entropicdrift
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- Comment on Sylvester Stallone's Rocky origin story is punching its way onto the silver screen with Peter Farrelly directing 4 days ago:
Stallone?
His mom owned a salon in the 70s. She didn’t really get famous till the 80s/90s, well after her son.
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 2 weeks ago:
Zelda 2 is more of an RPG than ODST, but the thrust of your argument is true.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been making a small album of music out of lyrics I wrote and a consistent general style/genre using suno. It’s pretty fun.
As a musician with experience recording albums, even when the songs come out basic, I can always re-record them myself and make them less generic.
- Comment on Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner 4 weeks ago:
Did I say it was? I didn’t downvote, I’m just whining
- Comment on Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner 4 weeks ago:
Paywall ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ
- Comment on [Poster] New poster for Furiosa 4 weeks ago:
It might end before she gets captured, but yes.
- Comment on Does the Dog Die? - A website for filtering movies by triggers 4 weeks ago:
My wife has PTSD, we use this website for horror movies all the time so that she can watch without being caught off guard.
She and I are big horror fans but you need to be careful with PTSD to not let it ruin your night
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
And the tech world will often force you to use a macbook, as well. As if Windows wasn’t locked down enough.
- Comment on Resident Evil 9 could be an open world game, it’s claimed 1 month ago:
I didn’t say it was inherently bad. I expressed my opinion and nothing more.
Let people have opinions
- Comment on Resident Evil 9 could be an open world game, it’s claimed 1 month ago:
Just what we needed, more open world AAA games.
Does nobody remember Dynasty Warriors 9?
- Comment on Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ Draws Fire in China, Praise From U.S. Conservatives | The Hollywood Reporter 1 month ago:
Ask the GoT fandom. They’re the ones who decided to call David Benioff and D.B. Weiss “D&D”
- Comment on Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ Draws Fire in China, Praise From U.S. Conservatives | The Hollywood Reporter 1 month ago:
I agree that the mathy stuff was the most interesting and I found that dumbing-down to be the most disappointing part of the adaptation, but on the other hand, it makes sense to do when you’re trying to have it find a wider audience, so I tolerate it.
- Comment on Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ Draws Fire in China, Praise From U.S. Conservatives | The Hollywood Reporter 1 month ago:
I read the first book and I’ve seen the first 6 episodes of the show.
It’s good. It cuts down on some of the nerdy math and science bits from the book while still hitting all the interesting plot points and the highlights. It changes quite a few characters and the city it takes place in (for the present day segments), but the meat of the book was the ideas, so it still works quite well IMO.
So far I’d say it’s good or very good, but not mind-blowingly great. A competent adaptation that takes some liberties but leaves the really good stuff the same.
- Comment on Multiple "Neverending Story" Films Planned - Dark Horizons 1 month ago:
The second one at least had some more of the original book left to adapt, the third is just a mess.
- Comment on U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly 1 month ago:
You’re misunderstanding. The government isn’t arguing that they’re preventing people from switching to Android, but that they’re running a monopoly within the iPhone ecosystem.
- Comment on Nightdive's acclaimed System Shock remake heading to consoles in May 1 month ago:
Here’s a few more. I’m only including full remakes and not any remasters, since we’re talking about the System Shock remake:
Ocarina of Time 3D
Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp
Counter Strike: Source
Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy
Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed
DuckTales: Remastered
Dune 2000
The House of The Dead: Remake
Kirby’s Return To Dream Land Deluxe
The Last of Us Part I
Mafia: Definitive Edition
Mega Man: The Wily Wars
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
Metal Slug X
Metroid: Zero Mission
Metroid: Samus Returns
realMyst
Pac-Man World: Re-Pac
Panzer Dragoon: Remake
Pokemon: HearGold and SoulSilver
Pokemon: FireRed and LeafGreen
Pokemon: Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Comment on Nightdive's acclaimed System Shock remake heading to consoles in May 1 month ago:
I’m not sure how else they could have renamed it
Ooh, I love this game!
System Shock: SHODAN Edition
System Shock: Remake
System Shock: Unreal Edition
System Shock: Reconstructed
System Shock: Mainframe Edition
IDK, one of those probably. The trend of naming remakes or reboots the same exact name of the originals is tiresome to me.
Like Lords of The Fallen and Lords of The Fallen. Or King Kong and King Kong and King Kong. Or Godzilla and Godzilla and Godzilla.
The need to say the year when talking about something is annoying in conversation.
I love Doom, but found Doom just OK, y’know?
- Comment on What is the cruelest "twist the knife" move or statement by a villain in a film for you? 1 month ago:
This one. The big reveal of Old Boy is just so brutal
- Comment on See a Restored Never-Before-Seen Lost Deleted Scene From David Lynch's DUNE 1 month ago:
While I agree that makes him kinda shit for most roles, that’s kind of a perfect fit for Paul Atreidies, right?
I mean, he was bred to be the Kwisatz Haderach by generations of Bene Gesserit, trained from birth to be a great ruler and warrior, pidgeonholed into becoming a messiah by his mother’s scheming, and basically had no choice about his path in life save for his prescience giving him some influence on the future.
That sounds like an ultra-nepo-baby with rich parents, no choice about his career, no chance to live a real life and a mountain of privilege to me.
- Comment on ‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? 1 month ago:
Corporations making AI tools available to the general public are under a ton of scrutiny right now and are kinda in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. At the other extreme, if they completely uncensored it, the big controversial story would be that pedophiles are generating images of child porn or some other equally heinous shit.
These are the inevitable growing pains of a new industry with a ton of hype and PR behind it.
- Comment on Let's play Spot the Cold Solder. 4 months ago:
Care to elaborate, for those not as experienced as soldering? This isn’t the most relatable post without some additional context.
For instance, my only experience soldering is with audio equipment (think wires and potentiometers), never with PCBs and I have no clue what you mean.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I should tell my brother-in-law about this because he’s made and remade stram accounts like 6 times because he keeps forgetting the passwords (also forgets his email account passwords and abandons those)
- Comment on Star Trek Resurgence Giveaway 4 months ago:
I was an adult when I got/played it, but Star Trek: Bridge Crew was a blast to play on my Vive.
- Comment on Let's meet those headlines 4 months ago:
TIL, thanks!
- Comment on Let's meet those headlines 4 months ago:
Par-tik-lees
Probably pronounced the same but my brain breaks it up like this:
Part-ih-klees
- Comment on Let's meet those headlines 4 months ago:
Huh, the way I say Persephone (per-seh-fuh-knee), Saxophone would be pronounced sax-aw-fuh-knee or maybe sax-oh-phony (the way I say saxophone normally in my accent is sacks-uh-phone)
- Comment on Biblically 4 months ago:
If you watch it twice a decade it would be a semidecadal rewatch. Bi would mean you watch it once every 2 decades. Semi as the prefix means you watch every half decade
- Comment on Am I doing HDR wrong? 5 months ago:
No, it can’t. Most hardware is targeting DCI-P3 (though some goes beyond it) because that’s what films are targeting in the mastering process, but HDR10 and all other HDR protocols (HDR10+, Dolby Vision, etc) all use the BT.2020 spec on the software side of things.
In other words, the software is ahead of the hardware for now.
- Comment on Am I doing HDR wrong? 5 months ago:
HDR is actually the BT.2020 color gamut. Films mastered in HDR typically use DCI-P3 because that’s the standard for theaters, but it’s a smaller color gamut than BT.2020, which is what even HDR10 (the most common form of HDR with the lowest specs) supports.
- Comment on Exciting news! The free API you were using is no more free! 5 months ago: