Author Topic: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching. (Read 383389 times)

Sintpinty · « **Reply #2400 on:** Sun, 31 March 2024, 23:37:41 »

Currently watching X men 97 and I enjoyed it

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2401 on:** Wed, 03 April 2024, 11:05:41 »

Classic.

_rubik · « **Reply #2402 on:** Wed, 03 April 2024, 13:44:35 »

Man oh man, the 3 Body Problem started out interesting but has taken a complete dive. Every episode I have to stretch my boundaries of "what is believable" and lately I've given up trying to rationalize some of the "science"

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2403 on:** Wed, 03 April 2024, 14:04:59 »

Quote from: _rubik on Wed, 03 April 2024, 13:44:35

Man oh man, the 3 Body Problem started out interesting but has taken a complete dive. Every episode I have to stretch my boundaries of "what is believable" and lately I've given up trying to rationalize some of the "science"

Don't overthink the science fiction. It's a clean enough plot that's geeky enough to be interesting.

Overthink would be, well they can figure out how to hit a mosquito on pluto, with a "Sophon", but they don't have the capacity to terraform somewhere else?

Life is just an energy conversion system, if they can convert that much power, they can "do what they do" anywhere.

First book is easier to read than the second. The second one is more sloppily written. The chinese show has alot more details and follows the book precisely, but it has alot of boring scenes because of it. The Netflix show condenses everything for the zero-patience generation. It's got mostly everything right.

_rubik · « **Reply #2404 on:** Wed, 03 April 2024, 14:08:19 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Wed, 03 April 2024, 14:04:59

First book is easier to read than the second. The second one is more sloppily written.[/size][/color]

Would you recommend the first book in isolation? I've only watched the series (or a good part of it, anyway). If the book is better than the series, I'd certainly consider it

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2405 on:** Wed, 03 April 2024, 14:10:43 »

Quote from: _rubik on Wed, 03 April 2024, 14:08:19

Would you recommend the first book in isolation? I've only watched the series (or a good part of it, anyway). If the book is better than the series, I'd certainly consider it

Well, you already know what's happening. The show goes into the 1/3 point of the second book.

I'd just wait, if they don't do season 2, start reading the books.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2406 on:** Wed, 03 April 2024, 15:41:48 »

Balls of Fury (2007)

One of the greatest ping pong movies ever made, yea it's a short list, but none have been more successful in making ping pong palatable on screen.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2407 on:** Wed, 03 April 2024, 19:06:52 »

Fear the Night (2023)

Well the movie is just criminally boring, even by B-standards.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #2408 on:** Wed, 03 April 2024, 23:15:58 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Wed, 03 April 2024, 15:41:48

Balls of Fury (2007)

One of the greatest ping pong movies ever made, yea it's a short list, but none have been more successful in making ping pong palatable on screen.

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tp4tissue · « **Reply #2409 on:** Fri, 05 April 2024, 09:58:43 »

Is it just TP4, or is Anime, more often than not "bass shy". Pretty much all of the music mixes lack deep bump.

TomahawkLabs · « **Reply #2410 on:** Fri, 05 April 2024, 10:11:30 »

Ping Pong Playa is also great. But my theory on the lack of bass is companies realizing 99% of listeners do not have the equipment to replicate the low end, so they chop it up to save bandwidth.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2411 on:** Fri, 05 April 2024, 20:20:36 »

You know, this here sand worm, it would seem like if it ate stuff, the food to sand ratio would be really poor.

How can it process so much sand, and how could the calories from that little food be worth it given its enormous mass and the supposed scarcity of food and water in the deserts of Arrakis.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #2412 on:** Fri, 05 April 2024, 20:48:42 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 05 April 2024, 20:20:36

You know, this here sand worm, it would seem like if it ate stuff, the food to sand ratio would be really poor.

How can it process so much sand, and how could the calories from that little food be worth it given its enormous mass and the supposed scarcity of food and water in the deserts of Arrakis.

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they eat 'sand plankton' and smaller sand worms, mostly

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2413 on:** Fri, 05 April 2024, 22:10:15 »

Quote from: noisyturtle on Fri, 05 April 2024, 20:48:42

they eat 'sand plankton' and smaller sand worms, mostly

It seems highly inefficient, just implausible.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #2414 on:** Fri, 05 April 2024, 22:11:43 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 05 April 2024, 22:10:15

Quote from: noisyturtle on Fri, 05 April 2024, 20:48:42
they eat 'sand plankton' and smaller sand worms, mostly

It seems highly inefficient, just implausible.

