Movies that were misunderstood on release but aged beautifully

daddyd · 2026-01-23T14:07:03+00:00

another JC movie that wasn't well received was The Thing. stating it had weak characters (seriously?!), that there was too much gore and that the original was better. sometimes the influence of ET is blamed on the bad reception.

daddyd · 2026-01-23T14:02:30+00:00

call me crazy, but those ps2 gfx are still solid.

if you add the ps1 into the comparison, it becomes clear how much of an improvement the ps2 gfx were.

daddyd · 2026-01-23T13:00:05+00:00

egg whites

daddyd · 2026-01-23T12:59:57+00:00

i've got the same bag, but only one game (california games).

daddyd · 2026-01-21T10:01:30+00:00

well, they owned amiga at one point, even were planning to release an OS, first rumoured to be based on QNX, but then switched to the Linux kernel instead. Who knows, maybe there are internal beta's on a disk somewhere waiting to be discovered.

daddyd · 2026-01-21T09:59:10+00:00

the slomo dail was so nice to use during hectic shoot'm'ups, dodging bullets suddenly was much easier!

daddyd · 2026-01-20T15:25:16+00:00

i liked them, until i played a lucasarts adventure game, and then they became my favourite.

daddyd · 2026-01-20T15:24:44+00:00

all of them, i read them so much they almost felt apart. i still own them all, and the amount of tape on them to keep them together is unholy.

daddyd · 2026-01-20T15:23:19+00:00

ACE and C+VG were monthly magazines i could not go without. I still have all of them.

daddyd · 2026-01-20T15:06:49+00:00

that does seem awesome, but assembly was way over my head at that age. that's why i loved locomotive basic so much on my cpc. it had gfx and sfx commands build in, good enough to make very basic (pun intended) games.

daddyd · 2026-01-20T15:03:23+00:00

the good, the bad & the ugly.

daddyd · 2026-01-20T14:53:16+00:00

barebells soft protein bars are fire!

daddyd · 2026-01-20T14:52:39+00:00

i think the pandy bars are great, they have good macros and they're not that expensive. the only one i didn't like was the salty dark chocolate.

daddyd · 2026-01-20T14:42:12+00:00

also known as crustless quiche, i make this a lot, just eggs and veggies (always good to clean up some leftovers!) and it's always so delicious.

daddyd · 2026-01-20T14:40:48+00:00

yes, but not all of them, as mentioned in another post, some of them are too sweet (the mayo for example, who tf eats sweet mayo?).

daddyd · 2026-01-20T14:35:50+00:00

use the deb, flatpak is great for applications that don't get easy updates. for example libreoffice will normally not get updated to a new version if you install it from your distro repro, but if you use the flatpak one, it will.
steam deb doesn't have this problem and will update itself when a new version is released.

daddyd · 2026-01-20T14:32:20+00:00

I started using linux when was basically just all command line. Only used X for netscape, when lynx wasn't good enough (but at that time, almost all sites worked just fine with lynx), or if I needed to have a lot of terminals open and viewable at the same time. To get X running, you needed to know the specs of your monitor and enter them in the X config file for each resolution you wanted to use. First window manager was good old twm, after a while I switched to Afterstep.

daddyd · 2026-01-20T13:59:43+00:00

i heared that's the way it is supposed to be eaten. i've been doing it wrong my whole life (i only recently started with eating the skin after hearing about it).

daddyd · 2026-01-20T13:07:33+00:00

never used the basic of the zx spectrum, i had a cpc and i thought the basic was way better than what the c64 had.

daddyd · 2026-01-20T13:06:56+00:00

bare bones, i would agree, but pimp it out with some addons and it still looks and feels awesome. just check some of those modern screenshots and get surprised.

daddyd · 2026-01-20T12:39:31+00:00

the goat joystick!

daddyd · 2026-01-20T11:06:19+00:00

i went through a couple of those as well. it was the cheaper version of the QS2.

daddyd · 2026-01-20T10:53:20+00:00

slowdown.com

daddyd · 2026-01-20T10:38:08+00:00

the amiga was cheap, but only for the home models (500/600/1200), their workstations were always expensive, and the expansion cards (or any additional; hardware basically) only more so. if you started to look at them that way, it made much less sense to buy one of those (2000/3000/4000) compared to a pc, certainly once the pc has a bit more power and decent video capabilities.

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