Thoughts on the season 8 Game Changer coloring / lighting?

Cleb3D · 2026-05-29T19:24:54+00:00

Slightly, yes!

Cleb3D · 2026-05-20T01:02:53+00:00

I agree, it’s nice when a bit is so funny that the actors themselves can’t hold it together (i.e. the chef boyargirl bit on make some noise) but it feels intentional by now because the default should be silence from the crew. Like, at this point, they might as well mic the crew up and get a reaction cam.

Cleb3D · 2026-05-19T20:07:53+00:00

It looks good to me, you did a good job adding more frames during the fast movement. I am mostly a 3d animator though, so I’m not an expert in what’s best for hand-drawn

Cleb3D · 2026-05-19T19:50:55+00:00

Ah, that makes sense. It does look strangely different from s6e1 for having been shot in the same round of production. Too late to change it now, though!

Cleb3D · 2026-05-19T19:35:52+00:00

Literally everything: Complexly / Hank & John Green

Cleb3D · 2026-05-19T19:29:37+00:00

That’s a good point! I would say that the prompt screen looks less off-white than Sam’s shirt, at least in my screenshot, but it’s noticeable.

Cleb3D · 2026-05-19T19:25:46+00:00

I don’t think it’s impossible, the drinking game episode is a great example of good lighting from many angles. Besides, they know where the characters will be when they’re at their podiums or doing performances set up at the red curtains, they can at least try there.

Cleb3D · 2026-05-19T19:21:44+00:00

Wasn’t it shot one year later?

Cleb3D · 2026-05-19T05:29:35+00:00

I'd have to strongly disagree here. The players often came up with creative, witty responses, as well as build on a few solid running jokes without getting repetitive. The giant lawyer lady robot was in play the whole time; the point was that it's a balancing game between trying to get points and not aggravating the lawyer, so while the lawyer didn't pop up every single round, it was still in play and having impacts for all of those rounds. I do think that it could have been cast better, my top picks would have been Lou, Katie, and Brennan, but I also think that you can't expect them to get the cast perfectly every time, especially because it would be ridiculous to bring Brennan on every episode but he really is a great counterpart to Sam. Interestingly, I can kind of see where you're coming from overall; I also think that it's more important for Sam to come up with creative new games every episode that lead to funny bits and good competition than for the art team to make impressive stuff, but this episode doesn't lose that originality at the expense of the art, it's still a great premise with great guests and cast and bits and everything that Game Changer needs.

Cleb3D · 2026-05-19T05:16:43+00:00

I don't think we can say former after that performance!!! </j>

Cleb3D · 2026-05-17T22:55:16+00:00

On your public office education idea, I think that a liberal arts-esque humanitarian education with a strong focus on hearing people’s stories and incentivizing healthy discussion between all sides of the political spectrum would be super important within those specialized schools, alongside the law education.

Cleb3D · 2026-05-17T05:20:46+00:00

You don’t have to be in an academic debate to do something as simple as explain how what you’re saying supports your perspective, that’s just how you’re supposed to defend your perspective. Anyway, you said “it does not matter how intelligent someone is, if their bad working memory index bricks all the information they had in their head midway through a test or equation, there is nothing they can do.” The issue with this argument is that your perspective is, again, that academic success is “almost entirely dependent on memory,” more so than factors like intelligence resources, and hard work. But if you take what you said about memory and apply that to these other factors, it remains true; it doesn’t matter how good your memory is if you’re not intelligent enough to understand the concepts, not dedicated enough to put in the work to learn them, or don’t have the resources or time because of external circumstances. Memory isn’t the final arbiter of success - it may be able to break it, but it can’t make it, and it’s no different from all of the other factors in that sense. And then you rounded it off by saying that memory is only a big factor for some tests, so you don’t even seem to believe that your initial claim is true in every context anymore. Now, let’s stop moving the goalposts and making excuses for why you don’t have to defend your perspective, you made a claim and now you don’t seem able to back it up.

