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Hey, he’s like, just this guy, you know?

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jordanlund ,

+1 for the Dark Tower books.

But I’d note, there’s a dramatic tonal shift between the first half and the last half.

After book 4, you lose the flashbacks to Roland’s youth and it’s a straight through narrative for books 5, 6 and 7.

I think the accident that almost killed him put the fear of god in him.

jordanlund ,

Sounds like someone wasn’t able to ship product and had their licensing pulled…

jordanlund ,

I was part of the hardcore build it yourself crew for years and years, but I find now that for the last 10 years or so now, and especially with the death of places like Fry’s and all the bullshit Newegg pulled, it’s way easier and cheaper to buy a pre-built box that’s maybe 90-95% there, then tweak what you need to tweak.

Get that manufacturers warranty and forget trying to part it out yourself.

$3,500 here.

www.magicmicro.com/14443-13/?gclid=CjwKCAjwgsqoBh…

jordanlund ,

I recognize that Christie isn’t exactly Shakespeare, but why adapt a book and change literally everything about it?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallowe'en_Party

It’s not in Venice, the house is not haunted, there’s no seance… I guess some of the names are the same?

jordanlund ,

He’s forgetting movie history…

Back when television got big, cinema had to evolve to survive. The aspect ratio went wide.

This Is Cinerama was more of a tech demo than anything else in 1952, but it was followed by widescreen movie, movies in 1953 with “The Robe” being shot and shown in Cinemascope.

Technicolor too gave a more vibrant color scheme even than previous color film processing that actually came a generation prior, in 1932.

But the widescreen/Technicolor combination provided a must see experience that were the event films of the era and they couldn’t be duplicated at home.

Roll forward 50 years… home theater technology has evolved to a point where theater has to compete with 65" 4K television displays and 7.1 Dolby Atmos surround sound. People need a reason to leave their homes and deal with noisy, disease infected, crowds, high concession prices, expensive tickets, and annoyances like having to pre-pick your own seats instead of just walking in and sitting down.

Streaming is keeping people at home, being able to binge long form content, pausing when necessary. Cinema can’t provide that experirnce.

So it’s going the other way, the “theme park ride experience”. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that the first Pirates of the Carribean movie hit in 2003, pre-dating the wave of comic book movies by, what? 5 or 6 years? 50 years after the first Cinerama movies?

But even that has roots going back to Jurassic Park (1993), Star Wars (1977), and Jaws (1975).

Now, don’t get me wrong, I dearly love “small” films like Scorsese’s After Hours, or even modern stuff like Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, but there is ZERO compelling reason to see them in a theater. I can get the same experience viewing them on my home theater setup without, you know, blowing $50 to sit in a noisy, uncomfortable theater.

To do THAT, I NEED a spectacle. I need to see something that demands I see it right away, in a theatrical environment. It needs to be a theme park ride.

If your end goal is to make a tight knit drama full of people in rooms talking to each other, well, Downton Abbey and Bridgerton are over there ->

jordanlund ,

Now, when it comes to “Marvel regurgitation”, yeah, they could, and should, be doing better. They essentially re-use the same basic plot over and over again and will keep doing it until they hit one that doesn’t make a billion dollars.

I’m a lifelong comic book fan and I love that nerd culture is finally taking over, but I swear to god, I don’t need another superhero movie where the hero and villain have a joined origin story and the villain is just a bigger, badder version of the hero.

Seriously.

Iron Man - Iron Monger
Incredible Hulk - Abomination
Iron Man 2 - Whiplash
Thor - Loki (both sons of Odin)
Captain America - Red Skull
Avengers - Loki + Alien Invasion

Iron Man 3 - Extremis
Thor: Dark World - Dark Elf invasion
Captain America: Winter Soldier - Bucky
Guardians of the Galaxy - Ronan - First one to break formula.
Avengers: Age of Ultron - Ultron joined origin with Vision.
Ant-Man - Yellow Jacket

Captain America: Civil War - Avengers vs. Avengers
Doctor Strange - Kaecilius
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 - Pete’s Dad
Spider-Man: Homecoming - Vulture, Pete’s girlfriend’s dad.
Thor: Ragnarok - Hela, evil firstborn sister.
Black Panther - Killmonger
Avengers: Infinity War - Tying it all together.
Ant-Man and the Wasp - Ghost, a victim of Pym tech.
Captain Marvel - Yon-Rogg
Avengers: Endgame - Tying it all together.
Spider-Man: Far From Home - Mysterio (Stark Tech villain vs. Stark Tech hero)

jordanlund ,

Hilarious that it even embedded the tweet so you can see it’s not an accurate quote.

