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We're starting to have most of the cast filled in at this point:

Maybe this'll help:

No.

I wonder if this will prove difficult or not. If someone has seen the movie this should be a good clue; otherwise you'll have to work it out from the actors in the upcoming shots.

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Toni Collette and Jesse Plemons: must be I'm Thinking of Ending Things.

I haven't seen it, and I heard some comments that book it is based on is pretty crap, but Charlie Kaufman is usually a good bet.

I knew I recognized the face of that young woman (Jessie Buckley): from the trailer for Men, of course. She was also in Chernobyl, apparently; is she the pregnant woman who sneaks in to be with her radioactive husband?

Hmm, that last picture makes me think of Svankmajer's Alice, but I've never heard that described as "controversial."

Yup, that's the one. In my opinion it has not aged well, but I do appreciate Jodorowsky's ambivalent attitude to his (anti-)hero, and the "God will protect us!" bit towards the end still hits pretty hard.

One more, since I think people are about to get it…

No…

No.

Listening to this episode reminded me how stimulating and inspirational it is to listen to you talk about adventure game design questions. It makes me, at least, want to try the design methods you propose, test the limits of your analysis, and argue with your conclusions. It gives me ideas I want to explore and names of games I want to play.

It was great to have you back for one final episode, but I'll really miss the podcast.

No. The bottom half of the face reminded me of Timothee Chalamet, and I was wondering if anybody would make a guess in that direction, but apparently not.

How can one piece of news be both great and really sad at the same time?

The shot has not been cropped.

How the heck you...? 

I saw the straw boaters and first figured the gaggle were mid-twentieth century students or pupils, but the police vest puts it in the contemporary era, which makes them anachronistic. (Except at Harrow, apparently.) Then I realized they must be girls' school uniforms, and there you are.

It must be one of the post-2000 reboot movies. I'll guess that modern classic (14% on Rotten Tomatoes), St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold.

One of the St. Trinian's movies?

This is a short with David Earl. He builds this sad, creepily adorable robot out of some garbage. I've seen it some time ago and loved it, but my shitty memory can't come up with the title.

That sounds like a companion piece to the story of Cheesoid.

https://youtu.be/6Ofesgkhikg

For the new one, all the red dresses and mirrors made me think of the Suspiria remake, but I don't really think that's it.

"Yak-ox" is an archaic termâ€"rare in English even in the 19th centuryâ€"for a (male?) yak.

Yeah, that one was a toughie, and took me 5. First time in a long while that I simply haven't been able to think of a possible solution, so I had to waste a turn to eliminate some more letters. (More annoying on hard mode, where you have less freedom to pick guesses strategically.)

Wordle 344 5/6*

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⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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SCARE, HAINT, PALMY, GAWKY (could not think of a possible word here), BAYOU. Very tricky because of the pronunciation (and of course the excess of vowels); even playing around with BAY__ I didn't find it. Only when I happened to notice that the remaining vowels spelled YOU, and I attached that to get _AYOU did it click. I also kind of feel that YAKOX should be accepted as a guess, but I guess it's hyphenated in English.

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