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"I'll just pirate it, yo ho ho!" no you bloody won't, the pirates have rips of the crap blu-rays, who the hell still seeds DVD rips

Good luck sorting out a hundred different ALIENS 1986 torrents to figure out which are the AI-shitty ones and which are only the teal-shitty ones when half of them don't even mention whether they're the proper full length film or the crappy theatrical version where they cut out Ripley's entire daughter

Piracy won't help here, that was the whole point of the post

Rip your DVDs

Like 15 September at 4:02 | Open on retro.social

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

"Random fedi people stop telling Dan what a torrent is" challenge

15 September at 4:04 | Open on retro.social

Ryan "lofenyy" Medeiros

@ifixcoinops Dan be nice to us idiots challenge? Dan stop subtooting me challenge??

15 September at 4:07 | Open on social.linux.pizza

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

SPACE YEAR 2057

🦝 Aw shit hon, our holocube of Aliens (1986) oxidised right in the third MPU core
🐈 oh no, can you just download us a copy?
🦝 sure lemme check the torrents

TWO HOURS LATER

🦝 Well I found the 2010's-era print that got turned teal 'cause that's what they were doing in 2010
🐈 oh god yeah everything from then looked so weird and mossy
🦝 yeah, and then I found one from the 20's that was during that godawful uncanny valley AI phase so that's no good either
🐈 yuck
🦝 I found one from the 2030's when they were doing the face swaps with living actors? Remember that? Some weird rights thing?
🐈 haha oh wow yeah that's a blast from the past
🦝 and that one has a CRT filter too. Anyway 2040's edition brought back the film grain but, well, y'know the 40's and film grain
🐈 oh yeah, MORE film grain
🦝 WAY TOO MUCH film grain, and the LCD filters yeah
🐈 yeah
🦝 anyway I found one from the early 50's with tails, apart from that it's half decent quality
🐈 well are the tails done tastefully at least or
🦝 I mean they changed a couple shots so the marines are using their tails to reload and apparently at some point Ripley goes "Thank God I have this big bushy squirrel tail" but apart from that
🐈 huh that's actually pretty restrained compared with a lot of tail remasters
🦝 yeah this might be the best of the bunch, shall we give it a go
🐈 sure I'll rehydrate us some popcorn

5 minutes later

🐈🦝 FUCKING THEATRICAL CUT

SPACE YEAR 2057

🦝 Aw shit hon, our holocube of Aliens (1986) oxidised right in the third MPU core
🐈 oh no, can you just download us a copy?
🦝 sure lemme check the torrents

TWO HOURS LATER

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15 September at 4:27 | Open on retro.social

Scarred and Terraformed

@ifixcoinops oh hey I didn't know Aliens had a better cut. I heard Alien3 had a director's edition that was substantially better than the original release (which I didn't like)

15 September at 4:30 | Open on eigenmagic.net

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

@arichtman oh man yeah there's like half an hour that got left on the floor for Aliens

Alien 3 has a cut that makes it a technically better film to watch, but still a shite story tbh.

Best Alien trilogy is Alien (either cut honestly depending on whether you favour mood or pacing), Alien: Isolation, Aliens (full length).

15 September at 4:34 | Open on retro.social

SnoopJ

@ifixcoinops @arichtman ahh, if only they had made the Gibson script...

15 September at 4:47 | Open on hachyderm.io

Scarred and Terraformed

@ifixcoinops I haven't seen Isolation, thanks for the idea! I did watch a behind the scenes kinda thing about Alien too recently and they really did some cool stuff with it.

15 September at 4:48 | Open on eigenmagic.net

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

@arichtman it's a game! And it's actually a better film than most of the films :P

(it's not a fun game, but it is a masterpiece)

15 September at 4:51 | Open on retro.social

Von Xylofon

@ifixcoinops @arichtman "it's not a fun game"

Not with that attitude, it isn't. Seriously, though, that shit will give you PTSD. 10/10

15 September at 8:14 | Open on witter.cz

Squozen 🇪🇺

@arichtman @ifixcoinops I don’t think the directors cut is better. It takes all the tension away from the start of the film. The only part that definitely should have made the theatrical cut is the scene where Ripley is told that her daughter died years ago while she was in hypersleep, which makes her latching on to Newt make more sense.

15 September at 8:57 | Open on mastodon.ie

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

🦝 Hell with this I'm downloading the one from Tom's Tapes
🐈 oh yeah while you were getting the others I read on the video forum that the version that Tom Taped off the Telly in 1994 is the best one
🦝 right off I go

...

🦝 so apparently at some point in the 30's Tom's Tape got used as a basis for colour-grading the subsequent remasters which is how they got rid of the teal, and recently they actually put out a remaster of Tom's Tape in PAL regions
🐈 oh yeah? Ad breaks and everything?
🦝 Yeah, just as it was but with higher resolution
🐈 and tails obviously
🦝 obviously

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15 September at 4:46 | Open on retro.social

charly

@ifixcoinops

Dunno if that's really a thing or if you made it up, but if it IS a thing I'm interested. (And I couldn't find anything with a quick internet search.)

15 September at 9:13 | Open on strangeobject.space

argv minus one

@ifixcoinops

I dunno, I'm kinda looking forward to these future movie trends. 😂

15 September at 6:03 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

woof

@ifixcoinops trackers are alright if you can tolerate the poor tagging quality. in practice, though, they're too ephemeral to have a definitive archive. look at what happened to whatcd. most people use slsk + musicbrainz or beetz, but, while this is slightly better in terms of tagging, it doesn't solve the issue of older iterations of a record.

15 September at 4:35 | Open on pl.dokyun.club

Ryan "lofenyy" Medeiros

@ifixcoinops Welp, I'm a dummy, but surely a good quality archive of DVD rips that happen to be public facing is a lot better than an archive of DVD rips thst aren't.

Also, I do leech and seed DVD rips... I have slow internet.

15 September at 4:06 | Open on social.linux.pizza

Andy

@ifixcoinops just a salient point that you have pirates and you have archival communities in just about all disciplines. It doesn’t mean you’ll find what you need easily but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in the digital seed bank like communities that are scattered about.

Your point is also wise no matter what. If you still haven’t digitized certain parts of your media just for a backups sake. Do so. It’s not hard and the medium wears out.

15 September at 4:13 | Open on mastodon.online

Jordan :ms_nonbinary_flag:

@ifixcoinops Rip your local library's DVDs too

15 September at 4:19 | Open on sometimes.social

🏔️ owl 🌲

@jordan @ifixcoinops yes, they even have aliens!
hopefully without green filter/AI/tails.
maybe the owners require libraries to add 1 more tail for each loan.

15 September at 8:39 | Open on gts.u8.is

Ashley (she/they)

@ifixcoinops I ripped mine. Unfortunately I did not have a backup. You can guess what happened next to that hard drive.

15 September at 4:31 | Open on mastodon.online

Gustavo

@ifixcoinops To be fair, in case the DVDs are completely failing, I guess that's the best choice. Of course, it's hard, but there is always the chance there is someone in some small country still seeding it at 1 kbps. I remember downloading a torrent or two that took a year to finish just because the most seeded torrents were shit and the only good only had just a few seeders.

Or trying to buy a still recoverable DVD on the internet and hope that's really still recoverable, then rip it. It is still hard. Thus, anyone who still has recoverable DVDs should rip as soon as possible.

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15 September at 8:45 | Open on urusai.social

gws

@ifixcoinops You seem to have implied piracy (and piracy alone) can help thus everyone should be contributing.

15 September at 9:25 | Open on social.chinwag.org