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Neddy Seagoon posted:The Mandalorian feels like Disney gave a budget to some of the fan-film makers, and I say that as a big complement. yeah. yeah i have liked it alot so far, its not some big HBO type epic but i like the story so far and it kinda shows the post endor political universe better than TFA/TLJ did.
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watho posted:Dan cuts the snyder release As much as I disagree with him about the possible quality of the film, I agree that a workprint version would be a more interesting watch than a fully completed version.
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Random thought but I just realized it's been years since the existence of the channel exurb1a was actively at the front of my mind. I don't know why, since I can recall they made great videos. And with 1.52m subscribers, and their videos receiving close to that many views on average, they're clearly doing well for themselves without my help. But for some reason I never subscribed back when I was made aware of them, and the algorithm has never recommended me any of their videos ever since. How strange.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:It'll be funny if the rumors are true and it's a Pirates of the Caribbean scenario where Disney gave up on Star Wars after Solo and gave the Mandalorian room to breathe without micro-management. thats my guess. disney is finishing up the skywalker saga and then will take a "break" with it movie wise for a couple years to figure out what they can do with the universe and poo poo.
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Kyoto Video on Sherlock Hound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eWLSBr_2FQ Memory from my childhood right there.
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https://twitter.com/cinemassacre/status/1204945440417992704 DVD recorders in 2019 ftw.
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This one hurt, bit to be fair I haven't played the N64 version in years. My most recent playthrough have been on the 3DS. A replay of OOT on orignal hardware might yield the same complaints cause no way the feel of the controls of that game hold up. Hell, the water temple on OOT might be just as bad because of the iron boots. The water based temples are the sewer levels of 3D zelda games is my point. But yikes, trying to take on Majora with so few hearts..I kind of respect that but even with all the footage he got, he must of missed a lot of stuff still. 90% of that game is side quests and just dicking around to find stuff. I better keep the "No you edit, what are you doing." Stuff to my self. ... WHY ARE YOU WITHDRAWLING RUPPIES FROM THE BANK!?
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Jimbot posted:Yeah. I generally think his stuff is "okay" but those two videos are some serious Funny thing is, I do have a similar compulsion*, but even I realized that trying to marathon through every single moon in Odyssey or, god forbid, exhaust BotW of every last piece of content possible was a fool's errand. Though that may overlap with why I don't actually boot up my Switch almost ever. Or make hours-long videos complaining about it.** *I think it's valid to judge games on how they structure stuff like collectibles, particularly games that outright track your completion percentage or games where the side content either noticeably adds or subtracts from the bigger picture, but I also don't really mind a general sense of repetition. I still get hung up on games with too much content, tho. Like keeping on topic to the Switch, good god does Hyrule Warriors just have a staggeringly endless amount of poo poo to do on top of the inherent repetition that all Musou games are built upon. It's hard to not be intimidated by that and just give up even trying to come close to finishing the game. **I have played around with long-winded essays and play reports and such, but notably I have never, ever tried to go full word vomit and make one long unbroken masterpiece because even I get tired of my own bullshit eventually. Regardless of what you think about his opinions, that he believes a single gargantuan 9 hour long video on the Witcher is the best way to convey his thoughts is just  Casey Finnigan posted:If you want to watch people talking about video games for ridiculously long amounts of time I like Noah Caldwell-Gervais. He's just a dude who drives around the American Southwest a lot and plays video games. I can't say I've ever heard an argument from him that I thought was stupid and he's gotten me to check out games like Dying Light that I ended up liking a lot. I think he's had a few bad takes over the years and one or two things I noticeably disagreed with, but nothing so aggressively bad as to make me not like the dude. Like I feel he was too soft on Bioshock Infinite and its DLC, but that was some of his earliest stuff and he's definitely grown a lot as a creator since then.
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John Murdoch posted:I think he's had a few bad takes over the years and one or two things I noticeably disagreed with, but nothing so aggressively bad as to make me not like the dude. Like I feel he was too soft on Bioshock Infinite and its DLC, but that was some of his earliest stuff and he's definitely grown a lot as a creator since then.
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Another interesting video on Fallout. Especially on the NCR as mirroring the USA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DK1BpaYmnk
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MonsieurChoc posted:Kyoto Video on Sherlock Hound. Sherlock Hound rules.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:It'll be funny if the rumors are true and it's a Pirates of the Caribbean scenario where Disney gave up on Star Wars after Solo and gave the Mandalorian room to breathe without micro-management. wait did Pirates of the Carribean get something actually good now?
