a story as macabre as that of Ed Gein, a low-budget exploitation film seemed like an inevitability. Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield is a straight-to-video adaptation from Michael Feifer starring Kane Hodder as the titular criminal. If you’re thinking the man who played Jason Voorhees and Victor Crowley has no business embodying the shy and diminutive Wisconsonite, you’d be correct. Despite his many talents, Hodder has nothing in common with Gein and delivers a performance more indebted to Gunnar Hansens’ Leatherface. In fact, Feifer’s story is drawn just as much from historical fact as from Hooper’s viscous film, including but not limited to an opening sequence in which an attractive young woman dangles, screaming from bloody meat hooks. 

We follow the story through the eyes of fictitious deputy Bobby Mason (Shawn Hoffman) whose mother and girlfriend have disappeared. Feifer indulges gory reimaginings of Gein’s crimes while leaning into the sinister side of rural life. Rusty blades litter the property as close shots of post-mortem mutilation expose the depravity of Gein’s documented crimes. In addition to a gore-streaked apron, Hodder’s Gein wears an elaborate suit of skin perpetually dripping with viscera, reminiscent of those seen in Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. The most outlandish version to date, Feifer tells a heightened version of this salacious story steeped in the trappings of genre tradition.


Monster: The Ed Gein Story (2025)

Ryan Murphy’s constant collaborators Ian Brennan and Max Winkler take a fantastical approach to this troubling story with meandering trips to Hollywood. The season begins with Gein (Charlie Hunnam) and provable facts about his life: a tumultuous relationship with the overbearing Augusta (Laurie Metcalf) and the disturbing circumstances surrounding her death. But Winkler and Brennan veer into fantasy with a number of outlandish claims. This version of Gein speaks to his nazi hero Ilse Koch (Vicky Krieps) while fetishizing women’s lingerie. Plainfield resident Adeline Watkins (Suzanna Son) identified herself as Ed’s fiancee though she would give conflicting statements about the depth of their relationship. Brennan wildly expands her involvement in Gein’s story, positioning her as a co-conspirator fully aware of his darker deeds.

Brennan and Winkler also present as fact Gein’s suspected necrophilia and cannibalism, despite the man’s recorded denials. Hunnam brings humanity to this mystifying killer while simultaneously embodying the cinematic boogeymen his life inspired. Norman Bates (Joey Pollari), Buffalo Bill (Golden Garnick), and Leatherface (Brock Powell) converge to paint a jumbled portrait of a life we will likely never understand. 

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Posted by Mike Wilson

After landing on PC and Switch this time last year, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series players will get a taste of developer PowerSnake’s cosmic horror metroidvania Voidwrought next year. In addition, Switch and PS5 players who love their physical media will also be getting physical editions of Voidwrought next year, courtesy of Selecta Play.

Fans can choose between the boxed Standard Edition, or spring for the Collector’s Edition. Housed in a collector’s box with exclusive artwork, the Collector’s Edition of Voidwrought will include the following:

  • The full boxed copy of Voidwrought
  • A CD soundtrack featuring the game’s score by Jouni Valjakka
  • 3 character magnets
  • 1 embroidered patch
  • 1 metallic pin

Voidwrought is a fast-paced action-platformer that centres around the coming of the Red Star, which heralds a new age. Emerging from its cocoon, the Simulacrum is driven to collect Ichor, the blood of the gods, from the monstrosities who hoard it. To do so, you must descend below the star-scorched surface and explore the multidimensional depths below. Witness the corrupted revelry of the Court, lose yourself in the icy tunnels of the Old Waters, and discover the grim fate of the biomechanical Abandoned Expedition.

The world is filled with treasures sought by the learned, the brave, and the mad. Scour the halls of your shrine, rend the corpses of defeated deities, and hunt in the hidden corners of the cosmos to find objects capable of granting unique powers. Discover and equip over 30 Relics and Souls, from spectral weapons to passive buffs, to match your preferred playstyle.

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NaCraMaMo Day 9: Jewelry

Oct. 9th, 2025 12:12 pm
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I have several of these clustered crystal slides, and I'd made them as snowflake necklaces a few times, but it always struck me as a honeycomb shape.

I decided to set these with a strand of freshwater pearls that included different shades because it made me think of how honey can be all types of colors, I guess depending on the pollen bees collect. I added in a few miracle beads to break up the pearls a bit, and also because they have a glow to them in the right light which I felt would call back to the pendant.

Fierce as the Baltic sea

Oct. 9th, 2025 12:55 pm
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It is my birthday. I am forty-four years old, the age some fictional character must be. I woke to a pair of packages, one from [personal profile] nineweaving that proved to be Vaughn Scribner's Merpeople: A Human History (2020) and from my parents which was a DVD of The Sea Wolf (1941). Hestia was a small black round of purr like an extra present at the foot of the bed. It is bright and brisk and cloudless as all the classical autumns outside.
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Pedophile protector Pam Bondi's US Attorney for the Central District of California was heard screaming at prosecutors for, yet again, failing to secure an indictment against an ICE-arrested protestor. Why? Because the ICE agents lie.

"Although his office filed felony cases against at least 38 people for alleged misconduct that either took place during last month's protests or near the sites of immigration raids, many have been dismissed or reduced to misdemeanor charges," the paper writes.

