jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.one
- Comment on lemmy.one has been defederated by lemmy.world 1 year ago:
I was wondering what had happened, seemed like things got super quiet. Flipped over to my lemmy.world account and it was back to normal.
- Comment on London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council 1 year ago:
Obligatory:
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 1 year ago:
2 people + snacks, I’m lucky if it’s ONLY $50.
- Comment on Missed opportunity 1 year ago:
Open the scanner and quicktravel everywhere…
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 1 year ago:
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 InvasionIron 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 JacketCaptain 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) - Comment on ‘A Haunting In Venice’ Review: Kenneth Branagh Brings a Supernatural Dimension to His Hercule Poirot Series 1 year ago:
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?
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 1 year ago:
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 ->
- Comment on Rick and Morty | Season 7 Official Trailer | adult swim 1 year ago:
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!”
- Comment on Small update focusing on stability has dropped 1 year ago:
“Characters: Fixed an issue that could cause some characters to not be in their proper location.”
Ooh, I wonder if I can finally pick up that guy in the medbay…
- Comment on Now that we've had SF for a bit, what do you think? Good, flawed, bad? 1 year ago:
I’ve been playing it back and forth with Baldur’s Gate 3 (Baldur’s Field!) and I have to say, I’m enjoying it more than BG.
Things like combat are just so much easier than in a turn based game controlling multiple characters. I get EXHAUSTED playing BG3. Starfield I can plug in for hours and not really think about it.
If I could tune the other characters in my party in BG so they could run autonomously and all I had to worry about was my character, it would be a lot less tiring.
- Comment on 15 MORE Features Starfield Never Tells You About...(Plus Bonus Tips & Tricks) - Ep. 2 1 year ago:
For quick turns, reduce the speed. I know, I know, counter intuitive.
- Comment on 15 MORE Features Starfield Never Tells You About...(Plus Bonus Tips & Tricks) - Ep. 2 1 year ago:
I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that it took me ENTIRELY too long to figure out that pushing the left stick up and down accelerates/decelerates the ship. :( I had been using the boost to go anywhere and didn’t know how to slow down.
Remember when instruction manuals were a thing?
- Comment on FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers 1 year ago:
You’d think it should be easy:
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Is the call coming into the US from a foreign exchange?
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Does the caller ID indicate a local US area code?
If both are true, block the call.
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- Comment on watched Hustle last night, Moneyball tonight, what's the perfect third? 1 year ago:
How To Beat The High Cost of Living:
youtu.be/9-77VpXSygs - Comment on weapons 1 year ago:
Extended Mag Coachman. ;)
- Comment on How I imagine people who say their TV is just the same as a 70 foot high theatre screen. 1 year ago:
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.
- Comment on [spoilers] A Quiet Place (Rant) 1 year ago:
If you knew the waterfall was safe, why not deliver the baby behind the waterfall?
Really easy questions that the script fails to answer.
- Comment on [spoilers] A Quiet Place (Rant) 1 year ago:
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.
- Comment on What do you build with your outposts? 1 year ago:
Looking at it, it looks like just busywork for Lin and Heller. Looks like Andromeda has an outpost specialty too.
- Comment on Microsoft Next Console Coming 2028 1 year ago:
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.
- Comment on Microsoft Next Console Coming 2028 1 year ago:
Because the 360 refresh was functionally the same, both the One S and One X added new functionality (4K Blu Ray, 4K Gaming).
- Comment on Microsoft Next Console Coming 2028 1 year ago:
I just thought it was bad, probably AI generated, concept art.
- Comment on Microsoft Next Console Coming 2028 1 year ago:
One evolution went like this:
At launch, it came with Kinect and 10% of system resources were reserved for Kinect processing, even on games that didn’t support Kinect. That resulted in lower framerates and resolution than equivalent PS4 games.
Then Microsoft, wisely, removed the Kinect requirement and released a Kinect-free version of the one. With that extra performance boost, the One gained parity with the PS4.
Sony announced the PS4 Pro for 2016, but while it had more power than the stock PS4, it lacked a 4K Blu Ray drive.
Seeing the opportunity, Microsoft added a 4K drive to the Xbox One and launched the Xbox One S one month ahead of the PS4 Pro.
They also pre-emptively announced the Xbox One X which would be the powerhouse machine of the generation with 4K gaming and 4K physical media.
The idea being that hopefully people would choose the One S over the Pro due to the 4K drive, or would at least wait on buying anything until the One X dropped a year later.
Last generation was really weird as to one company having both the weakest and strongest hardware in the same generation.
Xbox One W/ Kinect
PS4 / Xbox One No Kinect
Xbox One S (same hardware + 4K Blu Ray)
PS4 Pro (stronger hardware, no 4K Blu Ray)
Xbox One X (strongest hardware + 4K Blu Ray) - Comment on Microsoft Next Console Coming 2028 1 year ago:
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.
- Comment on Microsoft Next Console Coming 2028 1 year ago:
Makes sense:
Xbox - 2001
Xbox 360 - 2005
Xbox One - 2013
Xbox One S - 2016
Xbox One X - 2017
Xbox Series S|X - 20204 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.
- Comment on Noticed something fun in the Sol system tonight... 1 year ago:
Going in and looking now…
Types for each:
Mercury - Barren
Venus - Rock
Earth - Rock
Mars - Rock
Jupiter - Gas Giant
Saturn - Gas Giant
Uranus - Ice Giant
Neptune - Ice Giant
Pluto - IceIt doesn’t distinguish it as a dwarf planet and no other dwarf planets (Ceres, Eris) are listed.
- Comment on Noticed something fun in the Sol system tonight... 1 year ago:
That’s the thing though, the other dwarf planets aren’t listed, Pluto is, and it has an orbit trajectory like the other planets.
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- Comment on Is anyone who are on steamdeck seeing their game freeze when trying to load a save? 1 year ago:
Not on Steam Deck, on Xbox Series X, and it happened once tonight. I lef it sit long enough and it came out of it OK.
Another time tonight and it outright crashed to the main menu opening a door in the Well.
- Comment on Drew Barrymore’s Co-Head Writer Says Drew ‘Will Prolong the Strike’ by Resuming Show: ‘It’s Not Too Late’ to ‘Stand in Solidarity’ With the WGA 1 year ago:
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.