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Kim Justice posted:https://twitter.com/cinemassacre/status/1204945440417992704 No wonder he’s so angry, what a lovely workflow.
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EL BROMANCE posted:No wonder he’s so angry, what a lovely workflow. Lol. It's hard to break the old ways. I imagine James would never ever consider playing these games on anything but an old CRT, so this has always been how it's done - why have the arseache of splitting signals and so on when the DVD recorder still works? Well, we'll see what happens now if he's finally going the laptop/capture card route 
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RottenK posted:wait did Pirates of the Carribean get something actually good now? I think they're talking about the first movie, in fact.
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Macaluso posted:Why... Why is he recording stuff on DVDs James is kinda stuck in the past in a lot of ways. In one of his videos he talks about HD video and doesn't seem to really understand it.
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I don't understand the first thing about recording, but when he says they're backups does that mean that he recorded digitally and then made copies of the footage for preservation purposes? Anyway, new Mandalore Gaming video about a Warhammer 40K game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjsOu2Kzbw
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Alacron posted:I don't understand the first thing about recording, but when he says they're backups does that mean that he recorded digitally and then made copies of the footage for preservation purposes? Probably means that he recorded to both mediums at the same time in case one of them got corrupted, it's good practice to do this to always have a backup. Using a DVD-recorder to do this is odd though but I guess he's using it because back in the day he used to exclusively record to DVD.
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Yeah, the DVD's are backups. From the sounds of things the main recording would have been done digitally via the N64's modded HDMI ports, using something like this DVR that can record straight to an SD card: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-Channel-Audio-Records-Telecamera/dp/B00OUZOYU8 (presumably something better than this cheap bit of chinese crap). He would have done both at the same time, using the N64's regular AV port to connect to a DVD recorder. Of course it would be much simpler to just connect the N64 up to a capture device that connects to a laptop/desktop computer.
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Mike is very much the tech guy on this kind of stuff. James definitely has editing experience (his main job is making commercials iirc) but I'm not sure how much he knows about the capture side. I believe he's even said some of his NES footage was off VHS tape.
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Kamrat posted:Probably means that he recorded to both mediums at the same time in case one of them got corrupted, it's good practice to do this to always have a backup. Using a DVD-recorder to do this is odd though but I guess he's using it because back in the day he used to exclusively record to DVD. I mean, from a pragmatic point of view I can totally understand wanting a dedicated hardware backup recorder, even if DVD recorder seems like a somewhat clunky way to go. I used to rely exclusively on my audio capture device; unfortunately that can be at the mercy of your individual computer suddenly deciding it needs to do an auto-update or system check under the hood, spiking your CPU and turning your recording into an instant Skrillex remix. It's slightly annoying when you're recording in short segments, but can ruin your night of work when it happens in every one of your 20 minute live music takes. Lesson learned, bought a dedicated Zoom handy recorder as the dedicated backup. Also, new video from Jacob Geller: Does Call of Duty Believe in Anything? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtCV421T52s Spoiler: Of course it does, but they don't want to admit it
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Kamrat posted:Probably means that he recorded to both mediums at the same time in case one of them got corrupted, it's good practice to do this to always have a backup. Using a DVD-recorder to do this is odd though but I guess he's using it because back in the day he used to exclusively record to DVD. Honestly, for analog consoles it's not the worst idea. Like, aside from the hassle of swapping discs it's no hassle to configure, it's SD->SD, and nearly-lossless Analog->Digital. Like, game picture quality is probably not James' biggest concern, but because of the quirks of old game consoles, DVD recorders are still a pretty good option for getting pretty high quality capture without mangling fields or resolution. A lot of capture cards freak out with older consoles and basically none of them really understand what a 240p signal is. Plus, like, if you've already got one that still works, might as well keep using it. DVD-Rs are like 4¢ a piece right now. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he actually kept using it for so long just because he wanted to get to the bottom of a spindle 😂
