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CaptainStrong posted...

I dunno about the other ones, but the Windows XP pinball game works fine on Windows 10.

Ok I'll try the windows xp pack

Remember when the epic boner joke of wandavision with not-quicksilver? Best fuck you to fans who supported disney that disney ever done did do

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

Here where I am they kinda encourage double features since people always go to the concession stands after each movie which is where the money is made. They give a discount on popcorn and every other drink refill is free, the only annoying thing is that you HAVE to show your receipt of original purchase that day.

Only time they get annoyed is if you try and duck in during a premier event since press is there and reserved seats is not a suggestion. Seen people get kicked out when they tried that during the premier of Spider-Man No Way Home even when they posted the signs to NOT do so for that movie.

I've been to several movie theaters in several places, I've never had to present a movie ticket to buy snacks like popcorn and whatnot, that seems counter intuitive for them

Do we really need a topic about this movie every other week/year?

Yes, yes we do. I greatly enjoyed that movie, it basically should have been more popular and brought back buddy cop movies, they made it fun again.

Will Ferrel and Mark Marky? Unexpected winning combination

It's funny, I used to think they had some excuse for why persona is always teens like how nge needs kids to fit in the eva cockpits, but with zenkichi unlocking his own persona that means they literally don't need to set the games in high school, it could be any time in a person's life

But yeah the new characters they added were likable too. Zenkichi was surprisingly likable after seeming like a possible deceptive antagonist, and this was us hot off the (obvious) betrayals of the other cop type adachi akechi too. And Sophia was a nice little newcomer

This game might have sealed it for which is my favorite. I didn't get much of a friendship vibe from the characters back in p5, but strikers really helps to sell it

Strider102 posted...

Most of it is due to the fact Strikers started development before Royal, not to mention events and characters in Royal content aren't mentioned.

Huh did it? They did come out pretty close to each other, like only half a year or something between Royal's release and Strikers I think.

Kuuko posted...

I think Pattinson's Batman was pretty good. It was just playing a different persona of Batman than the other movies and maybe different than the persona some people's first idea of Batman is. You can represent Batman from so many different angles and center a story around an angle - he's all of a super detective and maybe computer hacker, or super martial artist, or billionaire who makes tanks and mecha armor who fights aliens, or maybe he's almost a super scientist himself, or you can make a story emphasizing his fatherly relationship with his robins and batgirls, or emphasize his tragic backstory and the corresponding mental disorders they've given him (especially juxtaposed with his often similarly mentally ill villains).

Bale's Batman was more billionaire martial artist Batman. Less detective, and when he's alone or chatting with Alfred he even seemed kind of upbeat all things considered. I don't think we really saw a lot of development out of Affleck's Batman since he was sharing movies but to me it was mostly the billionaire scientist alien-fighting Batman. Pattinson's was all-in on detective, mentally tortured Batman. More grounded than Bale's and certainly Affleck's. It didn't even really play up the martial artist side - random mooks were getting hits on him. Probably not going to see him fighting parademons with bat-laser-guns like in Justice League.

There was a small scene of detective batman in the dark knight, but in general we haven't really seen that much of detective batman save for btas

Yeah Arkham Knight is pretty damn disappointing, I didn't like any of the story besides that excellent scarecrow voice actor. Batmobile hate is underblown.

What's weird is there was all this hate for Arkham Origins but when I eventually played it, I was like "this... this is actually pretty great, very fun game what's with the hate?"

Meanwhile, Arkham Knight was the Rocksteady developed one, so it had all this hype after Arkham city, and yet it failed to deliver. Came up so short. Especially the plot lines that carried over from Arkham City, they built up Azrael as actually being something, not just same lame ass sidequest. Same for Hush puppy. At least they had manbat, that was a prediction I got right after lamenting the missed opportunity of having him in City.

rexcrk posted...

The first is the fact that they changed how you access gadgets. Idk, needlessly changing something thats pretty much been the same for three games prior just bugs me.

Remind me what that is

This was amazing thank you, love how it's basically thriller with some vampire thrown in

I don't know about trash, I mean if you're complaining about difficulty I heard 4 is even worse in terms of what you're describing.

I didn't even grow up with 1, 2 and 3 were my first crash games, namely 2 (and 3)

It took until the remake for me to finally beat Crash 1, because when I tried it on psn classics, the game was borderline unplayable. Same with Spyro really, I couldn't sit through the games so the remakes helped to make them tolerable with the quality of life adjustments and improvements.

SMAP- posted...

