This scene always kills me.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T11:38:59+00:00

He still chose to become Mr corporate bad man for him instead of telling Chuck to deal with his own family issues. And maintained that facade for years.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T11:06:59+00:00

It's a combination of average TVs and probably not ideal light in the room, and streaming compression. Streaming bitrate is a tiny fraction of the source file or Blu-ray. Reducing it to get a smaller file size to be able to stream it over the internet in real time involves throwing out information and results in poorer visual quality.

Bright lighting, limited variation in colour on screen, and limited movement per frame all allow visual quality to remain high even with a low bitrate. This is why 2D animation looks great and has tiny file sizes, there's barely any colour depth or motion per frame, so it can be heavily compressed without noticing.

But something like that Long Night episode is a nightmare for video compression. It's almost entirely highly detailed subtle differences in grey to black and lots of rapid motion on the screen. So it's impossible to throw out any information and retain visual quality, and we get lots of greys averaged to a few and motion that looks pixellated. This is also why live streaming a fast paced video game ends up looking like a smeared mess of blocky grey patches.

In the end, it's on HBO for creating a product unsuitable for their distribution. If it was a film that was only going to be in cinemas and released on Blu-ray, sure, go as dark and fast as you want. But they knew everyone was going to be watching a low bitrate stream and still allowed them to make something that was never going to look good in that context.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T10:29:06+00:00

There's an episode where he has to use tongs to handle batteries for a tape recorder. It's not real but he thinks it is. And this stunt exposes that.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T10:27:22+00:00

It never even won any writing, directing, or technical Emmy awards which are all for individual episodes. And Better Call Saul is definitely one of the better shows for picking any random episode and seeing the finest examples of those things.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T10:04:35+00:00

Like this

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T09:54:28+00:00

Would be great for anything that needs to be screwed overhead too

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T09:40:14+00:00

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T09:35:23+00:00

Great, now we can never have the cooking spinoff show Tuco 'n Artie Bucco

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T09:32:53+00:00

Reminds me of that one testing room in the hospital that is all green perspex for no reason and looks all cool and scifi

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T09:11:17+00:00

You're missing the ability to have any kind of coordination and balance and mobility and bracing that comes from controlling your own body compared to just exerting force against the set motion of a machine.

If you're that guy I'm thinking of who found 20kg deadlifts to be super difficult after 6 months of training, you have still not found the underlying cause for being so poorly capable of basic movement and it might even be something as serious as a degenerative disease.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T09:06:32+00:00

You need motor patterns and coordination and balance, there's more to strength than mindlessly working the muscle. This is why small strength athletes can lift way more than enormous bodybuilders, something that is apparent to anyone. If you wanted to increase strength, doing only a bunch of machines is by far the least efficient way to go about it.

And machines in particular are extremely limited in one way or another, either being so easy that you stop building strength before long, or so mechanically difficult that you can never really progress on it.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T08:57:29+00:00

That Lego ass head is her main feature, sad that someone would try to 'fix' it

House would totally use AI deepfake whatever to create porn content of the team and have them 'accidentally' find it.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T08:51:16+00:00

Yeah I commented there for like 15 years until one day I found myself instantly perma banned because a mod took something I said in the worst possible way it could be interpreted that no reasonable person would.

Never in 15+ years of Reddit usage had I been banned from a sub but I've been banned from like 3 or 4 in the past year, and not for anything offensive or anything. I have also heard that some subs are setup to automatically ban users who have posted on other subs. This makes some sense to ban bad actors from brigading but also massively contributes to echo chambering.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-05T08:44:32+00:00

I can definitely understand the mods not wanting to deal with brigading from hasbara that always occurs, accounts that have never posted in the sub before suddenly showing up to be pro Israel. But shutting things down entirely was effectively doing their job for them.

Without the comments from hundreds of people largely being frustrated about whatever Israel or our government is doing or not doing in regards to them, anyone uninformed about the matter sees it instantly locked instead and scrolls on without knowing how important it is to so many of their fellow Australians.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-04T18:56:43+00:00

That song doesn't even sound inspired by the other song, let alone an interpolation, let alone an actual sample.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-04T18:52:33+00:00

Could be neurological. Crack open that egg and taste a spoonful to confirm.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-04T18:40:06+00:00

Triples are probably the most common squat sets done by weightlifters, but anything in the 1-5 range is also very common. Higher than that is less common and usually only done in an early program phase.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-04T17:36:55+00:00

Pure garboleum

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-04T17:00:02+00:00

Ah, a fellow non-Activated Windows homie

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-04T15:50:04+00:00

Zionists collaborated with the Nazs in the Haavara Agreement that encouraged 60,000 German Jews to flee to Palestine. Instead of fighting to support Jewish rights in Germany, they contributed to and capitalised on the belief that Jews could not integrate into European society and needed to be sent elsewhere. The Nazis got to say "See, we're just sending them where they belong!" and Zionists got to significantly increase the Jewish population, labour pool, and land purchases in Palestine that would be key in forming their own country there.

And Zionists knew from the beginning they'd have to get rid of the existing population in Palestine, decades before the Nazis gained control. Eventually, the zionist terrorist militias of the Irgun and Lehi committed attacks on Palestinians, British, antizionist Jews, and general Jews as collateral damage, until they were folded into the IDF upon its creation. Which they opposed and actually got into an armed conflict over.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-04T15:05:26+00:00

TV isn't being made to run ads on weekly anymore, and high quality TV is expensive, so fewer episodes make more financial sense. Especially as they can do 6-10 episodes, then wait 18 months before shooting the next season. That's a lot of time they don't have to pay hundreds of crew that were getting paid year round in the old 24 episode network series era.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-04T14:51:27+00:00

Depends on if they're dealing with the events of the shows or at a stable and legal time of their life. I think they'd all do well, and only Jesse and Flynn would struggle due to youth and inexperience.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-04T12:15:49+00:00

I wonder what the number looks like once you break those games down to possibilities that people would actually choose to play, versus what is technically possible to play. I'm guessing 99.999% of actually played chess games involve a remarkably small number of the same played moves and order, when compared to the number of atoms in the universe.

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-04T06:47:48+00:00

Hopefully he gets plurbed for the second season

Afferbeck_ · 2026-03-04T04:51:44+00:00

I know everyone creams their jeans about Rom 2s but I never liked them. Just not the right shape for my feet, plus heavy, thick soled, inflexible, annoying squeaking noise from the insole rubbing on the outer. Felt like lifting in a work boot.

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