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After the fresh install it hovers on the grub boot page for a few seconds every time it boots, but other than that it’s running fine! I gave up on RGB control though haha

I cobbled together some spare parts for a Bazzite rig. Threw OpenRGB on there and it locked me into an eternal black screen with the fans on blast, couldn’t even get back into the bios until I power cycled the thing 4 times and did a fresh install lol

I switched to Tidal this year and it has been great. Same price, vastly improved sound quality, works seamlessly on iOS, Android, PC

I don’t understand why you didn’t like the app design when it’s basically a streamlined copy of Spotify’s layout, just without the podcast/audiobook fluff or AI shit

my money is on Sloan

shit, I’ll be on a plane that entire day. this will be the first Horror Mind Melter I’ve missed since 2020 😭

I volunteer to help with a smuggling operation. this is terrible news

shit! I’m sure this wouldn’t be easy on your end but I’d be happy to throw some cash your way to secure copies of future releases. I have every GNV release so far, I can’t stop now!!

This dude is a multi millionaire who lives in Israel of all places. Why would anyone trust his opinions on modern cinema when he spends all his time in a mansion in Tel Aviv??

He’s made some great movies, obviously, and I love the New Bev, but Quentin Tarantino is an ignorant twat

drop your specs bro

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Cinematic Parallels

Land of Bad did eventually get a Blu-ray release in Canada! Still nothing in the US though

Free Mahmoud Khalil

absolutely insane to watch your level headed take on this and then immediately see a toxic comment section reinforcing your point. I have zero faith in humanity lol

And on documentaries: I don’t think I ever would’ve heard about Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat if it wasn’t for the nom.
No Other Land is *finally* getting some traction after being suppressed in this country for over a year.
Both are must watches.

It might be overlong and is definitely heavy handed but the experience of watching The Substance earlier this week in a packed matinee showing full of clueless boomer retirees was absolutely delightful

We all know that The Academy Awards are like 70% silly bullshit but ultimately I love Oscar season because it can put incredible stuff like Nickel Boys and I’m Still Here on my radar & it also guarantees a week of Marvel slop and religious propaganda not owning every screen at my local multiplex

I skipped Emilia Perez but other than that it’s a fairly solid lineup this year imo.
I probably liked half of these a bit more than you but totally agree on Nickel Boys being the outlier here, that movie kind of blew me away. Your piece on Ross was incredibly moving too so thanks for that 🙏

Hold That Ghost scared the absolute fuck out of me at age 6. Great movie

My Kindle politely does what I tell it to because i jailbroke it

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Damn, things might’ve turned out different for me if my formative years were filled with discussions about trash auteurs instead of daily iterations of Why Invading Iraq Is Good

Great interview! I grew up in a household that had right wing talk radio on 24/7 and never knew Michael Medved could be so cool lol

are you a pocket knife guy? multi-tool? I need to know what the official Chris Person EDC looks like

Ah okay, I’ll be curious to hear your thoughts when you do!

Just curious: have you ever downgraded to a previous release after watching a new UHD because of changes to the source material? (like Cameron’s AI remasters, or the Coens editing scenes out of Miller’s Crossing for Criterion, etc.)

Any thoughts on the AI + CGI tweaks for the new Se7en transfer? Between that and the 7.1 downgrade I’ll probably just stick to old Blu-ray

Screaming crying throwing up at the dream of reconnecting the United States by commuter rail

Happy to help! 🫡

yep, I’m running Plex in docker on my Unraid server. Paid for the lifetime pass ages ago and it’s been working great for me, but if they get enshittified I’ll probably migrate to Jellyfin

I still love popping in a disc tho! A healthy balance of physical and self hosted digital is the way to go imo

I use Handbrake every once in a while for odd jobs but mostly leave all of my remuxes uncompressed. I built a NAS to store everything and would rather pay for a few more terabytes than sacrifice quality, but I may eventually go back and compress extra stuff like trailers and special features

Sometimes you can find original trailers in great quality on official boutique Blu-ray channels too (Arrow, Severin, etc.)
I use Avidemux to quickly trim these if there’s any extra promotional fluff at the beginning or end of a video