• @awazawazawaz
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    Jackson’s Lord of the Rings. All three are the absolute pinnacle of every craft represented in them. (i.e.: camera work, costumes, casting, CG, practical effects, soundtrack, and all the rest.)

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      I thought it was a huge disappointment, most of all due to the CG.

      • Everything looks hueless, often with only a few colors, with weird light angles and enemies often shown as a blur. As if it was made to put everyone on the same level as those who are colorblind and visiually impaired.
      • Soundtrack was a dissonance of what went on on screen.
      • The towns and villages were beautifully animated and showed wide shots of them, so one could be sure that they were missing any signs of food production or water sources.
      • The world did not just look dry in color, but also literally dry. Especially the shire which gives it a plastic feel to it.

      All of those put together made me feel it was taking place on a pre-dinosaur earth or not yet fully terraformed planet Mars, rather than a place of fantasy and wonder.

      And Saruman’s death was absent in the theatrical cut. One of the most important parts of the story was simply cut out.

  • @WhyFlip
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    817 hours ago

    In this thread: people living in fantasy lands.

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    The first twilight zone. All the followups just lacked the stark yet innocent tone of a someone reasoning with an unjust reality.

    I’ve been making my way through the original recently, one-by-one and though some of them are hit and miss, even the misses are doing something amazing cinematically.

  • afox
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    619 hours ago

    You dawg; you’re perfect!

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      91 day ago

      It’s the closest thing to a “perfect” game I can think of. Every new iteration is just fancy bells and whistles on the same perfect core.

    • Dessalines
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      I remember watching a documentary about it, and I think even tetris was based on one of those physical puzzle games with the same pieces, that you had to fit correctly into a square.

  • Binette
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    51 day ago

    Splatoon. The design, the music, the art, the gameplay and the idea was executed so well.

  • @shalafi
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    352 days ago

    Alien. Maybe my only 10 out of 10 movie, and not my favorite!

    We’ve all seen it so many times it loses it’s luster. Wife had never seen it so I sat with her in the dark and watched it for the first time in decades. Jesus. She was about to tear through the couch cushion in stress. I knew what was going to happen and couldn’t peel my eyes off the TV.

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    81 day ago

    Batman hitting his target with a batterang.

  • @[email protected]
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    292 days ago

    Instant Pot.

    Apparently they went bankrupt because they built their units too well. Everyone bought one and never needed to buy a replacement.

  • @[email protected]
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    152 days ago

    Diablo 1 and 2 by Blizzard. I guess maybe the 2nd time around was perfection but between those two, nothin further was needed.

      • @okamiueru
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        320 hours ago

        Hadn’t heard of it before. Searched for it, and came across both Path of Diablo, and Project diablo. Some polls suggested preferring the latter 2:1. I haven’t played D2 in a few decades (sheesh). Any thoughts on comparing those mods?

    • @MimicJar
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      61 day ago

      Diablo 2 also had an expansion… and balance patches… But I agree.

      • @[email protected]
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        320 hours ago

        I bought the whole battle chest back in the early 2000s (well my parents did for me). I consider those to be part of Diablo 2 broadly speaking

      • @Dasus
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        I genuinely fail to see why it’s a thing. Like reading up it, it’s basically just convergent evolution of crustaceans to a crab-like shape.

        Couldn’t the same be said for a ton of fish-like animals? The many attempts of nature to develop a fish? Hell, even some mammals went back to the fish, plan, although with the tail-fin the wrong way and having to visit the surface to breathe.

        Or large-ish mammals all having pretty much a similar bodyplan, four limbs, head and neck.

        Like surely there’s something so specific in carcinisation that I just haven’t picked up on yet. If someone know what it is pls inform me.

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          I’m not an expert, but my understanding is that the science indicates all mammals have a common ancestor. Not certain about fish, but I think that’s a similar case?

          To me, the surprising part about carcinisation is that, the form of a crab seems oddly specific, but non-obvious. I mean, I look at the form of a fish and think, “yeah, it makes sense why that shape would be favored in water,” but I look at a crab and think “guess that’s just what worked out for your ancestors. Tough luck, buddy.” But apparently it’s not just bad luck, it’s a common strategy.

          • @Dasus
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            Not certain about fish, but I think that’s a similar case?

            Did you know humans are more closely related to catfish than catfish are to dogfish?

            QI | No such thing as a fish

            ¦"yeah, it makes sense why that shape would be favored in water,"

            Yeah, I can see that. But also it’s swimming in water. Then again if tou want to crawl around the bottom? Hexapod is probably the way to go. But then you also need to be able ro manipulate shit, so frontlimbs become bigger.

            Like a lot of space vehicles meant for surface exploring, both imagined and real, are usually six-wheeled, probably for added stability in a rocky terrain where there’s a bit less gravity and sometimes storms and whanot. And what is it like on the ocean floor? Rocky, basically “less gravity” and odd flows like storms.

            Idk there’s a bit more to it I guess, I’m just looking for what that bit is, or if there indeed is one.

    • @nieminen
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      52 days ago

      Can’t believe what we do to those poor perfect beings.

  • @_bcron_
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    462 days ago

    Windows Control Panel. Everything’s there, multiple ways to sort it all, no need to go shake things up

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      Ah yes. Perfection:

      Or maybe:

      No? maybe this.

      Edit I missed windows XP

      No shakeups at all, it’s like a rock.

      Perfectly reliable and unchanged from the beginning.

      Edit since folks choose to distinguish “Settings” from “Control Panel” as if that doesn’t make the point even stronger. I’ll admit that it’s been pretty consistent since Windows 7. Still very different than the first iteration.

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        Well, the last 2 images you linked are Settings and not Control Panel, from versions that decided to not only have that but also the Control Panel, and Control Panel is thematically the same across all versions

        • @Hawke
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          12 days ago

          That makes it worse! Clearly they did not get it right the first time around, or there wouldn’t be any reason to tweak and replace it all constantly.

          • sylver_dragon
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            92 days ago

            there wouldn’t be any reason to tweak and replace it all constantly.

            There really wasn’t.

      • @Brkdncr
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        102 days ago

        Control panel is that drawer of tools, tape, rubber bands, and glue that’s near the kitchen

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        top right: view by category. switch that to classic and it’s back to the same one of the old days

    • @QuarterSwede
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      212 days ago

      Oh hell no. You don’t remember it coming out and everyone complaining about how convoluted it was. Pepperidge farm remembers.

      • @Blue_Morpho
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        42 days ago

        People complained that a few things were hard to find, but not that the control panel itself was convoluted.