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- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 3 days ago:
If you enjoy the game you should check out The Traitors with its many international variants. I was surprised to read that the productions provide psychologists to help the contestants as it gets traumatic, but when I watched the first UK season there were a lot of people getting into emotional distress.
There have been a lot of people cast who really shouldn’t be on the show; it’s just a game!
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 3 days ago:
I suspect if something was shot on film for distribution in theaters any special effects will look just fine in the scan. If it was shot on film for SD TV the effects probably won’t hold up, but hopefully it’s nothing critical enough to be a big deal!
- Comment on Wallace & Gromit fans appalled by the AI upscaling on new 4K UHD release 4 days ago:
If I’m getting 4K content I want that to be a 4K scan of original 35mm (or better) film. I’m not paying for an AI upscale that I can probably do myself for similar quality. If there is no 35mm source (such as it originating on 16mm or electronic television cameras) just give it to me at the best original resolution; 2K/HD or even SD are perfectly fine if that’s the original version.
I’m fine with the HD/4K conversions some older shows like Seinfeld or Friends got because those were originally shot on film (thank you Lucille Ball) so there’s an original source that’s relatively easy to go back to and just apply the edits, although sometimes I would prefer if they kept the original 4:3 aspect ratio instead of changing to 16:9. Sometimes the framing is a little off or they lose a subtle joke.
The one area I’d be okay with a little AI upscale (if it’s done well) mixed in is if there are effects shots mixed in that were only ever intended for SD viewing. I first saw this with Family Matters of all shows, showing it to my kid. They’ve scanned the film up to HD but some of Steve’s “experiments” look pretty jarring mixed in.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 week ago:
Not too much earlier; Wikipedia says the game was invented in 1986 by psychology student Dimitry Davidoff, a psychology student at Moscow State University.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 week ago:
I started working in local TV news 17 years ago. I figured out pretty quickly there’s enough actual news happening to fill the 24-hour cable channels, but sending out reporters and photographers (maybe even producers) is expensive. It’s much cheaper to just have somebody in the studio blabbering on about a few things and trying to stoke reactions from the audience. It can even build a bigger audience than actual news.
Sports radio and TV is an even bigger (though less damaging) example of this. They have a lot of time to fill when games aren’t on, and a lot of times they just put someone on who will give the dumbest take possible just to get the audience mad and have an argument with someone else in the studio or even let the audience call in to argue.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 week ago:
Even better, the “violent video game” they’re blaming is Among Us!
screenshot of NBC article
(Not my screenshot, and I haven’t actually read the article) - Comment on What are your favourite trailers? 1 week ago:
I always enjoyed the Portal 2 trailers with Cave Johnson
- Comment on Anon is an engineer 2 weeks ago:
I’m kind of surprised; most colleges and universities I’ve seen still have a ceremony for people graduating at the end of the fall semester. It’s not nearly as elaborate as the one ending the spring semester, but it’s still something.
Still, most of life is going to be like that. Usually no real ceremonies for the last day on the job. Move out of your old house/apartment is a lot of work at the end and then you lock the door for the last time.
Congratulations, you’re an adult now.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 3 weeks ago:
Burn it down! Burning people. He says what we’re all thinking.
- Comment on Detective Lieutenant Columbo is asked to say a few words at the Dean Martin roast of Frank Sinatra 4 weeks ago:
“I know you got other speakers, so I’m not gonna take a lot of time.”
Proceeds to take up nearly ten minutes of the show just fumbling around
- Comment on Fig. 1: Got your nose. 5 weeks ago:
They look very unhappy about it!
- Comment on USA President term limits 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t know he tried for a third term but I’m also not surprised from what I know of him
- Comment on Why is the word "expat" a thing? 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for this; I was thinking expat would be closer to emigrant than immigrant. I associate expat and emigrant with describing where someone is from while immigrant describes where someone has arrived.
- Comment on USA President term limits 5 weeks ago:
And just an addendum for non-Americans who also aren’t likely/don’t have time to click the links, FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) was elected to 4 terms but died 82 days into his 4th term. He was succeeded by the vice president, Harry S. Truman.
Prior to FDR all presidents had voluntarily limited themselves to 2 terms following the precedent of the first president, George Washington. FDR’s running for a 3rd term was controversial at the time; in 1940 the U.S. had not yet joined the Second World War and intervening was still controversial, although opposition dwindled with the fall of France. Interestingly, FDR seeking a 4th term was much less controversial with the U.S. in the thick of the war in 1944. The constitution was amended a few years later to make sure it didn’t happen again, though.
- Comment on Are there ways to use VR headset for realtime assistance? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe ask in !virtualreality@lemmy.world? It seems to be the largest community
- Comment on Anon has a realization 5 weeks ago:
Anon avoids a predator
- Comment on aerodynamics 1 month ago:
That looks like a TJ generation. I’ve also seen these with the JK (usually compared with a cow). I’d be curious to see the JL/JT, though, because they did a very clever job of rounding it off while making it look like it’s still flat.
- Comment on Gandalf failed to consider incest, half my ancestors are related baby 1 month ago:
I know what community I’m on but this really has me wondering how far back people have to go to find overlaps in their family trees. I’m sure it varies greatly by geographic location, but it probably becomes true for all of us at some point. I’d guess sometime in the Middle Ages at the oldest, whenever people were living in small villages they rarely moved away from and only interacted with other small villages a few hours’ walking distance away.
- Comment on Gandalf failed to consider incest, half my ancestors are related baby 1 month ago:
I’ve read that in Iceland basically everyone is related if you go back far enough and people often look up what degree of cousin they are so they can see if it meets a level they’re comfortable with or feel like they’re too closely related to risk producing offspring.
