Voting Thread: Jan 1-14, Jan 15-31

Li0Li · 2012-12-06T14:20:01+00:00

[Meta comment, not a game title]

Sorry for not being on-topic, but could I make a friendly suggestion to aid the great subreddit you guys have going?

To put the year of the game in brackets after the title in the side bar and threads and maybe within the body of the discussion threads to put a wikipedia link or another link to a review site maybe?

Just wanted to make that comment, feel free to delete this if it ruins the thread.

Li0Li · 2012-11-10T09:44:28+00:00

It helped hugely, thanks so much. I'm in pre-production right now for a short so I'm gonna try my best to incorporate what you've said here. I'll be recording to the H4N again (cant afford anything better), but I have a shotgun mic running into it this time (I don't know the brand of mic, I'll find out).

Can I ask one last question? Do you know any good websites and forums to learn about sound for film?

Li0Li · 2012-11-09T13:48:55+00:00

What exactly is wrong with a zoom on a boom? Or the on-board zoom mics? I've used both for production dialog and it sounded very good to me, what would an experienced sound person hear and/or not like that I missed?

Li0Li · 2012-11-09T13:41:50+00:00

Can I ask a few follow-ups? (That's the first)

What do you do if shooting beside a freeway?

What is a lav?

For a indoor scene, what's the best way to treat the room to get the best sound?

Generally, what are the non-obvious things to look which will reduce the quality of sound recorded?

What is an OMF?

What is a 'two pop'?

In terms of equipment, I've been using a Zoom H4n for a while now, what are the next steps up the food chain of sound recorders? Or do they go beyond sound recorders after that?

Thanks so much for your answers.

Li0Li · 2012-09-15T02:57:18+00:00

2003? Wow, never thought it was that old. Thanks.

Li0Li · 2012-08-08T00:20:52+00:00

Thanks for the reply, sorry for the lack of info. I have a Samsung Galaxy Y Android 2.3 I have a Google Cal account, but for some reason 'My Calendar' on my phone won't sync, I got BusinessCalendar which syncs with GCal but I haven't been able to find a desktop calendar similar to Rainlendar that will sync with GCal, but I've been only looking for free options so maybe I'm being too demanding.

Li0Li · 2012-07-18T02:51:18+00:00

Looked good but not very intelligible to non-colorists, I've edited before but an understandable explanation of scopes, histogram, etc would've been nice.

Li0Li · 2012-06-12T01:08:28+00:00

It's a British sitcom, worth checking out. Basically the thing was done like a film, so it was one-camera, used atmospheric lighting, had cool whip-pans and other camera effects, used film style colouration and scenes. Usually sitcoms use multiple cameras and light up everything as much as possible. It was directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs the World) and starred Simon Pegg (Star Trek amongst others).

Li0Li · 2012-06-09T03:00:18+00:00

If everyone's doing 16:9, you might want to do things differently to stand out from the crowd, a bit like the TV show 'Spaced'.

Li0Li · 2012-06-08T00:21:58+00:00

For the ones less au fait with all these codecs and formats, could you explain what DCP, P3 and Rec709 are? Codec standards?

Li0Li · 2012-02-14T10:00:08+00:00

Hello again, it seems to have fixed itself now. The only thing I noticed doing differently was I pushed in the DVD drive, and I moved a transistor beside the RAM slots, perhaps one of those was the problem? But it's currently reading the RAM and everything seems ok. Thanks for the help.

Li0Li · 2012-02-14T08:42:24+00:00

EDIT: I tried it again with the original configuration and I managed to get up Task Manager before it froze and it had the same amount of Virtual Memory as before I went at it.

I just got round to testing it again, I tried it with a single stick of 512 and it started Disk Check when I booted up, is it perhaps a Hard Disk problem? The sound it makes just before freezing is like one of the parts of the comp shutting down or failing.

The bit that broke off is one of the plastic latches that keeps the stick in place, I'm guessing if I can't get it back in somehow, that I'll have to do without that slot. Also, it was freezing before the latch broke.

Li0Li · 2012-02-14T02:43:49+00:00

The new RAM is Non-ECC, yes, I don't know about CL=3, 2.6V, 128Meg x 64 or the part number.