Magazines usually had a section dedicated to cheat codes

Wonder where magazines got their sources back then

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Guiness wasn't really limited or select by any means, he acted a lot throughout his whole career. I was specifically referring to the limits on his international prestige, by sticking mainly to British roles. Lewis is an English actor with fewer roles, but the bulk of his most well known film roles have been for US productions and thus more visibility. Taking fewer roles might actually HELP him in that regard.

Ah ok yeah. I mean his movies are on a ton of "greatest of all time" lists so that says something about his quality

k1zzl3_82 posted...

At my theater they only have a ticket taker posted up for the 8 o clock and later movies. They are not staffed enough to have a ticket taker there during the hours before.

You talking about 8 am or pm?

Yeah I'll bet. I mean I already have KH on ps4 so that's a non-issue (one of the best ports of one of the best games ever with unbelievable lightning fast performance and virtually zero load times)

I was more curious about gotg since they refused to release a demo on ps4 for whatever reason.

Been watching and he was never a prophet early on

CaptainStrong posted...

Install Windows XP on a virtual machine and copy the executables over to the real computer.

The last time I tried to do something like that to play a windows 95/98 game, it came out all buggy and wouldn't play right though

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This show had 65 episodes? Was it a disney show?

I still remember one terrifying episode where tails thought he met his real parents, but then they turned out to be evil or something. That scared the crap out of me as a kid, I think it did permanent scarring

During the GTA days I'd go to game sites to find the cheat codes and wreak havoc in Vice City or 3 or San Andreas. But how did the game sites know of them? Were they published by Rockstar somewhere? Were they in those gamer magazines that used to exist?

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

The only reason Alec Guiness isn't considered the greatest film actor of the 20th century is because he was English and preferred to keep it that way, limiting his participation in the international film stardom of the 50s, 60s and 70s, and even then he was the star of Bridge on the River Kwai, and played significant roles in this film, Dr. Zhivago, and of course the biggest box office success in movie history, Star Wars. The man was a legend.

Is that an English thing? Daniel Day Lewis is also considered a great actor and his whole thing is having limited and very selective movie roles as well. Hell I think he retired after Lincoln (I don't blame him, talk about going out on top after breaking the record for most male oscar wins)

WaterLink posted...

Funny you mention Crash 4, I've been playing the N Sane Trilogy for like a week now. Got all the crystals and gems in all 3 games, just trying to get the relics now.

Recently with all the episode removals of some series on streaming services and series/artists changing platforms or just removing themselves from digital media, yeah there's definitely something to be said about owning physical copies. Who's to say down the line Activision says "Fuck Steam" and removes all their games including Crash leaving people like me SOL with our digital copies that don't work anymore?

Or like what they already did with all the spiderman games, which I kind of wanted to play since I was in a spidermanning mood and didn't want to play the insomniac spidey yet.

It's funny but I only started reading manuals after they stopped making them. I mean I always read the bios of characters as a kid but now I like to read the whole thing, from a to z.

It's been 3 gens since they stopped making manuals, that's kind of insane when you think about it. Honestly there are lots of criticisms of digital and I'm wary of it too, but quite frankly it's just a lot more hassle free now to have all the games on the console to play at once without constantly switching discs and cartridges and finding the game boxes and whatnot. That little bit of convenience made me officially switch to digital, even though I know I'm at the mercy of the game companies and paying literally more for less.

FortuneCookie posted...

It has its problems, but it's a really good movie overall.

It is kind of amusing to me that Alec Guinness would have rather been remembered for Lawrence of Arabia than Star Wars when white people playing members of other ethnic groups has become extremely taboo. He's better off being remembered as the space mentor and not the white guy in make up playing an Arab prince.

Well, I mean I doubt his performance was anything like the actual person, so him not even being Arab and clearly a white British guy was just one of those things since it was 1960s, an era when fricking laurence olivier played othello. Hell the fact that one of the main characters played by Omar Sharif actually was Arab was a surprise, and he was basically a composite of several historical figures.

But it's funny you mention that. I remember when Ben Kingsly played Gandhi I was like "wait why is a british guy playing Gandhi" but Ben Kingsly does actually have Indian roots so that's a case where it actually worked out.

I'd seen bits of this movie on TV, never sat down and watched it from beginning to end. It's constantly on multiple "top 10 movies of all time" type lists, but despite that it was still really good.

One thing I'm surprised by is how self-aware the movie is of the perception of Arabs, especially the perception by white British of "those Arabs" in the 1900s. And this movie was way back in 1962. Not much has changed for a lot of people's perception...

Another thing I was even more surprised at is the portrayal of Lawrence himself by Peter Otoole. Outstanding performance for what was his first movie role. And... he played him as downright effeminate, especially for 1960s, in mannerisms, speech, and there's even implied sexual abuse when he's captured by the Turks. It was not something I was expecting from a possibly conservative/repressed era of cinema.

