An Xbox 360 with a VGA adapter and Dead Rising. My TV at the time was one of those gigantic old 90s video editing CRTs, the kind that take all sorts of analog inputs like RCA and S-Video and even did HD if you could convert something to BNC, but pointedly would not do Component or HDMI. A few days prior I’d learned that VGA can be repinned directly to BNC, and then when I was wandering through Best Buy I saw they’d gotten some 360 VGA adapters in. I stopped, flipped a coin, called heads, it landed heads, I bought it.

I’d figured I’d get some minor fun out of it, basically just bought it because I really wanted to play Dead Rising. Instead I wound up using the ever loving hell out of my 360. Still have it, still works, no RROD or anything.

I mean… Werner Herzog telling a man to eat his own fingers was pretty great. But otherwise yeah.

As a Stallone movie it’s entertaining in a “brain off eat popcorn” way, same sorta feel as Demolition Man (which was fun). It’s only once you understand the material that it’s supposed to be adapting that you feel like you were cheated.

If you like it you should check out Guy Ritchie’s previous film, 2005’s Revolver. It’s a little more “experimental” I’d say, but some of the film’s choices are really cool, especially how it depicts how some characters remember and interpret events differently than others.

Aye, the 2012 movie staring Karl Urban, not the 1995 dumpster fire starring Stallone.

Dredd. Karl Urban absolutely nailed that role, and all without ever showing the top half of his face.

I was so ready to see Buckaroo Banzai take on the World Crime League.

Alright, this is one hell of a rollercoaster, far beyond anything I figured would be in play in a dispute over community moderation. And of course, of course it had to involve the guy who is rabidly defensive of Discovery. If anyone wasn’t aware, that stance was in part what led to people leaving /r/StarTrek for /r/Star_Trek, the latter quickly turning into a brigading alt-right dumpsterfire that was eventually banned. They can’t be blamed for the latter part obviously, but at the same time forcing Trek fans to choose between “no opinions we don’t like” and “every opinion is valid including the super racist ones” is a dick move.

Of course the other reason for the schizm was Corgana banning anyone who even remotely questioned them in a stickied post about moderation changes.

Bottom line is that there’s a track record of bad behavior from these folks that predates their transition to Lemmy.