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  • I recently finished Mirror's Edge on PC. I mention that because I've owned the game on Xbox 360 and PS3 and strangely I found the keyboard controls on PC easier to master, hence the completed game. I think it's such a beautiful game that was a little misunderstood upon release.

    If you want the long-winded waffly answer, I wrote a review on my blog here.

  • I'm one of the mods of !homevide@feddit.uk and I quite often post press releases of new and upcoming Blu-rays, 4K etc. The most annoying part was when copying and pasting press releases from websites, the formatting would be almost completely lost. Lists of special features would be transformed into block paragraphs.

    But, the other mod of !homevideo found this web page where you can paste the text onto and it becomes converted into markdown text. I can then copy the new text and paste it into Lemmy and it now looks great, with bullet point lists preserved etc.

  • Unless the drive physically scratched the DVD, it's not corrupted. However, I've had a few discs that I've stored carefully for decades that just stopped working for no reason. The discs looked flawless with no signs of damage and they refused to work.

    What region is the DVD and is your drive set to the same region?

    Alternatively, download this DLL file and place it the same directory as your VLC installation. It will then be able to bypass simple region checks but not all.

  • I spent ages trying to generate something close to me with the Bing AI picture generator. A middle aged man who loves film.

    He doesn't look like me but I really liked the image, so I picked it.

  • I love these comparison reviews keep 'em coming.

    I remember doing my own comparisons back in the day when one budget label would save money by placing the Spectrum game on one side of the tape and the Amstead on the other.

    I could take it to a friends house and see if I was jealous or glad depending on how it turned out. I was team Spectrum.

  • I forgot to mention, this was specifically relevant to the UK version of Fraggle Rock as each country has different wraparounds.

    The British inserts were filmed first at the TVS Television Theatre in Gillingham, Kent, and later at their larger studio complex in Maidstone (the former since closed and demolished) and presents Fraggle Rock as a rock-filled sea island with a lighthouse. Exterior footage was that of St Anthony's Lighthouse located near Falmouth in Cornwall. The lighthouse keeper is The Captain (played by Fulton Mackay), a retired sailor who lives with his faithful dog Sprocket. In the third season, as MacKay had died in 1987, the role was played by John Gordon Sinclair as P.K., (the Captain's nephew) and in the fourth and final season by Simon O'Brien as B.J. (son of the lighthouse's owner, Mr. Bertwhistle). In 2014, 35 of these British wraparounds were still missing, believed wiped, although subsequent recoveries have gradually reduced this number.[7] As of December 2020, all 96 wraparounds have been found and handed over to the BFI, confirming that the entire UK production still exists in some shape or form.[8] Nickelodeon repeated it in the UK from 1993, as did Boomerang and Cartoonito in 2007. The episodes shown were the original North American versions.

  • This was a common practice, especially during a certain decade but I forget which. Old tapes were erased to be used again. No thought was given to preserving what was being wiped.

  • At least they realised Red Dwarf tinkering was a bad idea and the originals still safely exist. I think they said they used the original negatives for Star Wars which were spliced and used for the Special Editions. They kept telling the public the original negatives for untouched Star Wars no longer exist. I can't believe that's true though. George keeps a copy of everything. There even a cut of Star Wars that used rear screen protection instead of blue screen!

  • Reminds me of Fraggle Rock. Due to the television station that produced the show being taken over many times over the years, most of the original broadcast masters have been lost. I think all episodes have been found but they're mostly at home VHS recordings.

  • Definitely not Spy Hunter as that game loops and has no ending.

    I remember using a cheat on the home computer version for my ZX Spectrum for infinite lives. I got bored after a while because of the fact it never got anywhere, just scenery changes every so often.

  • Good luck to them. Last I heard there were around 12 ofcom Investigations into the channel.

  • Damn those beavers!

  • Thank you yes. The original admin, for whatever reason, made an appearance and as you say, created more admins who use the server a lot more.

    Everything should continue as normal. They were incredibly close to launching a new instance as well.

  • We have a problem over at feddit.uk, the sole admin has gone missing and no one has been able to contact him. All we wanted is for a few more people to be made admins then problems could be solved. A new server/instance is going to be created and hopefully everyone on feddit can move over. Unless the admin comes back, it will fall behind in updates and become defederated. This happened once a few weeks ago by lemmy.world but we managed to convince them it was in error and they federated us back in.

  • I love Mastodon, within the first year I've almost got the same amount of followers as I had on Twitter in 12 years. Plus on Mastodon, the people are nicer and talk back. Twitter felt like shouting for attention.

    Also, I recently found out that BlueSky has no encryption or real security and it's designed that way. Here's a live stream of BlueSky, no login required.

  • If my memory is right, after seeing how good sonic was on the megadrive,I was surprised with Jazz on my PC. It was so good and showed me that I didn't need a console.

  • I have a vivid memory of watching this film at the cinema, I enjoyed it so much. When lieutenant Gordon revealed the Joker playing card, I could've happily sat there and watched another two hours. Unfortunately, I had to wait a couple of years for the next film. 😁

  • Cruella said in her speech, if Starmer gets in, Britain will go proper woke!

    FFS!