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FYI for anyone interested in the retro aesthetic of late 20th century displays.
If you're old enough, you might recall the era before VGA and SVGA - maybe even CGA, or the truly ancient monochrome days.
I narrowly missed CGA myself and consider that a "lucky escape" since some (not all) of the older CGA styles were truly ugly and tough on the eyes.
IBM's Colour Graphics Adapter (CGA) arrived in 1981 as the first proper step up from the green-on-black MDA. With just 16 KB of memory and support for TV or monitor, its max resolution was 640×200. In 320×200 it managed four colours; in 640×200 only two. Crude by 8-bit home computer standards, but it worked.
EGA followed in 1984, offering 16 colours from a 64-colour palette, 640×350 resolution, and a generous 64 KB of RAM. It didn’t last long.
In 1987 IBM replaced it with VGA, leaping (!) to 256 colours, the iconic 640×480 resolution, and the classic 15-pin connector, which was cutting-edge stuff at the time.
VGA soon evolved into Super VGA, adding 800×600 and later 1024×768 modes. Anyone born after 1990 probably has no idea what any of the above meant, or how it impacted gaming back in the day.
The image below shows Monkey Island in monochrome, CGA, EGA, and VGA (top-left to bottom-right).
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The Lord of the Rings prologue, told by Gandalf instead of Galadriel. 🎙️
Did you know that the iconic opening of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring almost sounded completely different? Before Cate Blanchett’s Galadriel was chosen as the narrator, Peter Jackson tested several other voices to introduce Middle-earth.
At one point, Elijah Wood recorded a full prologue as Frodo Baggins. However, the filmmakers realized a young hobbit lacked the historical weight to explain thousands of years of ancient lore.
Sir Ian McKellen also recorded a version as Gandalf. While cut from the theatrical release, his narration was later used in promotional materials and repurposed for the 2004 video game The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age.
Ultimately, the team chose Galadriel. As an immortal, timeless elf who actually lived through those ancient wars, her ethereal voice provided the perfect, chilling introduction to the One Ring.
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I think we can agree that talent will get you a loooooooonnnnngggggg way but if the technology isn't there yet...
In 1998, Warner Bros. canceled a Jim Carrey remake of The Incredible Mr. Limpet after spending $10 million on test footage, as the photorealistic Jim Carrey fish was costly to perfect and unsettling to viewers.
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ALIENS concept art by Syd Mead.
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We got one! JUST ANOTHER SECRET (1989) becomes the 9⃣5⃣6⃣th film we've found with an exploding helicopter.
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Thanks to @StrohsDetroit for the tip-off! 🙏
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“There’s no time to explain. Get in the Creme Egg.”
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Do you ever think about joining an intelligent debate online, only to see that the snake pit is already writhing frantically in the comments and also on fire?
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Bond is a spy the way Jeeves is a butler: he isn't one in the first place, but is so overwhelmingly famous for being one that he has actually become the primary referent of the term, and now the meaning of the word has shifted in the popular consciousness to describe what he does
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has the James Bond series ever tried to properly grapple with the fact that Bond is less of a spy or even really a hero and is pretty evidently a hatchet man
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The Valley of Gwangi (1969) is a “Dinosaur/Western”, a niche genre, to say the least. It was Ray Harryhausen’s final dinosaur film, and with over 300 stop-motion cuts, it set a personal record for the effects legend. The famous lasso scene alone took 2.5 months to complete.
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No more mutant dinosaur/monsters please. Just more dinosaurs.
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EXCLUSIVE: A #JurassicWorldRebirth sequel is in the works, and screenwriter David Koepp has revealed the current status of the upcoming film:
"I think that the challenge of Rebirth was the franchises have become very big, very spread out. Let's make the dinosaurs special again by restricting them. So we restricted them to this thing, and then the challenge becomes, okay, now how do we logically and in a scientifically believable way expand?"
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The Amazon River is so massive, and the part of the world where it flows so forested, that no road bridge crosses it for over 3,000km (1,864 miles). You would need to travel from the sea to the foothills of the Andes before finding a bridge to cross it.
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He’s right, you should definitely wear more than one thing. I’ve been caught out like this before
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I want to see the Emperor’s Slugs incorporated into the Star Wars canon as a Force-sensitive species of some kind, deeply rooted in the mythology of the Jedi and the Sith.
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A report from the inside, a man who saw the Emperor's Slugs in the optical house being repaired #StarWars #Jedi #VFXarchaeology
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Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend!
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On an unassuming Edinburgh street there are what appear to be two manhole covers. They are in fact the base of two gallows where the last highwaymen to be hanged in Scotland met their grizzly end in 1815. They were hanged on the exact spot where they committed their crime.
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Sixty-nine soldiers and officers are to be awarded honours by His Majesty King Charles, in the military division of his Birthday Honours List 2026.
The servicemen and servicewomen, both Regular and Reserve, are cited for transformational leadership, exemplary professionalism, and tireless commitment.
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ALT A medal with a red and white striped ribbon is hanging against a black background. The medal is cross-shaped and features the profile of a monarch surrounded by the words "For God and the Empire." A crown sits above the cross, connecting it to the ribbon.
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