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FoldableHuman posted:Honestly, for analog consoles it's not the worst idea. Like, aside from the hassle of swapping discs it's no hassle to configure, it's SD->SD, and nearly-lossless Analog->Digital. Like, game picture quality is probably not James' biggest concern, but because of the quirks of old game consoles, DVD recorders are still a pretty good option for getting pretty high quality capture without mangling fields or resolution. A lot of capture cards freak out with older consoles and basically none of them really understand what a 240p signal is. This is all true. You'd never want to put an analog signal straight into a capture card. The card and software will likely read it as 480i and the result will be a mess (basically what happens when you try and play an old console on most modern TV's through composite, it looks dreadful and nothing like you remember it -- 240p is a weird signal that's almost like a trick, modern TV's don't process it good). I should have clarified in that last post that, having an N64 modded for HDMI that pumps out a lovely digital image, obviously James would be best off shoving that straight into the capture card, not the regular AV. The DVD recorder will probably remain -- it's a pretty easy for James to do all that while still happily playing on an old CRT that knows just what to do with 240p, even if it just ends up being a passthrough. Of course there's many other ways to accomplish this with switchers, fancy upscalers for RGB and lord knows what else. The best channel to learn about all this on YouTube, by far, is My Life In Gaming -- these two lovely fellas are the dons when it comes to telling you the best ways to play your old consoles today. Kim Justice fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Dec 14, 2019 |
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interesting video. he makes some good points but fucks some points up. you can't shoot the butchers kid and wife. the game gives you a empty pistol and even after it doesnt let you shoot them. at the end you can shoot the butcher though and leave his body for the russian cops. also the butcher legit shoots a family in level so i have no really. also i disagree with the hadir thing, in the game, he is fine with working with the US, hell, he genuinly likes the one player character, its more he is desperate and circumvents his sister who is super lawful good and just wants the russians gone even if it means stealing gas from the russians and working with not al quida. even than price and co don't want to turn hadir over to the russians because i get where he comes though and i agree with some of his points.. the comments sections is eyerolling though. also i get what he is going for when he is talking about gallager but jesus gently caress its kinda overkill.
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Kim Justice posted:Of course there's many other ways to accomplish this with switchers, fancy upscalers for RGB and lord knows what else. The best channel to learn about all this on YouTube, by far, is My Life In Gaming -- these two lovely fellas are the dons when it comes to telling you the best ways to play your old consoles today. I've been tempted for a bit to shell out for one of those boxes that properly separates and collapses the fields and puts out a digital 60p signal, but I don't really do enough with old games to justify the $200.
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https://twitter.com/shaun_vids/status/1205940169855160321 I still haven't gotten around to watching it, but this cut bit from the backer version is so good.
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Mr.Radar posted:https://twitter.com/shaun_vids/status/1205940169855160321 Well... it's true!
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Trojan Kaiju posted:I think they're talking about the first movie, in fact. oh well, i thought they meant that disney gave up on Pirates and now there's something good out because they weren't meddling
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Mr.Radar posted:https://twitter.com/shaun_vids/status/1205940169855160321 Shaun went mask off. Err...skull off? Whatever it is, he took it off.
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Seeing reactionaries try to defend the Bell Curve and the biological reality of race is hilarious because they'll give you charts that disprove all their positions but they're too stupid/blinded to realize it. Once had a guy link a chart that showed Africans had as much genetic variance as half of the rest of humanity and it was impossible for him to see it because he was so blinded by racism.
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Kim Justice posted:The best channel to learn about all this on YouTube, by far, is My Life In Gaming -- these two lovely fellas are the dons when it comes to telling you the best ways to play your old consoles today. They're such a great channel. They did an amazing mini-documentary earlier this year for M2, who are easily the best when it comes to porting retro games to modern hardware.
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I finally see why the content creators do it now! For the love and feedback. https://twitter.com/AllisonPregler/status/1206043451013369856
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FoldableHuman posted:I've been tempted for a bit to shell out for one of those boxes that properly separates and collapses the fields and puts out a digital 60p signal, but I don't really do enough with old games to justify the $200. The OSSC? I've heard lots of good things -- seems to be the main one follks recommend now, even over the XRGB Mini (tbf, I presume those are now harder to get and way more expensive even than they used to be). I've also heard pretty decent things about something called the Retrotink-2x if you're looking for something a lil' cheaper - it only outputs 480p through HDMI but I think it's about $100 (US obv). Mind you if you're talking about stuff for the channel, I don't really see much wrong with just buying the cheap Chinese stuff if your audience isn't going to be hugely picky about it, and you're not gonna be either. I used to have a cheap Chinese RGB/HDMI thing and it was absolutely fine, I'd probably still be using it if it wasn't for someone's unbelieveable generosity. Kim Justice fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Something about the internet makes people think they’re watching television and participating in narrative with someone who’s not real in the way that they are. I don’t know how that squares with the parasocial thing, but they’re definitely related. Being an Allison fan probably feels like being a Stannis fan or a Danaerys fan or whatever, in that you like them and are invested in what you can see but they’re not real to you. The alienation of late capitalism can’t end soon enough.
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Dawgstar posted:I finally see why the content creators do it now! For the love and feedback. Jesus kill all comments sections.
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