- Comment on Yep, it's me 1 month ago:
Eh, sometimes getting kids started like this can spark their interest.
- Comment on Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone? 1 month ago:
I wasn’t thinking about it in this way, but that makes sense. When I was a teenager I was going to a dermatologist for acne treatment. When I started college for whatever reason I wound up with appointments on Mondays a few times. This was probably around 2005 and while computerized calendars were a thing, mobile calendars were not widespread except with PDAs like Palm Pilot and I wasn’t using them, nor did I use a paper calendar to organize my schedule. In retrospect this was a bad idea with my then-undiagnosed ADHD. Anyway, the doctor’s office had this helpful automated phone reminder system that would call you the day before your appointment so if you needed to cancel/reschedule you could do it enough in advance that there wasn’t a penalty for late cancellation. The only problem was it didn’t take into account the weekends, so if your appointment was on a Monday it would call you on Sunday and if you canceled no one from the office would know until Monday morning and you’d get hit with a late cancellation fee. I think I actually did that 3 times and they sent me a letter saying they were dropping me as a patient. I felt that was unfair because their system should’ve been smart enough to call on Friday, but also I wasn’t really doing the prescribed acne treatments much at that point and I think I was getting old enough it kind of went away on its own around then anyways, so I didn’t mind not paying for the visits and medicine anymore. I’m still annoyed as an adult in my 40s, though, because I think that practice is supposed to have some of the better doctors in the area for skin cancer and I’m not sure if they’d still remember and not let me come if I ever needed treatment or screening for that.
- Comment on Anon takes their dog for a walk 1 month ago:
Classic college behavior
- Comment on The Butterfly Man 2 months ago:
OP: *posts about wanting to marry a stranger on twitter*
OP: *finds and follows said stranger on twitter*
Stranger: *reads through his new follower’s twitter timeline, responds to marriage comments *
OP:
surprised pikachu - Comment on How do you even post that much 2 months ago:
Kbin was a project from a solo developer who also ran the main instance but had his real life (health issues, IIRC) demand all his time in the past few months. He had to abandon the project and the instance. Since it was open source it got forked and is continuing under the new Mbin project.
- Comment on Funky Little Rodents 2 months ago:
I saw a video from a dairy farmer once explaining how his automated milking machines worked. The cows bring themselves to the machines, and as an inducement they get the tastiest feed while they’re milked. The cows wear RFID collars so the machines know which cow is which. This serves for a lot of purposes (like identifying when a cow has a teat that isn’t producing so they don’t try to milk that one) but the one that made me laugh was blocking some cows that keep trying to come back because they want the good feed. The system’s like, “no, you were here five minutes ago, you don’t need to be milked again!”
- Comment on What do sister communities refer to? 2 months ago:
I’ve assumed they don’t necessarily all have the same mods, and are usually much smaller, niche communities that on Reddit at least wouldn’t see much traffic and wouldn’t necessarily have to worry about spam the way the fediverse does. And I could be making up a distinction between sister/partner communities that doesn’t actually exist just going from my own assumptions.
- Comment on What do sister communities refer to? 2 months ago:
I don’t think there’s any official distinction but what seemed to be an informal convention I noticed on Reddit was that sister communities were related topics (probably with some coordination/agreement among the communities’ mods) whereas partner communities tended to be related topics that had the same mod(s). Usually the latter might be something where any individual community would be less active so it would be easier for someone to moderate multiple communities.
For an example using music styles, maybe c/ClassicRock might list c/ClassicPunk, c/PsychedelicRock, and c/Prog as sister communities. If someone modded c/PinkFloyd, c/TheWho, and c/DeepPurple they might be listed as partner communities.
- Comment on show them the way 2 months ago:
As a non-scientist, previously working in broadcast television for over a decade, this hurts me, even more knowing this is destined for print. Surely your software can export those as proper, higher-resolution image files!
This hurts me as much as when I caught a young reporter, fresh out of university, making a basic graphic in Photoshop and instead of exporting the finished product, she took a screenshot and pasted it into Premiere. I stopped her, showed her how to do it the correct way, and the way she thanked me left it pretty clear she was going to continue with her wrong way once I left.
- Comment on What is the current best smart TV software/brand/ecosystem option? 2 months ago:
Chromecast did get better once they added a remote, and they finally got YouTube TV to work well with switching family accounts. I’ll have to try that launcher because I’m unimpressed with trying to find the different apps.
I still find Roku to be one of the simplest to use, but they do seem like they’re starting to turn more evil.
I have never enjoyed the experience with any Amazon Fire TV and they’ve always seemed laggy.
Apple TV is of course the most expensive but seems to do less selling of user data. Everyone else’s devices seem to sell at cost and then make up the difference on subscription sales and seeing user data. The remote is not great, though. My wife is always struggling with it and hitting the wrong thing. I’m more comfortable with it, but still find the touchpad jumping me to the wrong thing at times. I have seen third-party remotes that aim to eliminate the trackpad problem. I’ve considered buying one hoping it will make it easier for my wife, but paying another $20 for a remote for a system that’s already 3x the competition is annoying. Of course, if you have an iPhone you can also use that as a remote.
If you have a gaming console, especially Xbox or PlayStation, it can fill the role of streaming device. You can buy remote controls that are more user-friendly than the game controller when watching media. Of course, buying a console just to watch content is massive overkill.
I’d suggest not connecting your TV to the Internet and using a separate box for content given how much TV makers want to spy. Streaming boxes might not be much better, though.
- Comment on Was the first SSN to be assigned in the US just 000-00-001? 2 months ago:
It could be used for identity theft in the pre-Internet days, but it was a lot more work to do (though also a good bit harder to catch)
