For me, ________ is basically all sports games that have ever been broadcast. Most of them are just locked away somewhere, with literally no legal way for anyone to see them.
You know how mythology often has creatures acting according to arcane, often senseless, and incomprehensible but utterly unyielding rules?
… you might be onto something here.
The lizert people are at it again
Drivers and software packages for older hardware. I know we can’t expect any company to support old stuff forever, but they incessantly purge driver downloads to “save hosting costs” and it makes a lot of retro but usable hardware paperweights. And since their “private intellectual property” they never post it to any kind of open source site, regardless of how old…
This is why the Internet Archive is so incredibly important. If anyone is going to donate money to any causes, put that shit HIGH UP ON THE PRIORITY LIST.
All creative works should become public domain in 18 years. Capitalism requires infinite growth, right? Well, there ya go! See how that helps?
Can’t argue with that logic. If we’re going to say “nah, we’ll just be continuing to pump CO2 into the sky and hollowing out the ground for every scrap of precious minerals, until we literally strip the whole globe of every resource we can scavenge from it, and we’ve poisoned every liter of drinkable water, BECAUSE THE ECONOMY DEMANDS IT,” then yeah, we should be placing a similar demand on infinitely growing creative resources, as well.
The irony, of course, being that CREATIVE RESOURCES ACTUALLY ARE FUCKING FUNCTIONALLY INFINITE.
Keep feeding these artist motherfuckers and they’ll keep giving you fucking ideas. Goddamn. That should seem like a sweet deal, right?
The entire Unreal series of games.
Cough fuck Epic Games. You used to be cool.
YES. FUCKING YES, OH MY FUCKING GOD.
At this point, I would even accept having Unreal Tournament just exist as…I can’t believe I’m really going to say this…as a fucking mode, within Fortnite.
HEAR ME OUT, OKAY? I’ve never fucked with Fortnite, but it apparently supports several highly diverse gameplay modes, which could already be standalone things. If all us Millennials could just queue for UT matches, we would at least consider installing that shit, without ever touching Sky Bus Floss Dance Battle Mode, or whatever the fuck else.
Sigh. But they would absolutely lock the WarCow behind a fucking paywall. And that would make me sad. Because I’m not paying extra for that shit.
EDIT: Also, there’s no way they would give us the option to just have everyone show up as the original UT characters, regardless of what their player has selected. Epic would insist on all the incredibly random Fortnite skins being forced onto your monitor. And all the goddamn dances and shit.
It would be this horrifically cursed experience of playing Facing Worlds, just like the good old days…but then Darth Vader, Tony the Tiger, Deadmau5, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man appear, and all start fucking twerking on the flag.
Fuck-a-that.
Though the UT4 Alpha is technically defunct, there is the UT4 Unofficial Update (GitHub.com/timiimit/UT4UU-Public) if you fancy some deathmatch. Carnage Dallas Hub is going off right now with more than 20 players. Plenty of remade maps at this point too (note the unofficial update is the only way to play UT4 as official servers were turned off last year)
Yo, I might have to check that out. It warms my heart, just knowing people aren’t letting it go. Gotta keep that 1990s PC gaming spirit alive, somehow. Arena shooters are to my generation as drive-in movies are to the Boomers.
Not to make unfair comparisons, or anything, but a LOT fewer people caught the clap at LAN parties, compared to the ol’ drive-in. I mean, it’s not zero, but it’s definitely less.
The fact that there were a lot more women at drive-ins compared to LAN parties probably has something to do with it.
Also, people notice you going AFK because you’re taking a fat noodle up your doodle a lot quicker than they notice you aren’t really watching the movie.
For me, it was an obscure Canadian tv show from the 80s called ‘The Odyssey’ - but I contacted the rights-holders and they sent me a dvd set of the show for $50.
Fun fact: Ryan Reynolds has a small part in it
Insert willy coyote vs acme refrence:
Anything financed with public funds.
There’s no reason why a public broadcaster’s archive isn’t all digitized and made available for a fee (to finance the project) to people living in their country.
Same for scientific research and studies for various projects.
My ____ is Iron Chef with the original music. It was from the movie “Backdraft” so they had to remove it from all the YouTube versions, but they also cut out the sound of Chairman Kaga’s shoes and his bite of the pepper.
They ruined the show because there’s somebody out there who still wants their pound of flesh from a movie that’s 33 years old.
1st season of supernatural, simply because they didn’t secure the streaming rights for the music. First season doesn’t hit the same with the alternate music.
Wooooooow. That’s just depressing.
Also, I think the universe might be trying to get me to rewatch “Backdraft.” This is like the fifth time this year that I’ve run across random references to that movie, and I keep thinking “I’ve forgotten almost all of that shit. And I only ever saw the 4:3, standard definition TV edit, anyway.”
Of course, ya know, I will have to just hope there is a way to watch it.
If you watch it, make sure to pirate it so the assholes who are keeping me from that delicious crunch don’t get any money. Fuck them.
glowers at Nintendo
Battle for Middle Earth games. Both were awesome and can be played easily on modern hardware. But because of legal shit and the owners not carring enough you can’t give them money to play it. And the demand is there, based on how much disks go on eBay.
Perfect example.
History channel once played something called “History Rocks” and it’s just an hour long documentary of period specific events, but there’s no voice over narrating anything. Instead they played raw footage with music from that time period and subtitles at the bottom explaining what was happening. I saw one episode for Vietnam once and hearing “The Police - SOS” while watching personnel shove helicopters off flight decks to make room for more evacuees from Saigon really showed just how awful it was. I can’t seem to find those episodes anywhere.
The reason a lot of those shows is actually pretty fucked. They want ownership to the shows because any product still sold based on the show still gives them profits. However, if they put up access to the show, views = royalties they need to pay to the creators + licensing costs. The profit for that isnt enough and they wanna funnel more views onto more popular media to concept profits on shows with the lowest costs + has the highest profit to cost ratio.
Tldr: it’s about appeasing shareholders, as it always is.
Not exactly a fit for the context but Angus was a really (REALLY) well done YA/coming of age film. The protagonist was a believable marginal/outsider character without being a caricature-he’s overweight, but he’s strong and plays football, his dad is gone and his mom is a long haul trucker so he mostly is raised by his grandpa. His love object is a girl who ultimately calls him out for objectifying her and it’s handled really well.
Because of some weird rights issues it only ever got a VHS release. I’d love to be able to show it to my kids.
Says online it’s available to rent or buy on Apple TV, Google Play, or Vudu. Is it not available where you live, or is the issue that there’s no physical media? If it’s available you can buy it and yo-ho-ho guilt free, or just yo-ho-ho guilt free if there’s no option to buy.
2006’s The Fall. Probably the best visual story telling in any movie. The only way to get it is to find it used.
The whole copywrite system exists to control culture and detach us from our cultural history
