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kieron115

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  • Nutrek remasters

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  • I haven't busted out the special feature on my blu-ray in a while but from what I remember, TNG used far fewer special effects. They were mostly practical (physical models on strings or poles, for example). One example of a complete replacement that stands out in my mind is the crytalline entity. They talked about how bad the model looked in HD so they were forced to try and recreate it, but just modelling it as it was looked pretty bad too so they added some extra spines. I can't find the blu-ray specials but I did find a news segment interviewing the studio that did the actual production work. Really cool vid, I hadn't seen it before. https://youtu.be/dPHP5izB8MU

  • Immersion destroyed in 0.2 seconds

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  • Flipping shots gets done far too often in movies. I remember a particularly egregious one in one of the Harry Potter movies where all the text on the blackboard behind a teacher was mirrored lol.

  • Nutrek remasters

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  • And this doc relied a good bit on fan funding. Good luck getting Paramount to okay recreating all that by hand.

  • Nutrek remasters

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  • DS9 (and probably voyager, but definitely DS9 per some documentaries) was filmed on 35mm and then transfered to D-2 tape at 480i. Shots that required CGI were transfered to D-1 tape (both store an uncompressed digital recording, but D-1 stores component video instead of composite with D-2.) CGI shots got transferred to separate D-1 tapes and sent to Paramount to be finalized and merged onto the lower-quality D-2 tapes. Nevermind that they had several very low resolution assets that would be used depending on visual fidelity needed (computers were slow and didn't have a lot of memory or storage.) Here's a cool interview with the Senior CG Supervisor for Voyager talking about the work they did making the assets. https://blog.trekcore.com/2013/07/voyagers-visual-effects-creating-the-cg-voyager-with-rob-bonchune/

    Also also - the DS9 doc "What We Left Behind" has some non-CGI shots from DS9 properly restored and remastered. I remember the scene where they're all walking to the holodeck in the casino heist episode was featured, I'm sure there were some others.

  • Plex is now enforcing remote play restrictions on TVs

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  • I bought a lifetime pass for 100 bucks about 10 years ago, and have had 10 years of not having to give a shit about these announcements. I've saved well over 100 bucks on streaming services in that time. Worth it 1000%.

  • OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates

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  • Yeah, im talking about the 207 BILLION US dollars they need to raise. That's an absolutely insane amount of currency if it had to be backed by real things and not "Hey buddy, its the U.S.! nothing could go catastrophically wrong and make this all valueless overnight"

  • When an actor gets featured in a 1950s-themed episode

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  • Campbell’s Soup VP mocks ‘poor people’ who buy its food in secret recording

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  • Oh yeah for sure.

  • OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates

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  • Campbell’s Soup VP mocks ‘poor people’ who buy its food in secret recording

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  • At least some part of this is related to aging. Our sense of taste seems to diminish as we age, but also we get exposed to more and more complex flavor profiles as we go through life. Canned soups dont even taste salty to me anymore, they just taste bland.

  • Please please please...

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  • Oh noooo I'm glad he ended up being okay.

  • Please please please...

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  • I fixed this problem because I don’t want them to die in the bath tub but when they bought the house the ground wire was broken about 2 feet outside the house. Just hangin in the air lol.

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • But it’s what the article is comparing to when they say “market prices”. This particular store is based out of California.

  • Please please please...

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  • Make mistakes in front of kids while doing this and show them it doesn't have to be a big deal if they "fail", as long as they're failing safely (slipping and skinning your knuckles while trying to remove a bolt on a car for example).

  • Please please please...

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  • That sounds like a lot of work. Just do like my parents did and buy a house that has all the electrical outlets red flagged and never fix them!

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • At restaurants here you would ask the host/waiter the market price before deciding to order.

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • So with things like fish that can change day to day are they required to just update it every day? that sounds nice.

  • RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices

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  • so i switched myself and my parents to arch linux over the past 3-4 months and I can say definitively that those specs are fine for CachyOS (an Arch Linux distro). My mom is using my hand-me-down 970 with its lovely "we charged you for 4gb of vram but actually only 3.5 of it is fast haha sucker" and it runs great paired to an old i7 6700k.