• @[email protected]English
    32•2 years ago

    Fun fact: In France, Saw VI and Saw VII skipped the numbers because Saw 6 is pronounced like saucisse (sausage) and Saw 7 is pronounced like someone having a lisp saying chaussette (sock)

    • make -j8English
      11•2 years ago

      I thought maybe translating “saw” is better, but nah, “La scicisse” et “la sciecette” is pretty cursed too

  • @[email protected]English
    16•2 years ago

    This is where media managers are nice. I used Plex and when the sequels have completely different names I can put them in a collection and sort by year. I’ve started making collection for any series of movies that has more than 4 or 5 movies.

    • naticusEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      Even better, you can do it by editing the “sort title” so even in the library they show up in the order you prefer. So in this case I’d change them to be “Saw 01” through “Saw 10” and I won’t have to mess with a different view for those circumstances. I do need to go back through and edit a handful more of my movies because I’ve slacked off lately.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 years ago

        TIL

        I might like this some things, like the Saw example. My biggest issue is movies like the James Bond series, where the name aren’t pre-fixed. I’m going to expect GoldenEye in the Gs, not in the Js. I also have a collection for the whole Clerks series, but include Mallrats, etc as they all play off each other. The MCU is another one where the titles are dramatically different the pre-fixes on the sort title could go a few different ways.

        I will definitely keep the sort title in mind for when there are small tweaks.

        • naticusEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          Yeah it’s not the end-all-be-all solution for sure, but it helps for a large majority of movie series. I also use Plex Meta Manager to automatically create collections nightly for series, actors, genres, and even a handful of playlists.

          Edit: and to add onto your example of Bond, yeah I just make that a playlist because it’d be way too confusing for me and most people who watching from my server.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 years ago

          Another use for ‘sort title’ is for making collections for things like actors, directors, decades, genres, etc and then sticking them at the top of the library by appending special characters or numbers to the beginning of the sort title, like '#001 Steven Spielberg Collection’s

          Star Wars and Indiana Jones also have this issue with inconsistent titles, which make the default sorting annoying.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 years ago

        I always liked to use year instead of number. That way it sorts the same and if there end up being more than 9 I don’t have to go back and rename it to 09.

        Now I use Jellyfin with the auto collection plugin. It does a great job of grouping everything correctly.

        • naticusEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          I just always do it out of habit when I number movies because of the rare possibility of a series going into double digits. Obviously I wouldn’t need to ever worry about it with LOTR or anything that is definitely over, but regardless it’s not painful to go back and edit.

          Edit: also I’ve considered switching to Jellyfin myself, but I’ve had a Plex Lifetime membership since line 2014 and as annoying as they sometimes are about emailing me, I do like the polish it has.

    • SuperDuperEnglish
      8•2 years ago

      I can’t wait for the 16th mainline installment of Final Fantasy to be released on PC.

        • Zorque
          6•2 years ago

          To be fair, they do kind of start over with most of them. It’s basically a franchise that reboots with every iteration!

      • @[email protected]English
        6•2 years ago

        Final Fantasy XVI - Part2, Disc B; Universe alpha, Chronicles of that emo kid (not the one you though of, the other one)

    • @[email protected]English
      32•2 years ago

      I just watched all the “Final Destination” movies and the 4th one is called “The Final Destination”. Then the went on to make a 5th, and a 6th is in production.

        • Flying SquidEnglish
          5•2 years ago

          We just re-watched Spaceballs last night and I still laughed and laughed. There’s a scene I don’t remember seeing before where Dark Helmet barks an order and a Spaceball replies, “Jawohl, mein Helmet!” And Rick Moranis gives him this look in such a perfectly-timed way that I lost it. Even with the helmet down it worked.

    • SanguineParEnglish
      45•2 years ago

      There have also been eight subsequent Friday 13th-related movies since its “Final Chapter” :-)

      • Flying SquidEnglish
        7•2 years ago

        And Freddy came back after Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare.

  • Resol van LemmyEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I still remember when Windows File Explorer orders 10 before 2 (I still didn’t verify if it still does that and I don’t feel like it)

  • test1 "blob"
    19•2 years ago

    Use Unicode Roman Numerals (U+2160 to U+216B), they are correctly sorted:

    Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ, Ⅴ, Ⅵ, Ⅶ, Ⅷ, Ⅸ, Ⅹ, Ⅺ, Ⅻ

  • @[email protected]English
    7•2 years ago

    I wonder if you could make a context aware sorting system for files. Like if there are a handful of files all similarly named, it could check for sequential numbers and roman numerals and spelled out numbers and just sort them that way.

    • @[email protected]English
      10•2 years ago

      Saw 3D was the marketing name but it’s more commonly referred to as Saw The Final Chapter (the other official name) or Saw VII

      • @[email protected]English
        6•2 years ago

        How TF is it the final chapter then they keep going. I stopped after 2 with the damn pit of needles.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 years ago

          It was the chronological 3nd until the Jigsaw and Spiral reboots which take place 10+ years after the death of Jigsaw. But yeah I only refer to it as Saw VII for that reason

          Saw X takes place between 2 and 3

          Edit: I love Saw 2 for the story development but yeah the needle pit is unbearable I can’t watch that part