• celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    They say that they’re around 3 episodes deep into the remastering effort. Out of 48 total episodes. Hopefully a tasty blu ray box set will drop one day!

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    10 hours ago

    I remember being so hyped that they were making a new reboot series, then we got whatever the fuck that crap is that they called reboot.

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        6 hours ago

        It was some awful weird show where live action teens go into the mainframe and become these robot guys. Nothing to do with the original show except one episode where they had Bob. But everyone hated it

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          Oh yeah, most modern reboots are a drop in quality. Doesn’t mean I won’t seize the opportunity to make a pun!

          Also, speaking of apparent drops in quality … Scott Adams turned out to be pretty offensive, but I still appreciate your username.

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    14 hours ago

    These folks are doing fantastic work. If you’re a Canuck, find the Reboot Rewind folks on your social media of choice, they’re going around doing screenings of their doc (and some of the D1 footage I think) in Canadian cities.

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    The Web invaded Mainframe
    Sprite and virus battled side by side,
    Attempting to reclaim the city
    from the rift which opened wide.

    But Megabyte betrayed Bob and
    he threw him deep inside the pit.
    The pit was closed and Bob was hosed
    and all that he could say was “Nooo!”

     

    Without Bob to protect us
    we thought we would have no barrier,
    From he who would infect us
    except Enzo, which was scarier,
    The city shivered terrified
    from fear of the Infector’s touch…

     

    “I guess your fear was verified, I wasn’t a protector much.”

     

    (I guess our fear was verified, he wasn’t a protector much)
    (I guess our fear was verified, he wasn’t a protector much)
    (I guess our fear was verified, he wasn’t a protector-ector much)

     

    It wasn’t Enzo’s fault at first
    he only was a little Sprite,
    At best he was the worst but then
    he slowly learned to do it right,

    And just as he was getting skilled
    a Game came down he couldn’t win,
    I thought for sure they’d both been killed,
    first Bob then Enzo, not again!

     

    (And just as he was getting skilled a Game came down he couldn’t win)
    (She thought for sure they’d both been killed, first Bob then Enzo, not again!)

     

    I went from Game to Game
    I aged, I grew and lost my innocence,
    I soon became enraged by each
    and ev’ry bad experience,

    The Sprite you knew was gone
    I had become a grim aggressor man,
    I knew from that point on
    that I was truly Bob’s successor man.

     

    (The Sprite we knew was gone, he had become a grim aggressor man)
    (He knew from that point on that he was truly Bob’s successor man)

     

    I met up with the Webriders
    and took the form of Interface,
    I joined my gun with pirate swords
    and sailed the seas of cyberspace,

    And when at last the pair of us
    were fin’lly reunited guys,
    Our shouts of joy did blare because
    we really were delighted guys.

     

    We soon made tracks to Mainframe
    so our friends could reunite with us,
    We made it back and Megabyte
    was waiting there to fight with us.

    When Bob went face to face
    to face to face with Hexadecimal…

     

    …his chances for survival shrank from small to infin’tesimal.

     

    (His chances for survival shrank from small to infin’tesimal)
    (His chances for survival shrank from small to infin’tesimal)
    (His chances for survival shrank from small to infin’tesi-esi-mal)

     

    Bob helped to defragment my head
    while Matrix fought with Megabyte,
    I thought he’d wind up dead
    but Matrix put up a terrific fight.

    I’d dreamed of this each lonely night
    of doing in that virus trash,
    But just as I had won the fight
    he engineered a system crash!

     

    (You dreamed of this each lonely night of doing in that virus trash)
    (But just as you had won the fight he engineered a system crash)

     

    What Megabyte had hoped to do
    was cause his death to crack us up,
    I gambled on the User to ReBoot
    and thereby back us up.

    It worked! We all were born anew
    and rid of things barbaric,
    And now we’re back together,
    Ev’rything’s alphanumeric!

     

    (It worked, we all were born anew and rid of things barbaric)
    (And now we’re back together, ev’rything’s alphanumeric)

     

    And now we’re back together,
    EVERYTHING IS ALPHANUMERIC!!

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      13 hours ago

      Only watched the first season, but it’s very fun, very corny, and full of tech puns. I’d say it’s aged decently well though.

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        I know, I saw every episode at least 10 times. I even had the official Reboot merch sweater back in the day. It was one of my favorite sweaters and I wore it till the print came off.

        To this day whenever I talk to my brothers and we ask each other a question we don’t know we’ll say: “No one knows for sure, but I intend to find out. Reboot!”

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      14 hours ago

      I’m jealous that you get to experience this show for the first time. Season 3 is incredible.

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    19 hours ago

    The live action sequel of ReBoot made for Netflix, ReBoot: The Guardian Code, is a wild one. Imagine Video Game High School crossed over with Power Rangers but is actually the plot of Tron.

    Seriously, super cheesy. I’m embarrassed knowing it exist let alone having watched at least two episodes.

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    19 hours ago

    Can someone explain why a remaster is wanted on a technical level? This show had a very unique art and animation style. The only show I can think of that might come this close is Transformers: Beast Wars.

    Does a Google search… right, because it was also a Mainframe show.

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      19 hours ago

      Remaster doesn’t change the original art or animation. Sometimes it is a rerender of original source files. Sometimes it is a treatment of the existing master files. It just adds fidelity to the picture and sometimes audio. Fixes things like low framerate, weird lighting effects, that kind of thing.

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          The intent is to make the distributed version more true to the real original. None of us got to see the original. The original is a bunch of data on various machines. What we saw was a low quality save file of the original, cut down and watered down to the specs of 4:3 CRT televisions and broadcast hardware of the time. That version develops artefacts not intended when distributed on modern media.

          Now this probably isn’t using original source files but it is possible. Remaster as a term also is used when they take the final master copy and rerun it through more modern technologies to get a cleaner output which is what I expect happened here.

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          18 hours ago

          Increased framerate alone would make any CGI content more watchable.

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    19 hours ago

    Oh wow this is fantastic!! I really hope LMG gets all the masters copied in this quality. What a treat!