I'd argue a blue whale is implausible, but there the **** it is!

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2415 on:** Fri, 05 April 2024, 22:16:46 »

Quote from: noisyturtle on Fri, 05 April 2024, 22:11:43

I'd argue a blue whale is implausible, but there the **** it is!

Water as a medium is much easier to move than sand.

The reason whales work, is because the net caloric density of the ocean is enormous. This would not be the case in Arakis deserts.

The ocean is also not an accident, it is indicative of the NET life-force of the planet actively maintaining that large mass of working fluid. Such force is not present on Dune.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2416 on:** Sat, 06 April 2024, 14:01:14 »

Climate the Movie (2023). High production climate change denial fauxmentary.

Sigh. If someone is a borderline illiterate, which actually represents a sizable population of americans 30-50%, and they watch a movie like this, one could see that it'd be incredibly convincing.

The movie has got charts, dinosaur clips, a nobel laureate autist in a completely non climate research field, paid fossil fuel deniers/scientists/podcasters, all championing the notion that climate change is BIG BUSINESS and has no basis in reality. Oh and notice the earth Used to be warmer and had more carbon, yea, they don't say everything also died when that happened.

And unfortunately for people who can only sorta read, well, a movie like this is case shut for them, because they are incapable of digging deeper, reading is such a high barrier of intent for them that it's too costly for them to find the truth. They also simply would not recognize it over cartoon dinosaurs.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #2417 on:** Sun, 07 April 2024, 20:08:57 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 06 April 2024, 14:01:14

Climate the Movie (2023)

The movie has got charts, dinosaur clips, a nobel laureate autist

championing the notion that climate change is BIG BUSINESS and has no basis in reality

I just watched this. What a very strange mash-up of concepts and pictures. The majority of film clips were from the 1940s-50s-60s .... Presumably to say that consumerism began to reach fever pitch after WW2?

Sure, the Earth was 10-15 degrees warmer during the dinosaur ages, and the millions-year trend is downward. The movie-makers seem to be saying that environmentalists are motivated by their hatred of (?) industry (?) consumers (?) fossil fuels (?) and that governments world-wide are working with environmentalists rather than against them. And they ignore the more potent greenhouse gases like methane altogether.

Personally, I watch the glaciers melting, corals bleaching, sea level rise, pollution of all kinds, ocean and atmospheric currents changing, every part of the planet impregnated with micro-plastics, etc, etc, and then these people sound like the guy from the 1980s movie proclaiming "Greed is Good"

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2418 on:** Sun, 07 April 2024, 21:16:29 »

Command and Control (2016).

HIGHLY recommended documentary on the stupidity of the military industrial complex.

Great detail on what happened at the Damascus Nv(lear Silo disaster which almost destroyed Arkansas.

To quote Robert Peur1foy (Director of nu(lear weapon development/Vice president of Sandia Labs):

Of the 25,000 weapons that we had in stockpile, I could not in good conscience swear that they were adequately safe.

MisterMayhem · « **Reply #2419 on:** Mon, 08 April 2024, 08:57:40 »

Watching The Gentlemen and so far so good.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2420 on:** Mon, 08 April 2024, 09:38:53 »

They got these oddball iterations out called 4K HDR AI upscaled.

They take an SD source, use AI, converts to 4KHDR. Looks pretty decent, over-darken dark scenes, bright scenes look pretty good though.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2421 on:** Mon, 08 April 2024, 15:51:19 »

Madu (2024).

It's the documentary on the african child who went viral on youtube doing ballet in the dirt.

Now, They probably intended for the film to be, Heart Warming, but Tp4 watched it, and thought, this is clearly Hunger Games, and Madu is tribute.

Y'all seen this?

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2422 on:** Mon, 08 April 2024, 23:09:38 »

A Place at the Table (2012).

Documentary on Hunger in America.

So, the first thing that's unexpected is, we have a different definition for Hunger here. You think Africa, and the children are hungry, small, thin, dying. Hunger as applied to America, means children who may have to skip meals a few days here/there, but may otherwise be obese or at least quite rotund, almost none of which are dying / starving.

It's a very odd situation to talk about, because hunger here means disadvantaged rather than what someone might traditionally think of hunger.

For example, A state with the most use of the food stamps program, also has the highest rates of childhood obesity. That's confusing, but ok, let's work with this Alternative Hunger definition.

So, what they mean by hunger in this case is a Resource Mismanagement/ Misappropriation/ Mis-use situation.

