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- Comment on r/bald is whatever the male equivalent of a magical girl transformation is 3 hours ago:
bill bailey would beg to differ.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
thank goodness replies are private
- Comment on What do I need to know about the Odyssey before watching the film? 3 days ago:
i don’t have any idea what that means. all i know is, the only times i’ve been to an imax it was cramped, hot, and loud, the stairs were dangerously steep, the theatre seated like 50 people, and you had to constantly look around to follow what was happening because rather than filming in a way that supports a large screen, e.g. a small focus area with immersive backgrounds around it, they film it like normal with closeups, dynamic camera angles swooping around during action, and two-camera conversations.
you just felt like a fly spying on giant people. an ambilight tv and a pair of headphones would have been more immersive.
- Comment on What do I need to know about the Odyssey before watching the film? 3 days ago:
i’m fine with that, i can’t stand imax theaters. way too loud and you get neck pain from the size of the screen.
- Comment on What do I need to know about the Odyssey before watching the film? 3 days ago:
i’d think the point of any good film is to be a self-contained experience. a huge film like this is meant to be seen by everyone, no matters their knowledge on greek mythology.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
they built a lemmy frontend that silently fetches a list of people and communities the creator doesn’t like from a server and just… erases them from the ui. people were upset that there was basically a hit list for them compiled for no apparent reason, and when pressed about why he thought anyone would think this was a good idea the dev just left.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 4 days ago:
it doesn’t look like it’s moving though. and considering how many things in portal 2 move when they look stationary or vice versa…
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 4 days ago:
you can in one specific spot in portal 2!
- Comment on We are so back! 5 days ago:
the beans are back in town~🎶
- Comment on 6 days ago:
that’s probably not true for most people. there are over 30 local versions of sesame street created in different countries, with different focus, cast, and stories, but with the same general aesthetic and target audience.
the swedish one took place in a theater and only got two seasons.
- Comment on Peak Fiction 🐐 6 days ago:
ayn rand?
- Comment on Make it so 1 week ago:
since energy is a property of matter rather than something on its own, it would be more like a totally inelastic collision.
but while we’re on sci-fi, what if negative enerfy is possible in a moving reference frame?
- Comment on A masturbator 1 week ago:
☑️ i’m in this picture and i don’t like it
- Comment on Day 735 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
i don’t remember much about the dlcs, other than one of them being a tower defence game for some reason?
- Comment on Day 733 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
aaaahaha, the “tv at your parents” filter.
- Comment on Protect consumers my ass! 🤦🏻😡 1 week ago:
i’m thinking back to the blu-ray decryption key thing, where a key was spread in the form of a flag and therefore didn’t count as copyrighted material. of course live broadcasts use rotating keys anyway so it’s not possible to do that.
a streaming site can be a private thing if it is gated by some kind of login, so that’s also a way of getting around the issue.
what complicates it even more is that we here are even allowed to save media from any source for personal use, and we pay a “private copying tax” on all storage media purchases because of that. RAM included. what constitutes “personal use” is also a bit diffuse but seems to hinge on whether it’s for profit.
so technically, as long as it touches a storage device, and as long as it’s not publically available (e.g. passworded or something), and i am not charging for it, it should be entirely legal here.
- Comment on Protect consumers my ass! 🤦🏻😡 1 week ago:
it’s weird when it comes to broadcasting though. they send the match footage to everyone over the air, but only those who pay get the decryption key. so is the footage the ip, or the key? furthermore, if i pay for the key, then let a friend watch at my place, is that ip theft? if i go to their place and re-stream the footage from my house so we can watch from there, is that ip theft? if i leave but they keep watching, is that ip theft? if they get a friend to come over and watch, is that ip theft?
the definition seems to be that hosting a restreaming service (“pirate iptv”) is ip theft, but narrowing it down isn’t really possible.
there was a study here a few years ago by a digital rights company that estimated how much iptv piracy cost the rightsholders. using their numbers everyone in the country would have had to pay 200€ a month for tv for the result to make sense.
so yeah ip theft isn’t fun, but when the big corporations constantly lie about it and go after people who isn’t even aware they’re doing it i tend to side with the consumer.
- Comment on Choo Chooo 1 week ago:
god i can’t wait for century of steam
i mean i can, that’s what’s gonna make it so good, but you know
- Comment on Day 734 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
you’re getting there with the colours, but that last image is waaaay blown out in the reds.
ac2 and co are all really nice places to just… exist in. makes sense they got the tourism modes added on. i heard somewhere that they took the most detailed scans ever made of venice at the time, and that they were used in city planning after the games.
that guy is definitely a case of incorrect texturing; that’s what happens when you point both eyes in a wrap-around head texture in the same direction. it’s why most head textures are cross-eyed, or rather, why most close-up head models have separate eyes <insert the horrifying ac unity floating eyeball picture>.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
what is it with the recent influx of people who only posts “i’m gay and everyone around me fucks”? am i the only one noticing this? violet vibes, but at least they stick around for a while.
- Comment on Day 733 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
same, i found the perspective shifts interesting in bf but when you know it has no resolution there’s no purpose.
also do you think it feels dead because you… looked at it with the saturation all blown out first? :P jokes aside ac2 is a bit dream-like in its presentation so while i don’t see the piss-filter thing i do concede that the palette is uh… soft. the two spinoffs are more bright, if i remember correctly, but then again it has been almost 15 years since i played them.
- Comment on Saab or Your mom 1 week ago:
architects, i think it was. so yes.
- Comment on Day 733 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
lots of different warm ochre tones on italian buildings of the time:
if most of these look the same then i think that’s just you.
- Comment on Day 733 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
i went back to look at screenshots and honestly i don’t see it.
- Comment on Day 733 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
oof, that colour looks way oversaturated. i found the colour grading of ac2 to be really nice, it really gave the cityscapes personality. try toggling reshade in different places.
and yeah people hated the modern day story beats and arbitrary gating, especially in ac4 and forward when desmond wasn’t the main character anymore. makes sense the remake stripped all that out.
- Comment on Just everywhere 1 week ago:
IT’S GONNA MOOOOOVE
- Comment on Vroooooom! 1 week ago:
valve float can happen for all sorts of reasons; revving too high, bad lubrication, cam geometry, wrong springs… but if it has float now and didn’t before then yeah it’s definitely wear.
- Comment on Works for slugs too 1 week ago:
and chickens
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 1 week ago:
that’s interesting because i had the exact same reaction during my recent trip to the uk. maybe it’s just a matter of the force being applied differently than we’re used to.
- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 1 week ago:
ring-mains are the reason everything needs to be fused, because a short in one appliance could otherwise take out an entire building. they’re not used in new construction, and afaik are also being taken out of older buildings.
also schuko is the better plug because it has the same security feature as the british one but it’s reversible, recessed, and you can’t step on an upturned one in the middle of the night.
