At the last, I’m satisfied what while this new version of The Wire is not, in some specific ways, the film we first made, it has sufficient merit to exist as an alternate version. There are scenes that clearly improve in HD and in the widescreen format. But there are things that are not improved. And even with our best resizing, touchups and maneuver, there are some things that are simply not as good. That’s the inevitability: This new version, after all, exists in an aspect ratio that simply wasn’t intended or serviced by the filmmakers when the camera was rolling and the shot was framed.
Still, being equally honest here, there can be no denying that an ever-greater portion of the television audience has HD widescreen televisions staring at them from across the living room, and that they feel notably oppressed if all of their entertainments do not advantage themselves of the new hardware. It vexes them in the same way that many with color television sets were long ago bothered by the anachronism of black-and-white films, even carefully conceived black-and-white films. For them, The Wire seems frustrating or inaccessible – even more so than we intended it. And, hey, we are always in it to tell people a story, first and foremost. If a new format brings a few more thirsty critters to the water’s edge, then so be it.
Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 25, 2021, 16:08:
It is possible they were being forward looking. Wanting to do widescreen, even though they knew it wouldn't broadcast that way. *shrug* Is there a reason your assumption on their intentions are more informed than anyone else's?
Quinn wrote on Feb 23, 2021, 19:21:
Personally it looks like a great cinematic experience with very barebone game mechanics to connect cinematic cutscenes A with B. To me, that's fairly typical for a console game.
Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 16, 2021, 21:36:
Only 20? I would have guessed it was older than that.
Burrito of Peace wrote on Feb 10, 2021, 17:03:
New York is basically a soggy paper plate.
Jonjonz wrote on Feb 6, 2021, 06:54:
I see our knuckle dragging mouth breathers are still around bleating their favorite code words for anything anti-Nazi/white supremist.
Cutter wrote on Feb 5, 2021, 15:37:
Jesus, Google is literally on the verge of cartoon supervillainy.
WaltC wrote on Feb 2, 2021, 11:14:
It was never going to happen for a variety of reasons, of course, not the least of which is that the majority of people actually like having their own local hardware, local software, and upgrading their hardware as they see fit, etc.
Genesys wrote on Feb 1, 2021, 20:05:
Well, that didn't take long, did it? Yow. 150 developers.
Orogogus wrote on Jan 28, 2021, 23:11:
I thought it was kind of overblown, personally. When I played Rise of the Tomb Raider I was expecting something like Dead Space because of all the hullabaloo, but the vast majority of my deaths ended up being shot by guns or falling to my death, and she wasn't being blown into bloody chunks or gorily impaled on rocks. I think there were a handful of excessive death scenes, but they were few and far between for me.
Simon Says wrote on Jan 28, 2021, 21:30:
They wanted to punish the Hedge Funds, who were trying to bankrupt Gamestop ( and other companies ) using abusive shorting practices that are well known to bankrupt corporations, with a "short squeeze".
Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 28, 2021, 19:19:RedEye9 wrote on Jan 28, 2021, 19:10:I suggest you ask the hedge funds which lost millions (if not billions) if someone got over on them...
Do you really think he's getting one over on the man. {insert mouse flipping off hawk.jpg here}
MattyC wrote on Jan 23, 2021, 14:31:
I still think it is the best Resident Evil game, but I also only ever played it on the GameCube.
TB1447 wrote on Jan 22, 2021, 22:30:
Was RE4 good? I couldn't tell because the PC version was so broken you couldn't play it at all.
Slick wrote on Jan 22, 2021, 15:58:
There's a reason why Dirt 5 is one of the only games that hits 4k@120hz on PS5, it looks like it's from 2012.
WaltC wrote on Jan 13, 2021, 20:08:
Twitter is a sewer, comparatively. AMZN is dead wrong about this. The country is getting very tired of stupid censors waging war against freedom of speech. Let them all move to China if they want to surrender their rights so badly. The Chinese will be happy to take theirs away.
MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Jan 12, 2021, 16:30:
A much bigger and more immediate problem is still present: multiple armed attacks are planned before the 20th, being organized initially on Parler, now on various other services. Unfortunately the US is going to simply be too slow to shut down Gab and everything else even if they understood these other forums/programs, there will probably be gun battles in a half dozen cities before the 21st.
Really, the USA is never going to recover from the damage Trump and the Republicans have caused, and people are worried about corporate censorship, rofl.
Sepharo wrote on Jan 12, 2021, 18:23:
It's not the Mandela Effect, it's rose tinted glasses or something though.
All the comments from the past are still visible, this board has always been this way, and in fact it was much worse before.
You can find plenty of unhinged political ranting at any period here, and in the past moderation was nearly zero.