Thunderbird4
@Thunderbird4@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple’s engineers carefully designing the last 60 Hz OLED screens on the planet 5 days ago:
The original discussion was whether the human eye sees more than 24 frames per second, and the answer is that it absolutely does. Your context about where the 24fps standard came from is correct, but in the context of the broader discussion, it’s relevant to point out that throughout the 20th century, nobody ever watched those films on displays that refreshed 24 times per second.
Until the the telecine allowed for television broadcast of film in the 1950s, projectors were the ONLY way to view motion picture film, hence their relevance to the discussion. In the 1800s, there were single-bladed projector shutters that flashed the image once per frame and the flickering was highly noticeable and distracting, which is how movies got the nickname “flicks.” The multi-bladed projector shutters give the screen an effective refresh rate of 48-72 Hz, despite the image only changing at 24 Hz. Even when films started being broadcast on TV via telecine, TVs in the NTSC region were operating at 60 visual field scans per second, meaning that 24fps film frames had to be shown on an alternating 3-2 repeating pattern to fit the 60Hz scans.
- Comment on Apple’s engineers carefully designing the last 60 Hz OLED screens on the planet 6 days ago:
But film projectors, even in the late silent era, didn’t just flash the image once per frame. They had two or three bladed shutters so the image on screen would actually flash 48 to 72 times per second even though the film frame was only advancing 24 times per second. The whole point of the extra shutter flashes was to push the flickering of the light on screen above the flicker fusion threshold of your eye where you are able to differentiate between individual flashes of light. For most people, it’s about 50-90 Hz in the center of their field of vision.
Strangely enough, the flicker fusion threshold in the center of your vision is lower than at the edges, which is why you can usually notice the blinking of LED headlights more easily in your peripheral vision than when you’re looking straight at them.
- Comment on 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻: | waited until | married Lois before losing my virginity. 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗻: | lost my virginity casually as a rich, handsome teenager. 𝗔𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗻: 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on In honor to commemorate the victims of 911 here's a bush joke. 1 month ago:
First image misspelled “nucular”
- Comment on Day 785 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
It’s comedic, though I have to imagine it’s pissed someone out there off before.
Hi. It’s me.
Then it takes forever for Lakitu to set you back on the track, and by that point you’re too impatient to time the A button correctly and inevitably do a burnout.
- Comment on Left Wing Rage # Right Wing Rage 2 months ago:
we had the first black congressman
You gladly identify as a Republican when you think it benefits you, while elsewhere in this thread you claim to not be a Republican. Bullshit. You sound exactly like every other ignorant right wing shithead, right down to denying the southern strategy, denying the continued existence of the klan and their current political alignment, attacking antifa. Every time I see your posts, I’m astounded that you’re tolerated on this platform at all.
- Comment on The uber wealthy arent leaving. Its a lie. 2 months ago:
Sorry to be that guy, but the headline in the photo says “Millionaire” with an M. That’s not necessarily uber wealthy, especially in New York. Most NYC millionaires are working class, depending on whether you lump centimillionaires in that category.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The guy on the cellphone in the background is the giveaway.
- Comment on The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One 2 months ago:
And did those feet
In ancient times
Walk upon Kentucky’s mountains green? - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Must be nice! I’ve never driven an active track, but I know the slower traffic is supposed to yield the line to faster traffic. Being in a fast car on a busy day has to be pretty frustrating and I can imagine that Porsche losing enough patience not to wait for full communication from every car he passes. Still, amazing that both drivers are well enough to walk away from it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think the BMW still deserves a fair bit of the blame for being oblivious enough to not watch their mirrors, yield, or indicate. Sure, it could have been prevented by appropriate caution from the Porsche, but the first failure in the chain of events was the BMW’s poor situational awareness.
