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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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

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Ryan "lofenyy" Medeiros

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

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

🦝 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...

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)

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).

SnoopJ

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

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.

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)

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

Squozen πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί

@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.

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

🦝 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...

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.)

argv minus one

@ifixcoinops

I dunno, I'm kinda looking forward to these future movie trends. πŸ˜‚

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.
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