Bad enough when humans do it, adding nothing.

jordanlund ,

Calm Rick sounds spot on, angry Rick not so much.

Morty sounds pretty good generally but there was one line that sounded off…

Still, given the circumstances, I don’t know what else they were supposed to do…

“Hey, it’s us, Rick and Morty! From a dimension where our voice actor wasn’t caught grooming children!”

jordanlund ,

“Gaming”

“Sub $1,000”

My gut reaction is “choose one”.

You might be able to get a gaming laptop under $1K but get ready to replace it in 2 years.

jordanlund ,

How To Beat The High Cost of Living:
youtu.be/9-77VpXSygs

jordanlund ,

Hard disagree. The first season was just awful.

Every fucking episode:

(Something weird happens)
“Walter! Could this be related to your research?”
(Walter acts twitchy)
“WE HAVE TO GET THIS BACK TO MY LAB!!!”
(More weirdness)
Walter: “This is just like when x in the y in 19-dickety.”
“Oh Walter! You so crazy!”
(Walter was right)
(Alien eating hot sauce)

jordanlund ,

I really didn’t like how they disrespected Walter most of the time. If you weren’t interested in his opinions, why do you ask him?

It just got super tiresome super quickly. I never finished the first season.

jordanlund ,

As a cat owner, this doesn’t even look like a real print. It’s too deep. Most likely a manufactured print done as a gag by whoever made the bricks.

jordanlund ,

It would be interesting measuring field of view.

I have a 65" 8K television in my living room with 7.1 Dolby Atmos/DTS:X and in general, I prefer that to the movie going experience.

jordanlund ,

26th? I thought it was the 21st?

jordanlund ,

Aha! Makes sense!

jordanlund ,

I blame the dumbass little kid for getting himself killed, but you’re right, she set it up.

But here’s the thing… she’s REALLY hateable in the sequel. Not sure what they were going for there.

jordanlund ,

If you knew the waterfall was safe, why not deliver the baby behind the waterfall?

Really easy questions that the script fails to answer.

jordanlund ,

If you’re doing this in a business environment, I wouldn’t fool around with a home rolled option and would just go straight with a Websense subscription:

www.websense.com/content/support/…/dic_wcg.aspx

jordanlund ,

I don’t get the surprise… Apple has ALWAYS been like this. They don’t want “normies” screwing around with “their” gear.

Heck, you needed a case cracker tool to open the OG Macintosh machines, they were specifically engineered to keep people out.

archive.org/…/mac_Mac_case_cracker_instructions_b…

jordanlund ,

My work software kept seeing weird bugs in Chrome, so I switched permanently.

jordanlund ,

Makes sense:

Xbox - 2001
Xbox 360 - 2005
Xbox One - 2013
Xbox One S - 2016
Xbox One X - 2017
Xbox Series S|X - 2020

4 years, 8 years, 3 years, 1 year, 3 years.

2028 would be on the long side but not unheard of. The reason for the big gap between 2005 and 2013 was the 2008 economic crisis.

2020 was the covid/supply chain crisis.

jordanlund ,

Historic generations were about 5 years…

The big problem with the Xbox One was that it was underpowered because of the Kinect requirement, so they ditched Kinect then rebranded as the Xbox One S, throwing in a 4K Blu Ray player.

Still wasn’t enough, so the One X had full 4K capabilities.

If they had launched with the One X things would have looked a lot different.

jordanlund ,

I just thought it was bad, probably AI generated, concept art.

jordanlund ,

Because the 360 refresh was functionally the same, both the One S and One X added new functionality (4K Blu Ray, 4K Gaming).

jordanlund ,

Microsoft required 10% of system resources be reserved for Kinect support, even in games that didn’t support Kinect features.

eurogamer.net/how-the-xbox-one-gpu-reserve-unlock…

That reduction in horsepower for the actual games showed up in reduced resolution and framerate.

