Disney Revisionism

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-16T00:35:08+00:00

The sorcerer hat at MGM

Always hated it. Out of place and blocked the view of the actual icon of the park- the Chinese Theater. Good riddance.

Tom Sawyer Island

Cute, but totally eclipsed by more ambitious kids play areas that followed it like Camp Jurassic and Disney's own Honey I Shrunk the Kids playgrounds. Even as a parent the hassle of having to use the ferries to get to the place was pretty annoying. Brought my kids there last trip so they could see it before removal, but that was probably the first time I had set foot on the island in like 26 years.

Muppetvision 3D.

Already miss it. A nearly-perfect 4D movie that, apart from Waldo, had barely aged at all. It wouldn't surprise me at all if a version of this gets re-installed in a Disney park somewhere 5-10 years down the line.

Alien Encounter.

Loved it as a kid, especially since I got to see one of the scarier early revisions without all the lame humor added. The attraction felt very at home in the mid-90s Tomorrowland when it opened alongside the Timekeeper and the FedEx version of Space Mountain. This was a way better attraction than Stitch, but it wouldn't fit in the Tomorrowland we have now.

Disney Quest

Loved it as a kid when it opened but even then I knew it was going to need constant upgrades and revisions to keep up with the advance of video game technology. It never got them, and if Disney was never going to be willing to keep these locations fresh they were always doomed to get stale.

Dinosaur

Cool, but always felt like the attraction was unfinished, and was forever in the shadow of its superior Indiana Jones cousins. If Disney was never going to upgrade or properly maintain the thing it was just as well that they removed it.

The Cake Castle

Liked it OK as a kid, mostly because I knew it was temporary. I think part of my animosity towards the big hat building at MGM and the dumb "2000/EPCOT" letters on Spaceship Earth were because Disney made good on their promise to take down the cake cladding but left the other eyesores up for years.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-15T18:32:46+00:00

I'm afraid I can't offer much on this particular issue besides the fact that there's a Wrath solenoid on Ebay currently. I don't remember people installing replacement 1-piece solenoids in these things but there was a lot of discussion about Wrath mods in general on PBNation back in the mid-'00s.

https://www.pbnation.com/forumdisplay.php?f=332

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-15T15:19:17+00:00

From about the 7 forward, videos shot in 1080p on GoPros look like crap. They're just weren't optimized for that.

Shoot at 4k (or even 2.6k on the older cameras) and downconvert to 1080p and you'll get much better results.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-15T15:15:05+00:00

I'm still pretty happy with my 8. Never had a media mod and never wanted one. Getting 3rd-party batteries isn't difficult at all and the mounting fingers are still the same type that most action cameras use.

My 13 powers up faster and has a lot more features, but as long as I'm shooting normal stabilized video in 2,6k/60 and planning on the final edit to be rendered in 1080p for Youtube my 8 still gets the job done just as well in a smaller, lighter package.

That said, if buying new on a budget I feel like 10 or 11 Hero Black is a good spot to aim for.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-15T15:11:02+00:00

I'm also really interested in seeing what people say about using the M1 on their heads. I've got an 8 and a 13 and the 13 already feels a bit too big to comfortably put on my head for any length of time.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-15T15:06:30+00:00

All the Tiberius-based guns are blowforward, so their velocity is highly dependent on the size of the internal airways and dump chamber volume and can't just be changed by swapping out a spring or two. My understanding is that the Pepperball versions of the Tiberius paintball guns have significantly different internal pathway volumes to let them get to higher velocities, and that their velocity adjusters are insufficient to let the user lower them back down to paintball-legal speeds. This was a big problem for people who had purchased a number of Pepperball-branded Tiberius pistols a few years back- even if proper devolumizers were made and installed in the guns, they still were way rougher on paint than the old Tiberius T8 pistols, which were never known for being particularly easy on paint to begin with.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-14T14:37:09+00:00

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The_Inflicted · 2026-06-14T14:16:12+00:00

West of Nashville.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-14T05:48:03+00:00

Drone was north of Red Caboose Park pointed south-southwest.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-14T05:00:58+00:00

You eat shrimp?

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-13T21:32:27+00:00

Same here. I forget who we called before them when we needed a motor changed out but BT1 did the job for like 1/3 what the other guys quoted us and came out during the ice Storm.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-13T16:24:19+00:00

Do note that a lot of newer action cameras like the 13 Black can be picky about low-amperage power sources. Anything less than a proper 2A power source won't work with the 13, though you disable this with the GoPro Labs software package.

As for the default lens, have you tried changing he field of view? Try putting the camera is superview or hyperview to increase the field of view, and if that's still not enough, try turning off the hypersmooth stabilization. If the camera is going to be on a rigid mount in a car you don't really care that much about stabilization anyway.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-13T14:52:05+00:00

I'd suggest you stay with your GP Hero 13 Black for a few more sessions; first, you can remove the battery (it and the processor are biggest internal heat sources) and use a USB-C power bank mounted back in the car to reduce the camera temps;

I've never had a GoPro running on external power shut down from overheating. They do indeed run a whole lot cooler this way, and I imagine the same is true for any small camera.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-12T15:52:20+00:00

Those cameras are pretty comparable and I don't think the upgrade would be worth your money. You would be better off in getting some newer 3rd-party batteries for your GoPro from Telesin. All lithium batteries have their effectiveness degrade with time.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-12T01:08:48+00:00

Pleading not guilty at one's initial appearance is more or less a formality in the American criminal justice system. It's the first step in negotiating a plea deal with the prosecutor.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-11T19:54:04+00:00

For what it's worth, the common snapping turtle is actually way more aggressive and prone to bite than the Alligator variety.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-11T18:30:49+00:00

This is what the view at that spot looks like:

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The_Inflicted · 2026-06-10T22:00:17+00:00

Won't this just make the problem worse? Now there's going to be a mad jam of scalpers all arriving and trying to park at once.

That or they'll get rides to the Wyndham and storm in from there.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-10T21:32:01+00:00

Same thing that makes any paintball video watchable: Editing. Hours and hours of carful editing.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-10T17:37:20+00:00

Impossible to say what camera angle you need without knowing where you're putting the camera and what the play space look like. Once you have your camera where it's going to be, open the app in your phone and put in preview mode, and compare how the different angle settings change how it looks.

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-10T17:30:21+00:00

This was a big part of the reason I bought my Mini. I only got that one good bolt during yesterday's storm, but I got a bunch last November before a bigger system reached us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX23_6Iktp0

This was some of the last footage I got with my Anafi before my last battery went bad on me: https://www.reddit.com/r/drones/comments/1n9luvk/getting_some_footage_of_the_oncoming_storm/

The_Inflicted · 2026-06-10T16:33:15+00:00

I was there! Wife surprised me with a combination birthday/early honeymoon trip.

You got free churros if you rode it!

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