The Substance (2024)

So watched it this afternoon. Holy fucking body horror, Batman! Some of that I had a pretty hard time watching.

I know I'm late to the party, but I was surprised that it kept me interested for as long as it did. I kept looking at the runtime wondering where are they going to take it, I'm just kind of assumed it was going to go off the rails towards the end, and boy howdy, did it do that in spades.

I've just been going back and reading the spoilers other people posted, and trying to collect my thoughts but I think most of you guys are pretty spot on with the themes of the film.

Definitely the wildest movie I've seen in a long time. Whoever picked up on the shrimp imagery, that was a good catch.

I don't know if I would sit down and try to watch it again though, but for a woman having made this, it's definitely one of the better horror movies I've seen in the past decade, and that's at least to me impressive.

Did anybody else notice a music sting from Vertigo at the end? I swear well the third one was getting dressed up before the big event, you heard about a minute the main theme from that movie. Then the switch to crazy heavy metal just made me laugh.

All in all, I thought it was pretty damn good. Definitely something different, and I appreciate that nowadays.

TJT said:

The seas haven't changed much. Literally the zoomer generation is too computer stupid to bother with torrenting. You had to be the sweet spot of millennial computer literate to use torrents with regularity and not be "overwhelmed" by it. Boomers were old and didn't want to bother with it, Zoomers don't know shit about anything that isn't a touch screen. So rather than clamp down on torrents they just faded away from majority use.

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Not a millennial, but I it was around for the original days of Napster and burning CDs or DVDs with the right software. Every roommates in college where we would go rent movies or Playstation games and burn them. Between the three of us we had a pretty massive collection.

I just haven't had the need to go in torrent anything in a long time. Sound as if you can't listen to any music you want to via Pandora or Spotify, or even YouTube. Doesn't mean I still don't have hard drives with gigs of music floating around.

TJT said:

My friends and I went to the Walmart in town multiple times to "pirate" by opening the game box and writing down the CD keys that were directly exposed on the outside of the jewel case. Right on the back, didn't even have to break any seals just open the box look at the CD case and put it back. As we were broke ass 12-15 year olds doing this it felt lol. We pirated the game but wanted to play on battle.net see. We did this for Diablo 1 and 2 and Starcraft.

I don't remember any other specific game that had CD keys like that back then.

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Well the good old days was if you owned a video game on computer you could just share it with your friends and there was no security code bullshit. If somebody bought MechWarrior or command and conquer, or Diablo, everybody had access to it. We never went into Walmart and opened the boxes, but if your friend had software available, you were installing it on your machine.

My first copy of Windows 95 upgrading from 3.11 was one of my buddies from high schools dads work copy just so I could play Diablo.

Things were a hell of a lot easier back then.

Man I was thinking about times before even that. You guys remember when computer games used to have a little code wheel and the game upon installation would ask you go look for whatever words from page something or other in the second paragraph, and you would have to enter that. I remember a handful of older games had some sort of system like that for anti-piracy.

Kajiimagi said:

First game I 'pirated' was Duke Nukem. I actually bought it but the shipping was so slow I would not get it until 3-4 days after it was available. I dl it via FTP as Rar's with no idea how to unpack them. Had to beg on mIRC to get someone to tell me how to get them to work.

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I remember me and a few buddies used to play that one-on-one via modem back in high school because one of us had bought a PC gaming magazine when used to get legit demo CDs for different games coming out. I think it only had like two levels, and then somebody actually bought a copy or maybe pirated it from somebody else and then we all had it installed, and were able to play the full version.

I'm assuming you're referring to Duke Nukem 3-D.

Play for a couple of hours after working at Taco Bell late at night during the summer playing that for a few hours before finally going to bed. The great thing with playing that late was you know nobody was going to call the house and screw up your damn game unlike playing Warcraft or command and conquer on an afternoon, and some telemarketer, or one of my sisters friends was calling to talk about dumb shit.

Lanx said:

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I don't remember what that did, did that block phone calls? Wasn't it star 90 if you had caller ID? Sorry landlines were along time ago, in a galaxy far far away. I just remember always having a regular phone back in college, and I'm somebody called you on your old Nokia brick phone, and you were at the house, you tell them to call you on your landline so you could save your minutes.

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I had 2 phone lines. 1 for the house , 1 for the PC. Yeah it was DN3D. Around the same time the Quake demo came out and someone realized the monsters were in the demo. I made a very low tech Darth Vader for the knight complete with a lightsaber woosh mp3. Then I read ID was talking about taking legal action and I was legit scared for a while. Few years ago I googled my shit mod and some shovelware company put it out on one of those throw away CD's you used to be able to get in the game stores.

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How to buddy of mine back in high school that I used to play at Ultima online with. Summer between my freshman and sophomore year college, ended up staying that summer back at home. He was still in town and we were still playing UO.

He got a second phone line to his apartment and was dual boxing characters on two desktops, abd anytime I got off work I would typically bring a mess of Taco Bell over, and we'd stay up late running around killing folks in Deceit and farm liches with silver weapons. They used to drop around 300 gold on average, and sometimes magic weapons, and always some spell reagents. Used to get a lot of red flag guys I would go in there to try to kill people, so you can team up on criminals, and not get a murder count.