I'm watching a daily series with two YouTubers opening four different advent calendars. One of them is the official Only Fools & Horses calendar and it's horrendous.
When it's finished, it's supposed to represent a Christmas scene in the Nag's Head. The problem is, and here comes the point, the flaps are the presents (sometimes)! For example, today's flap was Denzil sitting on a stool.
I think even the most die hard fan would be angry.
LEGO City Undercover is a fantastic game. I always described to others as Grand Theft Auto: Lego. The only problem was the long load times on the WiiU. I don't know if it's any better for other systems.
I'm one of the mods of !homevide@feddit.uk and I quite often post press releases of new and upcoming Blu-rays, 4K etc. The most annoying part was when copying and pasting press releases from websites, the formatting would be almost completely lost. Lists of special features would be transformed into block paragraphs.
But, the other mod of !homevideo found this web page where you can paste the text onto and it becomes converted into markdown text. I can then copy the new text and paste it into Lemmy and it now looks great, with bullet point lists preserved etc.
Unless the drive physically scratched the DVD, it's not corrupted. However, I've had a few discs that I've stored carefully for decades that just stopped working for no reason. The discs looked flawless with no signs of damage and they refused to work.
What region is the DVD and is your drive set to the same region?
Alternatively, download this DLL file and place it the same directory as your VLC installation. It will then be able to bypass simple region checks but not all.
I spent ages trying to generate something close to me with the Bing AI picture generator. A middle aged man who loves film.
He doesn't look like me but I really liked the image, so I picked it.
I forgot to mention, this was specifically relevant to the UK version of Fraggle Rock as each country has different wraparounds.
The British inserts were filmed first at the TVS Television Theatre in Gillingham, Kent, and later at their larger studio complex in Maidstone (the former since closed and demolished) and presents Fraggle Rock as a rock-filled sea island with a lighthouse. Exterior footage was that of St Anthony's Lighthouse located near Falmouth in Cornwall. The lighthouse keeper is The Captain (played by Fulton Mackay), a retired sailor who lives with his faithful dog Sprocket. In the third season, as MacKay had died in 1987, the role was played by John Gordon Sinclair as P.K., (the Captain's nephew) and in the fourth and final season by Simon O'Brien as B.J. (son of the lighthouse's owner, Mr. Bertwhistle). In 2014, 35 of these British wraparounds were still missing, believed wiped, although subsequent recoveries have gradually reduced this number.[7] As of December 2020, all 96 wraparounds have been found and handed over to the BFI, confirming that the entire UK production still exists in some shape or form.[8] Nickelodeon repeated it in the UK from 1993, as did Boomerang and Cartoonito in 2007. The episodes shown were the original North American versions.
This was a common practice, especially during a certain decade but I forget which. Old tapes were erased to be used again. No thought was given to preserving what was being wiped.
At least they realised Red Dwarf tinkering was a bad idea and the originals still safely exist. I think they said they used the original negatives for Star Wars which were spliced and used for the Special Editions. They kept telling the public the original negatives for untouched Star Wars no longer exist. I can't believe that's true though. George keeps a copy of everything. There even a cut of Star Wars that used rear screen protection instead of blue screen!
Reminds me of Fraggle Rock. Due to the television station that produced the show being taken over many times over the years, most of the original broadcast masters have been lost. I think all episodes have been found but they're mostly at home VHS recordings.
I'm 47 and apart from the physical changes, I still feel like I'm 16. I always thought as a child that as you grow older, something just changes and you become an adult.
So, does everyone else still feel like a young person? It's that just a me thing?
The advent calendar is in two parts. Remembering it's supposed to be the pub, the wall contains gifts behind the doors, they've been atrocious, while the floor doors act as pop ups for the scene.
Maybe just Google it and you'll understand. ๐