I've considered returning to Square Enix games but I can't be bothered. Every time I look at them I'm reminded why they simply are not the same company they were in the 1990s.
I would rather replay a game like Earthbound a third time than some of these.
I should mention that the Bioshock series is fully available for $12 on Steam, and if I didn't already own them I would buy them again.
A ton of short videos (mostly really stunted robotic-sounding voice audio. . . though I don't think it's a robot) covering many of the Magnum photographers like Cartier Bresson (who also had a long life of nearly 100 and I assumed he was dead when I first heard about him in 2002.)
The least they could have done with that last link is show some damn photos, but it looks like they compiled audio clips and enlarged bad thumbnail images. This is why I don't jump ahead and download videos on Archive without playing them first.
3:30 and then he makes a film (Spirits Within). . . Though I don't want to ruin a good story. It was a golden era of RPG games (even when I didn't really care for some of the games that were being made at the time, simply because I appreciated the artistic license behind works like Saga Frontier or Legend of Mana.) Something seems to have happened where the games degenerated once they attempted to appeal to too many people; and perhaps just as he is saying, more creativity can produce a passionate game full of energy, so too do "too many cooks spoil the soup," and they can become formulaic cash grabs (even if they are designed without any interest in the money itself, it becomes evident that Squaresoft panicked and started to mass produce things like Kingdom Hearts games) with little inspiration to create the depth that compelled earlier games to be made in the first place.
Looking over FF6 (my first RPG game,) FF7, Chrono Trigger and Xenogears (which was rushed in the second disc to make way for FF8.) The stories seem to gradually become oddly placed stage props where a "good enough" idea becomes justified in creating iterative platforms, filled by little more than making things work as they go along with it (which was evident during the 1990s but more recently it carried over into production hell for FF XV.) The characters are inspired but sometimes the game really is more than just characters, and over time the environments seem empty and vacant, and "forced" into existence.
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Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967) Paul Newman
I had a DVD collection but they show as VOB files, and I'm not really in the mood to mess with them. Here are the ilst of movies and their ratings (since I needed to go over each disc to see what they were, since it's all in Chinese,)
Alfred Hitchcock collection 8 disc with movie ratings Rotten Tomatoes Critic~Audience/IMDB
Spoiler
Show
Alfred Hitchcock collection 8 disc
Disc 1
Mr and Mrs Smith – 1941 64~48%/6.3 Carol Lombard and Robert Montgomery
Under Capricorn – 1949 59~33%/6.2 Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Secret Agent – 1936 89~47%/6.4 Peter Lorre
Spellbound – 1945 85~82%/7.5 Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck
Disc 2
Notorious – 1946 96~91%/7.9 Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant
Rebecca – 1940 98~92%/8.1 Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, George Sanders
Suspicion – 1941 97~77%/7.3 Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant
The 39 Steps – 1935 96~86%/7.6 Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, John Laurie
Disc 3
The Birds – 1963 94~83%/7.6 Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor
Dial M for Murder – 1954 90~92%/8.2 Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, John Williams
Rear Window – 1954 98~95%/8.5 James Stewart, Grace Kelly
Psycho – 1960 96~95%/8.5 Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh
Disc 4
North by Northwest – 1959 97~94%/8.3 Cary Grant, Jessie Royce Landis, James Mason, Martin Landau
To Catch a Thief – 1955 92~84%/7.4 Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Shadow of a Doubt – 1943 100~89%/7.8 Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Saboteur – 1942 80~71%/7.1 Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane
Disc 5
Rich and Strange – 1931 75~31%/5.7 Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann
The Trouble with Harry – 1955 88~73%/7 John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine
The Wrong Man – 1956 93~75%/7.4 Henry Fonda, Vera Miles
I Confess – 1953 81~77%/7.2 Montgomery Clift, Anna Baxter, Karl Malden
Stage Fright – 1950 91~68%/7 Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman
Disc 6
Marnie – 1964 83~73%/7.1 Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
Murder – 1930 89~38%/6.3 Norah Baring, Herbert Marshall
Lifeboat – 1944 90~87%/7.6 Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Mary Anderson
Foreign Correspondent – 1940 95~81%/7.4 Joel McCrea, Loraine Day,
Sabotage – 1936 92~69%/7 Silvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, William Dewhurst, and cameo Hitchcock
Disc 7
The Man Who Knew Too Much (B&W) – 1934 89~67%/6.7 Peter Lorre, Edna Best
The Lady Vanishes – 1938 98~88%/7.8 Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
The Paradine Case – 1947 77~48%/6.5 Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton
Young and Innocent – 1938 100~88%/6.8 Nova Pilbeam, Pamela Carme, Pat Fitzpatrick, Mary Clare
Jamaica Inn – 1939 55~35%/6.3 Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara, Robert Newton, Horace Hodges
Disc 8
The Skin Game – 1931 38~18%/5.7 Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Konstam, Jill Esmond
The Man who Knew Too Much (color) – 1956 87~84%/7.4 James Stewart and Doris Day
Strangers On a Train – 1951 98~92%/7.9 Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Pat Hitchcock, Ruth Roman
Vertigo – 1958 92~93%/8.3 James Stewart, Kim Novak
Rope – 1948 92~90%/7.9 James Stewart, John Dall
One Director shown in Episode 10, Jim Jarmusch, is someone I only knew as the 'Frostee Cream Boy' (age 40+) in Sling Blade, which happens to be his movie involvement with the highest rating, on here: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jim_jarmusch
He seems like what Quentin Tarantino would be if he never was noticed for Pulp Fiction, but it's apparent where his films lack and seem like old Hollywood B movies. At his best, he reminds me a lot of Jean-Luc Godard (who has similar ratings.)