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Long before brain scans and neural networks, two scientists used chemistry and ink to uncover what the brain actually looks like. In the late 1800s, Italian scientist Camillo Golgi developed a staining method he called the "black reaction," a chemical process using silver nitrate that made individual nerve cells turn jet black under the microscope. — Read the rest

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Sanitarium (1998)

Oct. 9th, 2025 12:50 pm
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This psychological horror game opens with a man named Max making an incredible discovery and rushing home to tell his wife, but finding that his car's brakes have been sabotaged, causing him to run off the road and crash. He awakens in a dilapidated sanitarium with complete amnesia, surrounded by neglected psychiatric patients and having no idea who he is or how he got there. Exploring the place, he discovers portals to surreal realms—a creepy town populated by disfigured children, a traveling circus threatened by an escaped monster... But every time Max awakens back in the sanitarium, calm and reassuring Dr. Morgan is there to tell him that these are just delusions and he needs help. But Max's experiences trigger memories that suggest Morgan is not trustworthy. The goal of the game is to figure out what is real and who Max and Morgan really are.

in dialogue, max angrily insists to morgan that his visions are real

This is a new game to me, suggested by [personal profile] cielsosinfel. I was certainly aware of it when it came out (it got great reviews and won awards) but back then I didn't really play horror games and I thought it would be too scary. But then I was 16, and now I am a brave individual of advanced years with many pixel-scares under my belt, so let's dive in.

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Sanitarium is on Steam for $12.99 USD and on GOG for $9.99. The Steam release is a port that runs natively on modern operating systems, while the version on GOG runs on the ScummVM emulator. I played the Steam version and the game did crash once, so I recommend saving often regardless.
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Posted by Alex DiVincenzo

Many people associate Edgar Allan Poe‘s tales of the macabre with Halloween, but how well do they know the man behind these stories?

Just in time for the holiday, In Search of Edgar Allan Poe will begin airing on PBS stations and streaming on the PBS App on October 25.

Totaling three hours, the two-part film promises to be the most in-depth documentary ever made on one of America’s most enigmatic literary figures, delving into his mysterious life and enduring legacy.

Directed by Andrew D. Kaplan, the award-winning film recounts how Poe invented the detective genre, pioneered science fiction, and shaped the modern short story, yet was plagued by alcohol, lost loves, and a penchant for self-destruction.

“We immerse the viewer in Poe’s life and works, using 40 evocative pieces of music, interviewing 5 leading scholars, and shooting the film at 12 Poe-related locations,” said Kaplan. “Our documentary gives voice to those so central to Poe during his lifetime — such as his beloved wife Virginia, aunt Maria Clemm, and older brother Henry, who inspired him to become an author — yet have largely gone unmentioned in other documentaries.”

The documentary also sheds new light on Poe’s mystifying death in Baltimore and why he was found wearing someone else’s clothes at a local tavern on Election Day.

“We hope to dispel persistent myths about Poe’s life and death, and reveal his remarkable influence on later writers, artists, and scientists,” Kaplan added. “Few people realize his enduring impact. We do not feel his story has been so revealingly told — until now.”

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LAIKA is bringing the animated favorite ParaNorman back to theaters this Halloween season, but this re-release is a bit more special than the (para)norm. This re-release will include a brand new animated short film titled ParaNorman: The Thrifting! Watch the trailer below.

The new CG-animated short, ParaNorman: The Thrifting, stars Finn Wolfhard (“Stranger Things”) and Anna Kendrick reprising her role of Norman’s older sister, Courtney

The short movie is written by Chris Butler, who wrote and co-directed ParaNorman with Sam Fell, and directed by LAIKA lead character designer Thibault LeClercq.

The 2012 stop-motion animated film will screen in newly remastered 3D and 2D formats from October 25-28 via Fathom Entertainment. You’ll also find the main re-release trailer below.

In ParaNorman, when the quiet town of Blithe Hollow is overrun by zombies, only 11-year-old Norman Babcock—who can see and speak with ghosts—can stop the chaos. With a centuries-old witch’s curse, mysterious ghosts, wily witches, and clueless grown-ups, Norman’s paranormal powers are about to be tested like never before.

Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jodelle Ferland, Bernard Hill, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, and John Goodman star in the 2012 movie.

Get your tickets now to see ParaNorman and ParaNorman: The Thrifting in theaters!

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Surely 60% is a rather low estimate?

Oct. 9th, 2025 05:22 pm
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I see estimates differ: I was working from the Sturgeon's Law that '90% of anything is crap' -

- whereas Ridley Scott is prepared to claim that '60% of films made today are “shit”, and of the remaining 40%, “25% … is not bad, and 10% is pretty good, and the top 5% is great”. and that this is pretty much so for the history of the movies over time (a fairly nuanced judgement I suppose) (though we should probably factor in the extent to which film, especially from the nitrate era, was a very frangible medium and there is a survival issue....)

From the Wikipedia article on Sturgeon's Law, some confirming opinions by other thinkerz:

'Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense' (Disraeli, 1870)

'Four-fifths of everybody's work must be bad. But the remnant is worth the trouble for its own sake. (Kipling, 1890)

'In much more than nine cases out of ten the only objectively truthful criticism would be "This book is worthless...'(Wot a grump George Orwell was, eh, 1946)

A 2009 paper in The Lancet estimated that over 85% of health and medical research is wasted.

(The trouble is you cannot tell in advance what is going to be, can you.)

On reflection I rather like Scott's 'not bad - pretty good - great' because one can, in fact, get enjoyment out of those levels.

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A woman died passed away while riding Disneyland's Haunted Mansion last Monday.

Anaheim Fire & Rescue responded to Disneyland on Monday, Oct. 6 at about 6:30 p.m. for an unresponsive woman in her 60s who had just finished riding the Haunted Mansion attraction, according to spokesperson Sgt.

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