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[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How the fuck was that man not jumped on by the media (I can't remember if this was post or pre vagina grabbing) when he mocked that disabled journalist! I thought that would've been the end, but no one seemed to care!

 

She's back! And she's learned NOTHING.

Why is anyone listening to this woman? I couldn't watch the whole video, she's mad!

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

I like the USB cable with it's PS1 block end but the rest is just the same old stuff in another colour etc. Also, are they trying to slightly boost PS5 Pro sales by limiting it to a specific number.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not sure of the negatives, but I've heard that a one-off wealth tax, that is taxing the top 1% earners a single 1% would bring in £25bn to the treasury. Problem solved, £3bn left over.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 1 points 2 weeks ago

I thought something felt odd. It feels too easy just driving over the landscape in 4WD with automatic gears.

I did have one moment where the truck got its front left wheel stuck in a crevice, but the rest of the truck was free to move. I turned the steering to the opposite lock and the entire truck did a bunny hop to the right with the one wheel remaining in the crevice. That's some powerful steering!

 

I was excited to see this game get released on Game Pass, as I loved the original and SnowRunner. However, after putting several hours in, I get this weird sense that the physics have been changed somehow. It certainly doesn't feel the same as SnowRunner. Anyone else?

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow. That was underwhelming. To be honest, my PS5 has been treated like a PS4 PRO PRO. Catching up on those old cheap PS4 games that had Pro patches. (I only have a base PS4). I mean TLOU2 looks great when patched for PS5 and I never understood why anyone would want the PS5 remaster because to my eyes there's very little difference.

Also, that price and no stand or drive. What were they thinking?

At the end of the day, whose going to spend £700 so that their games look a little bit better?

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

Never liked the music to be honest. They were at a Reading festival I went to one year, and I thought I would try to see what all the fuss was about. I walked away after two songs. Just not for me.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

I never saw this, perhaps I was too young, but I certainly remember it because I was surprised when a friend, who had the Corgi die-cast metal ship, corrected me when I was making it fly backwards.

I might give this a go now I'm older. I wonder if new special effects are optional because I'm sure the purists might say something about that.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

I only discovered it myself in the last month or so.

For example, I loved X-Wing CD edition back in the day for the real Star Wars soundtrack but I need to try it with MT32 midi emulation. I bet the iMuse system sounds fantastic.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's an emulator for playing the entire back catalogue of Lucasarts games. It's very well documented and ready to use. As I said, if you had some kind of general midi set up or Roland MT32 back in the day, you'd be laughing. The music is awesome.

The program is called Dreamm.

DREAMM is a backronym for:

DOS
Retro-
Emulation
Arena for
Maniac
Mansion (and other LucasArts Games). 
 

When do you think the people of Clacton will realise they've been used?

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I played the first, maybe not all the way through, on my Atari ST. Later on, I got quite annoyed that the Amiga got the sequel but Lucasfilm Games days it wasn't coming to the Atari.

I remember getting the PC CD-ROM edition of the original game and the music was lovely.

The next time I played was game three, Curse of Monkey Island. I loved the art style and completed that one.

I plan on playing the latest installment at some point. I downloaded it onto my Xbox.

There's also a great program for playing old Lucasfilm faces on PC. You can load soundbanks into it because it can emulated different midi interfaces that I dreamed of owning back in the day. The tunes sound amazing.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Yep. When trying to find the footage for the 2 disc dvd edition, they discovered it was all ruined sadly.

The producer once said at a comic con event that he had a VHS tape of a work print but nothing was ever mentioned again.

I believe Shout Factory had a good rummage when preparing their Blu-ray bit also came up empty.

I found a forum posting years ago where the second unit director described all the gory hell shots and how they used physically disabled people with missing limbs to achieve the effects. Sounded brutal.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem was Nintendo charged publishers more money for the larger carts. So a lot of publishers simply took the option of the smallest cheaper cards and made you download the rest.

Trying to preserve Switch games by buying the carts has been a bit pointless really. I know Diablo 3 was entirely on the cart, publishers were very pleased with that.

 

Lucasfilm used its part of the Disney Showcase at D23 to both tease the second season of “Andor” and offer the first tease of “The Mandalorian & Grogu” movie. First up, the second season of “Andor” had little on offer – no artwork, release date or stills – just a behind-the-scenes featurette only for the […]

 

Get ready for a brand new Star Wars adventure. Watch the trailer for Skeleton Crew, streaming with a two-episode series premiere December 3 on Disney+.

 

I've spent four hours playing Rage today via the Xbox Series backwards compatibility. (Is it emulation or real hardware?)

Anyway, for an Xbox360 game I think this looks really good and still holds up today. The speedy loading times certainly help as well.

I did try and play a while ago on the PS3. I don't know if Rage was pushing the PS3 to the limit, but as you turned around, you would catch models and textures loading in. Apparently you could alleviate this a bit by installing an SSD but you're still limited by the PS3's older SATA connection.

Having played this on my Series X, I don't know if the Xbox Series is almost void of this because of the modern hardware or if the Xbox360 version was actually the better machine with this game engine.

I completed Rage 2 a year or so ago when it was given away free on the Epic Game Store and loved it. The original game is essentially the same but on a much smaller scale. It's a balanced gameplay of driving and FPSs sections.

I LOL'd on my first encounter when I've if the bad guys shouted, "Where's that wanker!" 😆

 

With LEGO Wicked sets now confirmed, we've spotted some rumoured set names that offer a better sense of what's to come to the new theme.

 

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