vaguerant

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[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The 4K trilogy (4K77, 4K80 and 4K83) are original theatrical film scans by enthusiasts. Where Despecialized manually recreated the originals by using multiple sources to restore changed scenes, the scans are just that. The results are ultimately very similar.

The main advantage to Despecialized is that it uses the official 4K Blu-Rays as its source for anything that doesn't need restoring, so it's mostly a professional quality transfer, while the 4K trilogy were scanned and cleaned up by fans. The main disadvantage is obviously that Despecialized is not a "real" theatrical cut while 4K is.

Either will probably satisfy somebody who wants to watch the unmodified orig trig.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 20 points 2 months ago (5 children)

There's a couple of things people who don't like it criticize. For one, the Christensen footage is from an early test for Revenge of the Sith, so he's just weirdly glowering at the camera because he wasn't thinking about this moment when it was filmed. That's also why it's just Hayden's head comped onto Sebastian Shaw's body.

Then there's obviously the question of ... why Hayden Christensen at all? The implication is that the "real" Anakin Skywalker died decades ago and was replaced by Darth Vader, which kind of runs counter to the idea that he was ultimately redeemed by his love for his son as presented in the original cut.

Then you've got the fact that it kind of makes the original trilogy nonsensical in standalone. If you come to Star Wars and watch 4-5-6 first, there's some random guy you don't know at the end. It forces you to watch at least 1-2 and probably 3 first, or do something wacky like the Machete order (4-5-2-3-6), just so that the ending makes sense.

If you haven't figured it out yet, I don't like it myself. But I don't care because I've got the Despecialized editions, so Maclunkey it up.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 36 points 2 months ago

tfw boston thinks you're being racist

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think what you're identifying as the groundhog is Gimli from Lord of the Rings.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The real flex is to 58008 it then immediately roll the vehicle.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 70 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I know this is the least bad part of the story, but it stuck out anyway:

After a lengthy drive to the bar, Strobel said he stepped inside to use the men’s room. However, there were no stalls—only urinals, rendering it inaccessible to him as a trans man.

Precisely where are men supposed to shit in this establishment?

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But if they were just re-using old recordings of her as Peach saying "Yeah!", there's every chance she wouldn't get a call for that at all. Not getting a call back for the new Mario Kart doesn't immediately mean "I'm not Peach any more," until the game comes out and it becomes clear they haven't used archive recordings and somebody else is Peach in it.

On the day before launch, she was basically Schrodinger's Peach: "I haven't recorded any new lines for this one, so I'm either in this game via archive recordings or I've been replaced." She doesn't need a phone call for either of those to be true.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 40 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I feel like Mario Kart is a bit ambiguous, there's always the potential they could just re-use voice work from a previous entry rather than bringing all the actors in to go "Whoa! Ha-ha-ha. Luigi number one!" I don't know if they still do this, but in the N64 era a lot of the same samples were used for Mario Kart, Mario Party, maybe other stuff, so the actors wouldn't have been involved after the original recording sessions.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 17 points 2 months ago (10 children)

You might be thinking of Mbin, the other one of the "big three" (more like big one and the other two). Mbin's biggest differentiating feature is microblog support. It's hard to boil PieFed down to one main feature compared to Lemmy/Mbin, but anonymous voting and de-duplication of reposts might be the main ones. However, its focus is still on the (Lemmy-style) threaded side of the fediverse.

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

FIVE CANS?!

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 32 points 2 months ago

He didn't marry her, that wouldn't have even been legal in their lifetimes. But otherwise yes.

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