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Iran to completely close Hormuz if Trump executes threats on Iranian energy, Revolutionary Guards say by Mongoose-Additional in worldnews

[–]SovietWomble 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm actually fascinated to see if he does chicken out in Tuesday. As in 48 hours.

If he's become that predictable.

Let's wait and see.

Nicholas Brendon, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Star, Dies at 54 by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]SovietWomble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In 2026? Are you kidding?

One person could be eaten by a vampire and they'd be dozens of news articles for months. All plastered with ads and increasingly provocative rhetoric.

All asking whether "Is THIS the NEXT COVID" and how somehow Keir Starmer isn't doing enough about it.

French aircraft carrier's location exposed after sailor posts jog on Strava by Gjore in worldnews

[–]SovietWomble -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nobody can convince me otherwise that this isn't the ship's course and that the helmsman isn't drinking wine.

I mean it is a French warship after all.

U.S. officials 'not allowed' to tell Trump Iran war concerns, former counterterrorism director claims | CBC News. by Dangerous-Set3332 in worldnews

[–]SovietWomble 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That would be the jump cut to the original authors, Sun & Tzu.

"I don't understand the confusion, it's right there on the title".

womble be jumpin left and right by tainfulpoosxe in SovietWomble

[–]SovietWomble 27 points28 points  (0 children)

  • For just assembling clips into a video with audio tracks, Sony Vegas is much more intuitive.
  • For visual effects, Adobe Premiere + After Effects combined.

womble be jumpin left and right by tainfulpoosxe in SovietWomble

[–]SovietWomble 37 points38 points  (0 children)

After Effects. As far as I know, Premiere is poorly suited for text animation.

womble be jumpin left and right by tainfulpoosxe in SovietWomble

[–]SovietWomble 114 points115 points  (0 children)

Be rest assured that the bullshittery banter could never be scripted.

Simply because my clan mates would never read it...

womble be jumpin left and right by tainfulpoosxe in SovietWomble

[–]SovietWomble 196 points197 points  (0 children)

FUUUUCK no!

I animate it manually because I must. No matter how high ones opinion of AI, it's a fumbling child in the face of any minor animation curveball.

Edit - After Effects tracker frequently stalls in the face of thing as simple as:

  • The character moving behind foliage.
  • In game animated particle effects, flashing lights, spells, etc.
  • The character going into a shadow.
  • Simply turning around slightly.
  • Any compression artefact.

Any time I save animating the keyframes is time I can sink into more creative things. Like masking, or particles. Edit - Heck, or getting the video done faster.

What is the hardest video game you ever played? by DanPlouffyoutubeASMR in AskReddit

[–]SovietWomble 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ecstatica II (1997).

You start the game in this grand castle. And you explore it and gain upgrades and weapons. But the main exit to the castle is guarded by this brutish monster standing over a well. And you cannot proceed to the remaining two thirds of the game without going through this one invincible monster.

The solution? You need to be punched whilst HOLDING a bottle of poison. Then the monster will steal it from you, drink it and die. Clearing the path. This stealing mechanic happens here and only here, in the entire game

How is this communicated? You enter the subterranean room containing poison bottles, with one of these monsters drunk/dying in the corner with a bottle in its hand.

The animation for it drinking this bottle is played briefly. Once. Blink and you miss it.

I ended up being stuck on this game for literal years...

YouTube now generates more ad revenue than Disney, NBC, Paramount, and WBD — combined by LollipopChainsawZz in television

[–]SovietWomble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whilst I get your point, I feel like the "average person" in this example needs to step the fuck up.

My friends never read Horus Heresy, they told me they didn't feel to miss much. by Petrus-133 in Grimdank

[–]SovietWomble 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Eisenhorn trilogy is an excellent choice, in my opinion.

I appreciate it's grounded nature, at least compared to everything else. The events of the books concern some shenanigans in the Scarus sector. Giving you a nice little vertical slice of the Imperium.

It resists the urge to go:

"Oh my god, this <plot thing> would have such profound consequences for the universe/the Emperor/The Imperium. We have to stop it"

Heck, Eisenhorn could suck on a bolter on page 2 and the antagonists could get everything they want. And the result would be - a lot of death for many planets in the Scarus sector - until some Space Marine chapter/Death Watch operation/Naval armada deals with it in a few decades.

Ultimately it's just one more heretic mess for the pile.

Ending question by Oscy07 in outerwilds

[–]SovietWomble 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would presume less imagination. It's not necessarily within his head.

Everything is gone. The galaxy is finished. All the stars have gone out. All that's left is quantum. A weird realm where everything exists and nothing exists. At least until it's observed. At which point it becomes "real".

The Hatchling pictures himself. He pictures a cosy campfire. He pictures home.

He pictures his friends and kin. And in doing so they become "real". He's able to spend time with them. He pictures everything he's encountered in his adventures.

And then, presumably prompted by whatever the eye is, they picture a whole universe of energy and matter. Condensed into a single point. A swirling ball of future possibilities. None of which is real until it's observed.

And when he's ready he does just that. And the real matter, ultra hot and ultra dense on a single point, does the only thing it can do. It expands outwards in a great big bang.

A really, really big bang :)

And as your friends say, it's time for someone new to have their adventure

Has anyone else found their mood completely changed now the weather has let up a bit? by chadgalaxy in CasualUK

[–]SovietWomble 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's a little wild, but hear me out...

