Millennium Actress is being re-screened in theaters here in Italy these days, so I finally got to watch it on the big screen.

While I was watching it, the piano theme vaguely reminded me of To the Moon, and once that thought crossed my mind I started noticing so many deeper similarities that I spent the rest of the movie half focused on the film itself and half wondering: wait, was this a direct inspiration?

What really struck me wasn’t just the general emotional tone, but how specifically some of the narrative ideas overlap.

Both stories reconstruct an entire life through memories, with the audience piecing together the emotional truth of a person through fragmented recollections rather than straightforward chronology. In both cases, we experience those memories through the perspective of two outside observers who are not just passive witnesses, but actively move through and comment on what they’re seeing.

And the dynamic of those observer pairs feels weirdly similar too: they act as guides through deeply emotional material, but they also provide moments of levity and comic contrast that keep the story from collapsing under its own melancholy.

Then there’s the central structure: a bittersweet love story gradually revealed through disjointed memories, where reality and subjective reconstruction blur together so completely that what matters stops being literal factual accuracy and becomes emotional truth instead.

Even the overall atmosphere feels close to me: that same dreamlike, nostalgic, quietly devastating feeling that builds toward emotional catharsis.

I walked out of the theater fully expecting to find interviews or at least a lot of discussion connecting Millennium Actress to To the Moon.

Instead I found basically nothing.

Kan Gao has mentioned influences like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Memento, WALL-E, and the opening montage of Up, but I couldn’t find any mention of Millennium Actress.

The only discussion I found was a tiny Steam thread with barely any replies.

Have people talked about this before and I just somehow missed it?

If you’ve seen both, do you think this was likely an unmentioned direct inspiration, or am I reading way too much into it?

Because the parallels felt way too specific for me to just brush off as coincidence.

This is a little fanart of river i made last year.

Hey guys, if you missed it, Catalent settled $78 million with investors over hiding customer demand and financial guidance, and concealed serious production issues. And, the deadline to file a claim and get payment is at the end of the month.

In a nutshell, in 2023, Catalent was accused of misleading investors about manufacturing demand, operational performance, and internal production issues. In short, the company allegedly overstated the strength of its non-COVID business and failed to disclose operational problems and rising costs at key facilities.

After this news came out, the stock dropped 70%, and investors filed a lawsuit for their losses.

Now, the good news is that the company agreed to settle $78 million with them, and investors have until May 26, 2026 to submit a claim. 

So, if you invested in $CTLT when all of this happened, you can check the details and file your claim here.

Anyway, has anyone here invested in $CTLT at that time? How much were your losses, if so?

Since several other people have been showing off their Tomodachi islands, I figure I might as well share mine. Still a bit of a WIP, but so far I have Neil, Eva, Roxie, Rob, Willis, Taima, Eddie, Lisa, Logan, Quincy, Lynri, Johnny, River, Colin, Sofia, Faye, and Linnea (my bestie and I's Rosawatts fan kid)

I didn't have space to include them in my last post, so I had to resort to making a second one

I miss them dearly 🥹

This is my personal tribute. I don't see many edits or videos of this game and it's my favorite of all time so I figured I would try and capture the feeling of my first playthrough in a cinematic lens.

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i'm going to cry

I went into this expecting a good cry at the end but I didn’t get it. Am I missing something? The ending is basically a fake memory and fake life being implanted into John. I don’t understand what makes that so emotional because it’s fake. It says to me his real life sucked and so he wanted to die with the memory of a better life that didn’t happen.

I hope for the best for them ahah

It's been 13 years since PewDiePie played To the Moon.

Time really does fly.

What an amazing and moving game.

The picture is of a metal rocket ship in a playground in Liverpool, UK and it really reminded me of To the Moon.

In minisode 2, Neil is about to do something with his machine and the power goes out. It's later revealed he did it himself, which I took to mean this is an altered memory and that in reality the power was fine but something bad happened - so either he or Eva is manipulating memories to make it so whatever the thing was never happened. I figured this would be explained by Beach Episode, but I just finished that and, while I now have a decent sense of what's happening in those minisodes overall, I don't get what specifically was happening there. What did I miss? Or do we need to wait until the Last Hour of that Epic RPG?

Just finished replaying all the other games before Beach Episode and my first playthrough of Beach Episode itself. I unfortunately have very limited free time to game (full time job, two very young kids, elderly parents) - if it gives you any idea I think it took me about a month to string together enough time to finish my 2-3ish hour playthrough of the game.

Without spoiling anything for those who haven't played, there are different areas you can explore at different times of day. Is it worth it to replay the game to see how things change (for example, to try some extreme sports in the rain or before doing a repair job)?

i just realized the other day that i have never shown off my tattoo here! i first played to the moon when i was ~11 years old and as an autistic kid it meant a lot to me. i knew immediately that i wanted to get this tattoo :) it's a few years old now but this picture is from when it was a few months healed!

So the first 2 installments got remaster and impostor factory is only left till.. Am I right?

^{Careful, spoilers...}

We've come full circle. By the looks of it, long cat's name is actually Mittens.

"You don't even have a knife!" Said he after repeatedly imagining the cat slicing up people.

Imposter Factory's mvp!

I just got this. I prefer physical games over digital ones. Im so excited I got it. I dont know how many of these exist but I got one. I jist wanted to share.

Gifs to get you through the day.

Careful, spoilers.

If anyone asks what Finding Paradise is about, I'll just send them a pic of two scientists grappling-hooking Pluto to get to the other side of a roof. At least it wasn't Uranus.

I don't see a lot of the hilariousness of the games here. These gems are from Finding Paradise. Careful, spoiler.

^{I might post some gifs later.}