doublepepperoni

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday it is, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just realised Finnish doesn’t have an onomatopoetic frog sound 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a stretch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason they’re turning random footnotes into movies or making up their own OCs like in the Amazon show is because they only have the LOTR and its appendices to work off of. The Tolkien estate made sure to keep Silmarillion, etc off limits

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a stretch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the Amazon show is an entirely separate adaptation and has no relation to the Jacksonverse.

  I would assume Warner Brothers would fuck him up in a different way. Judging from the quality of the writing in the Hobbit trilogy I would assume they’d turn Tom Bombadil into a stoner stereotype who also farts constantly or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a stretch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Ian McKellen as Gandalf but he was already noticeably older in the Hobbit movies, I can’t even imagine how distracting it would be in this train wreck since he’d be about as ancient as Christopher Lee was in his Hobbit cameo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a stretch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This takes place during the 17-year time skip between Bilbo’s birthday party and when Frodo returns home to discover an agitated Gandalf in his home asking if the Ring’s safe. What, you didn’t think it felt like Gandalf going to read that diary in Gondor took 17 years??? Yeah, the movies kinda streamlined and simplified that part.

  It’s wild they’re retroactively adding shit they just completely excised in the original film adaptations. What’s next, a side movie about the Hobbits encountering the barrow wights and Tom Bombadil before they reach Bree? A movie about the Scouring of the Shire?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG revives the original Resident Evil, plus Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 on the way⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to get into Resident Evil and want to start from the beginning, the HD remaster of the Gamecube remake of Resident Evil 1 is on Steam.

  It is often considered one of the greatest remakes of all time and widely thought to surpass the original while preserving everything that made the original great (with the exception of the cheesy FMV cutscenes and dialogue. The remade dialogue is still cheesy but not nearly as funny) unlike the 2/3 remakes that change the games completely.

  Technically Resident Evil 0, the HD remaster of which is also on Steam, is the actual beginning of the story in terms of the series’ timeline but I would not recommend it to a newcomer. Consider it advanced studies to come back to later.

  The only main games which do not have modern PC ports on current storefronts are 2, 3 and Code Veronica and there are multiple ways to experience each on PC.

  I grew up with the PS1 so I tend to just emulate those versions for 2 and 3, which is honestly rather painless with Duckstation, but there are plenty of other ways. You could also emulate the Dreamcast or Gamecube ports of said games, and I believe the GC version has a mod for HD backgrounds.There’s also the Classic Rebirth Patches for the Japanese-only PC ports which can be found floating about online.

  As for CV, you have the original Dreamcast version and the Code Veronica X port for PS2 and the later HD ports of CVX for Xbox 360 and RPCS3. All four can be emulated, though IIRC there’s issues with emulating the 360 version. Also some people are not fans of the changed lighting in the HD remake in general. I just emulate the PS2 version with PCSX2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG revives the original Resident Evil, plus Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3 on the way⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are these compatible with the randomisers and other mods people have made over the years or do you still need to track down the old Japanese SourceNext ports?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lightning bugs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a glow-worm some years ago. I thought someone had dropped a glowstick until I took a closer look

  Definitely not too common in Finland

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Marvels’ Meltdown: Disney MCU Seeing Lowest B.O. Opening Ever At $47M+⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Are these newer movies really that much worse in general or has the audience just finally gotten tired of the entire MCU? I saw every single one up until the second Spider-Man flick and many of them were just sort of lame. Movies like Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel and Black Panther and the Ant-Man movies which all released in the MCU’s most dominant period leading up to and in between the Thanos movies were pretty bad and they still made a lot of bank.

  I still watched all those mid movies because I was invested in the shared continuity and wanted to see the different branches of the universe collide with each other. When they finally did, I just didn’t really care anymore, but I think the final nail in the coffin for me was when they announced the Disney+ Marvel shows at which point it just became too much of a time investment to keep up with.