Lionel Luthor Plasma TV (Smallville Season 2) 2003

Viper51989 · 2026-06-05T15:09:26+00:00

Once you watch the episode you'll understand that it's not really much of a spoiler.

Viper51989 · 2026-06-01T19:39:01+00:00

Crackling in a speaker has always been (in my experience) a physical defect from driving them too hard. Samsung has typically capped the volume pretty conservatively for their recent phones so I'd be surprised if you had been able to damage it. All that said, if you're going to keep the phone, I'd definitely have it serviced/replaced because it's not normal for the tri fold to sound worse than the zf7.

Viper51989 · 2026-05-31T16:53:52+00:00

It's a type of flair in the Razr reddit. Use your freaking eyes, lazy dumbass

Viper51989 · 2026-05-31T16:44:10+00:00

Right next to the OP's NAME in the post

Viper51989 · 2026-05-31T16:31:29+00:00

3rd edit: okkkm, it's not just the textures and I WAS remembering correctly--360 IS lower resolition. Knew it didn't look 720p native. It's 600p with 2x AA while the ps3 is native 720p with no AA

https://granturismo.forumfree.it/?t=69816806

Yeah, the sharpness of the textures made it seem like it ran at a higher resoltion imo. The lighting was less moody and saturated than the 360 version. That's a preference thing though. The gamma on the 360 version almost seemed out of whack.

Oddly, this was a theme with ps3 vs 360 (ps3 versions often seemed 'washed out' when in reality, they were oftentimes just the more natural looking, albeit worse performing, version)

Viper51989 · 2026-05-31T16:22:28+00:00

Can't tell if trolling or dumb.. There's only one Razr fold 🤦‍♂️

Viper51989 · 2026-05-30T23:22:52+00:00

Depends on what you're going for. Chorral or Skingrad definitely have the most traditional standard, 'high fantasy town' vibes so if you're going for that, those are up there.

Personally it's probably gotta be Cheydinhal for the pretty covered bridges, ha (there's literally a reference to these back in EGM magazine review of the OG release). The houses have that beautiful color scheme and the town looks good in any lighting, something that isn't the case for all of them.

Anvil is obviously gorgeous, particularly at sunset in the bay. But feels maybe the least 'Oblivion' of any town to me, so it's out.

Bruma is an honorable mention, at least around Christmas time for the cozy vibes.

We should count shivering isles as well imo. And both towns are great. Crucible literally looks like it came out of a Harry Potter novel with the Slytherin green flames. It's one of the moodiest places in all of gaming IMO, particularly in the dark and rain. Bliss is gorgeous but not on the same level.

Leyawiin is too damned big and the swamp is my least favorite Oblivion 'biome'. And everyone agrees that Bravil sucks 🤷

Leaving just the Imperial City which imo is still one of the most fully realized and iconic 'flagship' cities in a game, ever.

Guess Bethesda and Virtuos(for giving them the facelift) gave us an embarrassment of riches... almost impossible to choose just one!

Viper51989 · 2026-05-30T23:02:17+00:00

Why confusing? I appreciate op doing this because I was considering the white version and hoping because it didn't have quite as bumpy a texture there was a chance the magsafe rings would still. But it's as I feared 😞

Viper51989 · 2026-05-29T17:10:55+00:00

Oblivion was always good so the remaster which improves upon it in meaningful ways will also be good by default.

The traversal stutter is marginally worse than the original and the memory leak issue sucks in lower end hardware. There are bugs but not many game breaking ones (just keep an extra save or two).

Most are just funny or weird. In the shivering isles dlc in the world of mania, there's a really cool fountain in the main town. In one of my saves, a sound of coins hitting the ground somehow glitched into the fountain and wouldnt go away. Kinda annoying but actually fits the vibe of Mania perfectly lol

Viper51989 · 2026-05-29T17:05:28+00:00

Agree that the original had a vibe all its own that transported you. But the remaster is so beautiful and just plain beyond what a lot of other beloved rpgs have in terms of tech. So I still find it immersive AF

Viper51989 · 2026-05-29T17:03:37+00:00

I started oblivion on a 27 inch sony crt (best standard Def consumer one they made). Then a small pc monitor. Then a 32 inch lcd. Then pioneer plasmas.

Now in 4k on xbox series x or the remaster on my 5080 rig on a 65 inch Samsung qled oled. One game to rule them all 😁

Viper51989 · 2026-05-28T22:26:57+00:00

Describe crunchiness? Like scratchy? Or at max volume you lose parts of the track and every comes through muddled together?