Alec Guinness as Prince Faisal was great, I was not expecting such a likable and charming character. Omar Sharif was good too.

Watching it now as an Arab is funny because the movie is all about the Arabs finally uniting after warring with each other, and wanting to get out from under the Ottomans' thumb but nowadays the Arabs absolutely love Turkey and consume their culture entirely and it's a popular travel destination, among other things.

JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

It depends on how theyre set up. Some theaters these days reserve seats. In the past Ive also seen theaters take tickets right before the actual theater door, or on both sides/all of the wings of a theater. Not to mention forced exits one direction. And interior night vision cameras and usher checks, the former of which a lot of people dont know about (I think theyre more meant to catch ppl getting it on, harassing others, smoking, drinking, and sneaking food in, though). So while it is definitely plausible and possible, its a little harder to navigate these days. It helps to know someone who works at the theater and/or leave the film before the credits roll, go to the bathroom, and blend in at the start of another show (or better yet, after the start of another show). Not that Im an expert

Yeah the theater in my hometown definitely does reserve seating, and has ushers, and basically most of what you said. There's ushers for directing you to your seat, and there's ushers that show up at the end of the movie that direct you to the one-way exit.

I think maybe the type of theater I mentioned in the op is exclusive to AMC theaters or certain theaters?

Unknown5uspect posted...

Purchase ticket at 6 or 7 to gain entry to theater, them commence watching random films until the midnight release I paid for.

The theater I used to do this at had long since clamped down on this kind of stuff tho.

And it also got demolished during the pandemic.

Ah you mean you arrived 6 hours early for you movie time, and went in anyway, spending the time watching movies.

They let you go in 6 hours earlier than the movie? Usually the ticket taker guy for me is right at the entrance, and then the rest of the 13 screens are unmanned, with a concession stand in the middle.

Unknown5uspect posted...

I used to go to AMCs on Thursdays and get midnight release tickets at 6-7 with student discount and just watch three or four movies.

Good times.

Yeah it was an AMC theater for me too! Although what do you mean by midnight release at 6 pm?

jcmason posted...

I worked at a theater for a while in high school and I can assure you, nobody cares if you do that. Sure, you should go buy another ticket to see another show. Or in your example, go exchange the ticket from the film you walked out of for a ticket to the film you ended up watching instead.

But theaters really don't make their money off ticket sales, they have a better margin on concessions. So if you're there for 5-6hrs watching a couple films, if you've bought a bag of popped corn and some soda, they've made more money off you than if you had bought that second ticket.

Huh. What if... you buy popcorn to consume for the movie you paid a ticket for, then you sneak into a second movie, but go to the concession stand again to buy more popcorn and candy. So basically you bought snacks from them twice, and a movie ticket once.

Or anything like that? I went to one movie, didn't like it, left partway then went into another movie 2 screens over. And stayed until the end because I liked that movie. During that entire time there was no supervision, no one stopped me.

It got me to wondering, if I outright watched an entire movie, then watched a second movie right after, would I be stopped, would they even know? Feels like there's a gap in their business model.

I mean, disappointment is a part of life, I hate to admit it but he's right...

Rewatching this would be like rewatching Richie Rich or Leave it to Beaver. Let's keep them in the past shall we

NOT the heroes of the story. Henry Cavill was garbage as Superman of course, but I saw his acting chops as a pseudo antagonist in man uncle which he was pretty good in, and as a straight up villain in Mission Impossible 6 which he was great in (mostly because it was already a great movie)

Robert Pattison has creepy villain written all over him, yet they cast him as Batman, the Batman. The fuck. It would be like casting Cillian Murphy as Batman in Batman Begins instead of Scarecrow.

Don't even get me started on Ben "punchable face" Affleck, Gone Girl was one of his better roles simply for acknowledging this fact.

Strider102 posted...

You gonna try NG+ Merciless?

Haha. Maybe if I get to keep my gamebreaking items? Just to see what the mode's like. I stocked up on so much food and items after finding out the store only sells a limited amount at a time. Always for a "just in case" scenario

Megaman50100 posted...

Yea, everyone thinking it would be a regular old warriors skin got a very pleasant surprise. Myself included.

I still vibe to Forest Capital (Sendai's world theme) all the time.

Yeah it's a nice little tune, but the very first dungeon Alice world castle had a really boppy beat that I enjoyed. Wasn't expecting to bop to like that.

It's funny, in the beginning I was playing it like those crummy DW games, actually trying to use square and triangle and combos but they weren't doing anything and I just kept dying. Afterwards I decided to play it as an actual persona game and just used special moves to attack weaknesses and persona skills entirely.

