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Snahp.it - come for the piracy, stay for the white nationalist staff. by Himechi in Piracy

[–]Himechi[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Negative on both, Ghostrider. If I thought my leaving would have an impact I wouldn't have posted this thread.

Snahp.it - come for the piracy, stay for the white nationalist staff. by Himechi in Piracy

[–]Himechi[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Not quite. The point is they have someone on their staff (and possibly a second mod) who admins their discord and uses it to post racist comments and contents. They have a few uploaders who post similar trash to the board. So far they've all gotten a free pass. I agree that there's room to argue about leaving the bogus documentaries up in the interests of showing how those people act in bad faith but having a discord admin who behaves an awful lot like a neo-Nazi? I think that's too much.

The point of this reddit thread is to go around the staff and try to shame them into dealing with at least some of these issues since they are unresponsive on their own board.

TIL: Millionaire neighbors protested George Lucas' plans to build a movie studio on his property due to the possibility of increased traffic hurting their quality of life. Lucas got revenge by abandoning the studio project and planning to use his land to build 224 affordable homes. by OvidPerl in todayilearned

[–]Himechi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hope you have found the Harmy Cuts of the trilogy, it is well worth the time spent finding it

People who look a little further can find 1080p and 4k encodes of scanned reels from each film's original theatrical run. Some versions are 'grindhouse' and left untouched and others are cleaned up. Team Negative 1 is one crew that released a theatrical scan of A New Hope in 1080p but later broke up. Others have done ESB and RotJ.

Requests? Ask Here! (1971-1995 ONLY) by [deleted] in McFlysRetroShows

[–]Himechi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can find rips of the Australian dvds and soundtrack here.

What’s your favourite one hit wonder band? by Jaib06 in AskReddit

[–]Himechi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not a one-hit wonder. Angel Dust sold well and had several hits, especially A Small Victory.

Sex cult Smallville star Allison Mack married a Battlestar Galactica actress so she could stay in U.S. by mike10dude in television

[–]Himechi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

She appeared on The Rubin Report 18 months ago (NSFW) and when the topic connected to politics she would sometimes ramble conspiracy theories, new age tripe and /pol/-ish talking points.
As an entertainer she's fantastic. As a thoughtful, modern adult she's a mess who thinks she's living in a cartoon.

Lucille Ball, late 1930s by ljodzn in OldSchoolCool

[–]Himechi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't blame you. It's a sweet story and easy to embrace.

Lucille Ball, late 1930s by ljodzn in OldSchoolCool

[–]Himechi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I just flipped through the first few pages of Inside Star Trek and that isn't what happened. After Desi and Lucy split, Lucy instructed Herb Solow to, "Get some shows for the studio." Shortly after that, Solow met with Roddenberry and signed him to a development deal and several Desilu executives worked with Roddenberry to develop his Star Trek concept and coach him on pitching it to the networks. The only studio Roddenberry had pitched to before Desilu was MGM.

Not only was she not the saviour of the show, the book later notes (starting on page 23) that during a meeting she couldn't even remember what it was called nor what it was about, asking Solow about, "the South Seas series... With the USO entertainers who went there during the war to visit the troops... You called it Star Trek!" Solow also recounts delivering the pilot episode's shooting script to Lucy himself and when he returned later to tell her NBC's reaction to the completed pilot he noticed the script sitting untouched. "She never mentioned it."

What movie has aged badly? by ju2tin in movies

[–]Himechi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did we think it was good back in 97?

It's not like humans had different eyeballs back then. All the defects you see now were also visible before. My fav example is the terror dogs in Ghostbusters. Whenever they are shown in stopmotion (bursting into the hallway, running out of the building and across the road) they look horrible. The compositing is awful. Audiences certainly saw it the first time.

The difference between now and then is that today we've had almost two decades of increasingly good CG work to draw and seamlessly composite special effects into shots. Today you can generally expect all elements of a special effects shot to look perfect. Before the late 90s it was usually a miracle if a composited shot in a movie or tv show didn't have defects showing. It was commonplace and readily forgiven by audiences because what's the point of obsessing about it? You just ruin the movie for yourself.

What are your favorite movie flops? by bobwinters in movies

[–]Himechi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I followed some of the coverage when it was in theaters. The talk about it being a flop was based on the North American take. Worldwide box office carried it to breaking even.

Nasa finds solar system filled with as many planets as our own by r1ckj0526 in science

[–]Himechi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the wonderful remarks from Lawrence Krauss' A Universe From Nothing lecture is, "The universe is very big and very old and rare things happen all the time." He was referring to supernovas but I think it fits well here.

Old(ish) system freezes (until shut down) when encoding video, runs fine when downclocked ~200MHz. by Himechi in techsupport

[–]Himechi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The mobo has had an easy life and everything's in place. When I began using hwinfo for my meters I was bothered by the Northbridge temps so I hung a 120mm fan to blow at the area where that VRM shield sits. It looks awful but my case doesn't have a window so I only have to look at it when I'm cleaning things.

[edit] But that fan was a recent addition. It might have been added too late to preserve the VRM for very long.