For about month now I have been massive movie rut… struggling to find anything to watch. What do you do when you are in one of these slumps!?

  • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The same thing I do with video games: backlog and obscure media hunting. Nothing is too old to consider.

    There’s always something old I hadn’t found the last time I went looking. Fan translations or edits included. I lurk originaltrilogy forums.

    When that fails I go outside.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I used to think nothing was too old to consider with video games, until I started playing some old shit I loved from the early 3D days recently. I can’t will my brain to get used to the wildly wonky controls a lot of games had back in the late 90’s/early 2000’s, before the modern standards were really dialed in. 🤣

      • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Oh video games are a different story yeah. I can handle weird legacy control schemes, but I’m usually just bored by what I’m looking at, and that’ll make me quit first. The further back you go, the more absolute that becomes. Never completely, I have exceptions from any console that I’d argue are timeless.

        edit: I guess because the exceptions did something I hadn’t seen before, or nailed what they were going for. Not every idea gets done to death, some are left behind.

        But even if that’s a narrow selection of stuff, I keep finding new weird old games to play.

        Like I just dsicovered Garage by Kinotrope and I’m having a blast.

    • Danjinspear@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Yeah I watched This Gun for Hire (1942) last night and it was fantastic. Hopefully the Slump is coming to an end!