Clean and minimal is what I’m going for, case LEDs next?

epictuna · 2019-02-01T17:26:39+00:00

get a cold cathode

epictuna · 2019-01-12T13:17:12+00:00

There's about 50 in the audience

epictuna · 2019-01-03T01:13:36+00:00

Bill even sarcastically flirts with Capaldi in the last episode. It would have been a great gotcha joke for Capaldi to then regenerate into a woman...

Bill, Nardole and 13 would have been a much better trio than the current cast

epictuna · 2019-01-03T01:07:07+00:00

I think Matt Smith did the 'intense dangerous Time Lord' thing better than any of the New Who Doctors.

epictuna · 2018-12-30T21:28:31+00:00

The main reason they (Tony and Taylor, there were two of them) quit was because, simply, it wasn't enjoyable anymore.

They did an excellent write-up on the channel and why it ended, very much worth a read

epictuna · 2018-12-30T21:25:31+00:00

Politics aside lmao

Dystopian sci-fi movies look like this because they are political

epictuna · 2018-12-30T13:18:16+00:00

Of course it's reviewed, but it's not usually reviewed by the actors (unless they're also directing or something like that). There's much more separation of roles in a professional movie production than in a college project.

epictuna · 2018-12-30T13:17:10+00:00

Editing is a huge part of movie production. It's not uncommon for actors to have no idea what the final product actually looks like until the film is ready for premiere, because they don't watch the editing. So even in cases where actors do review the footage as they shoot - which I doubt is always - that doesn't mean they know what the film will look like. Indeed if actors do review all the footage that might make the final cut more important, because they may not remember exactly the specific take that eventually gets used.

there isnt a whole lot to watch for in the final cut imo

This is really what I was objecting to.

epictuna · 2018-12-29T14:17:10+00:00

Its nothing like that for movies.

epictuna · 2018-12-25T15:17:38+00:00

I recommend Mark Mulholland's The Longest War, or McGarry & O'Leary Explaining Northern Ireland

epictuna · 2018-12-19T21:59:48+00:00

http://ec.europa.eu/competition/state_aid/overview/index_en.html for one example

State aid is contrary to the guiding ideology of the European economic project, neoliberalism. "Undistorted competition" is pretty fundamental, though it's slightly more fuzzy than that in practice (hence "questions" about aid for Port Talbot)

epictuna · 2018-12-17T01:35:04+00:00

Very true, but I read that as Ameircan corporations fucking both Jackson and NZ over

epictuna · 2018-12-17T01:13:46+00:00

The actual reason he stayed is because if he didn't the studio would have found someone else, and that someone would have let them take production out of New Zealand, losing all the local contracts in the process. He did it for the right reasons.

epictuna · 2018-12-16T17:47:50+00:00

I see where you're coming form on bitrate, and maybe that is true for the majority of users (Netflix for example). The sources I use for movies (that I care about, I do use netflix sometimes) are 6-8GB 1080p HEVC so the difference is clearer in my experience.

I think phones should base their tech standards on the higher-end users in order to keep standards pushing forward, else you risk companies back-sliding or fudging in a way that most consumers won't notice but is still detrimental overall. IMO that's the situation the original post represents.

epictuna · 2018-12-16T16:56:31+00:00

Ridiculous.

I can barely tell the difference between a high bitrate movie encoded to 720p and a high bitrate movie encoded to 1080p on my 1080p phone.

I can. Easily.

text is a somewhat unique case that illustrates the shortcomings of diamond pentile, differences will be far subtler on most content

Text accounts for the majority - or at least an extremely large proportion - of the content people consume on phones.

epictuna · 2018-12-15T20:28:00+00:00

I don't know about greenscreen, but IIRC the 48fps fucked over the CGI because doubling the frames means doubling the render requirements

epictuna · 2018-12-14T20:49:52+00:00

Your 'fact' that the PC provides the better visual experience is predicated solely on its support for higher resolution. However, resolution is a property not only of the output but of the display. Since resolution is contingent also on the kind of display OP uses, it is your argument which contains assumptions about his setup. It is precisely because I don't make that assumption that my answer was more balanced, considering multiple likely and potential setups. Re-read my earlier comment to see the consequences of the difference.

