Legolution

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[–] Legolution@feddit.uk 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Genuinely thought "King Tides and Cyclone Jasper" was the name of some drug syndicate.

[–] Legolution@feddit.uk 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They aren't dumb, peoples' usage is just poorly informed and incorrect.

Famous/infamous are not synonyms, so you shouldn't be using them interchangeably. Infamous specifically means "Famous for the wrong [read negative] reasons". Like a serial killer. Or somebody who is famous for knocking over and breaking a priceless work of art.

If something is flammable, it can be set on fire. Like wood, or paper. If something is inflammable, that's still true, but it has the additional property of being able to spontaneously combust, without being actively set alight. Like oils, or unstable chemicals, or some explosive material.

These are levels of nuance which are actually really useful, if handled correctly. The fundamental rule appears to be that in an "in..." word, the prefix gives specific detail about how the object holds the properties of the suffix.

[–] Legolution@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago
[–] Legolution@feddit.uk 14 points 10 months ago

Please could you be specific, so we don't have to check out Reddit, to find out? Not a dig, I'm just trying really hard to avoid the platform after moving. Cheers.

[–] Legolution@feddit.uk 7 points 10 months ago

"I think I said "wunderkind", but okay."

[–] Legolution@feddit.uk 8 points 10 months ago

Syberia, if you're into point and click adventure games. I think they made three of them.

[–] Legolution@feddit.uk 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Legolution@feddit.uk 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sorry, this is longer than I thought it would be. Bear with me...

At some point iTunes "upgraded" to include artist avatars that you couldn't switch off or choose your own images for. Anyone it couldn't find had a placeholder grey microphone icon, which was bad enough. If you had some obscure artist that happened to share a band name with a more popular act, it would default to their image. Unforgivable.

It pissed me off enough to seek another option and I eventually settled on Foobar2000, which was everything I had loved about Winamp and OG iTunes in one. Also, fully customisable, albeit with a learning curve. Moving everything into Foobar, I realised I needed to redownload all album cover art, for my 40,000+ song collection, in as high a resolution as possible (discovering albumartexchange, and Advanced Google Image Search, in the process).

Halfway through this task, I realised I should probably also redownload anything I had that was less than 192k bitrate, and maybe in some cases I should go flac, just to "make sure". Fast forward a year and I have about 70,000 songs, mostly meeting those requirements, and mostly totally replacing the collection i had been building since 2001. God bless Soulseek and RuTracker.

Now, in answer to your actual question, on this journey I found (or, rather, didn't) a whole bunch of stuff that I have from the early 2000s which doesn't seem to exist online, anymore, or only does in poorer quality than I already had it, most of it old UK HipHop from that time. It was a real validation of one of the most important reasons for piracy, though I can't claim it as the reason for my original (or ongoing) obsession!

[–] Legolution@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

But they made a movie episode, in 2019, to try to finally round off the series (all the actors returned). Check it out, if you didn't catch it. It wasn't perfect, obviously, but it was an admirable attempt.

[–] Legolution@feddit.uk 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Intouchables (SIC). The original French film with Omar Sy. Not the pointless Hollywood remake. Its my favourite comedy of all time.

[–] Legolution@feddit.uk 151 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also Firefox.

[–] Legolution@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thank you so much for this. Just read his story (this GQ.com article) and hitting the podcast, now. What a fucking mensch.

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