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- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 6 days ago:
Then you just answered your question yourself…
Brings me back to my previous comment as to why you ask this question. Seems like you’re just here to make a statement rather than post a genuine question.
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 1 week ago:
Really? Why would it be a bad idea to bring a sign to a protest? Can’t think of any reason.
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 1 week ago:
Wrong community mate. This isn’t a place for politics. This is a place for honest questions.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
Why do you ask this question here? Do you actually want to know?
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 week ago:
He means it as a placeholder for whomever the previous commenter identifies himself. It’s a response to him addressing vegetarians but not specifying what we should call him.
- Comment on "Mickey 17" releases digitally on March 25 — only 18 days after its theatrical debut 1 week ago:
You can pirate your digital copy and support the artists in ways that don’t support streaming. You can buy blurays for example, rip them using MakeMKV to get a digital copy. It’s piracy, but it supports a business model that’s at least somewhat based on ownership.
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 1 week ago:
No I’m also talking about resolution too. You can tell on 100 inches. On 100 inches a 1080p pixel is more than one millimeter in diameter. You can definitely see that when you sit 3 meters away from the screen. 4k will give you visibly more sharpness. Provided of course that you don’t butcher your movie with terrible bitrate compression.
- Comment on "Mickey 17" releases digitally on March 25 — only 18 days after its theatrical debut 1 week ago:
Let’s stay on topic. I’d like to know from you how piracy protest can force studios to change their business models? Enlighten me.
The way I see it studios will double down on their shitty business practices the more people do piracy. The exact opposite of what pirate’s protests intend to accomplish. Because the only people who are left paying are paying for the shitty business models. So shitty business practices are the most profitable way. Instead of not paying at all, a better solution would be to pay for good alternative solutions. Like buying merch, buying blurays, going to theatres. If everyone does that, shitty business practices will become unprofitable.
- Comment on Why hasn't video quality improved much over the past ten years? 1 week ago:
Depends on your setup. On my 100 inch projector screen you can immediately tell when it’s not 4k. And low bitrates (like Netflix) become especially noticable with rubber banding and loss of sharpness.
- Comment on "Mickey 17" releases digitally on March 25 — only 18 days after its theatrical debut 1 week ago:
You’re wrong. If the best way for studios to make money is streaming, then restricing access to the corresponding streaming service is their best way to make money. And they will do it.
Pirates might believe they protest against this practice. But actually, they just fuel this system even further by not voting with their money for alternatives. And there ARE alternatives: buy blurays, go to theatres, buy merch. Pirates will soon realize that these alternatives will also disappear. ‘Protesting’ with pirating is not going to help that.
- Comment on "Mickey 17" releases digitally on March 25 — only 18 days after its theatrical debut 1 week ago:
You won’t find it. 99% of times it’s re-encoded. Getting the original bluray is always better and easier too. You can always just rip it yourself using MakeMKV for your Plex or Jellyfin library.
Plus, when you spend some money on your entertainment you guarantee to get more movies you like in the future. Money is the best way to vote for better TV. If everyone who actually cares about good movies goes to not pay for it, then streaming will replace theatres alltogether and we’ll only get trash movies locked to streaming services. The industry goes where most of the money is.
- Comment on "Mickey 17" releases digitally on March 25 — only 18 days after its theatrical debut 1 week ago:
I don’t pirate them in the way you think I do. I buy blu-rays and rip them for convenient digital access. I don’t share the files with others. I disagree with piracy in general. Piracy and streaming services are the reason why movies suck these days.
- Comment on If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies. Then can I compress it further by making it an iso? 1 week ago:
I gave up encoding movies with Handbrake. I can always see the difference in the resulting picture quality and if I don’t, the file is probably only reduced from 80gb to 70gb and it’s not worth it.
I usually just rip the blu-rays, strip out the unnecessary languages and leave the rest as it is.
- Comment on If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies. Then can I compress it further by making it an iso? 1 week ago:
80 gb is not a lot for movies. My average 4K movie is between 60 and 80 gb per movie. If you start encoding and compressing them you start seing compression artifacts and reduction in quality very quickly.
- Comment on "Mickey 17" releases digitally on March 25 — only 18 days after its theatrical debut 1 week ago:
Hell yea!
- Comment on "Mickey 17" releases digitally on March 25 — only 18 days after its theatrical debut 1 week ago:
Will there be a Blu-ray UHD release?
- Comment on "Mickey 17" releases digitally on March 25 — only 18 days after its theatrical debut 1 week ago:
Digitally also means Blu-ray. I’ve got my own theatre at home. And the picture and sound quality is much better too.
- Comment on Can someone recommend me a wireless headset? 2 weeks ago:
Get something with a good mic. You and your friends will thank me later.
I’ve got the Razer BlackShark V2. Don’t know whether it’s the best but the mic sounds almost like a studio mic. Never had any issues with it.
- Comment on Paramount Posts $286M Fourth Quarter Streaming Loss, Gains 5.6M Subs 2 weeks ago:
Yes we know. Good for you. Now you can stop spamming this everywhere.
- Comment on Paramount Posts $286M Fourth Quarter Streaming Loss, Gains 5.6M Subs 2 weeks ago:
Most people rotate.
- Comment on AMC Theatres Is Having Regrets About Caving to Studios 3 weeks ago:
That’s what I never understand. They people are already subscribed to the streaming service. Why not squeeze the extra money through theatres as long as possible?
- Comment on Amazon MGM's Best Bet to Protect James Bond's Legacy: Hire Christopher Nolan 3 weeks ago:
I an
- Comment on The Highest-Paid Actors Of 2024 (Including all earnings, film salaries, & other forms of income) - The Rock Tops the List with $88M 3 weeks ago:
That doesn’t make him good though.
- Comment on The Highest-Paid Actors Of 2024 (Including all earnings, film salaries, & other forms of income) - The Rock Tops the List with $88M 3 weeks ago:
He’s terrible.
- Comment on Speculative Evolution 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Inflation? 6 months ago:
This is a phenomenon that’s literally thousands of years old. It’s just basic economics. If there was good competition, there wouldn’t be any price gauging. And that’s the regulator’s fault not the company’s.
- Comment on US wants to break up Google, Deepin 23, SteamOS for everyone: Linux & Open Source News 7 months ago:
Wtf is tilvids dot com?!
- Comment on Valve lifts NDA on Deadlock, streaming and talking about the game is now allowed. 7 months ago:
Valve doing their Valve thing.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 7 months ago:
It’s beyond me how they can affors all of these free games and exclusive but not a single capable developer to make this platform beyond just the bare minimum.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 7 months ago:
I gave Epic’s store a chance but even after all this time it’s still shit and very far from feature parity with Epic. There’s not even proper reviews. No big-picture equivalent. No good out-of-the-box Linux support. No Steam-Deck. The list is very very long. Until Epic starts delivering, the 30% cut Valve takes is more than justified.
