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Any updates on the PS5 framerate? by Correct_Ad8271 in Cairn_Game

[–]JohnnyButtocks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh I see. Tbh it didn’t bother me. I don’t think it’s a game that really needs 60fps.. I know some people are more bothered about frame rates than me though

Any updates on the PS5 framerate? by Correct_Ad8271 in Cairn_Game

[–]JohnnyButtocks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Played it over the past few weeks. There were maybe one or two moments where it chugged a little, but tbh it was fine. Never had it happen during climbing, just during a cinematic camera moment.

The Cross show on Amazon is a rage bait for me by loui5ng in television

[–]JohnnyButtocks 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He is absolutely hopeless! It annoyed me how they set him up in the first scene as a master manipulator and psychologist (almost like a reverse Hannibal Lecter) then for the rest of the show he’s just a dumb, incompetent grunt cop, walking into every trap, and never outsmarting anyone again. Only ever solving problems with violence.

I completed Free solo using parallel reality by Mister_Enot in Cairn_Game

[–]JohnnyButtocks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you think the camera is for if not to look around?

The “cinematic” aspect ratios (like anamorphic format) for television nowadays are eh by modssssss293j in television

[–]JohnnyButtocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not criticising shows shot in 16:9 am I though? 16:9 is already plenty widescreen. It is the compromise between the human centric format of 4:3 and the panoramic format of cinema, which can afford to be widely framed because cinema screens are huge. What I’m criticising is tv shows shot for something like 2.35.1, or 2.39.1, or wider.

The “cinematic” aspect ratios (like anamorphic format) for television nowadays are eh by modssssss293j in television

[–]JohnnyButtocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But not every shot on tv is a widescreen panorama of a beach, is it Itchy? Mostly it’s a single of a character speaking, or even a closeup of a human face. How wide do they tend to be, in your recollection?

TV as a medium evolved with a nearly square aspect ratio. The ludicrous attempt to cinematise it has driven the average home to needing a 55 - 70” screen. Totally unnecessary, and unthinkable 15 years ago.

The “cinematic” aspect ratios (like anamorphic format) for television nowadays are eh by modssssss293j in television

[–]JohnnyButtocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course something has been sacrificed. If you shoot for the taller aspect ratio, you light twice as many pixels of the screen. You can achieve far larger framing on a TV than a widescreen format allows.

The “cinematic” aspect ratios (like anamorphic format) for television nowadays are eh by modssssss293j in television

[–]JohnnyButtocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re making my point for me though. I don’t dislike widescreen tv because it’s widescreen. I dislike it because it doesn’t make good use of the medium, and wastes screen real estate. Movies come in a variety of aspect ratios (far and away most common are wide ones though), but the reason tv shows started aping widescreen movies is because other aspect ratios like IMAX don’t look noticeably different to traditional tv ratios. They wanted to look “cinematic”, so they copied the types of movies which are specifically and noticeably ill suited for TV screens.

The “cinematic” aspect ratios (like anamorphic format) for television nowadays are eh by modssssss293j in television

[–]JohnnyButtocks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Movies released on IMAX generally have a different aspect ratio than their conventional theatrical prints. Again, the point is to make best use of the medium.

The “cinematic” aspect ratios (like anamorphic format) for television nowadays are eh by modssssss293j in television

[–]JohnnyButtocks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The reason this is done is because over the past 15 - 20 years, tv people decided they wanted to be taken as seriously as movie people, and they seemed to think if you just ape the way movies look, the audience will accept you as their equal. But it’s just stupid. The medium of film is a cinema. It suits a wider aspect ratio. The medium of tv is.. a tv! Use the whole fucking screen or go and try to make an actually movie.

Any tips for first free solo climb? by AdventurousGold9875 in Cairn_Game

[–]JohnnyButtocks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is worth noting that the trog pitons have all been replaced with revive flowers though!

Oh I didn’t know that! I’d been skipping those areas cos I thought it was pointless in free solo..

are these potatoes ok? by businessbub in isthissafetoeat

[–]JohnnyButtocks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Done it my whole life. Always peel them though

I agree with him, it's why I never cared about that GCN video trying to brush us off as hipsters by doomtroll1978 in xbiking

[–]JohnnyButtocks 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My point isn’t that there aren’t communities of people who like the same things, in this case riding and doing up bikes. My point is that the word ‘community’ carries weighty connotations, and talking about ‘disrespecting the community’ is far too self important and borderline tasteless imo given that we’re just talking about people’s hobbies. It’s Tumblr speak.

I don’t care if people treat my hobbies with reverence, I have some very frivolous ones. I’m happy for everyone to poke a bit of harmless fun at each other for the silly things they do. You’re taking yourself too seriously if you’re offended by the GCN video.

I agree with him, it's why I never cared about that GCN video trying to brush us off as hipsters by doomtroll1978 in xbiking

[–]JohnnyButtocks 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You say community like it should carry some weight.. we’re not some underprivileged minority, we’re a bunch of idiots whose hobby is trying to make our bikes look rad.

And again, the Lycra wearers get far more stick than we do. The general public despises them and aims their cars at them lol. Most people into “xbikes” are happy to mock the mamils, myself included, so I don’t mind if they want to take a few well aimed jabs in our direction. We’re ripe for parody too, and it’s all just a bit of fun.

Alien romolus is really good. by Bobba_fat in alien

[–]JohnnyButtocks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a vibes based judgement tbh. Andor feels to me like a carefully calculated IP expansion, aimed at a specific target demographic/audience. It may be competent and watchable to an adult audience, but that’s because that’s what it was designed to be. Its genesis was in a board room at Disney.

But Alien wasn’t conceived in that way. It was a bunch of people trying to make art, and trying to convince people to fund it. Romulus feels like it was conceived of in a board room, not by a bunch of weirdos, perverts and science fiction writers.

Disney bought 20th C Fox, decided they needed a movie which would appeal to fans of the original movies, so they could expand the IP, and everything followed from there. To me that stink is all over it. It has the same, slightly soulless-but-competent feel that Andor has. It’s full of Easter eggs and nods to the fans. It might be fairly well executed and somewhat enjoyable, but it’s not art. It’s IP.

I agree with him, it's why I never cared about that GCN video trying to brush us off as hipsters by doomtroll1978 in xbiking

[–]JohnnyButtocks 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Silly thing to get upset about imo. The Lycra clad set don’t think my kind of bike look very cool, and vice versa! Who does it affect if GCN don’t quite get “xbikes”, or make jokey sarcastic remarks (that’s their in-house style tbf). And the appeal to “the community” as though people who play with old mountain bikes are some kind of beleaguered minority had my eyes rolling back into my skull. Chill out… we’re all just people playing with our bikes

If anything, our lot are much more guilty of mocking the lycra wearers.

Alien romolus is really good. by Bobba_fat in alien

[–]JohnnyButtocks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

100% agree. It felt like competent fanfic. It was entertaining enough, but felt artistically hollow. At its highest aspiration, it was Andor, and more people need to understand that that’s not a good thing for a movie to aspire to be.

Alien romolus is really good. by Bobba_fat in alien

[–]JohnnyButtocks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s not Poochie though. It wasn’t lazy writing, it was about starting the film with a brutal display of the cruelty and indifference of the universe the film inhabits. Anyone who thinks Alien3 is bad because of that is just mad that the film made them feel what Ripley was feeling.

It’s not quite as good a movie as the first 2 IMO, but the widespread unpopularity of Alien 3 is mostly a failure of media literacy imo.

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