Frame by Frame: The Hunt for something kind of lost?

I start this article with a question because i really am not sure whether to consider this webshow lost or not i’ll get onto why later on but firstly let me set the scene.

Back in 2013-15 i was interested in The Game Theorists where the series Game Theory is shown and because i was younger i really liked it so in 2015 when the channel gained a sister channel in The Film Theorists i was really interested as i like films (and surprisingly still do). On this channel there were three shows Film Theory like game theory but with film topics instead which was ok, Did you know movies which was like did you know gaming but with film facts and not games and the subject of this article frame by frame. Something that surprises me after watching FBF ,as i’m going to refer to the series as for the rest of this, was that i was drawn to this series as it’s based around the more technical side of films and talked about for example the origins of found footage horror and the origins of film itself. As with a few YouTube series however i did just go away from the channel and the series a few months in.

Now in 2020 i had a video in my recommended from another YouTube channel The Gamer From Mars who made a video on Game Theorists shows that had stopped updating and were lost and not available and the part that stuck out the most for me was the mention of frame by frame and i was wondering what had happened to the show. So i looked it up and found not soon after 7 videos that were uploaded from about the time they were uploaded to the actual channel. Yes someone’s stealing of another’s YouTube videos helped a lot with searching. These videos are easily found and can be watched right now and i will put a link to a playlist at the end so you can watch it if you’d like.

Now on to me actually trying to find more of this series. It’s important to state why i did firstly and that’s mostly because well because i don’t like having things lost and also because i just wanted to enjoy it. So on an upload from that other channel ,which was the FBF mad max fury road video, i looked at the comments mostly to see if there was any info about why the series had gone and while there wasn’t luckily there was a Reddit post which didn’t give a lot of information besides a link to an unlisted video that was on the film theorists channel. This unlisted video and the comments on it made this search very easy. The video i was on by the way was about Valerian and the city of a thousand planets from 2017 which was sponsored by STXfilms ,who i think had something to do with the film, which is definitely why it’s still up but unlisted. Now in the comments for this video i found that someone had made and posted a PDF after going through a lot of searching on the wayback machine and finding the videos. This PDF is linked below.

This PDF while not complete with absolutely every video has more than enough on it documenting the 7 uploads from that other channel to the unlisted video I mentioned earlier to a lot more like the Godzilla episode or the episode about la la land which were not available at all outside of the wayback machine. There is some missing however most importantly is the 1st episode which the video can be clicked on but the video was never archived which sucks because it’s the debut to the whole thing. Without the help of this person we really wouldn’t have been able to have a good amount of this series and it really makes me happy that we do. So if they ever read this thank you. But anyways with the help of the wayback machine’s media player you can download these episodes and enjoy them.

Something that does really confuse me about this story though is why did this happen? Disagreements between how something should be run are common and that’s ok but erasing all of the work someone did besides one video with no mention to my knowledge seems off. However Did You Know Movies was also taken down from the channel but did continue on albeit on a different channel. The creator of the series Kyle also seemed to have just kinda disappeared as there was an FBF video uploaded to another youtube channel that archived his older work but this apparently isn’t his at all. There was also word that a lot of his non FBF content was deleted presumably by him but there is no source on that it was but it would make sense as looking at a video he uploaded there was one with the R-slur just there according to the reuploaded channel.

In conclusion FBF is a very interesting series to think and talk about as it’s partially lost but it’s also connected to a huge YouTube channel that is still getting uploaded to and there is pretty much no mention of it outside the unlisted video and the channel trailer which does contain some footage from the 1st episode. I think this situation can also kinda prove that sometimes the internet can be really helpful in finding lost media but also can be the cause of losing this and that some stuff can be lost to time even if it’s big and recent. But is this series lost? Not really but some of it absolutely is like the 1st episode we can though watch a lot of episodes and that’s really good.

Thanks for reading this!

Link to the PDF i mentioned pdf (justpaste.it)

Link to my YouTube playlist (93) Frame By Frame TFT – YouTube

Lego Star Wars Sith Trooper Battle Pack Review (75266)

Yeah i’m doing a Lego review because it’s something i’m really passionate about but don’t really talk about it too much. This set cost £13 in the UK however i got a deal with 2 for £15 when i bought this set.

Minifigures

The main draw for Star Wars battle packs is the figures and this set has 4 of them, 2 Sith Jet Troopers, a Sith Trooper and an officer. I really like these figures i think they’re very detailed and i absolutely love the red colouring of them. The officer is a nice enough addition but i’d rather have another sith trooper or replace a jet trooper with a normal trooper. The biggest issue i have with all of the troopers is that they all have the same face which while covered up does make them look a bit generic underneath and does a bring them down a bit. However all in all i really love the troopers here and the officer is a fairly solid inclusion but i’m not a huge fan.

Accessories

All the minifigures come with stud shooters which are weapons that fire out studs. I don’t particularly love these but they are also kinda fun to use and shoot. Because there’s 4 figures there’s 4 stud shooters and one can clip to the front of the vehicle which is really nice. The jetpack troopers come with their own accessory which is the jetpack consisting of 2 pieces the pack itself and a small plate to connect to the stud on it. I really like this jetpack it fits the design of the armour really well. All in all i like the accessories here but i do wish it came with some normal star wars blasters just so it works more for displaying.

