Does this count?

Nonprofit gacha. That’s a new one.

Still no.

Most soaps wish they could be as melodramatic as the rugby baby scene.

“Because otherwise there wouldn’t be a mooovie.”

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

The difference between this abusive horseshit and any cheaper example is quantitative - not qualitative.

See also “ancient stone tool.”

The entire business model is criminal.

I checked God Awful Movies, I was thinking of Cipher In The Snow. Which was about divorce… somehow.

they were forced to move away from everyone else.

Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

Even the gags are real movies now. Somehow we went from ads that are trailers for fake films, to actual movie films for theaters being glorified $30M ads, which you pay to watch.

One of

Is that the one with the child corpsicle nobody cares about?

Jimmy Carter: insatiable autocrat.

Frankie Boyle has opinions.

Its reach exceeded its grasp. It’s waggly single-armed grasp.

That card launched the same year as Trespasser.

That said, apparently the technique was one of those comically early 1970s innovations, introduced by James Blinn himself. Shows what I know.

Corporations need their shit slapped straight, on the topic of media ownership. If you want control over something - don’t sell it to ten million strangers.

Running slower means you have less space.

Dude, think of it like a photograph. If you had a lens that could squeeze a square frame into a narrower rectangle, you could advance the film any distance between frames, and scrunch the image to take up that much space. But the slower the film moves - the less distance there is between frames - and the scrunchier each image gets. There’s an upper limit to how much detail any given area can capture. The film grain quickly becomes visible. When the image gets blown back up to its regular shape, some of the information has been lost, because the medium has finite detail.

A slow hard drive takes longer to access information. Video tape doesn’t work that way. It displays in real time. When it moves at one inch per second, every frame gets 1/60th of an inch.

And at some point, it doesn’t matter how much detail the head tries to write - the tape itself has limits. There are physical bits of metal, suspended in goo, stuck to clear plastic. The engineers of the format chose the lowest tape speed that could hold enough information for a picture with acceptable quality. If they could have stored the same information by running slower - they would have. And it would save the manufacturer a shitload of money, since they’d need less physical tape inside each cassette.

The lack of game-feel is shocking, considering the Romero-less Quake 2 nailed a lot what’s missing. Q2’s peppy little shotgun and beeftank super shotgun made up for how spongy all the enemies got. The chaingun both let you obliterate scarce foes and quickly ran dry for very Aliens sentry-gun moments. The blaster was both gun and flashlight, and would’ve cast all kinds of sweeping shadows. The machinegun fucked with your aim in a way that was chaotic but controllable, instead of that inexcusable way enemies slap control out of your hands and tank your framerate with double-vision.

As a weird point of comparison - Jurassic Park: Trespasser had very early bump-mapping. I’m not sure the name was settled yet. But it did the effect in software, so it was slow, even on 3D-accelerated machines… and it only existed on physics-puzzle boxes and enemies trying to eat you. So the framerate was guaranteed to suck during precisely the times you needed it to not suck.

That kind of “oh come on” detail permeates Doom 3.

Greasy.

So say that and its damn name.