Also I forgot to ask. When this game was coming out last year people were saying that it renders Persona 5 Royal's ending non-canon. Now I didn't like Royal's ending in comparison to vanilla P5's ending (everything else like gameplay and dungeon improvements was of course way better) but I don't see why they were saying that.

Lol Ichinose. Lol that entire reveal. They didn't think it was suspicious that she created Emma yet didn't know what Sophia was even though Sophia is clearly linked to Emma?

I absolutely loved this game, biggest surprise of the year, and definitely lucky that I got it before my ps plus subscription ran out (as I'm not planning on renewing it)

Even to the very end, my only major gripe has been the terrible nonadjustable sound mixing which makes the extremely loud background music completely drown out the dialogue of characters. Sometimes in a battle I would literally just run around the field dodging just so I could hear what the bosses are saying and what the characters are responding with while reading the upper right dialogue box.

But otherwise... just fantastic all around. So much better than the Royal new content story with that dumb Maruki, and it's hilarious that P5S had its own redhead new character, and Sophia is so much better and more endearing than that P5R redhead. It's like they saw the ambivalent, bordering-on-dislike reception to the P5R redhead (which admittedly, was probably considered a marked improvement to the outright hate that Mari got in Persona 4 Golden) and decided to take two.

Loved the ending, it was great. Honestly a trip around Japan was just what the series and these particular characters needed to really feel like a team/close knit group of friends, it really helped immensely.

I was not expecting an adventure that would take nearly 60 hours, and I barely felt it, was sad when I realized I was probably near the end of the game when I was already taking on Akira's dungeon. They were nice enough to add some postgame content which I'm about to do.

Oh if IMAX is better I'll get that one

Besides loving this channel's bird in general, thanks tc for reminding me I was gonna google what type of parrot Iago was when I got home from work and I almost forgot, gonna get on that.

Hayame Zero posted...

Pseudoscience grifters using cheap attention-grabbers? Color me shocked

But... a friend of mine swears by chiropractory and says it helped him immensely!?

CyricZ posted...

In multiplayer Kirby games, whenever a player picks up a food item, you can touch the other players to also give them the health restoration, and it always looked very personal.

https://youtu.be/wGx_3BQFDa4?t=22

Like so.

The demo was awesome. I'm so happy for this game.

Ohhh he's talking about when you mama bird the food to restore partner's health. Yeah good times.

Checked the demos list, there's a demo for guardians of the galaxy, but the cloud version. Saw Kingdom Hearts demo, but it's the cloud version. I've literally never heard of cloud within the context of gaming wtf. And when I tried gotg, the game wouldn't even play it's so laggy. Why is the company/console with by far the worst online, going with cloud? I'm so bewildered right now

What the hell is the dude talking about, what kiss

It's legit hilarious how far down standards have fallen for DC movies. Snyder's crap has made it so that people will like just about anything. Hell, if until recently the best DC movie was Shazam, which was only just okay and heavily flawed...

Cheater87 posted...

I scanned the pack with VIrustotal and it came out clean, has good reviews, are these the games you are looking for? https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/8/AAEru5AAC_8C.jpg

Those look very similar thanks! It's basically that games pack that used to come with windows 95 and 98 computers like chips challenge, rodents revenge, ski free, etc, but by Windows XP and the 2000s they stopped offering us those games so it's just the card games like solitaire, freecell, minesweeper, etc. I don't think even Taipei was offered but I'd have to find an old working PC with XP still on it to confirm.

Minesweeper would look like this typically:

https://minesweepergame.com/download/windows-xp-minesweeper.png

Solitaire and freecell would look like this

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Up6wTiT7Mtw/maxresdefault.jpg

https://www.parallels.com/blogs/app/uploads/2015/11/Windows-Solitaire-FI.jpg

You can tell by the really oldschool looking graphics and it wasn't called klondike yet.

What the hell are Fred and Daphne, not is.

Anyway wow I feel lold, I remember this episode.

Lol. Also who's the moderately attractive woman in the youtube clip. What movie even is that

I want all those and even spider solitaire on windows 10, because the modern versions are so garbage they literally need to load first before starting (complete with annoying animations and flashes and crap) and I just want the simple, straight to the point versions of the games for when I'm procrastinating on the PC.

Isn't Lucina Marth's daughter or something like that

Alright thanks, I'll stick with the regular version for now

Haven't seen the movie yet

Killmonger posted...

To be fair, the guy who created the villain (Christopher Priest), reinvented BP and put him on the map.

So the writer went from Marvel to DC and then remade the same character?