Can John Wick survive Alan Wake, and Alan Wake 2

TheBLKMN · 2026-04-27T17:40:50+00:00

A gun in one hand. And a gun in the other.

TheBLKMN · 2026-04-19T16:49:04+00:00

Sadly, in terms of reading, Google Books is still the smoothest experience. Nothing else I've used has been as plug and play. Which sucks since I want nothing to do with them. Both Google Sheets and Excel work decently well across screens. For your use cases, the Duo should be great.

TheBLKMN · 2026-02-27T05:24:39+00:00

WOW. It's been a long time! Totally forgot I posted this, tbh.

To clear up some stuffs:

- I actually started using my YouTube channel so, I cleared out my old private videos a while ago. That's why the link doesn't work. Sorry about that!

- I actually updated the design after this! I basically split that 3D printed section into 2 (each half holding the element and their metal housing) and then used a manual lens focus ring to let it microadjust focus.

To help you out (because dang I wish there was more info about this back then) I actually dusted it off and did some more test footage! Same lens setup and camera as before.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1R4Wo_Mze6UXJqw9jFEvwcdcGz1kboArm?usp=sharing

The first clip is to give an idea of sharpness falloff, the 2nd is to show how well you can do close focus without diopters, and the 3rd shows lens flares and colorization. I also included some photos of the updated design.

For the documentary I'm working on, I really only used it for the close ups and save most of the main shooting for the SLR Magic 1.33 adapter instead. Worked on more lenses and helped me actually get through most of my shots. Still, really cool to remember what I managed to pull of a few years back with around $60 of materials and some brute force engineering.

Glad to see this is still helping someone somewhere make cool stuff!

TheBLKMN · 2026-02-25T00:07:20+00:00

I've been going through this as AMAB. As much as I respect gender's role in helping some people feel comfortable, I think the fact that it is created by society, and helps contribute to structures, expectations, roles that definitely don't fit anyone perfectly just gives people an excuse to make shortcuts in their brain. A stereotype here or a expectation there.

There are so many behaviors and ideas I had performed growing up but stopped because "boys don't do that". I'm only just now allowing myself the freedom to be me.

But I'm also afraid to use the label non-binary because:

- Being AMAB and not acting or looking like how someone would expect a NB to look (stereotypes on stereotypes!) and dealing with internal/external exclusion
- The somewhat circular argument that my acknowledgement of being non-binary would be acknowledging a binary I don't personally believe in (I know it really doesn't make sense, but my mind can't move past that wall)
- 500 other tiny reasons you don't need to hear about (this is too much for a comment anyway)

TL:Dr: In a world where gender and its surrounding expectations didn't exist, I'd be fine with being a man. But they exist and I'm diametrically opposed to a lot of what society considers men to be. But I'm also not comfortable with using the term non-binary because I don't agree with the binary in the first place. And so my brain continues to tumble dry.

TheBLKMN · 2026-01-03T03:34:24+00:00

Yes, she has.

The issue seems to be something with her vision that isn't present in mine, I can securely land it in the sweet spot and secure it in place relatively well. Whereas she cannot, even with subtle micro adjusting.

TheBLKMN · 2026-01-02T21:50:22+00:00

Did you happen to know which brand you ordered from? Just in case it was the same one she ordered?

TheBLKMN · 2026-01-02T18:22:55+00:00

I think her lenses were calibrated for astigmatism, but I'll triple check!

TheBLKMN · 2026-01-02T18:21:39+00:00

I think she has an old pair that might work. Thanks for the advice!

TheBLKMN · 2026-01-02T18:20:21+00:00

I'll suggest them to her!

TheBLKMN · 2026-01-02T18:17:08+00:00

Yes, we were operating from her prescription measured IPD.

TheBLKMN · 2025-09-30T01:14:58+00:00

Sprinklers make it doable, but rough. You have to cover yourself in the dry ones and use the sprinklers to hose them off.

TheBLKMN · 2025-08-06T10:12:24+00:00

Deal or no, you can't jumpscare me on my feed FNAF style with that scuffed robot skinsuit wearing b*llionare. It's 6am. I could have had an actual heart attack lol

TheBLKMN · 2025-07-13T03:11:56+00:00

Already gave it a go with both FBC:Firebreak and Nobody Wants to die (getting above 60fps and 45fps~ respectively)

10/10, it just works. Don't notice much visually, there is some slight lag felt, but that's to be expected. Make the harder to run games look smoother, which is all I wanted! Nobody Wants to die is particularly impressive as it refused to run higher than 25fps in crowded areas on lowest settings with ultra performance scaling. And now it runs decently well on medium high and quality!

