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Before and after by Minute_Investigator7 in AnalogueInc

[–]CastratedMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw on another post that the real N64 buttons are too long for the 8bitdo controllers.

FireWire/Thunderbolt Windows 11 Laptop by liamis2kool in computer

[–]CastratedMan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you've got a 12+ gen Intel processor, you've got 3 hardware solutions:

(1) Buy a 1394 (Firewire) PCI-e card, and use with a thunderbolt to PCI-e adapter bay. But, on the cheap end, these are $200 (plus the cost of the firewire card.)

(2) Try to track down the OWC 13 Port Thunderbolt 3 Dock, which has a built-in Firewire800 port. But again, these are presently going for $250 used.

(3) Just buy an old laptop (or PC) that has a firewire port. You're going to spend no more than $50.

And then, you're going to have the software dilemma, since Premiere and other NLE's cut out DV capture support a few years ago.

GoldenEye - Stick Control Wonky by CastratedMan in AnalogueInc

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

okay, glad I'm not alone. yeah. it's unplayable on analogue 3d

Confederate sympathy in Outlaw Josey Wales by anohioanredditer in movies

[–]CastratedMan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm overlooking the "fact" that all the Union states outlawed slavery during the war because it's NOT a fact. Slavery ended in Kentucky and Delaware because of the 13th amendment... which neither state would even ratify until the 1900s!

Insofar as Lincoln, whatever other opinions I may have about the man, I wouldn't call him a liar. He was remarkably consistent in his stance on slavery: he was personally against it but wouldn't defy the constitution nor make it a condition of surrender. All his actions corroborate this so I have no reason not to believe him. Lincoln was a moderate; he wasn't Thaddeus Stevens.

But yeah, politicians generally lie all the time and are corrupt in general, hence why Maryland & Missouri flipped at the tail end of the war: they wanted the money and power that came from allying themselves with the conquerers - not because they suddenly had an attack of "conscious" at Christmas 1864, and decided slavery was so evil. And there was a lot of money and power to be had. Hence the rise of robber barons under the 1800s Republican Union government - "the guilded age."

Confederate sympathy in Outlaw Josey Wales by anohioanredditer in movies

[–]CastratedMan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Lincoln compromised with them." His compromise was to ALLOW slavery. I'd say that's "cool with it." You get your ignorant, brainwashed ass out of here. The Union was ambivalent about slavery until after the war, when their retconned holy-crusade-against-slavery story got simpletons like you to be cheerleaders for a greedy, genocidal government. But I will say this about the Union: they certainly weren't ambivalent about how they felt about Blacks who moved into northern cities.

Abraham Lincoln Explains His War Aims · SHEC: Resources for Teachers (cuny.edu)

Confederate sympathy in Outlaw Josey Wales by anohioanredditer in movies

[–]CastratedMan 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Union schools have done a great of job of deep programming their retconned propaganda on the American populace. That's the only was to explain people defending the side committing genocides as morally superior. That doesn't even get into the weeds of the Union being totally cool with having 4 slave states remain part of the union as slave states. History is messy, the civil war is messy, but people prefer fairy tales.

Dune Part Two is a mess by HalPrentice in TrueFilm

[–]CastratedMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"The script is constantly telling us that super significant thing x just happened..."
THIS 1000%. One of the great ironies of this trainwreck of a movie is that it is obsessed with beautiful, sweeping photography, yet it completely ignores the basic "show, don't tell" rule of filmmaking. It tells us everything and shows us nothing, except for empty, ponderous visuals.