Physical Media

Hi, I don't know if this is a proper question for this community. I just want to know if the business model of LiC is closer to Limited Run Games or to Fangamer cuz I can't find clearly if you are going to be able to buy a game whenever you want or just in a closed time. If the post is out of context or whatever, I'll remove it.

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/theonion@sh.itjust.works/t/2796606

Gleefully describing the inevitable day when society would collapse and digital files would become unusable, local physical media collector David Campbell confirmed Wednesday he was “absolutely pumped” for the downfall of humanity. “When it all goes down, there’s only going to be one place to watch the Tomb Raider movies in their entirety with all the deleted scenes, and that’s going to be my bunker,” said Campbell, his eyes reportedly shining as he described how the end of organized society and the dissolution of government would make his cherished stockpile of Blu-rays even more valuable. [...]

After years of only owning a tapedeck, I finally bought myself a walkman. Walking to work just got a lot better!

I felt a surge to rummage through my childhood home for CDs and the like after i watched this. I stopped using Spotify without even thinking about it, the endless yapping, podcasts just three me off.

Not long ago the band was kickstarting their latest album, Voyage (bottom-right) and offering a bundle of their older albums as a bonus add-on, so I took the opportunity to pick them up. My overall favorite is Cures What Ails Ya (top-right) though they all have songs I quite like.

Even though I ripped them to FLAC and mostly listen to them on my phone that way, I'm quite happy to have these. I paid some musicians and got a bunch of music!

I decided to connect with my inner 13 year old and bought Army of Darkness on Blu-Ray. Like the rest of my video collection, my goal was to rip it to my NAS so it's available on my Kodi box; I don't own a blu-ray player, only Blu-ray optical drives for computers. But, I decided I wanted to just pop the movie in and play it on my PC, should look pretty good on my gaming monitor.

No machine in my inventory would play it from the disc. VLC and the one or two other media players in Fedora's pathetic excuse for a repository would play it. VLC would throw an error and tell you to look in the log for details...wherever the log is. Side note: I'm not going to see log for details if you don't give me a link or path to that log. We hold up VLC as the best media player but it can barely play mp3 and mp4 files from the local machine, it doesn't work across a network, it doesn't read optical discs, it doesn't give useful errors and I'm not looking up how to read its logs for more details.

So, several rounds of troubleshooting across a few computers later, I finally get a setup where MakeMKV will rip it from the goddamn disc. And what does the 1080p version of the movie get you? Film grain. Noisy hideous distracting film grain. Exporting it as a 720p video made it look better because crushing the resolution evened out the film grain.

Is this what liking movies is like these days? I don't think I want to like movies anymore.