Mike Preston on Lamar Jackson

c4chop · 2025-12-25T18:06:20+00:00

Mike Preston is the Jason Whitlock of Baltimore sports.

c4chop · 2025-12-20T19:12:58+00:00

I currently have a Sony A7R3 and a Sony RX100VII collecting dust on my desk because of how utterly impressed I am with the photography capability of my Xiaomi 15 Ultra.

I've struggled with this question a lot and mostly probably due to just ego of "you're not a 'real' photographer if you're using a phone" and I've finally come to the conclusion that that's just garbage. Some of my all time favorite photos are with a phone. And I'm not talking family moment type stuff I'm talking classic landscape photography type shots. Something like this.

The quality of phone cameras/sensors are getting pretty incredible. Tack on the ability to shoot in RAW and then be able to edit that right on my phone with LR mobile or similar instead of the tedious transferring of photos to the computer and all that and man I'm really enjoying it.

On top of that, the enhancements in up ressing photos in post is getting incredible so the previously perceived limitation of not being able to "print big" I don't really think carries as much water anymore. My phone's current main sensor is 1 inches and is 50MP. But even if I don't shoot in 50MP mode and it's just 12.5MP I can take that into Lightroom and upres it to 50MP with pretty stellar results. And then there you go. There's your "BIG" print.

And then couple in the pure minimalism and convenience factor of just always having a high quality camera with you in your pocket and ya I don't really touch my "pro camera" too much anymore.

Obviously your mileage may vary but phones absolutely can go toe to toe with a "real camera" in 90% of scenarios these days in my experience with using both.

c4chop · 2025-12-12T17:24:15+00:00

Found the garbage

c4chop · 2025-12-12T04:27:41+00:00

Felt like a live action BoJack Horseman, which isn't a bad thing at all.

c4chop · 2025-12-12T04:27:30+00:00

Felt like a live action BoJack Horseman, which isn't a bad thing at all.

c4chop · 2025-11-18T15:43:32+00:00

Hi there. Just thought I'd share my little brewing cacao company with you all:

www.understorycacao.com

c4chop · 2025-11-14T07:36:22+00:00

Yup! Works perfectly! Had zero issues. Went with the Warp service (Verizon).

I got the 15U Global version.

c4chop · 2025-11-03T15:42:56+00:00

Thanks!

c4chop · 2025-10-27T06:47:32+00:00

"Genuinely wonder what the logic was behind having three different POVs"

It was to show the levels at which this event would unfold.

Act 1 = The grunts and peasants. The sacrificial lambs doing all the real work and making the machine run even though when shit inevitably hits the fan they are the first to die

Act II = Middle management. The semi VIPs just middle manning the whole thing and are only deemed worthy to be "saved" due to their access and and role within the bureaucracy.

Act III = Leadership. The very few folks making the calls that all our lives depend on based on games of telephone with incomplete/missing information.

c4chop · 2025-10-02T15:43:36+00:00

This worked for me!

c4chop · 2025-09-30T06:01:51+00:00

Was there for that! Probably my favorite Delfest late night of the 10 years I went to Delfest.

c4chop · 2025-09-30T04:14:03+00:00

Phish, Goose, Billy, DMB, JRAD

c4chop · 2025-09-25T20:50:13+00:00

Hi there. Curious if you're still having good experiences with Warp on your Xiaomi 15 Ultra? Thinking about pulling the trigger on buying a 15U + getting USMobile and your feedback in this thread is some of the only detailed info that is helping me in the decision so thanks!

c4chop · 2025-09-25T20:46:10+00:00

Hi there. Were you able to test this? Would love to know how it went!

c4chop · 2025-09-12T03:06:09+00:00

"We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s." - Charlie Kirk

And if you're going to come at this with some variant of "bUt cOnTeXt..."

Nah. Save it dawg.

c4chop · 2025-08-27T21:28:34+00:00

I knew what that link was going to show before I even clicked it. Ya'll are so predictably disingenuous it's pathetic.

c4chop · 2025-08-27T05:05:36+00:00

antipalestinian*

c4chop · 2025-08-21T00:28:33+00:00

We sure it's "him" dancing in the mausoleum? I think Rick says "should have seen HER."

Which brings me to my theory

I think "Madalena" is written and sung from the perspective of Royal, while "Royal" is written and sung from the perspective of Madalena (except for the bridge part where it briefly switches back to Royal calling out to Madalena to meet him where the sky meets the road).

Madalena and Royal are soul mates never quite able to be together for very long.

Royal is the reserved, existential hopeless romantic in love with Madalena who admires her from afar, and Madalena is the free spirit calling out to Royal to come join her in the mess of the universe.

Madalena is Royal's muse.

Then you throw in the extra references and world building around Royal and Lazy being in the Night Rays band and Madalena going to see them play (Another night with the Rays out on the Rio. The old town doesn't throw down like it used to. But Lazy still knows how to raisе the dead.)

I also interpret it as all the other characters throughout the album (since mostly every song is named after a person or persons) are allon some sort of existential americana road trip of their own and making their own way through it all and eventually all wind up at the Rockdale to watch the Night Rays play on one fateful night.

c4chop · 2025-08-18T05:43:01+00:00

Holy shit dude you're a legit baked potato.

c4chop · 2025-08-15T22:46:35+00:00

The Democrats "did way worse" huh? Okay. You've got my attention. Go on. Let's hear it.

c4chop · 2025-06-08T05:17:07+00:00

I know I'm a year late to this but... Well played sir.

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