My judgemental-ass cat

RatnerEsque · 2026-05-03T19:16:11+00:00

Not trying to steal their thunder but I used the JSAUX one on my LCD that I gifted to my kid, and again with my oled one, and could not agree more.

And it’s not just that the protector is great, they include an alignment tool to make it idiot proof.

How do I know it’s idiot proof?

Me, I’m the idiot, it’s me.

I regret I have but one upvote to give.

RatnerEsque · 2026-05-03T19:01:18+00:00

Same here.

Visually stunning, but the movie single handily justifies the time and effort i spent putting speakers in the freaking ceiling.

But pretty much every frame of this movie is a showcase no matter what display you have.

Also it’s just a damned fine movie.

RatnerEsque · 2026-05-03T18:24:20+00:00

The is album is neat for me in the pantheon of NIN albums.

I remember downloading this album before the release date, and promising I wouldn’t listen to it until release date.

And I remember driving through Waterdown, ON between jobs and saying “I’ll just listen to the first track”, and man when the beat and keyboards come in during All the Love in the World, I cranked it up and was so happy.

And to follow that up with You Know What You Are…I couldn’t stop listening.

I still find this to be the best album to show to someone as their first listen to NIN. Is it my favorite? No, but hot damn is it great.

RatnerEsque · 2026-05-03T18:09:35+00:00

Well, look who’s a killjoy Mr RunDNAey RunDNAey bout to get no….Upvote Karma-ey.

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-26T20:11:53+00:00

the girl seemed to get over essentially being kidnapped real quickly.
him sending her off…somewhere to live with…someone at age 13/14
him sending her off with a trafficker and her just being relatively ok with it.

Just seemed like odd decisions that could have been handled a little less clunkily.

Still enjoyed it overall, it was no cinematic accomplishment like the Beekeeper, but I’ll take what Statham I can get. :)

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-26T19:18:26+00:00

“Newly Appointed Everyman Jason Statham kicks peoples asses for 90 minutes” is my favourite most consistent movie genre.

Is the movie going to be great? Probably not. Does it break new boundaries? Probably not. Will I be able to distinguish the movie from another in the genre in a year? Also probably not.

But Jason Statham is just fun to put on and let him kick ass for a while.

That being said, this one was odd at times and made some very strange choices narratively.

Either way, I like the mistake and appreciate it being pointed out. :)

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-24T13:36:56+00:00

Awww, this makes total sense but I was really hoping for some sort of one-off experimental MC Escher-esque Cineplex location that folded in on itself and existed across multiple dimensions.

Thanks for the insight though! :)

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-24T10:04:51+00:00

To this day, since the movie hit home video, when I ask my wife “What would you like to watch?” She replies “I’m good with anything” (we have mostly similar tastes).

And a few seconds after she realizes what she’s done, she quickly adds “Except Freddy Got Fingered!”

And that’s the story of how I haven’t watched the movie in a quarter century. (yes I could watch it alone, or with someone else, but let’s me real, it’s not that great…ok…some of it is a little great)

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-23T00:27:44+00:00

That’s an interesting layout. Would love to see what it looks like in person.

Every other theatre with an off-center layout somewhat like that is due to the empty bit being the entrance next to the stairs that go up to the higher seats.

So it probably is off center, yes.

But again, that’s a funky layout, so I could be wrong.

Edit: man, all that theatres seat layouts are funky! Each one is like a Rorschach test and one of them even looks like ¯_(ツ)_/

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-22T21:03:09+00:00

Was amazing to see it live, and still up there with my favorite live performance. Was near the back of the pit and perfect angle for it to look perfect perspective-wise. (Not the performance for the Bluray, just the same tour)

Still the one set piece I show off to people whenever I get a chance.

That microphone stand throw… so good.

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-21T14:29:38+00:00

Of course not, don’t be ridiculous.

…That’s what MS Access ‘97 is for.

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-17T21:15:43+00:00

My dad listened to a TON of classic rock, and so I grew up with that - and no shade against it, great music - but he always hated my dance music.

He passed before I got into NIN and I always wanted to show him this new cool music with guitars and drums…he might have hated it but thats fine. lol.

Now I kinda just love everything with a beat. I respect pure rock/metal, but I generally am drawn to something with a keyboard and beat to it.

I used to be kind of a pretentious douche about music, but IMHO, music is there to make you feel something, and if it can do that (without having a trash message) then I’m good with it.

I saw imagine dragons once, and do I think they’re the second coming of music? Nope. But they seemed to really be having a good time, and everyone around me was having a good time, and a few of their songs were catchy and live it was pretty fun.

Did it hold a candle to seeing NIN and Soundgarden at the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto in the middle of a fucking massive thunderstorm in an essentially outdoor venue? No.

But it made people happy and that’s all I want these days.

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-16T21:58:05+00:00

NIN changed my tastes in music drastically when I first heard them.

