Cool vids...again. (Page 10 of 40)

Oldschool theater projectionist explaining an 'alarm' system that was common back in the day to warn projectionists that they were about to need a reel change. According to him, systems like this are the reason there are often long, sustained vertical scratches on all those old film prints.

I just thought it was kinda neat.

If it were a game, they'd advertise it that way. This - like most of the things parading around as games lately - is not a game. It is a movie with a limited amount of interactive busywork you have to do to unlock the next movie clip. This is "Interactive Entertainment", which sounds like one of those alternative phrases for something, like how "Graphic Novel" is a fancy way of saying "Comic Book", but IE is something else entirely. Modern games are more like interactive movies than games, and they spend a lot of effort removing unwanted things like challenge, complex interaction and AI so they can focus on scripted sequences and graphics.

Why would you skip the first one? It's the best. They pretty much neutered the RPG elements in the second and it became a story heavy shooter more then an RPG.

Last edited by ShadowDuelist (2012-02-22 08:00:13)

Not so much cool as funny, and possibly informative, if you're thinking of signing up with a record label.

Last edited by fcw (2012-02-27 22:23:53)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl … aHdpmkIvHM

This is either the first clip from Ridley Scott's "Prometheus", or the beginning of a viral marketing campaign for it. Either way, it's very cool and it has Guy Pearce.

Last edited by Doctor Submarine (2012-02-28 20:14:17)