u/kuhpunkt
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▲ 390 r/Steam
Return to Castle Wolfenstein finally available on Steam in Germany - RealRTCW is however still blocked
store.steampowered.comu/kuhpunkt — 14 days ago
▲ 294 r/DavetheDiverOfficial
New Patch out with new content
store.steampowered.comu/kuhpunkt — 14 days ago
▲ 116 r/lost
Charlie was (not) wearing sunglasses in the pilot
Just thought it was slightly interesting that he can be seen in several stills to be wearing those sunglasses, but not in the pilot itself.
Does anybody know the brand/model? lol
u/kuhpunkt — 18 days ago
▲ 26 r/lost
Would you use waffles as bread? - New cut dialogue from "He's Our You" revealed.
INT. DHARMAVILLE CAFETERIA - KITCHEN - DAY
CLOSE ON AN APRON. With the Dharma kitchen symbol. WIDEN TO -- HURLEY. Moving through the kitchen with an EMPTY TRAY.
He APPROACHES another cook -- FLOYD. A laid back dude. Completely at peace with himself. He slaps a couple of BREAKFAST SANDWICHES made out of WAFFLES, EGGS, HAM and CHEESE on the tray. Along with four DIPPING SAUCES. In the b.g., a RADIO plays some period appropriate Geronimo Jackson.
FLOYD
Man, these things are far out.
(bites into one)
How'd you come up with this?
HURLEY
The key is the waffle. I don't know why people don't use it more as bread...
FLOYD
You're kind of a genius, Reyes. You know that?
u/kuhpunkt — 20 days ago
▲ 2 r/sunglasses
I'm looking for the glasses that Dominic Monaghan/Charlie from Lost had in the pilot episode.
Anybody with an idea? This was filmed in March/April 2004, so they can't be newer.
u/kuhpunkt — 22 days ago
▲ 27 r/lost
2 days before the premiere of "Tabula Rasa" ABC aired a promo for that episode - and Evangeline Lilly's ad for Live Links. Twice. In the same hour. Wild.
youtu.beu/kuhpunkt — 24 days ago
▲ 29 r/lost
Which actor on Lost had the highest salary?
Must have been Sonya Walger. She's a pretty Penny.
u/kuhpunkt — 1 month ago
▲ 0 r/television
The ending of Dark vs. Umbrella Academy
I have a question about the reception of both shows. People constantly ask about the best and worst shows/endings here and the same shows get mentioned all the time.
Just yesterday I saw one comment that got hundreds of upvotes:
>The Umbrella Academy. "The world would be a better place if none of you were born" is a batshit insane take to make about the actual goddamn main characters. Yikes.
That's a sentiment I see often. The ending of Umbrella Academy isn't very popular. This is reflected in the imdb ratings, where the finale sits at a 4.8/10.
I have never seen UA, but I've seen Dark... and while the premise is different, there are some similarities between both shows with time time travel and parallel timelines and stuff. And the ending of Dark is essentially the same. The characters realize that the world would be better without them and they just undo everything and erase themselves from existence.
But that ending constantly gets praise here, which is also reflected in the imdb rating of 9.6/10 - literally twice the Umbrella Academy ending.
Now I don't know what the Venn diagram between "Hates the UA ending" and "Loves the Dark ending" looks like and I don't want to make a strawman argument... but why is the UA ending so disliked and the Dark ending so beloved?
u/kuhpunkt — 1 month ago
▲ 1 r/Scholar
[Article] Beach plane crash created for pilot movie (1999)
reddit.comu/kuhpunkt — 1 month ago
▲ 0 r/television
Simon Pegg didn't understand the ending of Lost and suggests fixing it by changing it to... what they basically did.
ign.comu/kuhpunkt — 1 month ago
▲ 35 r/ElderScrolls
Warning - the post from Anus Fungi is a bot and scam
https://old.reddit.com/r/ElderScrolls/comments/1uya0c0/does_this_fit_here/
This account goes into different subreddits, posts stolen pictures... another bot account then responds to ask where they got it from and the OP then links to a shady store.
Do NOT click on that link. Report the account.
u/kuhpunkt — 1 month ago
▲ 77 r/lost
I was looking for Rousseau's original voice, maybe found the inspiration for Shannon's year in Paris and came across an unexpected twist.
As everybody knows, there is this French distress call at the end of the Lost pilot - that eventually became Rousseau, but what remained a mystery was the identity of the original voice. Curious as I often am, I tried to figure out who that was...
There was hardly anything to go by. The only clue was given in the commentary track for the pilot where JJ said that the voice was from somebody that he knew from college, who did the same school program as him. JJ went to Sarah Lawrence College... so I reached out to them to look for yearbooks or anything else that might help me and found their own little college newspaper. Turns out, JJ wrote exactly one article for that paper in which he recounts his junior year, which he spent in Paris. Is that the origin for Shannon's line in the pilot? I don't know! Could be a coincidence, but it makes sense that JJ put it in there from his experience.
>SAYID: D-Does anybody speak French?
>BOONE: She does.
>SHANNON: No, I don't. What?
>BOONE: What the hell are you talking about? You spent a year in Paris!
>SHANNON: Drinking, not studying!
But that article about his year in Paris had a surprise in store, even if it's not Lost-related. What happened? Well. One afternoon JJ was at a café with some friends and afterwards he wanted to go to a record store, which was just a few walking minutes away. That however didn't happen, because it was September 17 1986 - the day of the Rue de Rennes bombing. He wanted to go to FNAC, which is literally right next to TATI, the store where the bomb exploded. If he had left a few minutes earlier, who knows...
JJ's article from February 1988
Photos of the scene with the Time magazine cover - graphic warning
Just thought that was too surprising and interesting to not share.
But what about the French voice? I reached out to JJ (via proxy) and unfortunately he doesn't remember. The mystery remains unsolved.
u/kuhpunkt — 1 month ago
Meccha Chameleon has sold 10 million copies in 16 days + some math
10 million news:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4704690/view/688635449342690142?l=english
Meccha Chameleon released June 10 at a reduced price of $4.79. In the first week they sold 3 million copies. That would be a bit over $14 million in revenue.
After a week the price increased to its base price of $5.99. In the span of 10 more days they have sold 7 million additional copies. That's an additional $42 million in revenue.
That would be about $56 million in revenue - but regional prices would lower that of course. The game is 45% cheaper in India for example, so it's hard to quantify how much revenue they actually created... but if it's not a worst case scenario, they should be somewhere in the $50 million range, which would already put them in the 20% cut bracket from Steam.
After the Steam cut and taxes, they could/should have earned over $20 million. That's for 2 developers working on the game. In 16 days.
Congratulations.
u/kuhpunkt — 2 months ago
Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais says that they thought about selling the Steam Machine without RAM and SSD and doesn't rule out that it will eventually be an option [like via ifixit]
youtu.beu/kuhpunkt — 2 months ago
▲ 529 r/linux_gaming
[The Verge] Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais says his team is “collaborating with Nvidia very closely” on SteamOS support for Nvidia hardware.
theverge.comu/kuhpunkt — 2 months ago
Steam Machine price announced: $1049/1039€ for the base model
Reservations: "Join the list any time before June 25th at 10 a.m. PT. On that date, the list will be closed and randomized, and you will receive an email with your results shortly after."
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
Reviews:
Linus Tech Tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tI1SoMj5vg
Digital Foundry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhWtLi_FqLo
Giant Bomb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEDivimExL4
u/kuhpunkt — 2 months ago