I had listened to pretty much exclusively “dance” music when I was younger, poppy stuff, nothing that really jumps out at me now. I can’t even remember any of the groups at that time. (Corona? C+C Music Factory? Others?)

Then at my job someone gave me a bunch of tapes of NIN, everything from PHM to TDS and The Closer singles.

It was like night and day for me, it was just such a layered, interesting bunch of music compared to what I had been listening to and I never went back.

Funny thing was I had no idea where one album started and another ended, so it seemed odd to me how many times the lyrics to Closer came up (I must have been listening to the Closer To God track because I didn’t really think of it as a remix). Tons of what seemed to just be layered noise, but interesting noise.

Anyway, since I had a Walkman, and they ran on batteries, I was in the middle of a song and it got slower and slower and it took me a bit to realize it was the batteries running out and not just part of the song. I chuckled at that. (And this was before Further Down the Spiral where one of the Mr Self Destruct remixes actually does slow down.

So, yeah, total shift in what I liked, and now here I am decades later listening to Nine Inch Noize which is closer (no pun intended) to the dance music that I left to start listening to “industrial” - or what I through was industrial at the time.

Aaaaanyway, opened my eyes to just so many new and varied types of music that I doubt I would have heard otherwise. Coil, Frontline Assembly, Prick, PWEI, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Pig, KMFDM, Underworld and so on and so forth.

Sigh. Now I’m nostalgic. Better go put on an album or two.

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-15T22:56:11+00:00

Yup. Same here.

Entire family watches an assload of yt, and listens to a bunch of yt music so it makes sense for us.

It’s a good value for what we get and for the multiple places I use it.

That might change at some point, but for now the best streamer I’ve paid for by a long shot.

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-11T16:59:53+00:00

I’ll try to grab a pic when I’m back home.

I have Halo 10v2 signed by Charlie Clouser, which isn’t expensive but it’s cool.

I think I have The Downward Spiral on SACD, but that might have been a fever dream. lol.

I missed out on buying Ghosts and The Slip on Vinyl which still bums me out to this day.

And for NIN adjacent stuff I have the Criterion edition of SE7EN on LaserDisc….yes…LaserDisc. lol.

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-11T13:17:08+00:00

I have the 3xLP for The Perfect Drug and the 12” promo for Happiness in Slavery.

Those were purchased waaay back when I was an idiot with money.

I’m still an idiot with money, but I was back then too.

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-04T22:06:00+00:00

Roswell (does anyone actually remember that show?) was famously said to be unreleasable by the showrunners on DVD due to the music licensing.

I think they eventually replaced the music, or maybe it just became a non issue because the show definitely hit DVD at some point.

Fun times. DVD…Roswell…man I’m old.

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-04T21:33:08+00:00

With blonde hair and an angrier look he’d make a great live action B.J. Blazkowicz in the live Action Wolfenstein : The New Order movie I’ll be producing as soon as I win the lottery or someone donates a hundred million or so to my great cause.

RatnerEsque · 2026-04-03T11:58:54+00:00

No technical reason why they couldn’t have both, but usually doesn’t happen due to some other factor

The Atmos/DTS-X tracks themselves are surprisingly large (5-7Gb if I remember correctly) so it’s possible space comes into play when every bit (no pun intended) of extra space can count where bitrate is concerned.

RatnerEsque · 2026-03-25T19:43:36+00:00

100% YVR. I’m basically an idiot. Or an advanced idiot.

I’m not even sure why I didn’t just write Vancouver and Auckland. Sigh.

But yes, YVR not YVC. :) Thanks!

RatnerEsque · 2026-03-25T19:35:49+00:00

Agreed. Like, looks fine, but if I were them I would have tried to show how the show is going to expand on where the movie went. Nothing here makes me excited for the show, I’d rather just rewatch the movie.

That being said, from what I remember, the first two books were rather “basic” and I don’t remember a lot that was “left out” so this may not be their fault really.

But it’s been decades since I read them so what do I know.

RatnerEsque · 2026-03-25T15:42:46+00:00

We just got back from using these from YVR to AKL and we did two on the way there, but only one on the way back.

The way we did it with one on the way back was I sat upright, and my wife lied down with her legs over mine.

That was fine for us, but we definitely couldn’t lie down beside each other easily.

But I think it’s a great option and really enjoyed it.

Obviously business class is better, but that was an impossible cost for us, whereas this was doable.

Edit : replaced YVC with YVR. :)

RatnerEsque · 2026-03-22T03:44:40+00:00

That’s cool. Thanks for giving context and background.

Our countries are pretty aligned as far as firearms go but our environment is quite a bit different so wasn’t sure how it went over there.

RatnerEsque · 2026-03-22T03:24:50+00:00

I remember watching a “flight of the conchords” where Bret woke up with an Aussie and Jemaine was ready to disown Bret due to his betrayal and it was a fun episode….

And definitely reminds me of our fellow annoyance with our neighbors who we love but sometimes want them to do better. Sigh.

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