I do have a double set with original (or as much as you could get) along with the post-prequels completely broken one. I think there was a pre-prequels version as well. But then that is DVD quality, which is getting on a bit.

The likes of Disney+ doesn’t even acknowledge the originals even exist.

Same with their Alien and Aliens versions as well. No director’s cuts at all, which is a shame as I far prefer them. They should have both.

They were course and rough and irritating and got everywhere.

The only way to watch the original Star Wars movies before George completely fucked with them is piracy.

The 4K77, 80 and 83 editions are what you’re after. Enjoy. There are apparently reduced noise versions as well, but I thought it was perfect as is. It’s old. It’s supposed to have noise and grain. The desert scenes in the first one are really noisy and I’m not 100% sure why. Maybe he filmed those on cheaper film stock in smaller cameras, but that’s just a guess.

Good to know so we can avoid them.

I honestly think it’ seven more important to have an adblock on a phone.

The amount of pages that on mobile are an advert covering the top half, and a give us your data prompt at the bottom seems to be nearly everything these days. At least on a monitor there’s room for the content.

I’m taking issue with the “got too big” part.

Nintendo are patent trolls, but I think we all know why they’re going after Palworld and it won’t be about confirmation screens.

Got too big?

I haven’t heard anyone mention this since like a month after it came out. It’s down to 20k players from like two million in January.

https://steamcharts.com/app/1623730

This is just Nintendo’s standard glacial pace. We’ve had ROM sites up for a decade before they were taken down. No doubt some team of lawyers have been collecting a gargantuan hourly rate while putting together all the images of Palworld NPCs and how they’re blatant Pokemon rip-offs.

And they’re not wrong, exactly. There’s a lot of Pokemon rip-off games about. Digimon, Yokai Watch, Temtem, etc. But only Palworld has had me see the screenshots and go “they’re Pokemon”. Even Aldi don’t advertise their frosted flakes with a cartoon tiger in a red neckerchief. There are lines, and when you step over them lawyers tend to get involved.

Probably because nobody was using it.

307 users over the last month is barely worth keeping the server running when mastodon.social is getting 249 thousand.

I could never get on with the weird shaped triggers.

In my experience they mostly seem to watch somebody else play a video game.

It was made for British TV in the late 80s maybe.

It wasn’t going to be done on 35mm with movie making kit. What you see there is probably the best it’s going to be.

I wondered why I hadn’t seen all this drama, but then I remembered I blocked all the vegan communities right after I joined Lemmy, along with all the trans and gay stuff, and the tankie instances.

I don’t want to see their shit and chances are they don’t want to see mine.

Will they collect data on you to profile you and your activities and use that in the future? Yes.

And that’s why the only thing I use my VPN for is piracy. Don’t really have a good reason to push anything else through it.

In fairness I doubt the NSA give a single solitary fuck about piracy and aren’t about to give themselves up over a telesync rip of Beetlejuice 2.

But probably best to plan 9/11 part 2 over something a bit more secure.

That is a ridiculous price for a games console.

And PC gamers can stop looking smug because GPU prices make that unreasonable as well.

We need to rethink raytracing, because chasing it has just made everything unaffordable.

The man’s a consummate bullshit artist, but I can’t deny he used to be one of the best. Populous, Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper, Fable…

The last 10-15 years have been a bit of a write-off, but before that, even when he was shitting out games, they were still better than most people could even dream of making.

Looking at the domain name, they’re in Mali. Things must be cheap out there.

Because they’d heard of them.

The power of the fediverse is nothing next to the power of the normieverse and a couple of billion dollars in advertising money.

Randy is still the most unscrupulous man in gaming, and he has a lot of competition.

His one hit was completely by accident.

Hey, some of them just throw up some AI generated garbage too!