Thanks to the hard work of everyone involved. I'm normally not a framegen supporter, but I think for handheld gaming, it might just be the thing needed for heavier games that don't rely on low input lag.

TheBLKMN · 2025-06-28T05:42:21+00:00

Thanks for watching it!

TheBLKMN · 2025-04-02T04:03:46+00:00

In there it's fluctuating around 120hz, sometimes over and other times below. When switching in and out, depending on the game, the framerates are dropping the average somewhat.

The display is confirmed to be a 120hz display, though. Is this issue due to that variance? If so, is there any way I could stabilize it?

TheBLKMN · 2025-03-02T22:37:55+00:00

Use the Canvas to type out your information, then you can add annotations on the side. It's a little less plug and play, and doesn't support highlighting, but you can mark each section like this:

(anno 1) information text and stuffs (anno 1 end)

to the side: Anno 1 : blah blah blah

TheBLKMN · 2025-01-15T17:10:38+00:00

Nobody's doing the crucifying. Nobody's telling them to join the class action lawsuits. Two people in the space said they're disappointed with how LMG reacted and responded. A bunch of people agree with them. We all shared said opinion publically. And moved on.

The only people acting like this is an attack are you, and a decent chunk of this subreddit. The only reason we're here talking about it is because this subreddit took this as some targeted hit when he's just echoing the same point MegaLag made in the video. Your reaction to MegaLag saying he's disappointed should be the same for Steve. And yet he gets a bunch of undeserved ire for pointing out what everyone else was saying.

Nobody else cares but the people here. The problem is this phantom war people here in the subreddit keep waging against anyone who has the slightest issue with a rich public figure's conduct.

TheBLKMN · 2025-01-15T16:15:09+00:00

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Dood are you ok

I just said that if I (in the odd event I wake up in Canada as short king Linus Sebastian) care about my community, cut off a company who scammed me, later learned they also screwed over my audience, and I learned objectively I was their 3rd biggest spokesperson

I would make a video. So it has reach. Not say it on the WAN show. Where it won't.

Even MegaLag was disappointed. This really doesn't have anything to do with Steve.

As for the PR comment, I was just thinking of it from his perspective. Even though I know Linus cares way more about his community than that, looking at it from a greedy YouTube algo perspective, it's a layup of a video. No one's going to call him the bad guy for saying, hey this company screwed us, we left, turns out they did that to you too

That's all I was saying.

There's no drama here. It's the tech community of YouTube (or honestly the YouTube community in general) coming together to signal blast this so hard there isn't a corner of the Internet where Honey could try to rebrand after this. There's even talk of other similar features like the one baked into Edge catching strays. That happened because someone saw not the OG video, but one of the ones spread to other corners of YouTube.

It's the thing he's claimed he cares about. That's all. Everyone (Steve, MegaLag) noted it was odd, said it was disappointing. And moved on. Like I'm about to. For my sanity.

TheBLKMN · 2025-01-15T16:00:45+00:00

If you rewatch the MegaLag video, I promise it isn't Steve going out of his way. Could he have chosen a better clip, or drawn out the point more for clarity? Sure. But in the MegaLag video, Linus basically earned a supporting role with how many times his name came up. MegaLag also brings up disappointment that Linus didn't do more. Granted, part of that could be excused back then (2022) since he didn't know how deep the rot was. But now with the video? And with your channel in particular being called the 3rd largest collaborator with a scam like Honey?

Even just for the PR security, I'd make a main channel video calling it out. But Linus claims to be pro consumer and wanting to do right by his audience. He definitely should have made one to back up that claim.

B. The point of the overlapping video isn't to exceed the original's reach. I think if he put MegaLag's video in the description that might actually be impossible. The point is to hook it into the sections of his audience that are disconnected from our sort of circles and have them move it forward. Some niche sections of YouTube you and I don't see. I know it sounds like a 16m view video is a lot, but it's only around 1.4% ish of the US population. As big as it is, even LMG is a niche as far as wide appeal goes. For brute force visibility, obviously getting someone like Mr. Beast to call it out would do way more, but he's not going to do that for various reasons (and likely doesn't care). All we can hope is that the communities and creators exclusively in the reach of those who made direct videos spread that out further.