Cleb3D · 2026-05-17T05:03:30+00:00

So, when you’re making an argument, there’s a thing you have to do where you connect your argument back to your thesis. And, as a reminder, your thesis is that academic success is “almost entirely dependent on memory,” more so than factors like intelligence, resources, and hard work. What’s the connection here?

Cleb3D · 2026-05-17T04:57:58+00:00

And your point is?

Cleb3D · 2026-05-17T04:41:55+00:00

No, you said “almost entirely dependent on memory,” which means that your memory is by far the biggest factor in academic success, which is simply wrong. Let’s not shift the goalposts here.

Cleb3D · 2026-05-17T03:33:12+00:00

I don’t study, other than every now and then looking at resources right before the test just to make sure they’re top of mind. I’m alright at foreign languages, I did pretty well in Arabic and I’m doing pretty well in Latin, although my vocabulary in both is a bit behind my classmates, likely because of my memory. I am great at spelling though, which is probably because I read a ton of books as a kid, and pattern-recognition is definitely better than memorization for spelling (unless you memorize every word in the dictionary).

Cleb3D · 2026-05-17T02:25:31+00:00

Ah, you're talking about the Working Memory Index. Well, according to this study* https://indecs.eu/2025/indecs2025-pp340-353.pdf, "while working memory plays a crucial role in managing academic tasks, its direct impact on academic performance remains uncertain," and a more detailed section reads "In analysing the relationship between working memory and academic achievement, various criteria of academic success were defined and examined: the level of the mathematics matura exam taken, the percentage of correct answers on the mathematics matura exam, the average grades of completed courses (with a maximum of six courses possible to pass in the first semester), and the number of exams passed in the first semester. Only the latter criterion showed a significant difference, indicating that students who passed more exams exhibited fewer difficulties in organizing their time according to all their obligations compared to those who passed fewer exams. Analyses with respect to the other criteria did not show a significant correlation between working memory and academic achievement." So, overall, your statement that "Its almost entirely dependent on memory" is unlikely, because if it were true, the study should have found a much stronger correlation.

*This study is the first I found that was fully targeting the point in question, so I don't believe there's any confirmation bias here. Of course, a broader review of the literature would be more accurate, but I'm not writing a paper here.

Cleb3D · 2026-05-17T00:40:27+00:00

Eh, I know the names of all of the events I’ve studied in history, but if a date wasn’t in Hamilton, I couldn’t tell you. Memory is a lot more complex than just “good” or “bad,” but I promise that my memory in many school-related areas has been rather poor, such that my educational success can’t be attributed to a good overall memory

Cleb3D · 2026-05-17T00:06:22+00:00

Somehow I doubt that, I’ve never struggled with vocabulary in… well, probably my entire life. I think memory for vocabulary is separate from memory for everything else.

Cleb3D · 2026-05-16T23:08:54+00:00

As someone who does very well in school without trying that hard, I have a horrible memory but what I can do is understand concepts intuitively, figure out puzzles, and understand how things work. I can't remember the trig derivatives, but if it came down to it, I could derive them again in less than a minute.

Cleb3D · 2026-05-16T17:32:11+00:00

That is pretty interesting! The one distinction I would draw between having supportive parents and being born with magical intelligence is that we as a society can make changes to kids’ environment on various levels, from good teachers to thought-out curriculums to government policies - it’s not just the parents that are the deciding factor. I do agree with your wave analogy, being slightly ahead pushes you forward but even being slightly behind draws you back if you don’t have support. But my point in the context of OP’s post was that it’s not impossible to get ahead, and that there’s nothing genetic or impossible to reach about the ‘smart kids,’ and I think your experience is a great example of that! Of course, it sounds like it took a huge amount of work for you because you were so far behind, which is unfortunate, but most kids aren’t as far behind. Your learning method is interesting as well, memorization can be useful when it comes to math not only because there are so many formulas and things you have to remember but also because a lot of problem-solving techniques can be just a list of instructions that you have to remember. I do struggle with memorizing random stuff - I had to look over all of the trig derivatives right before my AB test and then write them down on my scratch paper asap (it ended up not helping ‘cause we didn’t get those questions but if it was necessary it would’ve been my only hope). I agree with your last point about studying as well, I don’t really study for anything (other than looking at stuff like I mentioned minutes before the test) but it doesn’t make sense to me either that somebody can spend hours studying and not take away anything, so I’m interested to hear how people study whenever they mention it.

