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Dip Viscous posted:I gave up on finding mobile games that a) are actual games instead of numbers going up and b) let me actually play them and installed a Game Boy emulator instead. Currently working my way through Mole Mania. Retro Bowl
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Biplane posted:How could libraries do this to us 
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verbal enema posted:Retro Bowl retro bowl rules
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wash bucket posted:I will gladly be that weirdo who hoards physical media and insists on using open source software and 10 year old versions of Photoshop. (I also have several hundred DVDs and BRs and a shitload of old games going back to the Game Boy era.)
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This cartoon drives me up the wall every time I see it
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Dip Viscous posted:I gave up on finding mobile games that a) are actual games instead of numbers going up and b) let me actually play them and installed a Game Boy emulator instead. Currently working my way through Mole Mania. I did the same thing, the first few generations of pokemon games and the mega man battle network series are perfect, anything requiring precise platforming is a little dicey on a touchscreen. Then I bought Bloons TD6 for a single dollar and put probably 200+ hours into it...
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Aug 28, 2023 01:12
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There are a lot of good board game implementations that can be single or multiplayer at least, but yeah I won't even look at a game or app unless it's possible to do a one-time purchase to remove ads and enable the full feature set I care about
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Plex was giving me the business last night so I crammed an HDMI cable into my laptop and finished my movie on a sketchy streaming site. Still preferable to the smart tv/streaming experience. Speaking of which, I babysat for a neighbor last night and have two specific bones to pick vis a vis streaming services. Oh no this is called server side ad insertion and they inject the ad directly into the stream. wash bucket posted:If we lived in a bizarro timeline where someone didn't think of the discs-by-mail model until 2023 they would be burning custom discs with commercials in them and the skip/ff feature disabled. I can remember ads on VHS tapes as early at the 80s and they were getting pretty crazy with it sometimes at the end of the DVD era. If you had a compliant DVD player it wouldn’t let you skip them either.
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Aug 28, 2023 02:17
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I mentioned that Albrae town hall meeting to a couple homeowning friends today, spent the next hour hearing lectures that began with "I'm not racist, but..."
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Internet Old One posted:Oh no this is called server side ad insertion and they inject the ad directly into the stream. Core memory unlocked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Bu51Bwdwo
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Aug 28, 2023 02:57
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Internet Old One posted:I can remember ads on VHS tapes as early at the 80s and they were getting pretty crazy with it sometimes at the end of the DVD era. If you had a compliant DVD player it wouldn’t let you skip them either. I vaguely remember some absolutely psychotic DVD rental company trying something kinda like this...their angle was DVDs that would begin to decay really fast after you exposed them to oxygen, so you could only watch them for about a week before they became completely useless and take advantage of advertisements to offset costs. But hey at least you didn't have to return the tape! Needless to say, they failed (and loving deserved to.)
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Aug 28, 2023 03:33
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Those were Flexplay DVDs - once they turn black, they’re unplayable coasters.
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Aug 28, 2023 04:28
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Internet Old One posted:Oh no this is called server side ad insertion and they inject the ad directly into the stream. *DVD loads to pre-menu adroll* *hit Stop, Stop, Play, DVD goes directly to movie* HACK THE PLANET
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Aug 28, 2023 06:29
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Blue Moonlight posted:Those were Flexplay DVDs - once they turn black, they’re unplayable coasters. Lol Flexplay and the original DIVX, DVD rental solutions so bad that the former was described in a test market as, "not the kind of product our customers are looking for," and the latter killed Circuit City dead.
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Aug 28, 2023 06:34
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Internet Old One posted:I can remember ads on VHS tapes as early at the 80s and they were getting pretty crazy with it sometimes at the end of the DVD era. If you had a compliant DVD player it wouldn’t let you skip them either. *pops The Land Before Time and afterward Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into the VCR* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4065smJLXk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIPUCPMd_nA
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MrQwerty posted:Lol Flexplay and the original DIVX, DVD rental solutions so bad that the former was described in a test market as, "not the kind of product our customers are looking for," and the latter killed Circuit City dead. Hahahah, I had forgotten about DIVX, which is even worse than Flexplay since it required a special DVD player and a dialup connection for authentication.
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Holidays. I haven’t had a holiday for a billion years, I’ve suffered an arm injury so took time off after my workman’s injury payments stopped. On day two I’ve caught a cold (probably from all the people I hadn’t been seeing as I stayed home for a week sore) and I’m just sick enough to make everything miserable and unenjoyable. So I’m burning through my holiday here on the couch and I can’t even enjoy lovely movies or books, but I sure can sit here cold bored and uncomfortable.
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You Are A Elf posted:*pops The Land Before Time and afterward Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into the VCR* tim & eric bit
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Internet Old One posted:Oh no this is called server side ad insertion and they inject the ad directly into the stream. I had a vhs copy of Starwars and every tape had a half hour interview with george lucas and leonard maltin. it was the same interview all three tapes e: oh god this is it https://youtu.be/B-LvSbsEDI4?si=fQ-QEdqaP9CI8EjP if there is one thing kids want before their space movies it’s a half hour of two bearded dads talking about money that you have to fast forward through until the tape gets all grainy
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Aug 28, 2023 12:14
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Lol I remember when they had the gold and silver box set releases of Star Wars that came with George Lucas interviews. Even as kids my friends and I picked up on the fact that when talking about positive aspects of the film he always took credit and when talking about negative he always said stuff like “… but they couldn’t do it…”
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Speaking of lovely streaming and movies, I hate that the Comedy genre tag is so useless these days. Almost every movie has the comedy tag in it now because there is at least one character in every movie delivering quipy jokes, Like Netflix has the Fast and Furious movies tagged as comedy, which while they are hilariously dumb they weren't made as comedy movies, Army of the Dead is tagged under comedy as well. I just wanna see actual comedy movies not literally every movie made since 2010 that has a few jokes in it.
