Ertebolle

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that was more-or-less Werner Herzog's natural delivery, they just had him go in and read a buncha lines; somebody decided that Basically Werner Herzog was the right fit for that character and then they went out and got him to do it.

  (I imagine this is how Stephen Tobolowsky gets many of his acting jobs too)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn't discount Harris' innate advantages there too; he was 10 years older than Gambon, aged more poorly (having been an alcoholic hellraiser in his younger years), and his natural delivery - even when he was much younger - had that sort-of wizened wheezing sound to it; "old and physically frail but with incredible magic power" was sort of baked in even before he added any actual acting to the mix.

  But I don't know if there's an alternative who would have been better in that regard; the three I'm aware of them talking about were Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, and Peter O'Toole, but the latter two would have played him very much like Gambon did, and I'm not sure if Lee could have pulled off "frail" either given his voice + physical stature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the few non-Avengers in the list of all-time highest grossing actors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One of Chief O'Brien's more elaborate holodeck simulations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  With him, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, and Alan Rickman all gone, the only members of the Hogwarts Professor Tontine left are Maggie Smith and Warwick Davis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people crave the flat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mortadella Philistine

  My name is Mortadella Philistine

  There's a million meats I haven't seen

  Just you wait, just you wait...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Lord of the Rings special effects studio is making a cozy hobbit game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Stardewification of everything continues - can't wait until Half-Life 3 finally comes out and it turns out that Black Mesa has purchased a dilapidated farm in the countryside that they've taken Gordon Freeman out of stasis to restore for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Todd Howard doesn't do what Todd Howard does for Todd Howard. Todd Howard does what Todd Howard does because Todd Howard is... Todd Howard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Danny Masterson Is Sentenced to 30 Years to Life in Prison for Two Rapes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He's 47 now, so when he gets out he'll be 2/3 of the way through his own 70's show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solve this wordsearch 😛⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  a, I, it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think - correctly or incorrectly - a lot of people perceive the typical Burning Man attendee nowadays as being a rich and/or famous person who is somewhere between indifferent to + amused by the suffering of other people less fortunate than they. And - again, not saying this is correct - they perceive this as being more of an annoying/inconvenient/uncomfortable thing (lots of wallowing in filth, but only 1 death AFAIK) than an actual tragedy; totally different order of magnitude from what just happened in Florida, for example.

  So it's less serious than an actual disaster, and affects much more deserving people; if, heaven forbid, a bomb went off and hundreds of people died it would be a very different story, and certainly in that case I don't think any decent person would laugh about it, but a bunch of rich assholes stuck in the mud playing "Survivor" for a week is much more farce than tragedy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield - Review Thread (87/100 OpenCritic)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm thinking Steam Deck. Or wait for the Switch 2 and expect a port to that (Microsoft seems to have no problem putting exclusives on Nintendo platforms, c.f. Ori)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollywood strikes to cost US economy $5 billion-plus amid lost wages, film delays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing the studios don't seem to appreciate about this is that once they can have an AI generate Iron Man 7, so can any other schlub; you can say you want to watch a movie where Iron Man enters a mini-golf tournament with Genghis Khan and the 1927 New York Yankees and it'll make one for you.

  There are 3 possible outcomes, basically:

  1. AI is never more than a curiosity as far as movie making and this whole argument was pointless;

  2. AI gets good enough to replace a lot of the capital-incentive grunt work of movie making, like VFX, but not high-level creative work like writing / directing / production design, so making AAA movies gets cheaper and the big studios lose power while indie studios gain more;

  3. AI gets as good at making movies as humans are, in which case we don't need studios at all.

  None of these are good for them; the status quo is actually the least bad outcome. The real game, I suspect, is that they hope that they can convince writers that AI is a big enough threat to a) make concessions in other areas to stop it and b) be grateful they're still employed at all; a world where AI actually replaces creative talent on films is a world where we don't need studios at all anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs & More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t own an Xbox or PC, I’m going to wait until they decide milking money out of an old game > exclusivity and play with the future GOTY edition on a smart refrigerator or a Playdate or whatever other weird platform they repackage it for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The butchered this beautiful cake 😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at the mess they made of my boy...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrinkflation is out of control⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You'd think with a wrap it'd be easier to just stuff it with cheap starch and keep it looking big and satisfying in the display case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrinkflation is out of control⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  "I would like you do us a favor, though" - Earl of Warwick, probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrinkflation is out of control⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my grocer has been sold out of Ukrainian Salmon for months, only kind they've had in stock is Hungarian Salmon and that's got way too much paprika on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart from water and salt, are there any inorganic foods?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A number of food additives don't contain any carbon atoms; if you follow the links from the Wikipedia article on food additives you can find a bunch, for example sodium bisulfate which is a color retention agent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Margolis, Actor on ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul,’ Dies at 83⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That's not the way I remember it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Margolis, Actor on ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul,’ Dies at 83⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Best ratio of screen time to cultural impact since Hannibal Lecter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Preorders exploded after news came out about bear sex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sick burn, enjoy your elf-infused masturbation dude

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Married with a wife who has no problem with watching actual porn, but thanks for playing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Baldur's Gate 3 came out, Steam's overall bandwidth consumption went from around 18 Tbps to 146 Tbps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Socially acceptable T&A, same reason everybody was into The Witcher

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨funny because true⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  "I can, I just don't want to be"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 is Out Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  According to their listed requirements, yes. In practice, haven't tested myself but the M2 is a bit better performance-wise than their minimum card on Windows (a GTX 970, when the M2 is closer to a GTX 1060) so I imagine it'll work but not exactly with maxed-out settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 is Out Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  macOS getting a new game before PS5 does is downright cruel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 is Out Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep - M1 optimized too, so it actually runs well on Mac.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Party Time: Baldur's Gate 3 is Out Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hardly any mention of this from Apple or their associated media, despite the fact that an AAA game launching a Mac port on day 1 is virtually unheard-of in 2023.