{"id":552,"date":"2004-04-08T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2020-11-09T13:58:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T18:58:55","slug":"predators_and_abandonware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"predators and abandonware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">[ <b>current selection<\/b> | suba \u2013 <i>felicidade<\/i> ]<br>[ <b>feelin\u2019<\/b> | <i>nippy<\/i> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">hokay\u2026two things for today. and theyre not even of the same category, but will nonetheless be placed into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/journal\/archives\/cat_gaming_toys.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gaming + toys<\/a> because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/journal\/archives\/cat_cin3ma_television.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cin3ma<\/a> is ridiculously overflowing. and frankly i havent been able to figure out how to code the templates properly to show multiple categories either\u2026so there ya go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">theres a second behind-the-scenes featurette up today on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/fox\/avp\/featurette2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alien vs. predator<\/a> site. and this ones infinitely better than both the first featurette and the teaser combined because they take a detailed look at the alien and predator costumes. the predators in particular have a more varied look now, because theyre dealing with a whole clan as opposed to an individual. some of the classic predator weapons have also been given a bit of a face-lift. the forearm blades are significantly longer than the previous versions, and the shoulder-mounted cannons come in varying calibers\u2026big and holy shit. the production team is also creating more alien costumes, as opposed to computer generated ones, which i think is pretty coo. the original <i>alien<\/i> movies didnt use cg, and they looked great. so definitely take a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><b>home of the underdogs<\/b><br>theres also a coo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/games\/0,2101,62975,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> on wired today about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-underdogs.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">home of the underdogs<\/a>, the website that hosts a collection of abandonware\u2026games so old that their publishers have pretty much abandoned them. the article looks at whats considered abandonware and whats not\u2026and goes into why publishers even abandon a game in the first place. abandonware technically isnt even legal, but many times the publishers have nothing to gain by retaining these games. and many times theyre not even sure who owns what. many companies go under, get bought out, or merge\u2026so the legal rights to certain games (particularly the older games) get lost in the shuffle. lately tho, many game companies have begun remaking older titles. so who knows, many of these titles might hit the shelves again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/fox\/avp\/featurette2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">avp second featurette<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinescape.com\/0\/editorial.asp?aff_id=0&amp;this_cat=Movies&amp;action=page&amp;type_id=&amp;cat_id=270338&amp;obj_id=41225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cinescape<\/a>)<br>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/journal\/archives\/000224.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">avp first featurette post<\/a><br>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/games\/0,2101,62975,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abandonware<\/a> (via wired)<br>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-underdogs.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">home of the underdogs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/abandonware1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/abandonware1.jpg 280w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/abandonware1-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/abandonware1-250x321.jpg 250w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/abandonware1-140x180.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ current selection | suba \u2013 felicidade ][ feelin\u2019 | nippy ] hokay\u2026two things for today. and theyre not even of the same category, but will nonetheless be placed into gaming + toys because cin3ma is ridiculously overflowing. and frankly i havent been able to figure out how to code the templates properly to show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8316,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/8316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}