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Aug 28, 2023 12:36
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I feel like there's also some sort of pressure to label films as comedy under flimsiest pretenses because the audiences are unable to handle anything that might be serious, so there's a desperate need to convince them "it's not all gloomy and boring, there are some laughs too!" From recently, I watched the movie Babyteeth, which was billed as a coming of age comedy, in reality it was probably the most depressing movie I've seen in like five years.
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Aug 28, 2023 12:43
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Related to all this, I hate how every moment of tension has to be undercut by the comedy relief character getting a quip in. God forbid the audience experience a negative emotion for more than 5 seconds without someone jumping in to go "well THAT just happened!" or "awwwwkward."
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Well here's my theory (which is mine), the Hangover films are not comedies.  Yes they're made as a fun romp, a crazy adventure, a whimsical ribaldry, but there's not much there in the way of actual comedy.
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is pepsi ok posted:Related to all this, I hate how every moment of tension has to be undercut by the comedy relief character getting a quip in. God forbid the audience experience a negative emotion for more than 5 seconds without someone jumping in to go "well THAT just happened!" or "awwwwkward." Joss Whedon was a disaster on movie dialogue.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Joss Whedon was a disaster on movie dialogue. Buffy was a very fun show where quippy worked because the cast were so great Ironman 1 and avengers 1 were good because RDJ could quip everything since has been a nightmare
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naem posted:everything since has been a nightmare I didn't have any expectations for The Flash but that entire movie would be significantly better without a word of dialogue.
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steinrokkan posted:I feel like there's also some sort of pressure to label films as comedy under flimsiest pretenses because the audiences are unable to handle anything that might be serious, so there's a desperate need to convince them "it's not all gloomy and boring, there are some laughs too!" I remember our family renting “Stepmom” from the comedy section of our video store. The box called it “entertaining” and “hilarious” and “funny.” At worst, you think “OK, maybe some light 90s family heartstring tugging.” Like, look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNUu1d7i26g In reality it’s a drama about a terminally ill mother coming to terms with the woman who will ultimately raise her children. Kudos to the marketing team to hiding the twist, I guess.
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Bridge to Terabithia This movie will be just like Jumanji right
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Click is definitely a comedy, but the emotional whiplash they put you through and then cap it off with "sike, it was all a dream!" didn't really work so we all walked out of that theater feeling pretty sad.
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Comic relief is fine but it’s not being done well as mentioned (stupid whedon quips, breakneck pacing )
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Patton Oswalt talks about how a lot of his work is to come into a project at the very end and record lines that are played from off screen to salvage footage that just doesn't work.
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Tenkaris posted:Click is definitely a comedy, but the emotional whiplash they put you through and then cap it off with "sike, it was all a dream!" didn't really work so we all walked out of that theater feeling pretty sad. That movie made me cry lmao
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Armacham posted:Bridge to Terabithia Still.the most deceptive movie marketing so far
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Kindle, or Amazon I guess, changed the cover of my e-book of Dune to just pictures of the cast from the latest movie. "Now a motion picture!" Etc. gently caress you.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Still.the most deceptive movie marketing so far Kangaroo Jack would like a word with you.
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Biplane posted:Kindle, or Amazon I guess, changed the cover of my e-book of Dune to just pictures of the cast from the latest movie. "Now a motion picture!" Etc. gently caress you. lol. I remember that being a thing with new editions back when books were made of dead trees but it's kinda messed up they can do that to an ebooks you've already bought. Though I remember buying music on iTunes and having the album art randomly switch up after the fact. Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Still.the most deceptive movie marketing so far Random tangent: I remember all the movie posters and trailers for the movie Groundhog Day focusing on that one scene where Bill Murray was driving a car with an animatronic groundhog sitting in his lap. Made it seem like a silly comedy in the vein of Caddyshack where he was chasing that gopher. Well imagine my surprise when I finally watched Groundhog Day decades later and it was a much more thoughtful movie than I expected. The groundhog puppet was like 10 seconds of the movie. wash bucket fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Aug 29, 2023 |
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naem posted:Buffy was a very fun show where quippy worked because the cast were so great I agree with this take. Avengers works. It's all Whedon.
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YouTube music randomly replaces my playlist songs with other versions of the song. Sometimes it's the clean version, remixes, live versions, or even covers. With some genres that I find a song I like but I'm not too familiar with (mainly electronic), the song is just lost to me forever. There's a rap song that sampled Monster by Meg and Dia that I am positive I'll never find again. Google replaced it with a dubstep song. Thanks.
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euphronius posted:Comic relief is fine but it’s not being done well as mentioned (stupid whedon quips, breakneck pacing ) Yeah it's this, even the most pretentious dramas have phenomenal moments of comedy. The issue is when studios insist on adding the laziest bullshit imaginable because that's what passes focus testing, and that's what audiences have been preconditioned to laugh at.
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