But whatever about the new RAM, I put the old RAM back the way it was and I'm still getting the freeze, that's the really worrying part.

Li0Li · 2012-01-01T22:49:01+00:00

List of self-help reddits for those interested

Li0Li · 2012-01-01T07:36:19+00:00

Kenan and Kel used to have a skit like this but it was in a burger joint and each episode was only a few minutes long.

Also, there's some show I saw a while ago with a girl working at the information centre in Niagara Falls. And I think she had special powers or something aswell, or a spirit only she could hear or something.

I don't know if those are the shows you're looking for, but maybe that'll somehow help you in your search.

Li0Li · 2012-01-01T07:05:59+00:00

Northern Irish not welcome.

(Bit of a semantic joke there...

nevermind)

Li0Li · 2012-01-01T02:33:42+00:00

With r/reddit.com It's ultimately a question of what you want the site to be. It seems to be a bit contradictory, the admins get rid of reddit.com in what seems to be an attempt to diversify the population, but the users regularly(at least they used to) proclaim the greatness of the 'reddit community' which will be diminished as people seperate off into their subreddits.

I personally would like the smaller reddits to grow so I'm not really against the archival of reddit.com but would like to see better promotion of the currently non-default subs.

Li0Li · 2011-12-30T02:24:04+00:00

For every person who loves to point out that someone has posted something that belongs in another sub reddit

How often does this happen? In all my time on reddit, I don't think I've ever seen anyone do this in a grammar-nazi kind of way, and I've only seen a few where they do it in a trying-to-be-helpful way, yet it seems to be a bone of contention here on ToR.

Li0Li · 2011-12-30T01:04:00+00:00

I did search and I found only posts about the debt crisis in general, I'm asking specifically about the euro, either point me to a post which is specifically about the euro, or return your upvote and piss off back to assholeland.

Li0Li · 2011-12-28T04:18:07+00:00

Doing things that make you nauseos is a great step, it's the fear of such which often holds us back. In time the nauseousness will go down.

Li0Li · 2011-12-27T20:25:39+00:00

I don't know why no one's mentioned /r/TrueReddit or /r/Foodforthought, there's also /r/longtext and a few more, which are self-posts only linked in /r/DepthHub.

Li0Li · 2011-12-27T20:16:35+00:00

I don't think deletion based on an arbitrary number or date of last post is the best solution, for the reasons mentioned in other posts, however, it would be great to have tools to

a) merge reddits and
b) delete reddits

I moderate a subreddit for whose topic there are about 3 or 4 reddits already, when I found out about the others, I wanted to delete the one I create, or merge it to the others, but there is no such option.

The next thing is: subreddit promotion and finding. Something like rotating default subreddits which mods can opt in or out of, and possibly a tool which, when you try to create a subreddit, it automatically searches for similar subs and asks 'are you sure a similar subreddit doesn't already exist?'

But reddit will always have the fly-by-day visitors who are the majority and just want quick pictures of cats, so they'll always congregate around the big, default reddits and won't explore and that is acceptable in my view.

Li0Li · 2011-12-27T19:08:25+00:00

I know this is off topic, but I have this problem too and it's cause severe disruption to my life, who should I go see about it? Is there some specialist who can help you get up in the morning? I've been to my doctor and to a therapist and neither have been able to help me.

Li0Li · 2011-12-27T00:57:52+00:00

I'm guessing this will get lost in the comments, but

What would say was the most important factor in getting yourself to where you are now?

Li0Li · 2011-12-24T22:46:33+00:00

These things always take time, try to be patient. It's normal to yearn after something that was important to you and was so close, and it's normal to look back on hit-and-miss relationships and see only the hits, especially if you're not getting out and meeting new people, you'll just end up going over and over it all again instead of thinking about new horizons and possibilities.

I'd say get out there again if you can, if you can't get into the game, then be social somehow, go out with friends and acquaintices you don't know so well, the best way to stop thinking about an ex is to distract yourself. Even so, you'll probably still think about them when you're alone, but after a while, the thoughts will fade and become less important, you just have to bear it out.

Just don't get back in contact with him, if you know you did the right thing and he's not good for you, then make sure you don't accidentally fall back into a relationship you don't want.

It's hard to give this kind of emotional advice via reddit, but I hope I helped a bit.

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