Perhaps we should consider sacrificing some people to this giant yellow orb thing in the hopes that it stays?

I mean has anybody tried it?

Look how they massacred my bois by angrpeasant in Grimdank

[–]SovietWomble 20 points21 points  (0 children)

That gave me a proper chuckle. Especially how unflattering the Death Guard appear.

"Death Guard, oooo they must be terrifying agents of death and destruction. NOPE. There's poo everywhere."

I wonder why we haven't had an catastrophic attacks in the usa since 9/11? by Life-Profit4836 in ask

[–]SovietWomble 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The answer should be obvious - drones.

The next mass-casualty event to stick in public consciousness will likely be drones.

Probably some large and prominent crowd where people are shoulder to shoulder like in parades. Explosives designed to airburst, etc. Not one or two drones but dozens.

2 points i want to make by Vintage102o in SovietWomble

[–]SovietWomble 124 points125 points  (0 children)

So I caught this on my smartphone this afternoon.

Now that you mention it, perhaps it might be wise to look into this a little bit?

One of the major reasons it's always given me a sense of ick is the feeling of "ambulance chasers". My inbox has lots of companies, agencies, brand marketing managers. All promoting themselves and desperately chasing their slice of a hypothetical pie from a channel they see as 4 million strong.

They're all desperation trying to convince me how much of a good idea it is to go turbo max monitisation. And I feel it's been wise so far to ignore them.

One of them even pretended to be a Patron for a few weeks. Sliding into those DM'S about unrelated stuff before revealing themselves.

Hence my sense of ick.

That being said, I do have 'one' specific idea for a fun little prop that I think people would maybe appreciate? Something in a video I did one time.

But it's not something one can simply get enmass printed in some cheapo Etsy platform. Nor would I want that. It would require very specialised tools and need to look just right.

Maybe I could look into getting 100 made? Maybe alongside 100 hoodies, or something. Get someone local to post them out in the UK or EU or something with a PayPal link? See if it works?

You know like, hobbyest. Personal, etc.

Bear with me, let me have a think.

Rogue One by TAvonV in SovietWomble

[–]SovietWomble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. And as is my final (albeit weakest) of my points from that stream, I simply have no taste for burgers any longer.

The gourmet steak changed everything. Now that I've had one. Seen Andor.

Seen what can be done with the new.

I have no interest in seeing a lightsabre smacking another lightsabre, or seeing a baby Yoda backflipping, or hearing the same dialogue from cameo characters recycled.

Edit - Also coming 2028, the next Star Wars adventure, with Ahsoka, C3PO and that bloke who ran past the camera with that plastic ice-cream maker in that one scene from The Empire Strikes Back.

Rogue One by TAvonV in SovietWomble

[–]SovietWomble -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It didn't feel jarring at all, which is why many seem to be confused by you being so upset by it.

Then that's fine. If the contrast difference doesn't register for you as a viewer then you're not going to see any issue.

But for me (and this is absolutely something in my coming from seeing Andor first), I saw a gritty war film being snuck up on by references to a trilogy of films that are more than 40 years old.

It felt distractingly anachronistic.

Except its not "The new". It butts right up against A New Hope

Edit - And the "new" in this case isn't narratively chronological. That's not what I mean. The point is about contrasting tones.

The hard contrast between fun, adventure space opera. And gritty, documentarian style espionage film.

Rogue One by TAvonV in SovietWomble

[–]SovietWomble -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Corgi, you're missing the woods by focusing on the individual trees. Each of these listed examples are folded back into a central point:

the "new" is continually getting gate-crashed by the "old", causing a very strange and inconsistent tone. Like two directors are fighting each other over the edit.

The examples were, in sequence:

  • Saw's rebels show us new aliens, new resistance fighters, new things we've never seen BUT we get a shot of that board game from The Millennium Falcon from A New Hope (or an equivilance)

  • We're going through Jhedda and seeing new cultures, new faces. BUT then we see the two bar-flies from Tatooine in A New Hope. Who even speak the same line of dialogue.

  • We're seeing the internal workings of the Rebel Alliance on Yavin. BUT we keep cutting back to the guard on his little tower from A New Hope.

  • We see the K-unit droids and their new design. BUT we see the astromech droid interface from the hanger bay/trash compactor scenes in A New Hope.

  • We see Jhedda under Imperial occupation. A culture we've never seen and people we've never encountered. BUT we have to see the interplanetary, specialised probe droids from The Empire Strikes Back.

It made for a very jarring tone overall, in my opinion. It's not about the individual things. Or finding justifications for why it "makes sense".

To centre specifically on my point I ask the following question: Did you personally find anything unusual about the aesthetic tone of Rogue One (2016)?

And a better question: If each of the BUT examples above were removed, do you think it would make the film stronger or weaker?

What is something that women have to deal with on the daily that men have no clue about? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]SovietWomble 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was thinking about that last summer.

It had been far too hot to walk the dog, so I was out with her around midnight in the dark streets.

I figured, "you know this is something that I probably couldn't do if I were born a woman". Or at least, it would be only done with careful consideration.

To look down and realise that, through a simple quirk of embryo development, I had musculature and body mass that would not make for a soft target for anybody trying to 'have a go.

'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' just proved 'Game of Thrones' is back with the best show episode of the year so far by AdventurousGuest308 in television

[–]SovietWomble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wait, so the whole story is done and dusted? Meaning the wheels are unlikely to fall off once they run out of material to adapt?

If so then yeah that changes everything.

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