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Officially, aye, but this is piracy board. Fans have scanned the film itself and made it available illicitly. Project 4K77 looks fantastic, for example.

Another vote for Project4K77 (and 80, and 83). Watched the first film last week from it and it looked fantastic.

A VHS/DVD rip is rarely a “best bet”. There are exceptions, of course, but for Star Wars? Nah.

Gunpoint. Charming, atmospheric, doesn’t outstay its welcome.

It’d be interesting to see a developer create a slightly prettier version of Vice City. I appreciate the visuals of the later GTA games but doing more with less seems like it’d make sense. The gap between these games is getting rather nuts.

Then again, “forever” games seem to print money, and that’s more important than creative expression. As I get older I have a greater appreciation for games that don’t try to outstay their welcome. GTA V seemed to struggle with this - on the one hand it was huge, on the other the story seemed to be about half the length it telegraphed itself as. What’s the point in being able to level up the stats of heist crew if there’s not enough for it to matter, etc…

(In my opinion, obviously) GTA IV was too long, San Andreas was a sprawling mess, but Vice City was the sweet spot.

I care about GTA but the online element of it is of zero interest to me, and it seems that’s what it’s become.

The world’s relationship with Facebook has changed a smidge since 2013.

It’s still ripe for parody, but the elements of relevance aren’t the same as they were.

I wonder if the next one will take so long that the world it satirises is long gone. Facebook being parodied in GTA V no longer makes much sense, for example

You’ve got a friend in horse!

I don’t hate it but it does occasionally feel like a burden. As in knowing that I could solve a problem that people are struggling with and whether it’s ethical to not help because I don’t feel like it.

Hating “knowing stuff” seems bizarre to me though. There’s so many interesting things in our world - wanting to know less sounds awful. Like opting into a lobotomy.

So far I’ve mostly just aged. I’d like to be a good dad to my upcoming child.

I wear a custom-fitted mask whenever I’m out in public so they can have fun with that.

What are your requirements?

The Mr. Freeze fight certainly turns the tables. Shame I don’t play the Arkham games to be prey!

I’m glad it’s not just me that has these thoughts. Shigsy did loads of interviews back in the day.

Probably at home? I worked from home running my own business so really didn’t notice any change to my circumstances.

My elderly neighbour on the other hand - he was on a very long cycling holiday in New Zealand. He was up in the mountains when it all went down. He came down the mountain and found the place like a ghost town and had no idea what was going on!

Regardless it’s an insult I wouldn’t throw at anyone other than a fascist.

Ye gods, I’m not reading that wall. I tried to make it clear that I was not interested in continuing this interaction but let’s make it a bit more explicit: this conversation is over. You’ve been tremendously abrasive (hence my response in kind) and refuse to take the hint. I’m blocking you now. Best of luck in future interactions, I hope they’re more pleasant than this one.

…it’s not an actual apology, it’s a rhetorical device. Was that not clear?

I don’t really understand why you feel the need to second guess my own assessment of my own mind. I’m not interested in an explanation either, just to be clear. Each time you keep drawing comparisons that paint me as naïve and childlike. It’s perhaps not intentional but the end result is tremendously insulting, hence why I’m not interested in further talk on the subject.

With regards to learning new things, the world of human experience is vast. I am not shutting the door on chess out of petulance. I do so knowing the journey I would need to take is incompatible with my own preferences for discovery and growth. To my mind it is a distilled competitive logic puzzle. I don’t like logic puzzles of any complexity, and I particularly don’t like pared down ones with no set dressing or storytelling.

I am actually quite happy to engage in puzzle solving - it’s one of the things I do for a living. However there the puzzles are more cooperative and with many, many more facets to them. They can be solved in a huge number of ways and with a variety of different skills.

I’m explaining this because it seems you need it spelled out rather explicitly. Particularly as you seem to have rather strange ideas about who you’re talking to. I’m nearly 40 and your comment about not recognising past versions of myself could not possibly be further from the truth. The various iterations of myself have been built atop the old ones. The eleven year old boy is still in there, as is the teenager, twenty-something, and the several versions of me from my 30s.

I don’t necessarily know everything I like, but I’ve tried a great many things and have a firm understanding of what kinds of activities I dislike. I can also extrapolate fairly well, and it’s not like chess is an obscure interest such as shin-kicking. The journey and destination both look rather dull to me, whereas many others do not. I cannot do everything in one lifetime and must choose. Chess has had its chance with me. It blew it. The same is true for gambling, as it happens. I have tried it in various forms and found it universally dull. I also don’t enjoy ales, gloomy literature, tennis, or horror movies. There’s much about those things I don’t know and I intend to keep it that way in order to explore other potential interests. Things that I hopefully won’t be bored by, or at least I enjoy some element of the journey.

Otherwise I might as well just be working - at least then the boring bits result in a paycheque.

That’s part of my point. If we were talking about painting then the skills might well be useful for other stuff, but everything I’ve read says that it’s just a game. It doesn’t build other useful skills.