This is the net product of problemed capitalism, corruption, inappropriate federal subsidies which foster the creation of Food-Deserts where communities ONLY have access to cheap junk food, but not fresh fruits / vegetables.

Then when introduced to Fruits/ Vegetables, those cheap junk food taste better in general and offer more calories per dollar, such that the people who got used to junk food, wouldn't eat healthy food in enough proportion to offset their developing health problems. This falls under an Education issue/ equal opportunity lag.

Anyway, yea, very odd semantics. But, yup, capitalism at it again. Good documentary.

mohawk1367 · « **Reply #2423 on:** Tue, 09 April 2024, 07:55:44 »

The Florida Project

im not from Florida, but i know a lot of kids who grew up like this and it was pretty close to a lot of what i saw my friends go through. one of the only movies in a while to make my eyes wet. child actors were excellent and they acted like real kids, not dramatic/baby-ish like most other movies with child characters

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2424 on:** Tue, 09 April 2024, 11:15:26 »

Why did they scan Redline in at 1862x1048

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2425 on:** Tue, 09 April 2024, 16:35:39 »

Favorite character..

Love the disapproving scowl.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2426 on:** Tue, 09 April 2024, 19:15:41 »

Suzume, the HDR, like wow, I mean look at it.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2427 on:** Wed, 10 April 2024, 17:06:21 »

Such a weird contrast. Hellsing ultimate was made across 6 years.

The difference in technology between the early and later episodes really pops out. The old episodes are probably 720p or less even, then upscaled using some shader.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2428 on:** Thu, 11 April 2024, 20:20:28 »

Fallout, here we go..... !!!!

The 62.58gb is the way to go unless you get the 63.8gb/68.12gb DV, now, in all cases however, they used a super heavy grain filter, and the streaming algo's eating it. Lots of artifacts and frozen squiggles throughout the series. Avoid the 47.9gb one, the grain got chewed up. Make sure to set your decoding to random dithering. Adding noise seems to be beneficial in maintaining the consistency of textures.

The SDR one should be fine, but Tp4 hasn't seen it.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #2429 on:** Thu, 11 April 2024, 22:48:22 »

Who else is hyped for Smiling Friends season 2!

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2430 on:** Fri, 12 April 2024, 00:48:59 »

Just got dun' dat Fallout.

Humor was on point. Plot leaks if you poke it, but it's good enough that there's more to gain as a willing rider.

It's more fantastic / less plausible than Silo, but the charm gets you through.

Looking forward to Season 2.

Rhienfo · « **Reply #2431 on:** Fri, 12 April 2024, 01:35:11 »

Quote from: noisyturtle on Thu, 11 April 2024, 22:48:22

Who else is hyped for Smiling Friends season 2!

That first episode was so good, really looking forward to season 2. Liked that alan was featured a lot more, he's great.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #2432 on:** Fri, 12 April 2024, 01:41:59 »

Quote from: Rhienfo on Fri, 12 April 2024, 01:35:11

Quote from: noisyturtle on Thu, 11 April 2024, 22:48:22
Who else is hyped for Smiling Friends season 2!

That first episode was so good, really looking forward to season 2. Liked that alan was featured a lot more, he's great.

Voiced by Adam Paloian, known for pickpocketing his coworkers!

Leslieann · « **Reply #2433 on:** Fri, 12 April 2024, 05:53:24 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 12 April 2024, 00:48:59

Just got dun' dat Fallout.
Humor was on point. Plot leaks if you poke it, but it's good enough that there's more to gain as a willing rider.
It's more fantastic / less plausible than Silo, but the charm gets you through.

Looking forward to Season 2.

I'm only up to Ep 2 so far but absolutely loving this show, the writers didn't just take notes, they know the game which probably makes their job easy since the game is rich with storytelling but we've see so many game to movie adaptations flop it's nice to see one really go all in on the lore and end up with something really, really good. The props, sets and costumes are fantastic, they didn't appear cut any corners money-wise.

My only complaints is that like GOT, it's at times a little too dark to read/see some things on the screen, I also thought Ep 1 should have been a bit longer to elaborate on a few things more, I know there was a lot to go over but the pace felt a little too fast at times trying to cut down on run time. Overall though, fantastic show.

BTW, regarding Silo, Fallout is a mockery, it's not supposed to be taken seriously.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2434 on:** Fri, 12 April 2024, 07:33:28 »

Quote from: Leslieann on Fri, 12 April 2024, 05:53:24

I'm only up to Ep 2 so far but absolutely loving this show, the writers didn't just take notes, they know the game which probably makes their job easy since the game is rich with storytelling but we've see so many game to movie adaptations flop it's nice to see one really go all in on the lore and end up with something really, really good. The props, sets and costumes are fantastic, they didn't appear cut any corners money-wise.

