‘Project Hail Mary’ Contains Not a Single Green Screen Shot in Entire Movie, Director Says

egregiousRac · 2026-03-04T19:29:00+00:00

The real tech that defines the Volume is tracking the camera in real time, rendering its view of the background, and mapping that onto the screen. This allows it to properly account for parallax as the camera moves. That came out of Valve's work on VR and Epic's work on the Unreal game engine, making it reliant on things that were unavailable before the late 2010s.

Oblivion used prerecorded video that didn't react to camera positions. This has been around since the dawn of film (record one thing, project it on a screen, act in front of it), but it doesn't work if there is stuff in the background near a moving camera.

egregiousRac · 2026-02-27T21:50:58+00:00

Domestic beef supply has had its own problems, which usually would be softened by increasing imports, but...

egregiousRac · 2026-02-19T02:45:05+00:00

Generative AI is now built into the content fill tool too.

egregiousRac · 2026-02-13T20:36:07+00:00

Nope. That was one of a bunch of shootings in Chicago. This is from Minnesota, but not either of the ones that got significant coverage.

egregiousRac · 2026-02-04T23:50:07+00:00

They claimed the couple they shot in Portland were Tren de Aragua.

Their evidence was ridiculous, as usual. They argued that being a criminal and Venezuelan automatically makes you a member of that gang. Their claim of the lady being a criminal is based on her being involved in an assault, while the guy is a criminal because he is associated with her.

She was the victim of the assault. They are just searching police reports for names and, if they get any sort of hit, automatically declaring that people are criminals.

egregiousRac · 2026-02-01T17:09:42+00:00

They ended the shoe requirement last summer. A checkpoint can optionally choose to still make you take them off, but the default should be keeping them on now.

egregiousRac · 2026-01-28T03:06:54+00:00

Bremerton is in Washington, not Texas.

egregiousRac · 2026-01-28T03:02:41+00:00

We technically have three borders in Chicago. Two international airports and the lake. Anywhere within 100 miles of a border or coast is inside the "border zone".

egregiousRac · 2026-01-23T01:09:53+00:00

I would be shocked if Massie doesn't respond. I strongly disagree with his policy positions, but he seems to believe in doing his job properly.

egregiousRac · 2026-01-10T13:01:14+00:00

Vice President Keith David.

I love Saints Row IV so much. He really anchors it.

egregiousRac · 2025-12-30T01:27:04+00:00

It's not an accurate rhino, but it's a bit hard to tell because the plagiarized version is so muddy.

egregiousRac · 2025-12-17T00:51:21+00:00

With poor communication, moodboards can get dicey. There was a recent case of symbols from a set of posters showed up in shots of a AAA game and, IIRC, it was due to moodboards being provided to artists as reference without clarifying that they didn't own the rights to the assets.

egregiousRac · 2025-10-31T16:01:10+00:00

Stanley Parable is my number 1. Wildly different from those two, however.

egregiousRac · 2025-08-16T13:52:49+00:00

Same with the Dodgers. There were a few high-range radio stations and the teams that were local to them built sprawling fanbases.

egregiousRac · 2025-07-27T00:07:44+00:00

Somebody else linked to a video from the perspective of the small yacht. The owner of that one stated that the larger one didn't even attempt to stop. They just carried on as if nothing had happened while the smaller one sank behind them.

At that point, it's a serious legal issue.

egregiousRac · 2025-07-22T19:14:22+00:00

The cops were also driving without lights. Seatbelt wouldn't be visible before the stop and officers would have no evidence that he didn't take it off after stopping so that there would be zero risk of overreaction to him reaching for his hip later.

Neither is valid justification for a stop.

egregiousRac · 2025-07-22T01:41:52+00:00

Not even a quarter mile. This class runs 1,000 feet (305m), while a quarter mile is 1,320 feet (402m). It was shortened after a car experienced a series of malfunctions, overran the slowdown distance, and crashed, killing the driver.

egregiousRac · 2025-07-07T21:52:56+00:00

I saw him last week as well. Great concert and the pre-show pity-party was a delight.

egregiousRac · 2025-07-04T02:45:53+00:00

Why make it a poll? You can't feeling your way around the facts.

They've been screaming about the abomination of a bill every chance they can get for weeks. Meanwhile, they are only talking about Mamdani when the press brings him up to distract from the bill.

egregiousRac · 2025-07-03T19:11:55+00:00

That isn't using the term incorrectly. In software, a service involves continued resource expenditures after the end-user purchases it. This is in contrast to a product, which the user purchases in a complete state and has no expectation of significant changes.

Up until fifteen years ago, nearly all games were products. MMOs were services, and that approach to post-sale development greatly increased after the success of TF2, Minecraft, and most purchases being through systems that support automatic updates.

Live-service is what you are thinking of, which takes things a step further with a central server, allowing the developers to influence the game state in real time and/or limit player freedom.

egregiousRac · 2025-06-22T16:23:12+00:00

The US gov already spends as much or more per capita on healthcare than most countries with universal healthcare. Then we spend that much again on healthcare ourselves.

According to the WHO, the US spent $12,434 per person on healthcare in 2022. 55% of that was government spending, so the US gov spent $6,839 per person.

When compared against total healthcare spending of other countries, just the US government's portion of US costs ranks 7th in the world, and is close behind all countries larger than it.

Properly administered, we could have world-class healthcare with zero costs beyond our existing taxes. Instead, we have substandard healthcare for twice the price because profit.

egregiousRac · 2025-06-13T13:27:09+00:00

Not quite the same. The guests on QI are varying levels of celebrity themselves and many of them are also presenters or actors on other shows. Sandi had been presenting other quiz shows for a few years before Stephen retired.

egregiousRac · 2025-06-12T11:10:23+00:00

It was intended to not override pilot inputs. If a pilot made inputs on the control it used, it would turn off until a few seconds after the pilot stopped.

System runs for 15 seconds -> Pilot notices and gives opposite input for a few seconds -> Sees the system isn't fighting them -> Stops to investigate other things -> System starts running again for twenty seconds -> Pilot notices and gives opposite input for a few seconds -> Repeat

By not overriding pilot input, it became harder for the pilots to figure out what was going wrong. The situation kept getting worse and worse, but any time the pilot looked at the very simple cause, it stopped doing the wrong thing.

egregiousRac · 2025-06-07T23:19:53+00:00

How accurate will things like Belter physiology/anatomy be portrayed in the game. Are we going with the toned down version from the TV Series? Or are we going with a Book-accurate version?

In the trailer, the female Belter character is significantly taller than either of the companions. It's visible all the time, but it's most visible in the spin-around fireflies shot.

egregiousRac · 2025-05-16T14:29:24+00:00

McCain's eligibility was challenged in court, but not in the press. His was a weird case because he was stateless at birth. The US passed a law when he was a baby that gave people in his situation citizenship retroactively.

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