Lifting that restriction allowed the Xbox One to reach parity with the PS4.

jordanlund ,

People won’t pay for something that used to be free… OTOH, neither will bot farms.

Either case will end Twitter, so I say go for it!

jordanlund ,

Possible to take the hardware, wipe it, install Linux and not worry about expiration?

jordanlund ,

Oscar.

youtu.be/QbfVZBsgC4s

Directed by John Landis (Animal House, Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Coming to America)

Starring:

Sylvester Stallone
Don Ameche
Tim Curry
Marisa Tomei
Linda Gray
Chazz Palminteri
Kurtwood Smith
Yvonne De Carlo
Martin Ferrero
Harry Shearer
Arleen Sorkin
Kirk Douglas

jordanlund ,

Lost me at “the first consumer product we’re aware of to use nitinol”.

There were nitinol eyeglass frames back in the 1980s.

youtu.be/XPrg8EZlD1E

jordanlund ,

Kinda need my undergrad first…

jordanlund ,

Dunno. I dropped out 30 years ago.

Wanted to teach high school.

jordanlund ,

Saying her actions will extend the strike attributes to her more power than she actually has.

I don’t see this having much of an impact at all.

jordanlund ,

Everyone who engages in a post I made gets an upvote.

Everyone who replies to a comment I made gets an upvote.

If a post is interesting enough to me to comment, it gets an upvote.

jordanlund ,

Cat:

“Workers could be liberated from this experience by seizing the means of production…”

jordanlund ,

Looked at it and went “Eh, could be interesting, but I don’t buy EA games and it will be $20 at Black Friday.”

jordanlund ,

How does this jive with the PAC-12 basically dissolving and joining the Big 10 though?

jordanlund ,

Looks like a decent flick.

Bonus - referencing the blue camoflage suit is cool, always liked that:

https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/690c5f93-d7a9-4fbe-bd6a-dd19520e504c.jpeg

But, man, shooting dry for wet still looks like crap.

jordanlund ,

Blue Beetle and Aquaman are the last two.

jordanlund ,

Looks like a decent flick.

Bonus - referencing the blue camoflage suit is cool, always liked that:

https://lemmy.one/pictrs/image/690c5f93-d7a9-4fbe-bd6a-dd19520e504c.jpeg

But, man, shooting dry for wet still looks like crap.

jordanlund ,

From what I can see, the real underwater stuff in WoW is way better than the “underwater” shots in Aquaman.

jordanlund ,

Yeah, but who’s the bad guy here?

Black Manta is pissed, but Aquaman did get his dad killed in the first one…

jordanlund ,

Gunn had no input on it, he does consider BB the first character of the new continuity, but Supes will be the first film.

What's the consensus here regarding Babylon Five?

I have the series on DVD but I’ve never seriously cracked it, only seen a few episodes. Was wondering what people here think, is it as good as the internet often says it is? I know it was an inspiration for one of my favorite franchises (Mass Effect) and The Orville had a cute reference to it by making its main actor the...

jordanlund ,

First season is all setup. Really, start with season 2.

Season 4 is the single best season of sci fi television ever done.

Here’s what I would do…

Burn through season 2 and 3, then go back and watch season 1 so you can see all the seeds they planted there before hitting season 4.

Season 5 is the “Oh, crap, we thought we weren’t getting a season 5…”

jordanlund ,

It’s not that season 5 is bad, it’s that they pretty much resolved everything in season 4 when they didn’t think they were getting a season 5.

Then, after they hit it out of the park with 4, TNT comes along and goes “So about season 5…”

“Uhh… yeah… season 5… heh.” 💧💧😅💧💧

jordanlund ,

There are problems with Season 1, Season 2 has a better hook and because they replaced the commander and are doing a bunch of catch up work, there’s no harm starting there then circling back.

Season 1 is a slow burn and there are a lot of filler episodes that don’t go anywhere (looking at you Infection, Deathwalker, Believers, TKO).

That being said, the must watch season 1 episodes:

1-3, 5-8, 11-13, 16-20, 22.

jordanlund ,

I’m in the minority who believes Fox was right to start Firefly with the Train Robbery, so what do I know? :) (I know my wife fell asleep 1/2 way through the original pilot.)

jordanlund ,

I’d call your insurance company, they should be able to figure it out.

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