yukichigai

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's become harder to get clean(ish) audio captures for theater films, but it's not impossible. There are still theaters with hearing impaired seating and headphone hookups, still a few drive-in theaters that broadcast via FM (one of those here in Reno, actually).

If anything, I think it's because digital rips/DLs seem to come out more quickly. By the time a group has tracked down a clean audio stream and takes the time to sync it with footage, someone's probably snagged a digital copy and released it.

Now Telecines, those are basically unseen these days. Almost no theaters still use actual film, and the few that do are way more careful about their inventory management. Gone are the days when a whole film can just get "misplaced" for a few days while someone with a Telecine setup copies it, to say nothing of how few people have the setup for Telecine anymore in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

An Xbox 360 with a VGA adapter and Dead Rising. My TV at the time was one of those gigantic old 90s video editing CRTs, the kind that take all sorts of analog inputs like RCA and S-Video and even did HD if you could convert something to BNC, but pointedly would not do Component or HDMI. A few days prior I'd learned that VGA can be repinned directly to BNC, and then when I was wandering through Best Buy I saw they'd gotten some 360 VGA adapters in. I stopped, flipped a coin, called heads, it landed heads, I bought it.

I'd figured I'd get some minor fun out of it, basically just bought it because I really wanted to play Dead Rising. Instead I wound up using the ever loving hell out of my 360. Still have it, still works, no RROD or anything.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Elon: Let the free market decide.

Free Market: *decides*

Elon: Wait, no, not like that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I mean... Werner Herzog telling a man to eat his own fingers was pretty great. But otherwise yeah.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

As a Stallone movie it's entertaining in a "brain off eat popcorn" way, same sorta feel as Demolition Man (which was fun). It's only once you understand the material that it's supposed to be adapting that you feel like you were cheated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

If you like it you should check out Guy Ritchie's previous film, 2005's Revolver. It's a little more "experimental" I'd say, but some of the film's choices are really cool, especially how it depicts how some characters remember and interpret events differently than others.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Aye, the 2012 movie staring Karl Urban, not the 1995 dumpster fire starring Stallone.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Dredd. Karl Urban absolutely nailed that role, and all without ever showing the top half of his face.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was so ready to see Buckaroo Banzai take on the World Crime League.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure how the numbers were doled out, but in 2000 it was a big deal having a sub-9-digit ICQ number.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

86336930 checking in. Pretty sure I remember the password, but it's not like I can check now.

You will be missed, ICQ. When no other messaging service worked, you always did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Ah damn, so that's why a bunch of channels disappeared from my IPTV list. My fault for not diversifying I suppose.

Anyone got any suggestions for sites of a similar vein? Sites, not telegram/discord groups.

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