Replies to scribus, page 37
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@scribus Whistles? I thought these were already a battalion of enormous church pipe organs that attempt to play the longest note.
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@mrmattimation @scribus Given his post-election activities, I actually imagine a Bush-Gore Administration would be more interesting than a Trump-Clinton one
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@scribus Somehow I imagine a Trump-Clinton Administration would involve more public theatrics than actual things not getting done. Most politicians, regardless of actual political stance, have common interests when it comes to personal enrichment.
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@scribus In Virginia voter registration is non-partisan, so last time we had quite a few Democratic-leaning independents voting in the Republican primary to keep Trump from getting the state’s delegates. It didn’t work, obviously.
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@scribus stereoscopy ? Whatever it is called, there is still a movie being projected onto a screen, the screen is flat. But when you look at that with them "3D glasses" the illusion of 3D was made.
So at that point it becomes more marketing friendly to say "3D movie" than to say "stereooptic movie that allows for the illusion that things are not just projected onto a screen but seemingly come out of it"
I mean. Did you think that that one Shrek ride at universal studio would have been nearly as famous if it advertised with "stereoptic movie that feels like things are crawling out of the screen but we are also going to splash some water in your face so people think they are really there" instead of 4D ?
Marketing terms man, they are the bane of my existance. 4K for instance, or UHD. What is that ? Is it 4096 x 2160 ? or 3996 X 2160 ? or 4096 x 1716 ? Or hell, is it what apple said it was and is it 4096 x 2304 ? Or just WQUXGA wrapped in a marketing term ? -
@scribus You said it, stereopticon... stereoptics... it certainly is how 3D works. Everything you said is correct.
But you still do not see in 3D. You see in stereoptics, or whatever fancy name you want to give it. -
@scribus Sorry, I didn't mean that to seem so aggressive; more just flustered and confused. I really need to stop interneting before breakfast....
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@scribus Nonono. Our brain just gets 2 images, both 2d, together with the information of how much the iris has to focus, that gives our brain the illusion that something is far away or near ( because you combine it with knowledge of how things usually are. Which can really work to your detriment in things like http://rainbowdash.net/url/875173 or https://youtu.be/A4QcyW-qTUg?t=31 )
Optical tricks were actually used in Lord of the Rings quite a bit so they wouldn't have to make use of vertically challenged people much.
But... That is not 3D ! That is just using 2D information filtered through both memories and something you could phraise as 'biological trigonometry'
3D vision would actually be something like looking around a tree, while not moving your head.
So some would call what we have to be 2,5 D ( since we can sense distance with 2D input ). However then video games raise their head and go "EXCUSE ME !!! I am 2,5 D !!!" and muddy the whole issue.
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@scribus But you do not get 3D with 2 camera's ?
Or 4 for that matter, or whatever other number you throw at it. As long as they are side by side on the same flat surface, it will never capture 3D. -
@scribus There's a joke somewhere in one of these Swole Foods scripts where Bud (an atheist) can't tell the fundamental difference between something that Kat (a Christian) has said and an allegedly different thing that Mo (a Muslim) has said.
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@scribus And then there are struggles about which revision is actually the official one: the "old" or the "new" testament.
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@scribus Back when I was trying to learn how to speedrun GTA: SanAndreas, I learned that if you play the game at any frame rate higher than 25fps, your run is invalidated because the frame rate is linked to the physics so it’s easier to do some things (and harder to do others!) if you play at 60.
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@scribus Suspicious ? of waffles ?
Wait a minute, there was supposed to be a waffle there, now there are 4 "?" 's
Unicode 12 is a lie... Though it probably would have worked better if I posted Pie instead of Waffle -
@mrmattimation @scribus Having googled what that is, I now realize that my answer is irrelevant.
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@scribus Never sawr it. In general fan animations of established TV shows tend to irk me because the animators working on them usually neglect the nuances of the show’s visual style (South Park fanartists, for example, stop at “crappy” animation, but they don’t realize that it’s a certain KIND of crappy). The Bob’s Burgers-Archer one was fun though, I enjoyed that one.
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@scribus There will ALWAYS be some sort of instance, whether a human, a corporation, or a god, that goes : Hey lets improve or that standard.
But a LOT of the times, they are just nuisances. -
@scribus Yeah but isn't Trump pretty much a self furfilling prophecy at this point ?
Heck, make a newspaper thingie about spins the wheel of places and spins the wheel of things
"Trump misspeaks and calls [Holland] [cheese]-country by accident." -
@scribus The 1973 Westworld and the 2016 Westworld have nothing in common.
Well, except for maybe the six-shooter.
the 2016 version is kind of about ( and I am going to banana off everyone who really knows what it is about ) some theme park where you get to live out your wildest dreams within a few set parameters, such as the wild west. Which is fine and dandy untill some people start to do some less than conventional things to the droids that are supposed to live there.
I guess that means someone wants to rob trains and shoot people.
Then the droids thing themselves become a plot point somehow, so I guess they get their memories tangled up or some other super AI doomsday scenario. -
@scribus Obviously. I mean, ever drank Indian Pale Ale ?
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@scribus All I can manage is to have two small 14'' CRT TVs. Everything else is too big and bulky. The composite/s-video to HDMI converter I bought is so far one of the best in that price range that can handle oddball resolutions that these old consoles produce. I have a cheap 15€ piece of crap that created results that were nearly unrecognizable after upscaling (at a lot of places seemingly inverted colors). 240p is almost nowhere supported by any TV manufacturer nowadays. It'll interpreted as 480i and it shows unfavorable interlacing artifacts. Blowing that up bilinearly to full-HD it gets to a blurry mess.
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@scribus oh i've seen this, still leagues above those people who get theirs pierced
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@scribus ALL of them. But also a patriotism test when handing out the guns.
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@scribus The results were that Netflix shows are actually sliiiiightly more likely to get renewed for another season than broadcast or cable, and 20% of Netflix shows make it to the fourth season.
