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We watched Night of the Zoopacalypse recently. When I heard about it, it was pitched as a horror movie for kids, so we watched it with our 3-year-old. It was good, kept our attention. But as far as horror goes, I recently watched Until Dawn, Friendship and Freaky Tales - I feel like the last two are debatably horror, but it looks like they are considered to be by some. Sinners, Y2K, and Trap a bit before that, earlier in the year. I liked them all. Friendship was super uncomfortable, haha. Freaky Tales was fun.

Hey Radagast, I was going to say OxiClean, but you said you've tried it. Just to make sure, did you try taking a scoop of the powder, putting it in a bucket with water, and letting it soak for 6+ hours? And then washing it? You probably have, but I wanted to mention it. Since you have put so much effort into it, have you happened to go to a professional cleaner or a dry cleaner and ask for their thoughts? It might be worth paying for a cleaning to "reset" the gi, more or less, and then you can work on maintaining it from there.

Every place that serves drinks should be selling mocktails. They have a great markup! I order them!

Welcome Derendran! Are we talking about this one?

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. We recognize one member every month as the KarateForums.com Member of the Month for their positive contributions to this community. Our honoree this time is... @Revario! I really appreciate all of the contributions that you have made to our community, Revario. Thank you for being a part of it! Patrick

Sorry to hear that, Bob. This has been an incredible exercise in persistence on your part.

I'm about to start Fourth Wing. If I like I'm, I am going to try to catch up to my wife before the next book comes out.

I've met @bushido_man96 (thread) and @gheinisch (thread) in-person. Always up for meeting folks who are visiting Hollywood. Love to hear about in-person meetups between members. Virtually all of my closest friends are people that I first met online that I have met in-person - and even see somewhat regularly. Half of my closest friends come from an online community, the SitePoint Forums. One of them is now the godfather of my son. I know my wife because of online communities. They've really changed the arc of my life.

Very satisfying to go from the first pic to the last one! Thanks for sharing, Ken.

Congrats Brian!

https://deadline.com/2025/06/cobra-kai-creators-hilary-swank-return-final-season-1236445291/ Thought this was interesting, about how the Cobra Kai creators tried to get Hilary Swank for the last season.

These are probably just generic spammy offers that are likely best ignored. But I definitely would encourage you to write. You'll need an editor at some point, but you can start to piece your ideas together and see what you have.

Only 3 episodes in, but I had some of the ending spoiled. Will be back once we're through it.

If you do, let me know what you think. Obviously, I have no idea how genuine any of it was, so was curious what folks thought.

Just finished it last night, actually! I enjoyed it.

I just watched this movie last night, with the thought that we might check out the sequel that was recently released. One scene shows Affleck's overbearing father forcing a man to run aggressive fight drills against him and his brother, who are just kids. With the captions on, one interesting thing popped up. When the man spoke, he was attributed as "silat instructor."

I guess what I mean here is the lack of actors. Outside of Macchio and a brief appearance by (not going to spoil it), there isn't much crossover.

Thanks for sharing this, Bob. I can only echo what others have said, while at the same time acknowledging it may feel like cold comfort at this particular juncture. But obviously you mean a lot to many people, and you still have so much to offer people, in the martial arts and outside of them.

I think this movie was always going to have a hard time because of it releasing so close to the end of Cobra Kai, which was so well-received. If it couldn't have been tied in directly to Cobra Kai, it might have been better for it to have a little breather. With that said, here's a picture of some of the marketing in Hollywood!

Without any tracking, I probably get 6.5-7.5 a night. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Our toddler is generally sleeping good these days, but if he wakes up and needs one of us, then we're both waking up. But he's pretty solid these days.

My toddler has really gotten into watching baseball this year, and it's fun. Obviously, his attention wanes from pitch-to-pitch, but he's recognizing some players, has a favorite, has started hilariously signing the end of "God Bless America," and actually asks to put it on sometimes. It's really great.

Just strated MESCHUGGE: the Madman's Maze, which is a graphic novel that was released this year. Kara picked it up at a comic shop when we were traveling recently. Partial description from Amazon:

Hey KarateKen, All Member of the Month announcements can be viewed in the KarateForums.com Announcements forum. This announcement was posted on May 21, and the last one was posted on April 30. So, a bit over three weeks. Thanks, Patrick

Thank you so much for the kind words, John, Ryan, Ken, Liam, Ashley, Noah, and crash. It means a lot. I love to hear stories like this. Thank you for sharing! I'm definitely open to discussing something like this. I appreciate this and other ideas!

OH MY GOSH... I just realized that if you look closely at the URL of this thread: https://karateforums.com/topic/52125-24-years-of-karateforumscom/ "52125" 5/21/2025. Today! That is wild! That number is simply an accumulating number that counts upward with each new topic posted here. I can't even begin to fathom the odds of that happening, like having the exact number of threads/topics here over 24 years to lead up to the day we turn 24 where the number of this topic matches the day we turn 24.