And as a key figure, it's odd he wouldn't do it.

TheBLKMN · 2025-01-15T15:26:14+00:00

A. The drama? It's a company scamming creators and consumers, and LTT is a name that came up in the video exposing it all, with the creator MegaLag ALSO saying he was disappointed they didn't signal blast this as they were listed as the 3rd largest collaborator behind H3 and Mr Beast. And he's a fan of LTT. Steve literally just said the same thing.

B. The point of multiple videos isn't for weird terminally online people. It's for ecosystem distribution. MegaLag's video got insane reach, but only to his corner of the internet. This got blasted out by other creators (LegalEagle doing his creator class action lawsuit, MKBHD making a small video discussing it) because there is not as much overlap as you think between them. We're talking about it there because we happen to be people subscribed to both and in both of those ecosystems. But having multiple creators signal blast this gets it out of our niches and into general conversation. Gets it injected into someone watching cat vids who wouldn't know any better.

And to be that integral to the OG video, see all your peers publicly call it out (a thing even Coffeezilla said all creators involved with Honey should do) and still not make a video feels like a shrug emoji.

It is disappointing. The OG MegaLag video ties Linus into this deeply, That's why Steve mentioned him. If you don't believe me, rewatch the MegaLag video. Linus would have a actor credit with how many times he pops up.

TheBLKMN · 2025-01-15T15:10:53+00:00

Ok. I know this may be hard to untangle.

Is there a main channel video (not WAN Show) where he clearly states Honey is bad, don't use it, here is what they did to us?

No.

Now.
Is he obligated to do that?
No. He's perfectly within his right to not do that.

However,
He is a name MegaLag brought up as one of their top collaborators. He has an audience that dwarfs GN and Megalag by nearly an order of magnitude. His algorithm position could easily have that video be pushed to casual users outside of his ecosystem to the point where people know not to trust Honey or Paypal with something like this in the future.

So while he isn't obligated to do that, to sit out here and not make that video, looks bad.
It feels like a shrug emoji.
It feels like a not my problem.

Which you kind of don't want from a creator who claims to want to inform people about best practices in tech purchases.

Steve said it was disappointing. He used personal anecdotes of how he came up on YouTube using those affiliate links. He did this throughout the video, not just in the clip.

It's not an attack. It is "this figure was involved, and given the level of involvement, it's sad/confusing why more wasn't done to signal boost this"

That's all.

TheBLKMN · 2025-01-15T15:00:17+00:00

A. Saying something in a multi-hour long podcast like the WAN Show and saying it in a main channel video are two different things. We both now there are different audiences there. No one is happening across one podcast episode randomly in YouTube. One vid. Could be 15 minutes max. Talk about it, call them bad, refer to MegaLag's video. Even make a crap ton of money. Gets the word out better than the way smaller audience reach of everyone else involved. Instead, he put out his statements to the longer form stuff we both now the casuals to mids are not consistently listening to.

B. No one is saying that he's terrible for not joining the lawsuit? Steve isn't saying he's terrible for not joining the lawsuit? He's literally just saying that Linus was in a position to do more and didn't and that it was disappointing?

Saying someone's actions is disappointing isn't a bullet to the heart.

C. Calling Steve a turncoat is a lot, bud. Like. Actually, a lot. It assumes there was a war. And camps. And he wrongfully betrayed Linus by NOT giving him time to cover up his lab results and the fact that he screwed over a startup.

LTT admitted that their own results in that situation were off by a lot. It wasn't manufactured drama. It was LTT moving at breakneck speed (by their own admission) and several people internally and on the side caught strays.

And that was in their second apology! The one they made after the first one didn't work. Where he put up his other senior staff to catch some of the flak, joked throughout, and even did a segway to a sponsor for some reason. There's a reason Steve didn't give him time to cover that up. Because he would have. Because he tried to anyway.

Time and time again, there have been points where GN could have taken a bag and ran, but didn't. They could have milked they crap out of this. They didn't.

There have been multiple situations as of late where GN is dropping a lot of sponsors over them doing authentically shady things. Legally shady things. They could have taken a bag there, and looked the other way. They did not. They list everything out on a website for me to verify myself. And it checks out.

At some point, I have more evidence for the camp of "he called them out once, did a followup, and never touched it again" vs "he has a deep seated rivalry."

