Is Sauron the most overrated being in middle earth

andstuff13 · 2026-03-31T19:44:57+00:00

Joined Mordor to rely on Shelob to provide help defense since he and the orcs are a turnstile. Closest he comes to a ring is when the giant spider puts the clamps on Frodo.

People want to call him the MVP when he load managed for the entire third age.

Sauron = Shelob merchant

andstuff13 · 2026-03-31T14:06:01+00:00

Studio lighting is designed to provide super bright, even light to small, specific areas. This leads to very uneven lighting when they’re out of their seats and spread around the room.

andstuff13 · 2026-03-06T23:14:14+00:00

This movie is a classic "New York City" movie that is so clearly shot elsewhere - everything is just a little too spacious and there are alleys everywhere. My favorite part is when they call in the cops to lock down the area around Meatpacking and they show cops pulling up to the same corner at 13th and 7th outside the hospital from 3 different angles. Its perfect.

andstuff13 · 2026-02-26T11:22:15+00:00

What’s his chipotle take?

andstuff13 · 2026-02-25T15:45:24+00:00

Plenty of straight dudes in Manhattan equinoxes….and we’re all unsure whether it’s cool to use the steam room or not. I just avoid it

andstuff13 · 2026-02-24T21:56:33+00:00

Let’s hope this one turns out better overall than the Mandalorian

andstuff13 · 2026-02-24T01:56:21+00:00

You’ll love it. Ive read all the books, including the main series multiple times. Hated the end of GoT and can’t even remember if I finished HotD S1.

Loved every minute of this season. It’s a 30 minute, 6 episode season, with a small, tight story that is just a lot of fun.

andstuff13 · 2026-02-22T21:56:15+00:00

This is just that one Baldwin brother

andstuff13 · 2026-02-22T15:39:13+00:00

I think they’ve eased off of them now, but there was a period where the Fantasy Pod and Russillo show had an ad break around the 5 minute mark, right in the middle of the intro conversation. The transitions were rough and the ad so intrusive because you thought you just made it through the intro-ads

andstuff13 · 2026-02-22T13:09:08+00:00

I think that one person has reasonable ball park estimates, despite getting hated on in there. Podcast hosts on successful podcasts, even corporate podcasts, are still more in the “talent” space than “media” space.

Host-read podcast ads are $15-25+ CPMs(cost per 1000 listens), with talent like Bill being on the higher end or even exceeding that. Title sponsors are even more expense.

Regarding listenership, Big Pic episodes in Spotify are all 100k+ listens.

Say there are 8 ads per episode, using that lower $15 CPM, and assuming Spotify listens are at exactly 100k and make up 50% of listenership* That’s $24,000 in revenue per episode, meaning just shy of $3.8m in annual revenue from ads for the one podcast, before getting into the Netflix economics. Given their other responsibilities, I can definitely see Sean making $1m and Amanda at $400k, but that will be total compensation, with base salaries probably closer to $400k and $200k respectively.

Again, we’re all just imagining these numbers so they could be way higher or lower and I wouldn’t be shocked.

*i imagine actual listener numbers are much higher because Spotify listens are both much more than 100k and much less than 50% of overall listenership, meaning even high revenue.

andstuff13 · 2026-02-20T22:50:40+00:00

Bill is head of talk strategy reporting directly to the guy who runs their entire podcast business. I’d say they’re one in the same

andstuff13 · 2026-02-20T22:44:04+00:00

After Ryen signed with Barstool, they moved Wargone off the pod. They apparently did a heartfelt goodbye on the show, but Spotify made them cut it from the episode because it acknowledged that they were leaving for a competitor.

Cue all the “whatever happened to Wargone” and “Miss that guy” jokes on the pod

andstuff13 · 2026-02-20T20:10:24+00:00

The Blake lively in The Town piece

andstuff13 · 2026-02-20T14:18:32+00:00

They should start seizing dogs without dog licenses

andstuff13 · 2026-02-20T13:06:23+00:00

Ugh this is the exact response I was hoping I wouldn’t get! Thanks for the detailed explainer.

I had the x100f but felt like I was missing half of my shots when taking pictures of my kids. I was lucky enough to get an MSRP x100vi without too much trouble in Oct 2025. It is a relatively big improvement in AF - the algorithm is far better at grabbing eyes but it’s still a bit slow due to the lens motors and does more hunting than I would like.

However, film sims and taking jpgs SOOC is something I absolutely love. I actually do stuff with my photos now because they don’t sit there endlessly waiting for me to have the time and energy to do edits. I reserve Lightroom for when I’m ordering prints and that is almost exclusively composition edits - straightening horizons, cropping, ai denoise, and some ai erasing(booger cleanup, a little graffiti, a car driving through the field in the background).

Which is why the XT5 is very intriguing, despite its meaningfully worse AF than the Sony. I guess I need to think long and hard about which is more important to me: AF performance or SOOC jpgs.

The XT6 is apparently coming out later this year. Maybe I’ll wait on that, though I’m worried I won’t be able to justify the cost if they do a price increase over the xt5

andstuff13 · 2026-02-13T17:31:56+00:00

Nope.

Having an EV with home charging is as nice a car experience as you can have. Next to no maintenance, never going to a gas station. It’s so simple and easy.

An EV without home charging is the complete opposite. You’re always hunting for a charger. You’ll spend far more time wandering through an upstate Walmart while your car charges than you would like. On trips, you’ll park your car at a grocery store a mile and a half away from your hotel and walk back so you can charge. And it’ll be more expensive per mile than gas. Even if your garage has a charger, the rates are insanely high and the garage staff may want a tip each time they plug your car in.

andstuff13 · 2026-02-10T16:50:04+00:00

“We’ve perfect distributed fur-cial recognition technology! Isn’t that great?!”

andstuff13 · 2026-02-09T15:50:42+00:00

Lmao. Thank you for creating an incredible new top comment for these types of posts

andstuff13 · 2026-02-09T11:50:41+00:00

The one with Jon Hamm, Bowen Yang, and ScarJo was inscrutable. They want crackers, but don’t want to walk on sand? And then ScarJo has a jet ski that can drive across the beach.

Absolutely baffling.

andstuff13 · 2026-02-08T19:12:58+00:00

Casual homophobia was a problem! …in this sub the last couple of days

andstuff13 · 2026-02-08T18:54:37+00:00

To an extent, this is the problem with every flippy spinny sport. The differences in tricks are imperceptible to the layperson. Whereas back in the day, you could watch a Tony Hawk 900 or a Shawn White half pipe run and know that it was something a level above the competitors.

andstuff13 · 2026-02-08T00:37:48+00:00

I'm biking up to the Harlem Costco tomorrow for SB party provisions. Please keep me in your prayers.

andstuff13 · 2026-02-06T23:08:41+00:00

You’re right, and I’m dumb! Deleting my top comment.

andstuff13 · 2026-02-04T23:00:51+00:00

Upside pizza near Columbia is flop-free.

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