I’ve sat through a lot of things that I didn’t enjoy in my life!
In this case it was my optimistic nature hoping that eventually there would be something I felt was worthwhile. Alas, no, it was just a post-modern miseryfest, from my perspective.
I watched the trailer before watching the film.
I saw bits when a flatmate watched it and it was not being treated like a movie aimed at children. Looked dull as dishwater.
That sounds a lot like my experience. It’s memorable but felt like it had nothing to say.
It’s post modern, something The Simpsons summed up as “weird for the sake of weird”. It’s a smidge more complex than that but all I can say it left me with was a deep-seated annoyance at its pretentious existence.
I watched a trailer that seemed to pitch it as an absurd comedy, which on reflection is an extremely weird approach.
The themes made sense to me, I just had no desire to endure the repeated misery and alienation of it. I mean, it’s definitely art, I simply find it very ugly. It can be ugly on purpose all it likes, I still find it repulsive.
I love The Postman. It’s not an amazing film but it has its own identity and I really appreciate that.
I feel this way about Synecdoche, New York, with the caveat that I understand it but just think it’s hot garbage.
At least in the UK modern tellies don’t support analogue TV signals!
I guess you’ll need to play on something that plays PS1 games with video ports from this millennium.
Sure, but that sounds insane compared to just blocking out the time in the next four years.
Ugh, I’m going to have to prioritise ripping my old miniDV cassettes, aren’t I?
We have Project 4K77 at home.
Correct. The copyright owner controls the rights related to copying.
Unless the copyright holder specifically grants free distribution rights (e.g. releasing as a public domain work such as with a CC0 licence) then they can decide to do what they want. That includes choosing not to distribute the work in any way.
So no, Championship Manager 01/02 is not available legally for free. It’s no more legal than downloading ROMs. No one will stop you but that’s not the same as legal.
I’m not defending this approach. I think IP law is a fucking shambles and needs massive reform for a number of reasons. The duration is ludicrous and it’s horrendously restrictive in a way that chokes the life out of human culture. I see someone downvoted me, which is pretty funny in and of itself. Sorry for pointing out how IP law works…?
They took out H264 hardware support?
Reading the instructions, no, it’s not. It was given away for free by Eidos and no longer is. Unless they granted distribution rights to someone back in the day then whoever is distributing the files is doing so illegally.
I don’t really care, I just find it funny that it’s touted as legally when that’s absolutely not how copyright law works at all.
For me this is more about open world games losing cool features than wanting to play a game with that feature. In GTA 4 it affected the choices I’d make whilst driving as it was entirely possible to make a vehicle nearly impossible to drive without coming close to blowing it up.
I couldn’t be bothered to come up with a neat way to say “GTA-like games” and decided to hope that the reader could intuit that context.
Why though?