- Comment on She's just defending her country 3 months ago:
Yeah, that was definitely a “one of the good ones” remark.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
It’s literally one the fundamental inventions of human civilization. In the series Connections with James Burke, he describes how, if there were a collapse of modern technology (and this was 1978), those who survived would find themselves returning to the plough as the technological foundation from which to rebuild society.
- Comment on Valid point 3 months ago:
Not just cops, either. If you want to buy alcohol, tobacco, permanent markers, spray paint, or enter a bar or nightclub, you’re required to show ID, either by law or establishment policy, and it’s been that way for decades.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
More than 4GB of RAM isn’t even addressable with a 32-bit OS like we had back then.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 4 months ago:
Now also consider that the Steam Machine also has a tiny form factor, extremely quiet cooling, and CEC over HDMI that make it exceptionally suited for a living room PC and it more than makes up for that $71 gap. It really is about as good a deal as it could have been in 2026, but most people are still comparing it against 2024 prices. I think the $99 Steam Controller having a bundle price of $79 shows that Valve really are trying to do what they can here.
- Comment on You go big, or you go home 4 months ago:
It’s weird that there’s both a scoreboard and the “live” text visible in the top corners, implying that this would have to be a broadcast in vertical phone video aspect ratio. However, the most uncanny thing I see is that everyone visible in the video is actively eating or chewing. Otherwise, I don’t see many tells and I didn’t even think to look until the commenter above you mentioned it.
- Comment on Set of various pitches of kazoos 4 months ago:
You also don’t play kazoos from the end shown. All three are facing toward the ball in the image.
- Comment on The 1996 experience 4 months ago:
- Comment on I think they finally got it 4 months ago:
Try the wheel of a large automobile. Try a beautiful house with a beautiful wife. Try asking yourself “Well, how did I get here?”
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 4 months ago:
Going from 3 C-button items to 7 makes it a whole new game. Especially Majora’s Mask, with all of the mask changes all the time. No way I could go back to just the C-buttons after that.
- Comment on That's a no 4 months ago:
In addition to the zipper merge arguments, also note that MOT (management of traffic) guys tend to not be the sharpest crayons in the box, nor the most diligent and responsible. I’ve seen enough “lane closed ahead” signs left up in situations where the lane was absolutely not closed, that I don’t even bother reacting until I see some cones or other indication that it actually is closed.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 5 months ago:
I’d be very interested to see the age distribution of the people who were polled. It just says 2000 adults, but if they were all around the same age then it may not all be matters of opinion, especially for things like “political division.”
- Comment on Shame. 6 months ago:
- Comment on Never forget 7 months ago:
Even referring to them as “T9-letters” is a massive neologism. Those letters have been on telephones going all the way back to the very first rotary phones when you were first allowed to dial a number yourself without talking to an operator. Before, you’d tell the operator you wanted “Wabash 3 - 1234” and they’d connect you to number 1234 on the Wabash 3 exchange. To dial that same number when the dial telephone came around, you would dial WA3-1234, or 923-1234.
Here’s a great film from 1940 introducing people to the idea of dialing on a telephone and explaining how to use the letters: Internet Archive Link
- Comment on Anon doesn't want to be fixed 7 months ago:
It’s ok, though. All she has to do is take off her glasses and let her hair down.
- Comment on Think the fuck again 7 months ago:
It wasn’t Rick Astley’s head on Vanna White’s body that gave it away?
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 7 months ago:
Part of that is because it wasn’t a throwaway movie tie-in game. The E.T. Atari game was appalling shit that came out the same year as the movie after a full 5 weeks of development and was definitely a throwaway tie-in. Goldeneye came out two years after the movie because the team thought it was the raddest shit ever and wanted to make it a good game. By the time the game came out, the movie was already long gone from theaters and had been out on VHS for almost a year.
- Comment on Yeah buddy... lots of other dogs... 7 months ago:
- Comment on 8 months ago:
It is the way of my tribe to not let any part of the pickle jar go to waste. All of pickle juice must also be drank.
