@latenightblog@procial.tchncs.de was created ~37 minutes ago.

Their only post violates rule 2, and looks likely to be violating lemmy.world rule 8 (misinformation).

Somebody please show them to the door.

I'm so sorry. I promise my laughter is not at you.

also any inputs are probably scraped

ftfy

Let's hope it's the bad outputs that are scrapped. <3

Games requiring kernel-level anti-cheat are such a small minority of games that I struggle to think how this could mean big anything (good or bad) to Linux gaming in general.

It's funny how different scenes stand out to different people. If someone had asked me to list the most memorable bits of The Lighthouse, the scenes you mentioned wouldn't have entered my mind. Dafoe's monologue, on the other hand, will stick with me for a long time to come.

We could quibble about the details, but all of them are fundamentally last-man-standing competitions.

The Hunger Games was indeed one of them. I didn't mention it because it's the most obvious one in current cultural memory (no need for me to point it out) and because Battle Royale came a decade earlier, and Battle Royal half a century before that. The characters' situation is probably older than printed words.

Even if a competitive game format was unique to the Hindi film, it would be tough to argue that nobody else could have thought of that detail when making their own variation of the same theme. Calling it a "blatant rip-off" of Luck (2009) is quite a stretch.

(Incidentally, the Luck synopsis that I read says it focuses on gambling, not competitive trials or children's games. A quick look at the video confirms it.)

They haven't even had the account for an hour and they've already violated lemmy.world ToS (calls for violence) in another thread. May the ban hammer strike swiftly.

Breaking! Community rule 1 (points 3, 4, and 5).

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/battle_royale

I wouldn't be surprised if the theme also showed up in books that predate all of these films.

There are a couple of emulation communities outside of Beehaw:

!emulation@lemmy.world

!emulation@lemmy.ml

And it was composed by Quincy Jones, who has earned a small mountain of awards for his music over the years. Not many TV shows get a theme as good as that one.

Here's the studio version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-wZUgvSlOo

I explained that they ought to be recipes to new media every N number of years or risk deteriorating or becoming unreadable

This is important, and for some media, it should be more often than that.

People forget that flash memory uses electrical charge to store data. It's not durable. If left unpowered for too long, that data will get corrupted. A failure might not even be visible without examining every bit of every file.

Keep backups. Include recovery data (e.g. PAR2). Store them on multiple media. Keep them well-maintained (e.g. give flash drives power). Mind their environment. Copy them to new storage devices before the old ones become obsolete.

It's funny that with all our technology, paper is still the most durable storage medium (under normal conditions) that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.