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I'm on day three of this cinema marathon -- I'm not sure what they're lacing the popcorn and soda with, but it's strong stuff, haven't fallen asleep yet and the bathroom breaks are really starting to trail off! The Mistigris Theatre hasn't hosted a screening like this since their MIST0918 artpack collection released two years ago this month, and ... come to think about it, it probably would have taken two solid years to watch all of the movies celebrated in this collection of computer fanart! The theatres have been on our minds through 2020, notably because ... for most of this plague year, they have been a stark example of a public space where culture wars are fought, abruptly forbidden in the interest of the preservation of public health! Bizarrely, drive-in theatres have lurched back from the dead while for most of us, Netflix has become a household institution. Actually going out to the movies was a rare occasion in 2019 but from here it's a little difficult to imagine doing it anytime in the near future. But I digress. So, as you might well ask of a given installment of the Fast and the Furious movie franchise, we must investigate what is interesting or unusual about this month's artpack? (Spoiler warning: Vin Diesel does not appear in it, though there is a rendition of The Rock!) Most interestingly, on Cthulu's request LDA whipped up a tiny ANSI art movie theatre, Tradewars-style, and we invited artists to draw scenes from their favorite movies projecting on its blocky screen. Several distinguished artists took a bite, including LDA, Odd, Zeus II, Pinguino and Warpus, Cthulu himself, and presenting an exclusive artscene debut, a guest shot from the hottest new member of the Legacy Krew, Hayn9. Stay tuned for their next collection, when the unveiling of the rest of her recent works will blow your little minds. (And if you like getting your little mind blown by movie-themed artwork, watch out for the imminent Blocktronics collection which will assuredly blow us right out of the water, right on schedule. But I digress.) Also worthy of note is that Pinguino managed to get double duty from this exercise, as she's in the middle of a campaign (which would have been a great fit for LAST MONTH'S MIST PACK, sigh 8) of daily cat drawings, and drew us the best scene of a cat in a movie ever. (Speaking of last month's Mist pack, I need to note that despite mentioning in its infofile that we hadn't seen CoaXCable's demoparty compo entries and hence couldn't discuss them, they were in the final accounting included in the artpack. They simply arrived after the infofile was written. If you somehow missed them based on poor intel you got from expired information you got from the infofile, you can go back and enjoy them now! But I digress.) I'm not just jumping around, I'm deftly jumping between different times and parallel narratives, like Pulp Fiction or Memento. If you recut this infofile to run sequentially, it's quite a bit drier. OK, so where was I? Introductions? Yes, welcome also to Jackie Bats, who makes wonderful Hensonian creatures at her crafting table and has been coaxed out to indulge in a long- nascent curiosity about pixelart and taking a walk on the blocky side. Back to that aside about last month's infofile, its complicated circumstances were of course due to Cthulu's computer dying; this pack was put together on a replacement machine (that Zeus II didn't even have to crowdfund!), but some work on it was also conducted... on Cthulu's dead laptop, brought back from the dead in a matter of minutes (it took longer to debate the matter with j33p33 than to solve) by Zen Render of Gecko's Temple BBS, cosmic payback for the unprecedented promotion we lavished on his rather Public Domain system 30 years ago. So hats off to them! In conclusion, I didn't need to invoke our cadre of emergency senior staff again, but I'm still very touched that they emerged seamlessly when they were most needed. (Now if they have any suggestions as to how I can keep my kids from getting up after they go to bed, this pack could have been released on time also!) Are you thoroughly muddled yet? (I hope so, because I sure am!) We've visited the present and the past... I guess the only place left for us to venture here is into the future! (Opens lid of Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor, drops in a handful of MOS Technology 6581 SID chips and crams in an IBM Model M mechanical keyboard, leaning heavily on the lid to get it to close.) The far future of... October 2020, coming at us in some nine days. (Exasperated, kicks Mr. Fusion, scattering e-waste everywhere.) In October we get all spooky up in it, so if you're just about ready to indulge the oppressive civilization-death-throe darkness we've all been quietly stifling since March, please consider sending us in your worst nightmares, low resolution version. (And if your particular flavour of dystopia is the cyberpunk variety, save it for our November artpack, when we'll be celebrating 26 years since our establishment!) (If your worst nightmare is Christmas holidays then, well, strange flex but OK. I can see the case for it. We'll be releasing that artpack in mid-December, supposing there's still a world to release it into!) (Just kidding, even if there are only cockroaches around to appreciate our January artpack, it has too much momentum behind it to be held back!) On that happy note, thanks for joining us at this stop along our computer art voyage and take heart -- the end of 2020 is nearly in sight! And before we go, a special thanks to Odd for gracing this pack with its FILE_ID.DIZ and newsletter iconography! SAUCE00MIST0920 infofile Odd, Cthulu Mistigris 20200921å%PiIBM VGA