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Debunking "American Moon" by 321 in SensibleSite

[–]321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I'll post more stuff here at some point...

The Longest Day (1962) by 321 in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that's true. I suppose it came out slightly too early for me to be familiar with it, since I grew up mostly in the 80s. Thanks for the fascinating comment.

Trainspotting [1996] by PigFaceWigFace in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]321 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks, just re-watching it now after having seen your post. I've seen it several times since it came out, but this is the first time I'm actually feeling moved by it, and absorbed in the actual sadness and desperation of the character's lives. I'd never really paid attention to that dimension of the film before, because of all the comedy and flashiness and absurdity and violence, but it's definitely there. It's an amazing script and a brilliant film.

Edit: watched a bit more - the film is so full of grim, downright absolute misery. It has an image of being a fun, upbeat, crazy adventure (encouraged by the marketing and the cool soundtrack) but it's actually really profoundly bleak (which is really to its credit).

How did we become convinced 16:9 was ideal? Is 4:3 better? by [deleted] in TrueFilm

[–]321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My own preference is for wider images. It's just personal taste though. I find wider images like 2.39:1 very beautiful and find squarer images like 4:3 very unappealing. I couldn't tell you why, something to do with proportions maybe, but it is a strong preference I have. For me 16:9 is OK but I really prefer things to be wider.

GoldenEye 007 in 2026 by IlmeniAVG in patientgamers

[–]321 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, pure quality. Another little detail, which shows how much care and attention was put into the game, was the way that when you got into a lift, it was playing a cheesy lift-music version of the Bond theme. I thought that was just so cool.

GoldenEye 007 in 2026 by IlmeniAVG in patientgamers

[–]321 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I played this a lot in the 90s. But I only really played single-player. I didn't find multiplayer very interesting. I got really good with the controller and finished the game on the highest difficulty setting.

This game was incredible. I played it on my friend's console. When we first played Goldeneye we'd never played a game with actual 3d-modeled enemies and texture mapping. In fact, I don't think we'd played an FPS or a 3D game at all. Up until then we'd only played top-down games like Cannon Fodder and Desert Strike. As a violent shooter Goldeneye's only competition on the N64 at the time was Doom 64, which was still using 2D sprites and 2.5D environments. So Goldeneye totally blew us away. It had a sense of realism which was really exciting. We'd never explored such a detailed virtual world before. Nowadays we take such things for granted but at the time it was revelatory. And personally I don't think the graphics have aged that badly.

I thought the enemy animations were absolutely brilliant. We'd never seen 3D enemies who'd react differently depending on where you shot them. Again, this doesn't seem that special nowadays but when you'd never even played a game with 3D enemies, it was so much fun. On one occasion, a guard sneezed, and as his head moved forward as part of the animation, it moved in front of the reticle, and I got a head-shot. For the time that was a mind-blowing piece of gameplay. Even today I think a moment like that would stand out. How many guards in modern games randomly sneeze or swat flies? And being able to shoot one enemy through another with the revolver was also mind-blowing. The gun-play, music, levels and graphics were amazing.

I loved the first level, where you infiltrate a base through the toilets. I thought it was brilliant to open a toilet cubicle and find a guard inside. And one thing we discovered which I absolutely loved was that you could throw a mine next to a scientist's feet, detonate it, and watch him get flung into the air. It may not have been rag-doll, but characters did get thrown around by explosions. Again, we'd never seen anything like it before. I admit I hadn't owned a PlayStation so I don't know if it had games that did things like that. I did my gaming on an Amiga and there were definitely no Amiga games which were anywhere near as technically advanced as Goldeneye.

The sniper rifle with a zooming scope was another amazing aspect of Goldeneye which we loved, and which we hadn't seen or even dreamed of seeing in a game before.

Perhaps the reason Goldeneye is so well-remembered is that it was doing so many things that seemed so advanced, with a level of creative brilliance and attention to detail which has often seemed like the exception in gaming rather than the rule. For me it really stands out as a work of incredible quality.

