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This looks really really good you guys. -
I smell pointless fucking all over Cronenberg's films.
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I love Cronenberg but both trailers for that turn me off and I'm not entirely sure why.
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Cuz of sparkly vampires?
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its a bathroom on top of a 15-story elevator shaft. -
Dude, looks kinda painted to me, u sure?
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Check the left side, there's a reflection. Also, that X is a brace for the glass.
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I guess it's for those days you're feeling a little backed up and literally need the shit scared out of you.
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Maybe whoever owns this has a fantasy of taking a dump off of a cliff and this is as close as they could get.
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I guess it's for those days you're feeling a little backed up and literally need the shit scared out of you.
I was thinking how to say this but you said it better. -
I always thought the bathroom of my nightmares would be incredibly filthy and offensive to all senses. Turns out it's very clean but stares down into the abyss.
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Land: It does help put the idea of overpopulation in some context when you imagine that Africa has enough room to hold the two most-populous countries in the world...twice each.
On the other hand, I think that in another hundred years or so, Africa will turn out to be for China what the Indian territories were for America. -
Useless?
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Squirrel said:
But still they are comparing countries to a continent. What about the size of North America? Or like a Jeremy said Russia?
Actually, they're comparing a continent to Western Europe, two big chunks of Asia, and a big part of North America. The Mercator projection was presumably created for navigation at sea, but due to its overuse, people have a poor idea of relative size. The idea that this causes a subconscious connection with associating countries' importance by their relative size is not much of a stretch. Ways chosen to represent the Earth all have assumptions and bias, and it's worth noting that due to our history, ours are incredibly Eurocentric. The Prime Meridian goes through the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, making it the center of the world on most of our maps. -
exagenous said:
god damnit barry
O god, I was just rereading all of Perry Bible Fellowship the other day. So good.
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But I mean, Africa is not one country. Why don't they put all of North America on Africa and compare that?
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http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hobbits-gamechanging-3d-may-be-a-little-too-ga,73007/
Ah, so THAT'S what makes certain TV and movies look like that; that's been bugging me for years and I can't stand it. Hope they change it in post. -
This will get me in trouble. -
I almost posted this in the science thread, but it's more like alchemy.
Pizza Hut Middle East Debuts Crusts Made Of Cheeseburgers And Chicken Strips -
Same thing happens with HDTVs that are set to higher refresh rates (over 100 Hz). The TV does interpolation to correct motion blur and the result looks like you're watching a stage play.Rbx5 said:http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hobbits-gamechanging-3d-may-be-a-little-too-ga,73007/
Ah, so THAT'S what makes certain TV and movies look like that; that's been bugging me for years and I can't stand it. Hope they change it in post. -
I sit at my girlfriends house going fucking insane because she doesn't see it while it gives me a headache.
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Yup, I see it whenever I go visit the TV section of a brick and mortar story.
Edit: Regarding motion blur, there's a reason why motion blur added to video games is a Good Thing. -
So on the one hand, it's the Uncanny Valley again. There are not actually hobbits and trolls and dwarves, so when we see these things presented in it's-like-watching-a-stage-play framerates and detail, we can't just enjoy the story because we know it's not real.
But then, I remember people spazzing about how everything made before DVD looked awful when it got upscaled to Blu-ray. (I recall someone looking at a 1080p version of Star Wars and seeing the pancake makeup, seeing blemishes and lumps that weren't quite covered up, seeing street clothes and other costuming errors.) It might just be that people need to step up their game, that we only think this is natural because we're used to seeing it this way.
I do agree with the Badass Digest writer who says that projecting in higher framerates is going to be a big benefit for CG work because it makes the hyperrealistic fully-rendered critters look more like the actors they're supposed to be tossing around the set. -
I'm happy with 480p, but I'm just a knuckle-dragging savage.
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Yeah, I remember being at a friend's house when we popped in Pirates of the Caribbean on their interpolating TV. Everyone spent the first 10-15 minutes of the movie freaking out about how it looked like it was on fast-forward (and/or a soap opera,) but then we all got over it and it looked fine afterwards.
I assume it'll be even better for actual 48-fps footage, because the interpolation algorithm occasionally can't quite work and the framerate ends up being a bit inconsistent. -
Well I mean, 35mm film is still higher resolution than 1080P, not to mention 70mm shit or IMAX or whatever, but that's still at 24 fps, while most TV/video stuff is 29.9999 fps. If you can see the pancake make-up at 1080P you could totally see it at the theatre, too.
Video games are often higher framerate. If I am used to playing Xbox 360 games in HD on my 1080P projector, is it really going to be different? -
You're not playing games with live actors in it though.
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No, but many games are constantly striving to make that seem more and more like the case. I think it would be really odd if we hit a point where we have to dial back the framerate on cutscenes because otherwise it looks too "stage-play-esque."
I'm in the camp that says that 48hz is almost certainly a straight-up improvement and it's worth pushing through the growing pains to get there. -
RobotBastard said:
Same thing happens with HDTVs that are set to higher refresh rates (over 100 Hz). The TV does interpolation to correct motion blur and the result looks like you're watching a stage play.
I really, really hate that shit. I'm so used to the old framerate/blur, I can't get over the fast-forward effect and demand that everyone turn it off. It's just a visceral, uncanny valley thing-- suddenly Food Network is this surreal visual fingernails on a chalkboard to me. -
Ok, good to see I'm not the only one who cannot stand that shit.
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Like I said, it's the Uncanny Valley. It's like I'm looking through a window...but that is NOT A WINDOWWWWWWW...
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A week or so ago, one of the technical designers where I work sent out a company-wide, rage-quit email. He just put "I quit!" in the subject line, a parody of the company's logo (declaring the company "pointless" and "childish") in the body of the email, and link to this page. It was quite ballsy, and had people chuckling for a few days.
This morning, someone made a tribute image macro for the fellow and left it on his cube:
Spoiler: for size and I also took it with my crappy cellphone camera
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Wow.
Wow. -
haha, nice!
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Wow. My coworker just sang us a song for her departure - not quite as bridge-burny.
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Why would you want to watch TV or a movie twice it's original framerate
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POLlCEMAN: What's all this then, Bear?
BEAR: Nothin'. Just Fallin'.
POLICEMAN: Well OK, but just you remember, I got my eye on you. -
So it turns out that basically everything in those Jo-Ann Fabrics or Michael's stores is made by one company. Amazon eat your heart out.
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I now have a new number one on the list of ways I don't want to die.
http://chinanews24.net/2012/04/woman-kills-man-by-squeezing-his-testicles-over-parking-dispute/ -
Holy fuck, I didn't know you could die from that. I kinda feel like I need to wear protective equipment all the time now.
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I am surprised by the number of people so determined to wear a fedora but unable to find any shirt that went with the look, so they just went shirtless.