My only complaints is that like GOT, it's at times a little too dark to read/see some things on the screen, I also thought Ep 1 should have been a bit longer to elaborate on a few things more, I know there was a lot to go over but the pace felt a little too fast at times trying to cut down on run time. Overall though, fantastic show.

BTW, regarding Silo, Fallout is a mockery, it's not supposed to be taken seriously.

Tp4 basically feels like he lives in a fallout bunker already. The TV show very successfully transports you there.

The show may have been color graded on a professional-LCD instead of pro-OLED. This leads to the colorists pushing shadow detail as low as it will go because LCDs have over-brightened black region due to backlight bloom.

So, what happens is when you take this image and send it to OLED or some other consumer panel, it'll look like black-crush, Unless, you also use an LCD with similar black handling as their mastering monitor, which most people probably do not. This has nothing to do with quality of consumer hardware, it's just that they are typically not tuned the way pro monitors are.

Tp4 has to use black lvl +8 to get the hair / shadow detail to come out.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2435 on:** Sat, 13 April 2024, 07:17:52 »

Star Trek Discovery, just, can't get into it, it's so forced. IDK, could be that as a long time Trek fan, we expect resolution, and we get this dragged out thing that seems so trivial to solve given the technology.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #2436 on:** Sat, 13 April 2024, 15:21:40 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 13 April 2024, 07:17:52

just, can't get into it

It has always seemed pretty incoherent to me.

Conceptually, the Spore Drive is one of the most exciting things that has been introduced into the Star Trek universe, in my opinion, but it is impossibly incompatible with the general canon - especially since it supposedly appeared even before TOS.

The characters are mostly weak and the plots stale, in my opinion. Except for the fascinating Spore Drive, I don't even know why the show exists.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2437 on:** Sat, 13 April 2024, 15:45:46 »

Internet says it's because of sunk costs, as they already built really expensive sets.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #2438 on:** Sat, 13 April 2024, 17:53:18 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 13 April 2024, 15:45:46

already built really expensive sets

Should have spent the money on writers. Spock has an adopted younger sister that nobody ever even mentioned before? GTFOOH

Leslieann · « **Reply #2439 on:** Sat, 13 April 2024, 21:59:47 »

Finished Fallout

Sooo good!!!
My comment about being too dark seems the screen I was using is dying. Watched on another screen and it was fine.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2440 on:** Sun, 14 April 2024, 00:08:02 »

Quote from: Leslieann on Sat, 13 April 2024, 21:59:47

Finished Fallout

Sooo good!!!
My comment about being too dark seems the screen I was using is dying. Watched on another screen and it was fine.

Buy dat colorimeter. Screens last forever.

Leslieann · « **Reply #2441 on:** Sun, 14 April 2024, 14:51:38 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sun, 14 April 2024, 00:08:02

Quote from: Leslieann on Sat, 13 April 2024, 21:59:47
Finished Fallout

Sooo good!!!
My comment about being too dark seems the screen I was using is dying. Watched on another screen and it was fine.
Buy dat colorimeter. Screens last forever.

Nah, I use that screen at night anyhow while falling asleep, I like it dim, just didn't know it was THAT dim.

Not really happy with some of the new screens, frankly, they're too bright for indoor use. I don't care to stare into the sun.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #2442 on:** Mon, 15 April 2024, 16:52:09 »

Quote from: Leslieann on Sat, 13 April 2024, 21:59:47

Finished Fallout
Sooo good!!!

Would this show work for a person who never games?

tp4tissue · « **Reply #2443 on:** Mon, 15 April 2024, 16:55:28 »

Quote from: fohat.digs on Mon, 15 April 2024, 16:52:09

Quote from: Leslieann on Sat, 13 April 2024, 21:59:47
Finished Fallout
Sooo good!!!

Would this show work for a person who never games?

Anyone can watch it.

Leslieann · « **Reply #2444 on:** Mon, 15 April 2024, 18:25:06 »

Quote from: fohat.digs on Mon, 15 April 2024, 16:52:09

Quote from: Leslieann on Sat, 13 April 2024, 21:59:47
Finished Fallout
Sooo good!!!

Would this show work for a person who never games?

Yeah, while it very much follows Fallout lore, it doesn't require you to know anything about the game, in fact knowing the game actually makes some of it rather predictable (though in a good way).

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Author Topic: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching. (Read 383389 times)