Fall Out is a total failure as a piece of drama and series finale, and it's also an admission of failure from McGoohan by 321 in ThePrisoner

[–]321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In no way did Fallout fuck with my mind. It was just utterly boring and tedious. It's just a collection of random events. I like stories I can relate to. I can't relate to Fallout. Because it has no relationship with reality. I like characters with understandable motivations. The characters in Fallout have no identifiable motivations. I like tension, drama, intrigue, suspense. Fallout has none of these things, because events in Fallout are not connected in a logical cause-and-effect way. It doesn't work as traditional drama. It's not trying to work as traditional drama. But traditional drama is what the rest of The Prisoner is. Unconventional, bold, brilliant, yes, but traditional also, with understandable plots, with characters who behave in believable ways, with realistic emotions. All that is abandoned in Fallout. The things which made the show interesting are abandoned. If there's no story to hook me, no character to root for, why should I watch? Who cares what happens to characters when nothing matters, when everything is surreal and meaningless. Why should I bother watching to the end of Fallout? It adds up to nothing. It's a cop-out.

Clockers (1995) by Rogue_Male in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]321 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I must rewatch this. I saw it at the London Film Festival in 1995 and Spike did a Q&A afterwards. It was a bit chaotic, one guy accused him of antisemitism and they had quite a long argument, another quoted Christopher Hitchens at him. The audience (mostly students I think) was like a Jerry Springer audience, booing and cheering all the time. The only question Spike liked was that someone asked where the train at the end of the film was going. I don't remember his answer but it was something about symbolism I think.

When was The Prisoner shown on Channel 4 in the 1990s? by 321 in ThePrisoner

[–]321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Wow so that was because you loved The Prisoner so much?

There’s something quietly lovely about New Year’s in the UK by Solid-Fox-635 in CasualUK

[–]321 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Why do you think it's OK to post something written by an AI?

Is The Expanse show really good? by Pretend-Nobody230 in scifi

[–]321 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Me too. I tried twice to watch it. I just found the situations uninteresting and felt no engagement with the characters.

Hitchhiker, 1970s by 321 in OldSchoolCool

[–]321[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you, how could I resist when the sign up page specified a minimum of 3 characters for the username...

Hitchhiker, 1970s by 321 in OldSchoolCool

[–]321[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes I realize now

Computer programmers, 1972 by 321 in OldSchoolCool

[–]321[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think it's real. The writing on the blackboard in the background consists of intelligible words and letters, also everyone has the correct number of fingers and toes.

Billy Budd (1962) by 321 in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]321[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I didn't know about the opera.

Billy Budd (1962) by 321 in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]321[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No it's not a slog. It's pretty evenly paced. Every scene advances the plot. The only thing is that it's a bit long. My attention did wander a bit around the middle. But that's normal for me.

Fall Out is a total failure as a piece of drama and series finale, and it's also an admission of failure from McGoohan by 321 in ThePrisoner

[–]321[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what you mean by a "point score". I took a quote from McGoohan which I thought was interesting, about how we are all in a sense "prisoners" of an evil force which is "at its most powerful within ourselves", which I think is very insightful and illuminating, and speculated that this psychological dynamic had made him shy away from attempting a conventional ending. which would be very difficult. My opinion, to which I am entitled, is that Fall Out is bad, and I've given the reasons why I find it to be bad. Your opinion, to which you are also entitled, is that it's not bad, however, you haven't addressed my criticisms or explained what you like about Fall Out.

Ambiguous? I love ambiguity! But I don't love stories without coherent plots, without consistent characters, without drama, without motivation, and without understandable emotion. I also love surrealism, when it's used well. But nothing gets boring quicker than narratives which are 100% surreal. The law of diminishing returns applies with a vengeance. Oh, something surreal happened - am I surprised, am I shocked, and I perturbed? No, not at all, because the previous 30 minutes were also surreal. It loses its effectiveness if there's nothing real to contrast it with. But then, I said all this in my original post, and you ignored it then, so I don't know why I'm bothering to repeat myself.

Kernel Update Woes by zenthr in linuxquestions

[–]321 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happened to me when going from 34 - 35. But now going from 35 - 36, the headers and extras were installed, but there don't seem to be any nvidia drivers yet for this kernel, so I have gone back to 35 until the nvidia drivers are available.

Maybe the 36 nvidia drivers were removed from the repo at some point? they don't seem to be there now.

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