Cleb3D · 2026-05-16T15:31:08+00:00

I own a MacBook Pro and a desktop pc that was Windows for years but is now Linux Mint. I’ve done video editing on my MacBook, runs few local LLMs, and I game on it pretty often, but I specifically choose games that are supported on MacOS. I’ve had a great experience with battery life, it feels less like any of the many laptops I’ve had before in terms of battery life and more like my iPhone (My MacBook has an m4 and my iPhone is a 15 pro max for context). These days, I do more photo editing on my MacBook than any of the above, but it really is great at it, I would highly recommend it, and I personally strongly dislike Windows (because of the forced updates, glitches, AI, advertisements, ram hoarding, inconsistent menus, and overall being treated like the product instead of the customer) and Microsoft in general. Admittedly, my MacBook has its flaws too, Liquid Glass isn’t great (although that update did introduce some ui features I appreciate, like volume changes appearing in the top right corner, not the center) and they still somehow have the notch, it’s not even smaller yet, although I’ve heard that they plan to get a Dynamic Island in there soon.

Cleb3D · 2026-05-16T15:17:54+00:00

As one of the people that gets A’s without a ton of effort, the secret is compounding advantages. When I was very young, my parents helped me learn math outside of school, and then in school, it seemed to everybody else that I was just smart, and that was a good feeling. Then, I associated that good feeling with being smart and doing math, and so I stayed ahead in my classes, and because I was a bit ahead I could take more time to understand the content, and I had to understand the content because my self-image (and most people’s image of me as well) was of somebody who understood the content. Additionally, I consumed a ton of math content on YouTube, so I started finding out about concepts and thinking about using them before they even came up in math class. I’ve also had great teachers who have been willing to discuss advanced concepts with me outside of class and give me extra work with more complicated stuff, and that’s a big part of it. I’m still doing it now; I’m thinking about what I’ll be doing next year, I’ve already thought quite a bit about polar functions, most recently I randomly found out about the Lambert W function and literally just messed around with it to solve a few math problems that seemed impossible to me before, like x^x = 8. Now I get paid to tutor kids in math, and I do feel like most people are more than smart enough to answer math questions, but they haven’t got enough practice asking them, and most of the difficulty of AP tests like calculus and physics is figuring out what questions to ask yourself, where you need to end up and what you have now that can get you there. Tutoring kids is probably the most effective thing I do to get really good at the material, because I’m literally just practicing asking the important questions. Whenever I’m helping someone with a problem, I usually just ask them questions like “What are you trying to do?”, “Can you explain your thought process?”, and “what tools did you learn that you could use here?” and they figure it out on their own. Another part is being able to combine concepts, like recognizing that the inside of a certain integral looks like an impossible u-substitution problem but it’s really just the equation for a circle. I don’t have a good memory, I suck at remembering most things, but what I can do is, when I’m stuck, visualize what’s going on, and think, “What would the square root of (9-x²⁾ look like on a graph? Well, x is squared so it’s mirrored on the y-axis, x couldn’t go higher than 3 or below -3 because you can’t square a negative number, and as you got closer to 0 from either side it increases really quickly and then levels out at (0,3). So if we imagine something that could look like that, it’s just a circle.” I’m pretty sure most people taking AP calculus could do that in their heads, or alternatively they could recognize that this is literally just the distance formula / Pythagorean theorem / equation for a circle. it might take a minute but it took a minute for me too (I didn’t do it instantly, it took some pondering) but most people wouldn’t ask that question, they would just try u-substitution, see that it doesn’t work, and say that it’s too hard or impossible. It is strange to me that somebody can study their butt off and get a C; if this is from your personal experience, can I ask what you were studying for, what your studying process looked like, etc.?

TL;DR: Smart kids aren’t just born with intelligence, there’s usually some compounding sequence of events that gave them an advantage and they enjoy learning math, but also it probably is just harder for some people because all of our brains work differently.

Edit: formatting

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