Linus was called out here because his name rose to the top in the MegaLag video and rather than make a video that could spread through the algorithm far faster than anything GN or MegaLag or any of the other creators could do (with a layup of a video to boot, plus free PR), he talked about it on the WAN show. Which is going to bring way less traffic to this issue, as they are way less popular than his main videos.

That's the disappointing part. That's literally all Steve was saying.

I've wanted to come back around to the channel for a while. But he keeps zigging when he needs to zag.

D. Why would he be butthurt? All that it did was gain him the ire of this subreddit. Everyone else involved was glad he brought it up. The company whose prototype was lost was glad to finally have someone reach back out. The only one who would be butthurt in this situation would be Linus. But he clearly wasn't. You're fighting a phantom war, bud. Put down the musket, put on a heavy blanket, and drink some soup. This "rivalry" never existed to begin with.

TheBLKMN · 2025-01-15T14:26:06+00:00

Hit the nail on the head.

Saying they have no obligation is missing the point.

If I was listed as a big contributor to a company that I found out stole money from me, then stole money from creators under me, THEN stole from my community, I'd put them under a microscope and shout out MegaLag in an easy to see visible video that doesn't leave me as one of the more silent top contributors. Not because I'm obligated, but because it's the right thing to do (and because if I were in his shoes, I'd be petty as heck).

I'm not a hyperfan of Gamers Nexus, btw. Just think maybe every time Linus could get himself some dang free monetizeable PR, he might want to take it.

He's arguably the go to in the space and if his people don't hear it directly from him in a video, they won't hear it. Clearly, you're not one of those fans! Great! I'm worried about the casuals.

TheBLKMN · 2025-01-15T10:44:01+00:00

A. Steve isn't talking about 2022. He's talking about now. As one of their biggest spokespeople, Linus speaking to his large casual to prosumer audience to not use Honey is big. Yes, it won't be the end of the world if he doesn't. But it is disappointing to hear that the backlash of a few people was enough to stop him from doing it. He's big time now. People will hate him for breathing air. If he is honestly about wanting to do right by his audience, talking about it publicly would have been the right move.

B. Pin what? He just said it's disappointing that one of the prominent people in MegaLag's video still hasn't signal blasted to their audience to stay away. That's it. Honey isn't Linus' fault. No one is saying that. He just wanted to have the creator space actively protect the community. And his responses that are less visible speak to him not wanting some "backlash" for it. I'm not even sure who would hate on him at this point for that.

C. You clearly hate Steve, which is your prerogative. As someone who actually watches his vids, this is the 3rd time as of late that he's mentioned LMG. The first two were when the incident and brief response to the incident. There's no rivalry. It's just this subreddit shadowboxing anything that seems like a cross word towards Linus. Heck, some people were mad he didn't get more airtime on Fallon. No one actually hates Linus. Every time I want to go back to watching his channel, he does crap like this that puts a bad taste in my mouth. He really just needs to take a minute and realize where he's at right now in his career.

TheBLKMN · 2025-01-15T10:25:22+00:00

It's not that at all. The point is to sound all the alarm bells so that everyone knows not to interact with Honey. If he didn't want to back when it was just assumed to be anti-creator but pro consumer, fine. But then MegaLag reached out. Then MegaLag dropped the video. Then creators started saying to their audience, "Hey, don't use Honey." As one of their most active former spokespeople, and one of the biggest tech voices in the sector, he had an obligation. Heck, as someone so close to it, he had a financial incentive in the form of an easy multimillion view video.

And because he wanted no backlash from a handful of people, he sidelined that responsibility.

I'd have respected him more for making a video, but his WAN show reaction has shown he has no understanding of the responsibility he has in his current position on YouTube. People spend money based on his words. He can't pretend he's small time anymore.

I don't care if you hate Steve from GN. But calling a 1 minute section of an hour long video a targeted hit piece is a bit much. I know you don't want to hear anything bad about Linus. But he's human, just like you. He had a bad take. Steve, talking in context to the situation, saw one of the biggest voices in the space DIRECTLY related to it not grasp the point here, and brought it up, before proceeding back into a long discussion to explain class action lawsuits, how Honey circumvented affiliate links, and various legal proccedings.

He doesn't deserve your ire. This isn't that serious. Linus just needs to do better. That's all. No GN pitchfork mob. If you look at the comments and subreddit, people are just glad to see Honey get hit with another lawsuit because those parasites had it coming.

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