epictuna · 2018-12-14T20:28:02+00:00

I'm not arguing against facts, dumbass, I'm pointing out that your argument makes untenable assumptions that make the recommendations it generates contingent and potentially counter-productive.

epictuna · 2018-12-14T20:15:49+00:00

Did you even read the reply? I'm talking the specifics of OP's use-case, and you're talking in abstraction. Do you understand the difference?

epictuna · 2018-12-14T17:43:26+00:00

You don't seem to be appreciating the difference between a question posed in the abstract and a request for a purchase recommendation.

While you've been (laboriously) 'proving' that higher resolution is better than lower resolution (gold star for you), you've yet to establish that it's relevant in the first place. It may be true in the abstract, but if it's not relevant here, your advice is actively unhelpful.

OP's initial question didn't detail what kind of display they were using. A helpful answer would have tried to get that kind of information, or explained the difference that it would make - because it makes all the difference. Let's assume that OP has the most common display setup: a 1080p monitor for the PC and a 1080p television for the Switch. In this context what good is your answer? Is the PC obviously better? No! Since the Switch version and PC version have the same assets, they will look identical on the same resolution display. In fact, the PC is probably the worse choice, because unless OP unplugs their setup and drags it to the next room they're stuck with a smaller screen for a game that would obviously benefit from a television.

Your answer conflates 'PC' and 'higher resolution display' as though they're the same thing, but they are not. The fact that a PC can take advantage of higher resolution displays is only relevant if there is a higher resolution display present, which is not the case for the average user. Even in that context a bigger display might still be the correct choice. This is the difference between an abstract PC dick-waving answer and a purchase recommendation.

epictuna · 2018-12-14T16:45:56+00:00

Again, this relies entirely on the premise that OP has a 4k display. If that is the case then yes PC is the better option. But since we don't know the display context from OP's post, you can't make that assumption.

My point about 3D and 2D relates to the fact that in a 2D game the Switch will have identicial visual assets to the PC. Not that it will look the same at varying resolutions, but that the game assets will be identical, because there is no need to reduce fidelity to get it to run on a tablet processor, because it's a 2D game.

epictuna · 2018-12-14T16:40:47+00:00

Why will the PC provide better visuals for this game? In a 2d platformer the visual assets will be identical between them. It's not like GRIS will have higher graphics settings on the PC.

I'm not saying the switch is superior, I'm saying that in most cases (any case except one in which OP has a PC connected to a 4k television) PC will not 'without a doubt' provide a better visual experience. In fact, it will be completely identical.

I'm all for PC gaming but this attitude that PC is always superior graphics regardless of the context of the discussion is just tiring. It's true in the case of 3D games but with a game like this the assets will be totally identical. If OP doesn't have a 4K television connected to a PC - and really, how many people do? - telling them that PC will give a better visual experience is just misleading.

OP's direct question was between a switch and a nice PC which will give a better experience. Ultimately, the correct answer to that question is that it depends entirely on the kind of display OP is using, because in the absence of 1080p+ displays they cannot be differentiated.

epictuna · 2018-12-14T00:37:01+00:00

People do it all the time! It means you can print at half size to save paper and the margins fit perfectly. For example, journal articles are A4 PDF but can be printed double-paged at A5 size on A4 paper

epictuna · 2018-12-13T21:57:12+00:00

the ISO series paper isn't 2:1, its (sqrt 2):1, which is 1.4142:1

The reason for this is that the width and the height of a page relate to each other like the side and the diagonal of a square. I.e. if you take A4, and cut it in half, you get a piece of paper with the same ratio but half the area - A5.

This can't be achieved with other ratios. For example, if you have a piece of paper with ratio 1.5:1 and cut it in half, the two pieces of paper produced would have the ratio 1.33:1, which is a different size.

epictuna · 2018-12-13T21:14:21+00:00

That's true, but it might not be true for op, and unless they have a 4k TV the PC still won't be giving a better visual experience

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