I get the impression the movie, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, probably influenced the making of GTA games like San Andreas (which seemed to introduce katanas as weapons around that time, but also Kill Bill?) https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ghost_ ... he_samurai
Even George Lucas had given up on any kind of full CGI animation during the mid-1990s (though of course, he utilized a lot for Star Wars) when he sold Pixar to Steve Jobs.
I tended to ignore the series after the first season and seem to have thought it was made even earlier than it was. Part of the reason for this is that the series was canceled by ABC after the 2nd season, restarted in Canada in 1997, and then again in 2001 (when it took on a darker theme from earlier shows.) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108903/ep ... =tt_eps_sm
Saint's Row 4 seemed to be greatly inspired by this show, as the voice actor seemed to imitate the voice mannerism for the evil alien character (and I could have sworn they used the same actor, but apparently he was dead earlier in 2004 or something; I would look up the name again, but it should be pretty obvious.)
The movie got John Lennon's attention and may have contributed to Jodorowsky's cult appeal (though the guy's eccentricity seems to have been a major disservice to his career, where this kind of narrative style he's known for grew out of fashion.) Most companies would be terrified of working with someone like Jodorowsky.
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The best movie adaptations of THE COUNT OF MONTE CHRISTO by ALEXANDER DUMAS
I'm reluctant to download any of them because too many of them differ with versions (sound dubbing and length.) and whether any are any good (or not derivative.)
John Pilger Documentaries (includes a Utopia documentary about Aussie aboriginals from 2013, not to be confused with the British show Utopia from 2013 (or the shit Amazon trash from 2020)
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X-files spinoff, Millenium (which seems to have corresponding show names from the main series, but it looks like a desperate attempt at success similar to how Star Trek created alternatives like Deep Space 9.) https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?seri ... eps_rhs_sm
A similar 1/3rd above 8 rating, compared to X-files, though it seems that I must be forgetting how even the best shows of the series seem rather dumb.
The problem is that Mulder and Scully are so firmly entrenched into the name of the show, that even a PS1 game using a different lead character makes people turn away from it, where even a crappier version of the lead title characters will replace a much closer story arch to what people commonly think.)
Similarly this one (which seems far more familiar to early parts of the series)
I ignored these when they were released though was always curious about them (and somehow I forgot I had Okami in Steam. . . That's basically my problem, etc.)
They tended to remain as Sony exclusives, though Okami was ported to PC.
Sega Mega LD games are still not emulated, though the Daphne Arcade system from a decade prior is (which is really odd.)
This reminds me of 'The Magical Dinosaur Tour' for Turbografx CD
Jump to 10 minutes if you can't stand his weird lip-smacking tourettes.
I'm going back over this one since the only version (for Sega Saturn) available had the English voiceover dubbed to Japanese and never released in English for Saturn, and I've been distracted thinking about it.
All are in English except for this one, which has Japanese subtitles but will need to use auto-translate.
I think it's starring Actor James Woods who has been in 30 years of hiding? I might have confused it with Ed Woods, though he would have been dead some time now.
The craft Daryl and his siblings seem to have seen in the late 1970s, could very well have been a government top secret craft, and a patent was made more recently in 2004 for a triangular shape:
I've seen a triangle ufo of some kind and it was massive, and the sides were very narrow, and though initially, I believed it was a our government technology, I can't see why it would be flying over the area it was, but if Daryl was in California he would have been near Skunkworks, and JPL, and potentially something of that nature (assuming technology like that in the 1970s was much more likely to be our own.)
The video makes a reference to the "Seth Material" by Jane Roberts, and it seems evident that during the time Daryl decides to start to "channel" he was inspired by not only her, but also the movie Close Encounters of the Third kind (so putting two and two together of a blockbuster film, it's safe to say why he charges $400 for a session. . . If he was truly enlightened he would just create a bigger venue opportunity like a nature hike on a mountain somewhere and not charge admission (presumably???)
If people wanted to believe that someone had contact with such beings, are they more likely to suspend criticism or judgment, if they went out of their way to confirm validation for belief? If someone has no incentive to validate an assertion, would the alternative to their desire make them reluctant to admit a believed truth?
To what extent is Daryl just using this as a venue to be perceived as validation for a belief, or to lower people's guard down while charging admission?