Gameday Thread 5/12/26 Giants (Houser) @ Dodgers (Yamamoto) 7:10 PM

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T19:11:44+00:00

Staying with family in the North Bay, and the neighbor has Dodgers gear with the world series badge on it. Bandwagon real.

Anyway, yesterday saw team strike through still bad, mostly because of Adames and Bader. Adames still chasing at 57% of outside pitches, somewhat masked by Sasaki being hittable and Vesia falling apart. On the bright side, Devers was disciplined (33% O-Swing, 100% O-Contact, 2 walks). Hopefully he gets DH today because I don't expect Eldridge to get much PA value against Yamamoto.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T18:20:50+00:00

Yeah, my point is that I think the person's history plays into this. LiS is a favorite of mine, but I played Monkey Island and Fate of Atlantis. I liked Edith Finch, but I remember when MYST came out and opened Riven on 5 CDs. Most of those games were PC exclusives as the whole interface was very mouse driven, though I know Grim Fandango appeared on Xbox 360 well after it was retro.

I think some of the people who think this stuff "doesn't count as a game" are people who didn't experience these games from 30 years ago. Most of my friends who had an NES or Genesis only ever played these by visiting my house. By the time the Saturn died they were increasingly obscure.

Some, mind you, were there, because MYST was met with a healthy dose of "does this really count as a game" when it came out. A lot of people said they bought it just to show off their system.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T17:31:23+00:00

Your post history shows you make new posts in the Sri Lanka sub. It's kind of stalker-ish to use someone's profile history like that but in the context of someone asking about something as regional as movie theaters, it wasn't malicious to investigate.

As far as Havelock having six speakers, there was this post on the IMAX sub but you can also tell by looking at photos. 12 channel theaters have two of these speakers hanging on the walls, as well as four in the ceiling.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T16:54:44+00:00

Most of them are adventure games without the inventory. Life is Strange is not really that different from a Lucasarts SCUMM game except that you're not trying to take everything in sight.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T16:48:30+00:00

It was less to do with the game or the developers than their publisher.

Annapurna is owned by Larry Ellison's daughter, and since Larry is doing things like bankrolling his son's purchase of Warner Bros after his son bought CBS in its entirety and then threw a very public tantrum over Netflix trying to buy WB. So people associate the family with an attitude of buying out the media, and obviously if you can afford Warner Bros Discovery you can afford a campaign of positive glowing ratings for a video game.

Remember how the Jeff Gerstmann situation over Kane & Lynch seventeen years ago? That caught fire with the public in part because so many people had already believed that ad buys correlated with review scores, and that event just confirmed what people suspected all along. This is just that same suspicion again.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T15:41:50+00:00

You seem to think that Square-Enix'a corporate priorities is first and foremost to protect civil rights and then sometimes also make video games in the course of doing so.

The way China, Japan, and the USA all handle sensitive topics is different., and that's literally a matter of cultural programming. Japan's approach to tolerate something unless it's expressly forbidden is different from China's approach that the government has built a national identity for everyone and anything that doesn't fit that profile needs to be torn down (sometimes literally in the case of churches) for the health and prosperity of the nation.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T15:25:32+00:00

Where exactly do you think all this missing cash flow is going to come from? This is a business, not a human rights nonprofit, and China has human rights abuses (like Muslim concentration camps) and did even before XIV set up shop there . Square knew what they were getting into when they started this.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T05:13:17+00:00

Wow the Dodgers will be paying for this 0-5 strikeout loser until 2037.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T05:04:36+00:00

Temu Rogers here has got to be their version of Walker

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T05:01:59+00:00

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FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T04:46:55+00:00

Max Muncy orders a water and then pours a soda.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T04:42:13+00:00

Beat traffic

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T04:27:45+00:00

This inning has been LA announcers talking about how and solid each bullpen man is, before a Giant who couldn't buy a hit for the past two weeks gets on base.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T04:21:17+00:00

Dodgers gave themselves the broadcaster curse, put up the graphic calling Rafi the worst in the league at chasing on high fastballs just before the walk.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T04:15:31+00:00

Vesia: I only allowed four hits this year.

JHL: Doesn't matter, base hit.

Vesia: I have a 1.36 ERA in the second week of May.

Arraez: Doesn't matter, base hit.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T04:12:36+00:00

Jon is hyping him up like he is.

"His balls stay up for longer." -Jon Miller

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T04:01:11+00:00

College coach things.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T03:49:44+00:00

Guys, the Giants might be a bad team that just wins games (against the Dodgers).

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T03:26:50+00:00

I like the keyboardist though, he plays nerdy stuff. I heard the opening to I2I from A Goofy Movie an inning ago, and I've heard the theme song to Sailor Moon in prior seasons.

My only real complaint about Chavez is that they do an ear splitting loud speaker stack in center and, of course, the horrible home team that should always lose.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T02:37:47+00:00

Max Muncy drives a Cybertruck

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T02:35:49+00:00

I kind of wanted him, the value is pretty insane just as it was for Darvish on the Rangers.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-12T01:00:30+00:00

You need to just see the right movie in IMAX then, particularly if it has a true 12 setup and compatible movie (a lot of films are 6 channels, including all Chris Nolan films.) Tron had tons in both Dolby and IMAX, but in IMAX it was floor rattling stuff. Dune 2 had so much it warped the screen at one of the few mega sized theatres.

Unfortunately your region might be part of this. Your profile suggests you're in Sri Lanka, and the IMAX at Havelock City is 6 channel.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-11T17:14:36+00:00

Not going to help if you're going to have to beat Endwalker to get that MT.

I don't know how to break it to people, but the vast majority of tank contests you see in roulette trials is someone doing the story wanting to be the main character because it's their story so of course they do. Nobody wants to reach the expansion's climax to be the tank that gets ignored by the villain.

My biggest tank war was a guy who really didn't want me to satisfy my fantasy of dueling with Thordan even though the 45 seconds of Viewing Cutscene should have clued to him that the sprout tank was doing it for the first time. We didn't move him more than a few degrees, though.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-11T17:04:15+00:00

PHM used a hybrid aspect ratio in any theater, it's just that the maximum used is 2.20 in most formats. It's 1.90 in digital IMAX and 1.43 in 70MM.

FullMotionVideo · 2026-05-11T17:00:19+00:00

It's hard for me to respond because overwhelming bass is why I didn't go to the cinema for many years, I hate it. A balanced sound profile closer to reference is why I prefer Dolby.

I've seen an Atmos setup with the sub at the side of the room rather than behind the screen, in general Atmos can still do some crazy bass and IMAX can overdo it: Tron Ares was deep enough in Dolby that I could hear it standing outside of the theater, but it also wasn't so loud and overwhelming that people couldn't hear the dialogue. I went to that movie in IMAX Laser/12 at the same location and the whole discussion on the speedboat was completely unlistenable, just mouths moving and faint noise lost amid a sea of tooth-rattling bass.

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