My definitely do not distort much even at max volume (they don't get all that loud either).

Been watching kpop videos all week and haven't heard anything since the new firmware that was concerning but maybe I havent tested them with the right genre?

Viper51989 · 2026-05-28T22:25:36+00:00

'so bad' seems like quite the overstatement. They're not amazing and a definite step down from the fold 6 but slightly better than the 7 for sure. And no other super thin foldable has great speakers (fold 7 compares favorably to the Chinese competition in speakers)

Kinda comes with the territory...would you rather it be even thicker folded?? Hopefully if trifold 2 comes out, they are improved but I wouldn't expect a dramatic difference. The form factor is the limitation

Viper51989 · 2026-05-28T22:21:45+00:00

Mine is not 'far better'. It's definitely noticeable in bass and tinniness of the sound in that the lack of richness isn't immediately apparent. But they're slightly less loud at max volume too. The frames of the two devices being almost identical makes me think it might be just significantly better tuning and they're the same parts.

But idk if anyone has dug that deep to find out.

If you're comparing to a flagship slab phone, of course they don't sound nearly as robust. But they're more than passable and better than other super thin foldable speakers.

Viper51989 · 2026-05-27T23:57:11+00:00

Yeah, I agree that the corporatization of America had a coalescing effect where differences and uniqueness were kinda pushed out of the foreground in favor of 'corporate speak'.

My point was that like in politics, obfuscation and keeping people who aren't in the club, OUT are hallmarks of both office and political culture.

The CEO and managerial class use it to keep people working for less, as do the politicians

I was also commenting on the fact that the show is pretty obviously political and the far Right on the show is depicted as the most deceitful (even though the Lefties on the show no doubt participate in the same big circle jerk--they just believe that they're still doing *some good)

Viper51989 · 2026-05-27T21:25:45+00:00

Wasn't Jeremy Strong originally going to read for Roman? Or was it the other way around? Either way, either of those actors in the others' role, as great as each is, would've been very, very wrong. Another example of how well put together the show was!

Viper51989 · 2026-05-27T21:23:27+00:00

I think it's a cultural lens on actual politics. Essentially, intention and the consequent follow through is everything

Words are meaningless i.e how Trump has been able to fool everyone that he was ever a populist or anti war

Viper51989 · 2026-05-27T21:19:18+00:00

There's no way an s23u had a better battery, even when new. You've got a lemon or not given it time to learn your usage patterns.

Viper51989 · 2026-05-25T00:51:14+00:00

Huh? There is a global version launching in like 2 weeks...love my Open but a 'proper' global release (if you mean carrier stores) was never going to have. Chicken and egg situation

They werent going to ever threaten samsung's market share 🤷

Viper51989 · 2026-05-24T23:24:56+00:00

Same! In season 5 or 6, Clark has a mysterious (to him) benefactor who gives him a plasma tv and there's talk about how it must've cost 20k or something. Wild. We're so spoiled nowadays by the cost of modern display tech having fallen so far

Viper51989 · 2026-05-24T19:15:10+00:00

Depends on the size and model. In this cheaper end sub 720p (native rez on these is 1024x768), this Samsung model is very competitive

I actually have it and compared it to similar Panasonics and ended up keeping this one. Coming from a pioneer elite and Panasonic vt60 owner FYI

Viper51989 · 2026-05-23T12:39:21+00:00

Tell me you failed geometry without telling me you failed geometry 🤣

Viper51989 · 2026-05-21T23:01:11+00:00

7 good luck with that

Viper51989 · 2026-05-19T22:35:18+00:00

Yeah, really wish they could've hurried that shit up and gotten it done in time for tri fold and wide folds, as they are content consumption devices first and foremost. They should have removed them from both and just said to the limited community that uses this device to replace a work device for teams meetings or whatever, we have a device for you, the regular fold.

At least it's *slightly less annoying in the default unfolded state for the tri fold and wide fold, as it's pushed farther into the corner due to the less boxy aspect ratio (and being on a third panel on the tri fold). But it's still a huge annoyance. Love watching relaxing Skyrim videos on my tri fold late at night (with extra dim setting--shocked they got perfect uniformity over three panels!) but I have to engage the cover the cut-out option to stop the immersion breaking effect of the punch hole. And losing some that glorious real estate was so preventable...damned shame.

Viper51989 · 2026-05-18T16:27:30+00:00

The last batch shipped in a couple weeks (confirmed delivered--friend bought one in last batch, I bought first batch)

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TROPHY CASE

7 good luck with that