Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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  • Theaters have always been more fun to go to for a movie you actually care about.

    I’m not convinced that’s true. Clerks and Mall Rats both bombed at the box office but were huge on VHS. I don’t know if I’d want to sit in a movie theater and watch Groundhog Day. I don’t need “Ned! RYERSON!” bigger than god booming down at me from a 30 foot screen and a 90 gigawatt sound system. Some movies are designed to be watched on a couch with your legs pulled up beside you clutching a cup of hot tea. Or to be laughed at and riffed on with friends. Some movies work best when watched several times, maybe even while doing something else, just listening to the dialog as it plays on the living room television while you’re doing the dishes, letting the dialog simmer long and low on your mind’s back burner.

    I find movies that rely on the spectacle of the big screen and powerful sound system just aren’t that interesting. I mean, I saw Transformers in the theater and I haven’t wanted to see a movie for its special effects since. “Spectacular” has become a synonym of “noisy” to me. And that’s functionally all they make now.








    1. The syntax of linking to users, posts, communities etc. is hard to keep a mental grip on. I know they couldn’t exactly copy reddit’s u/ for users and r/ for subreddits, but ! for communities and @ for users isn’t as schematic. I think it’s why you see it used less than on Reddit. And if you start to type a username, and an autocomplete window pops up, it inserts that format in brackets followed by a URL in parenthesis. To the right of the text box I’m typing in, I see, and I’ll approximate this as best I can:

    Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world

    asklemmy@lemmy.world

    Neither has the exclamation point reminding you how to use that feature. My bipolar ex girlfriend had a more consistent UI than that.

    1. Linking to posts and comments is just pure moon logic. Follow me here:

    This Post is stored on lemmy.world, right? Where is the comment I’m currently writing stored? on lemmy.world, or sh.itjust.works?

    @kibiz0r@midwest.social commented on this post, I’m going to use it as an example. There are two buttons next to their username. Both have the hover over tooltip “link”.

    The chain looking one gives me this URL: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27359355/14761082

    The…fedigon? What’s the name of the 5-pointed rainbow fediverse icon? looking one gives me this URL: https://midwest.social/comment/13230476

    If I wanted to refer to kibiz0r’s comment in some other thread somewhere else, which of those links should I use? I figure in most cases I’m addressing an audience of the entire fediverse not just my fellow sh.itheads, so why would I ever use the first link? What does someone from lemm.ee see when they click on either of those links? Do they get to see it through their own account on their instance, or do they get linked directly to another instance? This really breaks the idea of “one account, whole fediverse.”






  • I would enjoy a copy of Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance with some spiffed up lighting effects, maybe the mech pack mechs included in the base game, and higher resolution copies of the FMV segments. I have my original copy but I can’t get it to run on Linux. Wonder if there’s a way to wash a CD game through Steam Play. Lutris…doesn’t function as software? It’s one of those magnetic “performance enhancing” bracelets, it doesn’t do anything but it has convinced a LOT of people it does.

    This may be stretching the premise a little bit but I would like to play the game they thought they were making when they made Ride To Hell: Retribution.


  • I don’t think Nintendo is capable of doing anything to Link to the Past other than ruin it.

    A lot of the Zelda games that got “remasters” mostly had their resolutions and brightnesses increased, to the point that the Wind Waker remake has problematic amounts of bloom. Makes me think someone important at Nintendo has cataracts. So if you want to “remaster” A Link to the Past, run it through an AI upscaler and turn a desk lamp on your screen.

    The few that have gotten ground-up “remakes” like Link’s Awakening…I kind of liked the art style they chose, it fit the tone of the game pretty well, going with quartets for the music is a stroke of genius, WHY DOESN’T THE FUCKING D-PAD WORK? The original game was designed for use with a D-Pad and either 4- or 8- way motion. I get that modern gamers might instinctively reach for the analog stick, but bind movement controls to the D-pad too, especially if you’re not going to bind anything else to those controls. Nintendo never doesn’t fuck this up. They made an entire console based on a revolutionary new way to fuck up the controls.

    So what you’d get out of a first-party re-release of aLttP is a blank white screen you control entirely with the gyros.



  • I don’t want ratings from imdb. I want facts about the film from imdb.

    I really like movies that were critically panned. I hate movies that are very popular. I’ll watch terrible movies for the MST3K of it all. Ratings are worthless.

    I want to know who played Guy With Grocery Bag in the scene in The Clampertons when Glenn Clamperton was running down the street chasing the demon giraffe that stole his pocket watch, you know the guy who says “What in the neck is going on?” Because is he the same guy as the pilot in Club Paradise?

    That’s what I want imdb for.


  • I don’t avoid low view count videos because…say I get a notification that RedLetterMedia has just published a new Best of the Worst. It’s been live for 4 minutes. Of course it’s going to have a low view count.

    I’m looking for a repair video on the specific make and model of Dell laptop I have. I’ve seen exactly two of them in existence, not a popular model. It’s going to have a low view count.

    I think it is useful information to have, it shouldn’t be entirely hidden like the downvotes are, but I don’t think it’s necessary on the home page.

    Date uploaded though…that needs to be there.