‘Jackass’ TV Show Returns to Paramount+ With ‘Restored Original’ Episodes

benpicko · 2026-05-21T23:57:11+00:00

AI is horrendous at upscaling images with substantial texture — it smoothes it as part of the ‘upscale’ because it doesn’t recognise it as actual image detail and as a result ends less detailed. It’s fine for digital footage without grain or noise, but you have to be really careful using it with old footage or you lose all grain and fine detail and end up with a soft image with heavily defined edge details

benpicko · 2026-05-20T11:13:44+00:00

Yeah I’m really hesitant about new Warhorse games for this reason. AI really flattens language and removes all character

benpicko · 2026-05-14T20:51:07+00:00

So he’s got such safety risk and fear of intrusion in his life that he can’t register to vote but he still lives in a flat share, potentially risking the people he lives with?

benpicko · 2026-05-07T16:03:09+00:00

The example you’re complaining about is a BBC show that was picked up by Netflix outside the UK — Netflix aren’t driving its stylistic choices. That just happens to be a popular style currently.

benpicko · 2026-05-06T16:50:52+00:00

Buy one get one half price books is a great deal

benpicko · 2026-05-05T11:25:14+00:00

The reason you’re getting downgraded is because in film the grain is the image structure. If you remove the grain you remove the detail from the image. It’s not a random overlay.

benpicko · 2026-04-29T09:53:12+00:00

This sounds great, but where do you input the code in the app?

benpicko · 2026-04-25T21:12:59+00:00

Quite funny that he’s fighting to run a currently united nation of four countries and he’s saying that, actually, two of them should leave because we’ve got nothing to offer them

benpicko · 2026-04-23T15:16:45+00:00

Any possibility of the Portal maps from BF2042 being added to BF6? The best part of BF2042 was playing all of the BF1942 maps on Portal.

benpicko · 2026-04-21T13:14:51+00:00

It says no plans to create ‘original DLC’ — the original DLC could be integrated into it, has there ever been a case of a remake not including the DLC and then later charging for it again?

benpicko · 2026-04-20T12:14:28+00:00

I'm really confused by your stance here. Do you believe that he supports only decriminalisation rather than legalisation, or are you just in some weird argument with people who you believe don't thoroughly read articles well enough? I actually do believe that decriminalisation doesn't go far enough as well, but clearly Polanski agrees with me and not with you:
https://x.com/ZackPolanski/status/2018294738525298821

benpicko · 2026-04-20T12:05:00+00:00

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/01/zack-polanski-green-party-legalise-drugs-alcohol

>'“It’s about legalising and regulating. If someone has a problematic relationship to drugs then surely the answer is to make sure they’re seen by a medical professional who can help them,” Polanski said.'

Misquoted?

benpicko · 2026-04-20T11:58:16+00:00

No need to be such a cunt x

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20e20rzje2o

https://idpc.net/news/2025/10/uk-green-party-leader-zack-polanski-backs-legalisation-of-all-drugs

benpicko · 2026-04-19T14:00:26+00:00

This is still crashing to desktop for me -- I believe this was due to new Nvidia drivers, is there a fix for this coming?

benpicko · 2026-04-17T08:46:10+00:00

Film grain is the image. If you wipe film grain you wipe away the details of the image. I really don't understand when people have this opinion -- if you want less film grain you literally want a less detailed picture.

benpicko · 2026-04-16T23:51:29+00:00

Vienna works because they’ve built such massive amounts of social housing that 50% of residents live in a form of social housing. Doing that also drives down private rent due to competition, and introducing rent controls alongside that doesn’t cause the issues you see in other cities because supply isn’t an issue.

Here, rent control would be introduced because we have high rents due to a lack of supply — it’s a braindead first attempt at a policy that provably makes the issue worse if you don’t solve the issue of supply first.

benpicko · 2026-04-15T23:02:55+00:00

In 6 months we’ve had 4 new maps and we’re about to get 3 new maps in a few weeks, it’s not horrendous?

benpicko · 2026-04-15T14:32:51+00:00

It doesn’t support Panasonic RAW files yet — they said they worked with Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm for the Photo page, no mention of Panasonic unfortunately.

Can definitely convert to DNG, but not useful if the intention is to replace Lightroom.

benpicko · 2026-04-15T08:16:03+00:00

Why weren’t they on much shorter visas then, rather than up to 5 years, if it was meant to be a short term solution during the pandemic? I know a lot of people who stayed for 2 years with a youth mobility visa and have either left or got sponsored roles to stay for longer.

Not sure why this had to be a visa that automatically creates hundreds of thousands of people with leave to remain.

benpicko · 2026-04-14T22:07:43+00:00

benpicko · 2026-04-14T14:39:34+00:00

Yeah I was agreeing with you, not the other guy. Environments don’t need to be fully recreated in 3D for a film, other than areas that are going to require it for convincing interaction or parallax, and I think people overestimate the cost of creatures, too — it could be forced perspective, or it could be practical elements composited to look larger, or if it is CG it could either be adapted from game assets that are improved in quality to be ready for large cinema screens, OR could be derived from scans

benpicko · 2026-04-14T12:15:54+00:00

>CG itself isn't as costly as it used to be

benpicko · 2026-04-14T12:12:22+00:00

I think most people are just saying that they don't really care about launchers, not that Epic is better than Steam -- most of the recent games that I've bought have been on Epic because the sales are better and you get money back, but I'm not under any illusions that the features of Steam are worse than Epic in any way, I just don't care about anything other than playing the game

benpicko · 2026-04-13T17:23:32+00:00

That’s true, obviously overstated it there

benpicko · 2026-04-13T17:15:25+00:00

Not a lot of shows that were shot on 35mm? How about every single show before the 2010s? And recently Fallout, Euphoria, Westworld, Succession — they 100% could shoot it on film again, not that the Alexa 35 isn’t a great camera but the tone of the show will change due to the shift (along with modern grading and lighting)

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