The Build

This set features one build which is a Speeder that can easily fit 2 of the figures sitting and 1 standing up at the front. It has a really nice blue colouring to it which i like and surprising works really well with the red of the sith troopers. It is a very plain build though which is a little bit disappointing it looks very much like a star wars vehicle but nothing more than that and besides the stud shooter it doesn’t have any other features to it really outside of moving it around. I can excuse this for the price though as Lego sets that have more features cost more and obviously the main draw is the figures. There is a small complaint i do have about this build and that is that there are 2 pieces on the bottom of the speeder that do fall off in moving it which really annoys me but all other times it’s ok. I do wish this set did have a very small side build for a command post or something similar as it would make the set feel much bigger.

Ease of Building and Other Notes

For me this set was really easy to build and as such wasn’t very complicated to do outside of trying to find the pieces to put on the speeder but because it was so easy to build i think customising this to your own liking would be very easy to do as well. Because i have 2 of these sets i did try and make something with a lot of the pieces included in the set which ended up being a ship which i really enjoyed building more than the main build actually.

Conclusion

All in all this is a solid Lego set and something i would recommend fans of Lego star wars to buy though i think the other 2020 battle pack is probably more for me as it solves a few of the issues this has like having a side build to it and not having an officer like figure to it. However this is still something i liked and having a sith trooper figure is still going to make me happy because i really like their design. It is also a good set to make more than just the thing on the box with.

Galaxy A40 Review

It’s fun reviewing a piece of technology you use every single day without fail because you kinda always know the ins and outs of how it works. Because of that I decided my 1st review of any kind to be of the Samsung Galaxy A40.

Overview

This Phone is a 2019 Galaxy A series smartphone that came out in Europe and parts of Asia.

Hardware

The Galaxy A40 is powered by an Exynos 7 Octa 7885 SOC and has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. This makes it feel very quick to use when not a lot of apps are open at once but even when a good amount are running the phone still works really well. As I’ll get onto later this chipset and RAM does also help with running games.

The phone also has a 5.9 inch super amoled display which looks beautiful when watching videos as it has lovely colours on it but the screen can get really dim in a lot of light which does make it difficult to use. This phone is also fairly comfortable to use 1 handed but getting the top left hand corner can be difficult.

The phone has a fingerprint scanner on the back which works very well and is also very useful for security purposes. Not as important is the cameras of which it has 3, 2 on the back and 1 on the front in a notch. The front camera does produce some nice images and the back cameras also produce some cool images though the ultra wide camera does look a bit grainy and unappealing at points though that is because it is a 5 megapixel camera and not the 16 of the main camera.

Very important to a phone is battery life and it is not amazing on this phone though as i do use this phone for videos and podcasts alongside some games it probably isn’t representative of how someone else would use it but if you are into using the phone like that well be careful. Handily this phone does charge with USB-C which is delightful to charge the phone with as it’s reversible and i can just put it in regardless of side and it just charges.

Some miscellaneous things the phone has are a headphone jack which is something i really love in a phone as I can plug in headphones easily and an SD card slot which can support up to 512GB of storage. For my usage i have a 64GB card in it. Unfortunately installing the card is a major pain as you have to use a sim ejector tool and that sucks to use.

Overall this phone has great hardware and minus the battery life is really solid for what i need it for.

Software

The phone is running Android 10 (though in 2021 this will be upgraded to Android 11 according to Samsung) and using OneUI 2. Both of these i really enjoy using as they’re very snappy to use and get the job done. The icons for oneUI are a little odd and definitely do look very modern take that as you will but i like them for that reason.

The phone comes preloaded with a lot of apps that are useful but not really at the same time for example it comes with Google Apps like Maps and the Google App alongside Google Assistant which are great and work well on the phone whilst the phone also comes with Facebook and Spotify which i find not as useful though Facebook is far worse. The phone also has a few Samsung apps available like game launcher and Samsung Pay which are nice additions even if they’re not used by me a lot.

As using the phone as a phone ironically isn’t something i pay attention too it works as you can call and text and use mobile data and wifi for internet communication as easily as you’d expect. Calls sound nice on the speaker and texting is really easy to do on the on screen keyboard (I’m using it to type my review lol).

Game Performance

Gaming on this phone is very much a midtier endeavor as the phone can run higher spec games like COD Mobile or PUBG but they don’t run amazingly well and some other games have bizarrely poor performance like SMT Dx2 which ran kinda poorly. This performance put me off trying anything else high spec. However for more lighter games like world box or plague inc. (outside the weird aspect ratio of the app when i played it before a recent patch) they run perfectly and importantly look beautiful on the screen.

Now I didn’t do any benchmarking for my phone because I’m not particularly too interested in doing that so my performance stuff is just based off my eyes as some games didn’t get frame counters either. In general though for stuff i like playing it’s flawless for me.

Conclusion

The Galaxy A40 is probably my favourite phone I’ve ever owned everything outside of the battery life is exactly what I’d want and I’ve had no glaring issues with it at all. Which is a sign of a good phone for me. In the last month I’ve also been using my old J3 2016 and while a lot of the experience is there the A40 is something i love using because it has more to it. (I primarily use my J3 when my A40 is charging). So overall I’d recommend this phone if you can find it cheap as i find it lovely to use

Introduction

Hello there readers! And welcome to my website where contrary to the title it is not just reviews I’m going to do but also provide my insights into topics I want to talk about.

Expect new content when it is ready as providing a release schedule adds too much pressure. But please enjoy my articles and reviews on this website as I’m sure that there’s something for everyone.

There will be both Video Game and Movie reviews available but also some technology reviews like consoles and similar.

Thank you for reading this short introduction and I hope you enjoy.

Ivy (Ivory-Marie)

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